牛津英语广州版七年级上册原文Unit1 Making friends
广州版七年级（上册）英文教材课文
七年级英语上（广州版）Unit 1 Making friendsReadingA letter from a penfrienfDear Li JieHi! Your name and address are in Penfriends magazine. I would like to be your penfriend. My name is Simon. My Chinese name is Li Peichun. I’m twelve years old. How old are you? I’m 163 cm. I have short black hair and brown eyes. Myhobby is playing chess.I live with my parents in the UK. They are from Beijing. My parents own a Chineserestaurant in Newcastle. We live in a house near our restaurant. I can speakChinese, but I cannot write it very well. I have a brother. His name is Edwin.He is 23. he works as an accountant in London. How many people are there in your family? What do they do?I’m in year 7 at Walker School. It is near my house, and I can walk to school.I like my school. The teachers are very friendly. I am keen on sports. I enjoyplaying rugby and badminton in winter, and tennis in summer. My best subject at school is maths. I want to be an engineer.Here is a photo of myself and some school friends. I am in the middle. Li Jie,please tell me all about yourself.Best wishesSimonB My school friendsB2 read Liu Mei’s letter to her penfriend, Kelly. Write down the names of the people in the photo.Dear KellyDo you like this photo of me with my school friends？ I am in glasses. Can you see me ?On the right is Sally. She is British. She is my best friend at school. She isalways happy to help everyone. On the left is Li Jie. I play table tennis withher every afternoon.The boys stand behind us. Sun Fei wears glasses too. He is a painter. His paintings are very beautiful. He is also a basketball player on the school team. Our school team often wins the Middle School Championship in the city. Wang Gang is a verygood swimmer. He practises every morning and night. He wants to be one of thebest swimmers in the world. He is the boy next to. Chen Yu. Chen Yu is the tallest boy in the class. He is good at tennis. His favourite tennis player is RogerFederer. Li Ming is the boy on the right. He is not very good at sports, but heis very friendly to everyone round him. We all like him a lot.LoveLiu MeiUNIT 2 Our daily lifeReading A1WHIZZ-KID CHENG NACheng Na, 15, is one of the top students in Guangzhou. She writes computer games and all of her family work in her business. She is still at school!6 a.m.I get up at six o’clock, wash and put on my school uniform. I have breakfastwith my parents. Every morning we discuss business at breakfast7:30 a.m.Every day, my driver drives me to school in my own car. I something make phone calls to clients on the way to school.8 a.m. 上午8点I start school. I enjoy seeing my school friends. I usually get A grades inall my subjects.12:30p.m.About twice a week my driver picks me up from school. I go and have lunch witha client. Then I come back to school.4:15 p.m.After school I usually go to a club. On Fridays we have Computer Club meeting.On Mondays and Thursdays I play basketball. Once a week I have piano lessons.I do my homework for an hour or two before dinner.7 p.m.I always have dinner with my parents. We discuss our business. Then I go tomy office and continue working on my games. I usually go to bed at 11 p.m.B2Zhen Hui students at a middle school in Guangzhou. Every day, she wakes upat six o’clock in the morning. She quickly brushes her teeth and washes herface. Then she reads English for half an hour, she has breakfast at seven o’clock. She usually has two pieces of bread and a glass of milk.After breakfast, Zhen Hui goes to school. She lives near school and alwayswalks there. She usually gets to school at eight o’clock, and usually has six lessons. Zhen Hui loves English very much, and always gets an A. she usuallygets a B in her other subjects.After school, Zhen Hui usually walks home at four o’clock in the afternoon.Her favourite sport is table tennis. She plays table tennis with her classmates at school once a week.Zhen Hui often has an early dinner. She begins to do her homework at six o’clock and completes it in one or two hours. She usually goes to bed at nineo’clock.Unit 3 TroublesReading A2An exciting thing happened to Liu Wei on 28 September.Friday, 28 SeptemberToday my father and I waited for the ferry. Suddenly, two women a nd a man began arguing. The man held out a bag and showed it to the women. There was nothingin it .Everyone looked at the three people, my father went up and asked one of thewomen, “is something wrong?”.“He stole my p urse,” said the woman. “we were in the bookshop and three young men were behind us. Then I couldn’t find my purse. The other two men ran away, and we followed this man here.”Then the gates opened. The man hurried aboard, and the two women went afterhim.“wait,” said my father. “ let’s take the next ferry.” Then he hurried to an ice cream shop, picked up the phone and quickly called 110.“I want to report a theft . A man stole a purse from a Woman. He has a greenshirt and a blue bag , he’s on the No.3 Ferry now. it left a few minutes ago.Please meet it on the other side of the river.”We took the next ferry. When we got off, we saw six policemen standing aroundthe man. He was in handcuffs.