It's Wednesday afternoon. School is over. The students are putting their books, pencil boxes1their school bags. The teacher comes in and says to the students. "Wait a minute, please. I have something to tell you. Listen to me, 2is Thursday. There's going to3 a 4meeting in our school. The meeting is at nine in the morning.  5are your school reports(成绩单)and letters6your parents.  7them home. Give your parents the letters and8your school reports. Ask them9to the meeting on time tomorrow because I'm 10tell them something about next term."

Dear Anton,

    Next week, I'm going to take a trip to San Francisco with my brother and his wife, and there's a seat in our car for another one. Would you like to go with us? We're going to leave on Saturday morning, February 28 th. We are going to stay there for a week. All of us enjoy shopping and travelling, so we'd like to stay at a hotel called Pickwick in the middle of the city. You and I can have a double(双人的)room.

    It is about 690 kilometres from Long Beach to SanFrancisco, and it usually takes eight and a half hours to drive there. We're going to leave at about 6 am on Saturday, so we'll get there before dark. We are going to take Highway 101, so we can pick you up home in Ventura at about 8 am.

    Please let me know if you can come with us.

Yours,

Paul

    Some people in the West like to stay at home during their weekends. They work in the garden, visit their friends, read books or watch television. Many families take their lunch to a park or some where far from the city. They like to eat under some trees or near a nice lake. If they live near the sea, they often go to the seaside. There they can fish, swim or enjoy the sunshine.

    Some people in the West like travelling. They think travelling and outdoor activities are interesting and exciting. They work hard to save money, but their main purpose is to travel.

    Most Western students often make use of their weekends to camp. There are thousands of interesting camp bases in Western countries. They can swim, go fishing, attend lectures, and take part in many other activities there. It can help them quest for the secrets of nature and teach them how to be self-reliant(自立的).

    Tomorrow is May Day. What are the students going to do? Here (be) some students' plans.

    Li Ming is going to visit his grandparents. They live in small village. Li Ming misses them very much, so this time he is going (stay) there for two days. He can help them do some (housework) and talk with them.

    Mike is a boy from America. He plans to visit Beijing. He (go) to the Great Wall and the Palace Museum. He is going to take a lot of (photo) and send them to his American friends email, because he wants his friends (learn)about China.

    Lingling's mother is ill(生病的),she is going to stay at home and look after her mother. But she is going to do her homework and (play) computer games, too.

    Eric and Doris King Turner are packing their bags for New Zealand. They're busy deciding what to pack and what to leave behind in Britain and are making plans to extend their new home in Nelson. Doris is looking forward to getting the garden into shape and Eric has his heart set on a spot of fly fishing. The difference is that Eric is 102, Doris is 87. Eric thinks he's Britain's oldest emigrant.

    In January next year Eric King Turner and his wife of 12 years will wave goodbye to their neighbors, and set sail from Southampton on the voyage of a lifetime. The ocean liner(远洋客轮)Saga Rose will take six weeks to get to Auckland and the couple are expecting a red-carpet welcome from family.

    Doris was born in New Zealand but gave up her homeland when the couple met and married in the late 1990s. But New Zealand is close to both their hearts and the attraction of family and friends, and the good fishing helped to persuade them to move.

    Doris, who has five children and nine grandchildren, supported her husband's application to settle in New Zealand. The paperwork took five months. Eric says." We not only had to produce a marriage certificate(证书)but we had to produce evidence that we were in a long and stable relationship! "He also said he was not asked about his age but had to show that he could support himself financially(财政上)in New Zealand.

    "I like New Zealand. The way of life is very much the same as it is here but it is not so crowded. "His wife has always been" a little bit homesick" but has never complained. Now the couple are in the middle of the task of sorting out possessions and selling their flat.