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I am Wang Lin. I am twelve years old. My pen pal Tom is from the United States. He is the same age as I. He is a middle school student in Beijing. There are three people in his family. His father is a teacher. He teaches English in a high school in Beijing. His mother is an English teacher too. But they work in different schools. Tom goes to school in his mother's car every day. They all like Chinese food. Tom's father likes Guangdong food. He thinks it is delicious. Tom's mother's favorite food is Sichuan food. But Tom doesn't like Sichuan food. He thinks it is too hot. They often eat out at the weekend.

Yesterday was Saturday, Zara got up at seven o'clock. But it was raining, and she couldn’t go out to play, she felt bored. She helped her mum make a cake. After that she was hungry. She ate the cake with mum. That’s delicious. She was very thirsty, so she drank some water. Then the rain stopped. Zara went out to play, she was very happy.

In England people usually don't talk very much. On a bus or a train, you can see everyone sits there looking out of the window. And they don't talk much. When you meet English people, they often talk about one thing — the weather. So when you meet someone in England, you can say “It's fine today, isn't it?”

“But it was a little cold yesterday.” He may answer.

“Oh, it will be warmer later!” you can say. Talk like this, and the English will think, “How friendly you are!”

Today is Mother's Day (母亲节). Dabing wants to buy something for his mother. What does he buy? He doesn't buy a card as usual (通常地). And he doesn't buy a rose because his father often buys it for his mother. Look! He buys an English book. He says it can help mother learn English.

Look at the picture of my family. This old man is my grandpa. He often reads books. The old woman beside him is my grandma. She often cleans our house. The boy in front of them is me. My name is Mike. I love taking photos. The man behind my grandpa is my father. He is a doctor. The woman beside him is my mother. She is a teacher. I love them very much.

What animals do you like? Bears, dogs or sheep? I like pandas. They are from China. In the zoo, I can see three pandas: a mother panda, a father panda and a baby panda. They are beautiful. They have black eyes, white face, black ears and fat body. They wear black and white coat all the time. They like eating green bamboo. The mother panda likes to lie on the grass, the baby panda likes to roll (滚动) on the grass, and the father panda likes to play with his son. How cute they are!

Jim is a pupil. He often walks to school at seven thirty. Sometimes he rides his bicycle. He is in Class Two, Grade One. He has four classes in the morning and two classes in the afternoon. He learns Chinese and English. He likes swimming, skating and ball games. He goes home at five o'clock. He often does his homework in the evening. Sometimes he watches TV for an hour. He goes to bed at nine o'clock.