“well done, dad ,” I said. “you are so great !”B2When Chen Yu work up, it was already six o’clock. “Oh no !” he said. Last night he stayed up late to work on his science project, but he did not complete it. It was due today. Chen Yu was worried. The science teacher was sure to beangry with him.Chen Yu put on his clothes quickly and run out of the door. It was cold outside. He rode his bike quickly to keep warm. He thought carefully about his project ---he wanted finish it this morning. Suddenly, he saw an old lady fall overand hurt her leg. It was Mrs Li. She lived next door to Chen Yu.“what should I do?” wondered Chen Yu. “I want to help her but I do not have time. I have to complete the project before school.”“She should not walk tound on her own in this cold weather without her walking stick,” thought Chen Yu, but he felt guilty not to stop and help her.Suddenly, he had an idea. He rode quickly to the telephone booth on the sideof the road and called an ambulance. Five minutes later, an ambulance pickedup Mrs Li, and Chen Yu got on his bike and happily rode to school.Unit 4 HobbiesReadingA2Patrick Moore studied the stars all his life. Here is an article about his hobby.Patrick MooreWhen I was about eight, I got a book about stars. That was the beginning ofmy life’s work. When I was young, I did not use to have much money. I couldnot buy expensive things. But I had my eyes. I used to go outside every nightto look at the stars.There are billions of stars in the sky---but you can only see about 3000 withyour own eyes.Get a map of the stars and begin to find your way through the sky. In different seasons, you can see different groups of stars. The shapes of these groups never change. It is easy to learn the name of each group. When you know these, youmay start to look at the stars inside each group. Not all stars are the same.Some a re big, and some are small. Some l ook white, some look red and some look blue.Sometimes, you may see a star move. However, if you see it move from one group to another, then it is not a star but a planet. You are able to see Venus andJupiter easily. They are both very bright. It is easy to see Mars, too. It looks red. You will soon begin to learn more and more about the stars. Then you will want to find out even more about them.B Taking photographsB2A photographer can have a very interesting life. Norman Parkinson was afamous photographer. He liked travelling to interesting places and takingphotographs. It was his hobby as well as his jop.Taking photographs is a favourite hobby of many people all over the world. Itcan help us remember things. We all love to take photographs of each other,especially when we travel to new places. We also like to have a photograph ofeverybody in the group together. When we want to be in the picture, we needto ask someone to take the photograph for us.Having photographs is important because people and places always changes. Itis very sad, for example, if children cannot look at photographs of theirparents or grandparents. What did Grandfather look like? Where did he use tolive? If we do not have photographs, children may not know the answers to these questions. Photographs help us know and understand our history.This picture is more than fifty years old .Guangzhou later held the ChineseExport Commodities Fair in this building. Do you think the old picture helpus remember life in the past?Unit 5 EncyclopaediaReadingA2DINOSAURSDinosaurs lived on earth more than sixty million years before human beings.They lived everywhere. Some dinosaurs were as small as chickens. Others wereae big as ten elephants. Some dinosaurs could even fly.Many dinosaurs were gentle and ate plants. Others were dangerous and ateDinosaurs all died out suddenly. Nobody knows the reason.However, people can learn about the lives of dinosaurs from fossils of theirskeletons, eggs and footprints. (see Earth History)DISNEY, WALTDisneyland is a famous park in the USA. Its founder was Walt Disney (1901~1966). He is famous for his cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald duck, Goofy and Snow White.Disney was born in the USA. After leaving school, he sold newspapers anddelivered letters. At the same time, he studied art at night. Finally, he gota job drawing cartoons for films.Sometimes a mouse sat on Walt’s desk when he was at work. He drew the mouseand put it in a cartoon. This became Disney’s most famous cartoon character —Mickey Mouse. Mickey soon became a star and Disney became rich and famous.