My mother and I take a bus to go shopping on Saturday morning. Father likes fruit very much, so we buy red apples for him. Mother likes yellow bananas, but these are green.

“Look! The oranges are very nice, Mum. Do you like them?” I say to Mum.

“Yes, I like oranges very much,” says Mother. So she buys some for herself.

The melons are very nice, too. Mother buys some for me because I like melons very much.

We need some vegetables, so we buy some tomatoes, carrots and potatoes. My favourite food is hamburgers. I like drinking Coke and eating ice cream, too. After shopping, Mother and I have some French fries, milk and juice. and then we go back home with the fruits and vegetables.

It was Saturday. Mary wanted to go to the park with her friend. But she got up late. She put on her clothes quickly and didn't have breakfast. She rode her bike very quickly. At the crossing the red light was on. But she didn’t stop. A policeman stopped her, “Please get off your bike. Don’t you see the red light?” “Yes, I do. But I didn’t see you,” said Mary.

Jim’s Bedroom

This is Jim’s bedroom. It’s new and nice. A bed and a chair are in it. A desk is on the floor. Some flowers are on it. A bookshelf is behind the bed. Some English books are on the bookshelf. A picture is on the wall. Some people are in the picture, the man is his father. The woman is his mother. Who is the boy? Do you know?

This is my friend, Jim. He is an English boy. He is twelve. He is in Class Three, Grade One. He is Number Two in Row Five. My name is Dong Cheng. I am a Chinese boy. I am twelve, too. I am in Class One. I am Number One in Row One.

I went to two cities to play during last summer holidays. They are Beijing and Hohhot.

I went to Beijing more than eight times. Beijing is the capital of China. It’s a big city. I am very familiar with Beijing. It takes an hour and forty minutes to travel from Nantong to Beijing by plane. There are many tall buildings in Beijing. My family visited the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, the Palace Museum, Beihai Park, the Space Museum and so on.

I went to the countryside of Beijing to go boating and fishing. It was very interesting. I like eating Beijing snacks. They are delicious. I also miss Beijing Duck. It is really nice.

Hohhot is in Inner Mongolia. There is lots of grassland there. The grassland is endless. The sky is bright blue. There are a lot of horses and sheep. They were running or eating grass when I got there. I rode a horse on the grassland. I picked some colourful flowers. We drank tea with milk. There is a small desert, it was very hot when I walked on it. The sand can sing.

These trips helped me open my eyes. I enjoyed my holidays.