My name is Jim Green. I’m a student. My hobbies are playing computer games, surfing the Internet and riding my bike. My brother’s hobby is making models. He likes watching TV, too. We are in the same school. My father is a bus driver. He drives the school bus. He likes swimming and running. My mother is a teacher. She teaches Chinese in our school. She likes reading very much. She usually reads book in the library.  I want to be an office worker. My brother wants to be a police officer.

Our family sports meeting

Hello! My name is David. I have a big family. Now we are in China. My family all like sports very much. Today is Sunday. It’s a fine day. We are having a family sports meeting in the park. Look! My grandfather and grandmother are playing ping-pong. They are old but they look very young. They are playing well. My father and mother are playing badminton. They are both good players. My brother, my sister and I are running now. Who will win? Can you guess? Ha! Ha! It’s me. How happy we are!

This is a girl. Her name is Betty. She is my good friend. She is eleven years old. She is tall and thin. She has long hair and a big mouth. She is quiet. She likes music（音乐）. Sam is her brother. He is nine years old. He has short black hair and big eyes. He’s short and thin. He is very active（活跃的）. He likes painting（画画）.

The Browns

It is Saturday. The Browns are at home. Mrs brown is in the kitchen. She’s making apple pies. The pies are very delicious. Do you want to have a taste? Mr Brown isn’t in the living room. He is outside. He is washing his car. The car is new and very beautiful. So he looks after it very well. Jim is in the garden. He is playing football with some other boys. Where is his sister, Sue? She’s in her bedroom with her friend, Ann. They are watching The Animal World.

The Road family often does housework together at the weekends. Pam often cleans bedrooms. Her father buys groceries（食品杂货）for the next week. Her mum washes the clothes. John, Pam’s brother, cuts grass in their garden.

The Roads often ride a bike to the park nearby. In the park, they can play basketball and football. They always have a good time there.

It is happy when a family works and plays together.

It’s a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon. I take a school trip with my friends. I am very happy because I don’t need to do my homework. I jump and run. I am so excited that I fall into the river. Then I’m all wet（湿的） and I feel cold. My friends take me home. My father is angry with me. He orders（命令） me to practice（练习） my piano for 2 hours（小时）. I have a cold and I am very sad. What a bad school trip!

Linda is an eleven-year old girl. She is from Australia. She has a brother called Mike who is four years old. Linda’s father, Mr Brown, works in a big shop in Shanghai, and Linda’s mother stays at home to take care of the children.

Today, everyone in Linda’s family is at home. Mr Brown is sitting in the sofa. He is reading newspaper. Mrs Brown is outside watering the flowers. Mike is in his room playing with the cat, and Linda is cleaning her new bike. What a happy family!

Tom is my little brother. He is six years old now. He has big eyes and a small mouth. He is short. He wants to be a writer. He often borrows books from me.

One day, he is ill. My mother takes him to the hospital. The doctor asks the nurse to give him an injection（打针）. Tom cries for a long time. “Dear son, don’t cry. You will feel better after a while,” my mother says. When my mother gives money to the nurse, Tom says angrily, “No. She made me cry. She should give me some money!”