(see Cartoons)B3Jean Champollion (1790~1832) was very good at languages. He learnt twelelanguages in his life. When h e was 18, he began teaching history at university.He was younger than many of his students!Jean was very interested in ancient Egypt and in 1821 he began to study theRosetta Stone. A group of soldiers found this stone at Rosetta when Jean wasstill a young boy. It was under the sand for hundreds of years before they dug it up. There was a lot of strange writing on the stone. The writing was in three languages. One of the languages was ancient Egyptian. No one could read it at that time. But Jean worked out its secret.Ancient Egyptian was not a language with letters and words like English. Itwas full of signs. According to many experts, these signs showed things andideas. Jean did not completely agree. He thought some of them showed sounds.He found fifteen signs of this kind in his study of the Rosetta Stone .Today,it is possible to understand ancient Egyptian from 4000 years ago because ofJean’s discovery.Unit 6 Beyond time and space (Ⅰ)ReadingA2Captain King often tells his friends stories of his adventures. This is oneof them.Towards evening we landed on an unknown planet. Lam, our pilot, brought us down gently in a valley. We left the ship and saw a cave. We went into the cave.It was someone’s home and everything inside was huge!“Let’s get out of here,” Peters, our navigator, said. “this is the homeof a monster.”“Maybe it’s a friendly monster,” I said. “we’ll wait.”Suddenly, a door opened and some a nimals jumped out. They looked like kangaroos. Behind them was a huge monster. The kangaroos shouted, “good night, Gork.”Then they jumped away.Then Gork saw us. He gave a roar, “Aliens! Aliens in my cave. How d id you get in here?”I thought fast, and said quietly, “Good evening, Mr Gork. My name is Nobodyand …”Gork roared again, “you’re aliens and we kill all aliens in this valley.Tomorrow morning, you are going to die! All of you.” Then he pressed a button on the wall. Steel bars rose suddenly from the ground around us and closed over our heads.“well, Captain,” lam asked, “why did you name yourself ‘Nobody’?”“I have a plan and ‘Nobody’ is part of it,” I replied. “You’ll see.”I turned to Gork and said, “ We come in peace, Mr Gork.”Gork said, “You come in peace, but tomorrow you’ll be in pieces.”Peters turned towards me, and his voice shook. “We’re all going to die, sir.”“No, We’re not,” I said. “ we’re all going to live, Peters! Trust me!”B2Kelly always wanted to be a scientist. She was interested in maths and physics. She hoped to work in space one day. “I will discover something important inthe future,” she often told herself.Every evening, Kelly went out with her dog to look at the stars. One night,she saw a strange, coloured light moving across the sky.“It’s can’t be a star,” she thought. “It’s too bright. It must be a spaceship! I’m going to see it!”She walked quickly towards the light.“The people in the spaceship will want to talk to me. Can they speak ourlanguage? Will I be able to understand them? Are they lost?”The spaceship landed a few metres in front of Kelly and the door slowly opened. Suddenly, Kelly’s dog ran towards the spaceship. Kelly cried. “this can’t be true !” two huge dogs stood at the door of the spaceship. The visitorsfrom space were dogs! They said a few words to Kelly’s dog. Kelly’s dog looked at Kelly and then turned and rain into the spaceship. Then the spaceship wasgone.Unit 7 Beyond time and space (Ⅱ)A2After his dinner, Gork fell asleep on his bed right away.“Listen, everyone,” I said. “Here’s my plan. We’ll use this small powerful laser torch to get out of the cage. First, I’ll melt the bars and then….”Peters interrupted me, “ I know, Captain. Then you’ll use the torch to kill Gork.”“NO,” I said. “ if we kill him, we won’t be able to open the huge door”.I melthed the bars on the cage and we all, got out of the cage. I went up tothe bed, beside Gork’s head. I should, “Gork, this is Nobody!”Gork work up. I aimed the torch at his eye and the laser beam hit the eye.Gork roared, “ My eye! I can’t see!” the noise brought his kangaroo fiends to his door. They opened it, and asked, “ what’s wrong, Gork?”Gork shouted, “ Nobody attacked me. Nobody hurt my eye.”The kangaroos laughed and said, “ Nobody attacked you. You just had a bad dream! Let’s go back to bed. Good night, Gork.”My crew and I secretly climbed into the huge kangaroos’ pockets and they carried us out.A few seconds later, we all jumped out to freedom.“then, what happened to Gork?” asked someone.“Gork? I don’t know. Maybe he’s still in his cave and looking for Nobody.”Everyone laughed.B2In 1897, H G W ells wrote a science fiction book about spaceships coming to Earth. Its name w as The War of the Worlds. The book was still very popular in the 1930s. on 30 October, 1938, a man named Orson Wells put out a radio programme fromthe book. The programme was different from the book in one important way: inthe programme the actors talked like reporters and it sounded like a news report to the listeners.The actors said, “ space peopie from the planrt Mars are going to attack Earth. Huge things like snakes will come o ut of spaceships and kill people and people’s guns cannot hurt any of them,” when people heard this, they were very afraid. Some even left their homes and tried to hide.Orson Wells waited 40 minutes and later he told the listeners the truth. However, many listeners really believed the news report. They were afraid at first and then they became angry.In fact, 30 October is the day before a famous holiday in the USA a nd some other vountries. On this holiday, people play jokes on other people. The holiday is Halloween.。
广州牛津版英语七上Unit 1《Making friends》(Period 3)ppt课件
Grammar
A Wh-questions
We use Wh-questions to ask for information about someone/something.
