Some people have very big families, with lots of brothers and sisters, and aunts and uncles. Some people's families are very small, with no brothers or sisters.

Betty has got a big family. There are seven people in her family. She has got four brothers, Alex, Sammy, Leon and Ken, but she has not got a sister.  Betty lives with her parents in a house, It has got four rooms and it has got a garden.  It is not big but it is beautiful. Her parents haven't got a car because they can't drive. They go to work by bicycle.

Tom hasn't even got a brother or sister. There are only four of them-his mother, father and Tom-and Grandma of course. They have a small family. Tom's parents work in the same company.  They go to work by car.  Tom walks to school because the school is near his house.

   I have a little ______ .  Its name is Jim.  It's only one year old.  Every morning Jim goes to the shop near my home. The girl in the shop gives him two things, a sweet and a newspaper. Jim eats the sweet and takes the newspaper in his _____. Then he runs home.  When I am eating my______, Jim goes outside to _____ the bus. When he sees the bus, he makes noises. I run out and the bus stops for me. Jim never lets me _____ the bus.

   It's Anne's birthday today. She is thirteen years old. There are many birthday c_______ and a letter on her desk. They are from her family and r_______.  How many are there? Let me see, one, two, three, four, five... twenty-one including (包括) the letter. It's from her c_______ , Jenny. She is not in Anne's school. In the letter, Jenny tells Anne something about her n_______school. She is now studying in a middle school in Shanghai. Anne is very h_______ to have these cards and Jenny's letter.

   Alice Brown lives in New York with her mum and dad and two brothers, Tony and Peter. It is Alice's fourteenth birthday next week. The family has got two dogs, a cat and four rabbits. Alice likes cats and rabbits but her brothers like dogs. Alice's dad works in a hotel.  He's a hotel manager.  Her mum teaches English at a junior high school.

Alice and her brothers study at the same school, but they are in different grades. She's in Grade Seven.  Her brother Tony is in Grade Ten and Peter is in Grade Six.  They live in a flat near the school. They walk to school together every day.

Alice is interested in computers. At home she plays computer games in her free time. When she leaves school, she also wants to work with computers.