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.

I am a student. I like sports. I run every morning and I swim twice a week（一周两次）. I like all kinds of ball games. I like football, basketball, volleyball, tennis and ping-pong.  I am good at playing ping-pong. I often play ping-pong with my friend, Li Lei. We are on the school team.  But he doesn't like any other ball games.

He likes to collect（收集） balls.  He has a great collection（一批物品）of balls. He has 60 footballs, 16 volleyballs and many ping-pong balls.  We like to watch sports on TV.

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?

Hello! My name is Kim. I'm from the U. S. I am a tall girl. I like basketball best. I often play basketball with my friends on the playground. We have two teams—the White Team and the Yellow Team. I am on the Yellow Team. Each team has five players. My favourite basketball player is Yao Ming. I like him best and I want to be a basketball player like him.

Mr. Liu is an English teacher. He works in Shanghai. In July he wants to go on a trip to Chengde with his wife and daughter. Shanghai is far from Chengde. It is about 1,400 kilometres. They want to take a plane. Because a plane is fast. They are going to stay in Chengde for seven days. Because it is very cool there.

I'm Tony. I'm a boy. I live in a big house with my family. I have a sister and a brother. My sister likes to draw pictures and sing. My brother likes to play football. We all go to school by bus. My mother works in a hospital. She is a doctor. My father has a farm. The farm is very big. We like to go for a walk together. I love my family.

Look at the picture of my family. It's a big family. They are my grandfather, grandmother, my father, my mother and me. My grand­parents are old. They don't work. My father is a doctor. He drives to work. My mother is a worker. She goes to work on foot. My name is Mark. I'm a student of Grade 5. I walk to school, too. I love my family.