What Where Who How old is is are her name? (Anna.)
she from? (Germany.)
What’s Mandy’s e-friend’s name?
Listening
Jason is asking Mandy about her e-friend. Listen to their conversation and complete the notes below. Write one word or figure in each blank.
Mandy’s e-friend
Name: Yuki Country: Japan Age: (1)_____________ 12/twelve What she looks like: short, thin; (2)_______ long hair Hobby: drawing (3)_____________ pictures Brothers and sisters: one elder (4)_____________ sister Home: a (5)_____________ flat in Tokyo small Dream: to be an (6) __________ teacher Art
3. 完成《英语（七年级
上册）B》第3至5页
Grammar A，C和第6至7页Listening的练习。
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广州新版七年级英语上册unit1-讲义
腾跃教育初一英语上讲义第一讲Unit1 Making friendsName:Mark:一、课文单词与短语German adj. 德国的blog n. 博客grammar n. 语法sound n. 声音complete v. 达成hobby n. 喜好country n. 国家age n. 年纪dream n. 梦想everyone pron. 人人，全部人Germany adj. 德国mountain n. 山；山脉elder adj. 年长的friendly adj. 友善的engineer n. 工程师world n. 世界Japan n. 日本flat n. 公寓yourself pron. 你自己 . US 美国close to （在空间，时间上）凑近go to school 去上学(be) good at 善于make friends with 与 . 交朋友all over 遍布‘d like to =would like to 愿意二、课文内容精析1.Welcome to my blog. welcome to sp. 欢迎到达某地2. I ’m from Germany. 我来自德国。
be from= come from 来自two Germans ）Germany 德国 German adj. 德国的 n. 德语；德国人（ Germancars are very good. She was born in Germany. The Germansspeak English very well.3. I ’m 11 years old. 我十一岁。
问句：What is his age = How old is he 他多大了1) at the age of= when sb. was years old在岁的时候He could swim at the age of six. = He could swim when he was six years old2） the same age of = as old as和同样大She is the same age of Kate. = She is as old as Kate.（注意：the same height as = as tall as 和同样高；the same length as = as long as 和同样长）4. I have long hair.我有长头发。
Unit 1 Reading 1课件2022-2023学年牛津深圳版(广州沈阳通用)七年级英语上册
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About me I live with my family in a house close to some mountains. My mum is an Art teacher. My dad is a doctor. I have an elder sister and an elder brother.
3.She is going to talk about her
1 her country
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2 her age
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3 her parents' names □
4 her brother and sister □√
5 her favourite subjects □√
6 her English teacher □
7 her dream
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8 her hobbies
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Read the text and answer the questions
How many paragraphs are there? What is the main idea in each paragraph?
Paragraph1 Paragrap 2 Paragraph 3
Do you want to make a e-friend?
Now Let’s make an new e-friend together !
