Thank you for your letter and the beautiful stamps. I like them very much.

Now I’m going to answer some of your questions. You ask me about the weather in Beijing in winter. It’s quite cold and it often snows. After snow, the ground is white. And I can skate on real ice. I like winter best.

You ask me when the best time is to come to China. I think the best time to come to China is in spring or autumn. It’s often too hot in summer and too cold in winter. I have to finish this letter now. ask your brother to come to China with you. Welcome to Beijing soon.

Jenny gets up early in the morning. She has her breakfast at home and then goes to school. She walks to the bus stop and takes a bus. She gets to school at about half past seven.

Jenny is never late for school. She likes school and works hard. Classes begin at 8:00. She has six classes every day. Jenny is good at all her lessons, and she likes English best.

Jenny usually has lunch at school. Jenny goes home at five in the afternoon. Sometimes, she helps her friends with their lessons. After supper she usually watches TV news. Then she does her homework. She goes to bed at about 9:30. Jenny is a good girl.

My mother and I do some shopping on Sundays. We often go to the supermarket（超市）on Sunday morning in a car. Father likes apples very much. We buy some red apples for him. Mother likes yellow bananas, but the bananas in the supermarket are green. "Look! The strawberries are very nice. Mum. Do you like them?" I say. "Yes, I do." Mother buys some for herself. The oranges are very nice. Mother buys some for me. I like oranges very much.

We need some vegetables. We buy some tomatoes, carrots and broccoli（花椰菜）. I don't like broccoli, but my parents like it. After shopping, mother and I have some French fries, milk and ice cream. And then we go back home with the fruit and vegetables.

Wu Dong has a good friend. His name is Peter. He is from the USA. Wu Dong and Peter are in the same class. They go to school five days a week. They stay at home on Sundays and Saturdays. Peter likes China and Chinese food. He likes rice cakes very much. At school they play ping-pong ball after class.

Fred likes fish very much. One day, he buys a fish. His son sees the fish and says to himself, "Very good! I can ask my friends to have it for lunch. "

The next day(第二天), Fred comes home in the evening. The fish isn't there. His son says, "Oh, Dad, your cat eats the fish." Fred gets angry (生气). He takes the cat and his son to the shop and weighs (称)the cat. Then he says, "Little boy, my fish weighs one kilo, and the cat weighs one kilo too. My fish is here, and then where is my cat?"

Jenny and Li Ming watched Bob play basketball this evening. They arrived at the gym (体育馆) at 6:30. Bob's team played with the Orange Team. Everyone played hard! Jenny and Li Ming had fun at the gym. They yelled for Bob's team. Finally, Bob's team won. They were very happy.

John lives in a tall building in the city of Beijing. There are eighteen floors in the building, and he lives on the fifteenth floor. He uses a lift（电梯）to go up and down.

John works very hard. He goes to work early. Every day he gets out of the lift. Then he walks to a bus stop. It is about two hundred meters from his home.

He usually catches the number 11 bus to work. John works in a factory about ten kilometers from his home. He starts working at 8:30, and finishes at 4:30. He gets back home at 5:15. He gets into the lift, and he goes up to the twelfth floor. Then he gets out of the lift and climbs up to the fifteenth floor on foot.

Hi. My name is Lucy. I’m from Beijing. I like sports. My favourite sport is ping­pong. I have some ping­pong balls. My friend teaches me to play ping­pong. I often wear a T­shirt and shorts to play ping­pong. I play ping­pong every day. I like to play ping­pong. What about you?

In the world, football is the most popular sport. This is because many countries have wonderful teams for the World Cup（世界杯）. The World Cup is held（举行）every four years. Some football teams will have games there. The World Cup makes more and more people interested in（对……感兴趣）football. Teenagers（青少年）like playing football and watching football games. Many of them love some football stars so much. They paste（粘贴） the pictures of their favourite players on the walls of their rooms. Are you a football fan（迷）? Who is your favourite football player?