I enjoy going to school. I like the lessons and I have many friends there. My school day begins at 8 a.m. and finishes at 4 p.m. I go to school from Monday to Friday. I usually play sport on Friday afternoon. There are about 50 teachers in our school. My class teacher, Mr Zhao, is nice and friendly. He often helps me with my Chinese and English.

Mr Edison was sitting on the sea wall at a well-known seaside beach. He was eating ice cream. Suddenly out of the sky a bird flew down and grabbed the ice cream in its beak (鸟喙). It flew off. “Oh, no,” thought Mr Edison. “I have lost my ice cream.” Then he saw another bird do the same thing to another visitor. “How can we stop them?” he wondered. He had an idea.

Millie Park is a tour guide. She will meet a group coming to China. There are many ___1___ citizens in the group. They are flying from Los Angeles. They will go to Shanghai, see the countryside in Fujian and then fly to Beijing. Their final ___2___ is Xi’an. Millie has been a tour leader for ten years. She has been to ___3___ all the provinces in China. She can speak English and German well.

Welcome to Long Field Woods. Please close the gate ___1___ you. Long Field has been an area of woods for over two thousand years. There are trees here that are over six hundred years old. It is important that we ___2___ the woods. Please do not ___3___ any litter here. We do not have a place to put your rubbish. Please carry it in a bag. There is a bin in the car park.

Dear Sarah
What a beautiful day it is today! The autumn leaves are falling. Are the temperatures dropping in Shanghai? Sandy and I just returned from a trip to western USA. I am still waking up early each day because of the time difference. The trip was enjoyable, especially visiting museums. In one state we toured a silver mining museum.