Anna
From the title(标题） , we know that 1.The girl is _A__n_n_a____
(广州沈阳通用)2018秋七年级英语上册Module1Unit1MakingFriends课件牛津深圳版
要点3 complete
【思维导图】
要点3 complete
【举例】 When will you complete the work? 你们何时 完工？ Give me a complete list. 给我一份完整的清单。 The house is a complete mess. 这房子实在太 乱了。 When will the project be completed? 这项工 程什么时候完工？ I have finished the letter. 我写完了这封信。 I should do something to end the strike. 我 应该做点什么来结束这次罢工。
要点7 Japan
【思维பைடு நூலகம்图】
要点7 Japan
【举例】 He has been to Japan three times.他去过 日本三次。 He is the manager of that Japanese company. 他是那家日本公司的经理。 My wife can speak Japanese. 我妻子会说 日语。 I met some Japanese. 我遇到了几个日本人。
要点5 elder
【应用】 （ C ）My ______ brother is three years _______ than me. A. elder；elder B. older; elder C. elder; older
要点6 friendly
【思维导图】
要点6 friendly
【举例】 The people here are very friendly. 这里的 人都很友好。 A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难见 真情。 He is friendly to me. 他对我友好。 Why are you so unfriendly to him? 为什么 你对他这么不友善？
牛津广州版七年级英语Unit1Makingfriend
牛津广州版七年级英语Unit1 Making friends教案Unit1 Making friends词语学习（一）title n．标题signature n．署名，签名top-right adj．右上角的greeting n．问候hobby n．兴趣，业余爱好chess n．国际象棋own v. 拥有be keenon 热衷于，喜爱rugby n．英式橄榄球运动badminton n．羽毛球运动physics n．物理学（二）inglasses 戴着眼镜的on theleft 在左边table tennispartner 乒乓球搭档championship 冠军one of thebest 最好的……之一nextto 在……的旁边be friendlyto 对……友善的pioneer 先驱，先锋youngpioneer 少年先锋队captain 队长，船长（三）lastfor 持续（一段时间）weather 天气at the beginningof 在开始的时候，在……开端goskiing 去滑雪wind……windy snow……snowycool 和coldbegin 和startbegin和start辨识我们已经学习了begin和start两个单词,它们都有开始的意思,但是它们有什么区别呢?我们一起来看一下吧! [辨析] 这两个动词,都有"开始"之意,在一般情况下可互换使用。
如:They usually begin/start to work at six a.m.他们通常在上午六点钟开始工作。
二者的区别是:begin是普通用词,使用较广泛,后接动名词或动词不定式均可,多数情况下都可替代start,反义词为end。
如:They began learning/to learn English last year.他们去年开始学英语。
start较口语化,动作性较强,带有突然开始之意,其反义词为stop。
七年级英语上册 Unit 1 Making friends Listening课件 牛津广州
Unit 1
Making friends
Revision
1) Talk about your photographs to the class.
2) Have a quiz.
a) dictation: new words
b) Chinese to English
1. 热衷于
2. 我本人的照片
3. 擅长…
1. What’s the name of Sun Fei”s school? No. 5 Middle School.
2. How50many students are there in Sun Fei’s class?
3. How26many girls are there in his class?
He is the third person from the right.
Prepositional phrases
1. 在……的前面 2. 在……的前面 3. 在……的中间 4. 在……的旁边 5. 在……的后面 6. 在……的附近 7. 在左边 / 右边
• in front of • in the front of • in the middle of • next to / beside • behind • near • on the left / right
Favourite sport Football Tennis Badminton Rugby
A2 Listen and choose the four friends of Simon.
321来自4Sun Fei wants to write a letter to his penfriend about his class. Listen and answer the questions.
新广州牛津版初一英语上册知识汇总及练习
U n i t1M a k i n g F r i e n d sEx. 1）English is my favourite subject,and I am good it. 2）Amy is good at. like 表示“看起来像….”look 是感官动词，后面跟形容词。
look 也可以和like 搭配，表示“看起来像….”，后面跟名词。
take the bus to school.= I go to school by bus.Mr Green knows a lot about China.（作宾语）Monkeys like eating bananas a lot.（作状语）to do sth.意为“希望做某事”，动词不定时作宾语。
hope to be your friend.hope+(that)从句... 希望... hope that they win the match！from 意为“收到.....的来信”，相当于get/recrive a letter from....。
11.a boy called Bruce一名叫布鲁斯的男孩called是call的过去分词。
过去分词短语called Bruce作后置定语，修饰名词boy。
called在此处相当于named。
【用法集萃】1.listen to 听to接近over the world 全世界4.far away from远离attention to注意with以....开始7.on the Internet English 用英语about了解10.tell sb. about sth.告诉某人关于某事to 欢迎光临12.be from = come from 来自friends with sb.与某人交朋友14.like/enjoy doing sth.喜欢做某事in居住在...16.would like to do sth.想做某事like sb. to do sth.想某人做某事Exercises：1）I’d like you for a picnic with us.go2）The students in Class Two like sports.3）There a pencil and two rulers in the pencil-box.4）Linda wants basketball with us this afternoon.play5）Do you know the girl Amy?6）Where your Englis teacher come from?7）It’s ve ry hard for us to work out the answer the question.8）Do you want tennis with me on Saturday morning?play9）Do you enjoy English in our class,Mr Green?teach10）Lisa is a little poor at think she needs it every day.to speak practise speaking speaking11）What does your new school ?like like12）She looks very in her new dress.beautiful13）Her mother goes to work bus every morning.【句子·要点】1.My dream is to be an engineer.我的梦想是成为一名工程师。
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Unit1Making friendsReading AA letter from a penfriendMiddle StreetWalkerNewcastleNE6 4BYEnglandUK12 OctoberDear Li JieHi! Your name and address are in Penfriends magazine．I would like to be your penfriend．My name is Simon．My Chinese name is Li Peichun．I am twelve years old．How old are you? I am 163 cm．I have short black hair and brown eyes．My hobby is playing chess．I live with my parents in the UK．They are from Beijing．My parents owna Chinese restaurant in Newcastle．We live in a house near our restaurant．I can speak Chinese，but I cannot write it very well．I have a brother．His name is Edwin．He is 23．He works as an accountant in London．How many people are there in your family? What do they do?I am in Year 7 at Walker School．It is near my house，and I can walk to school．I like my school．The teachers are very friendly．I am keen on sports．I enjoy playing rugby and badminton in winter，and tennis in summer．My best subject at school is maths．I want to be an engineer．Here is a photo of myself and some school friends．I am in the middle．Li Jie，please tell me all about yourself．Best wishesSimonReading BMy school friendsDear KellyDo you like this photo of me with my school friends? I am in glasses．Can you see me? On the right is Sally．She is British．She is my best friend at school．She is always happy to help everyone．On the left is Li Jie．I play table tennis with her every afternoon．The boys stand behind us．Sun Fei wears glasses too．He is a painter．Hispaintings are very beautiful．He is also a basketball player on the school team．Our school team often wins the Middle School Championship in the city．Wang Gang is a very good swimmer．He practises every morning and night．He wants to be one of the best swimmers in the world．He is the boy next to Chen Yu．Chen Yu is the tallest boy in the class．He is good at tennis．His favourite tennis player is Roger Federer．Li Ming is the boy on the right．He is not very good at sports，but he is very friendly to everyone aroundhim．We all like him a lot．LoveLiu MeiListening BOur classMy name is Sun Fei．I am in class 2，Grade7 of No.5 Middle School．There are 50 students in the class．There are 24 boys and 26 girls．One of the girls is from the UK．Her name is Sally．All the chinese students are Young Pioneers．They are from different primary schools．Six students in our class are on our school basketball teams．Look at the photo．The first person on the left is Zhang Yue．He is the captain of the boy's team．The second person from the left is Zhou Yong．The third person from the left is me．Chen Jiamin is the third person from the right．Wang Li li is the second person from the right．The first person on the right is Wang Xin．Miss Liu is our class teacher．She teaches us English，too．She is very kind．All the students like her.More practicing AMiss Liu Our English teacher is our class teacher too．She is always very busy．She works very hard and she is kind to us．She gives us a lot of help with our studies．"Try to speak English every day，" she always says．Mr Xu This teacher is very clever．He can answer all the difficult maths questions．He wears glasses and he is very nice．"Maths is easy，" he says，"but you must work hard．That's important．"Miss Ma Our Chinese teacher looks quite young．She is a small lady．Her handwriting is always very beautiful．Mr Zhang This man is our P.E．teacher．He is tall and looks heavy，but he can run very fast．He is a big man，and he is also friendly．"Do exercise every day．That's important!" he says．B25 Walu StreetArandaCanberraACT 2600Australia30 NovemberDear Liu MeiThanks for your letter．Now I want to tell you about the four seasons in Canberra．Spring in Canberra lasts for three months，from September to November．I love the spring here．The trees in the street have lots of small white flowers and the weather is nice．At the beginning of spring，it is cool and sometimes rains．At the end of spring，the weather is warm．It is often dry and very hot in the middle of summer．Sometimes we have four or five days at 45℃! Our summer holiday starts at the beginning of December and ends at the beginning of February．I go swimming every day．We usually go to the sea for a week in January．It is windy there and the sea is very cool．In autumn，the trees are all orange and brown．Our autumn is March，April and May．In winter，it snows in some places．We go skiing in the Snowy Mountains every winter in June，July or August．Sometimes it is rainy but it is usually very cold．Often the sky is very blue，and you never see any clouds．It is my favourite season．What is your favourite season?Write soon．LoveKelly。