My name is Linda. I am a 12-year-old girl. Do you want to know1our class? There240 students in our class. Nick is 3student in our class. He likes to play basketball and he is good at it. He is the captain(队长)of the school4team. Mike is the funniest. He is very 5and often tells us jokes. We are made to laugh by him every day. Jack loves to play sports and he is the most athletic in our class. He says we should take exercise 6 healthy. The smartest student in our class is our monitor Wang Xue. She is a beautiful girl and she works hard, 7. She 8gets good grades. She usually helps us9 our homework and she is also the most popular student. The 10girl in our class is Lin Jing. She is also very shy. The teacher often tells her to eat more.

I love our class. I hope all the boys and girls in our class will be successful in the future.

Teddy has a problem—stutter(结巴). In the first grade, the problem bothered(使……困扰) him so seriously that he hardly ever spoke in class. He could not (make) friends at school.

But Teddy's life was different after he joined SAY. The Stuttering Association (组织) for the Young. association teaches kids like Teddy how to sing, dance, act and give talks.

The kids in SAY put on (show) each spring. Teddy is a (talent) boy. He is interested in dancing and he can dance the most (beautiful). He is an excellent (perform).

When people asked Teddy why he (choose) to dance, the boy said," Because I think it can bring out the best in me."

Going to SAY has helped Teddy a lot. Now he has made friends over 170 kids who stutter. It's not so hard for him (speak) in class, and he gets better grades, too." I'm less afraid to put up my hand in class. Everybody thinks I am more confident(自信的), " said Teddy." Sometimes I stutter, I don't care. I feel like a new person."

—Yeah. He won the first (奖).

One day, John read an advertisement in a newspaper. It said," Wanted. The best salesman in the world." John thought he was a great salesman and went to ask for the job." I'm the best salesman in the world." he said to the manager," Give me the job."

"You must prove(证明)you're the best." the manager said." OK, I will." John said.

"Good." The manager took several boxes of sweets(糖果) out of his desk." Last week, I bought a thousand boxes of sweets. If you can sell the mall before the end of the week, you can have the job." said the manager.

"That's easy." John said. He took the boxes of sweets and left the office.

Every day and all day, he went from shop to shop, trying to sell the sweets. But he couldn't sell one. The sweets were too bad for him to sell. At the end of the week, he went back to the manager."" I'm sorry, sir." he said," I was wrong about myself. I'm not the best salesman in the world, but I know who is."

"Oh." said the manager," Who?"

"The person who sold you a thousand boxes of the sweets."

When I was in Chengdu, I saw teahouses everywhere in the street. There is a saying," China has the best teahouses in the world and Chengdu has the best teahouses in China."

The service in teahouses is really friendly. When you go into a teahouse, the waiters or waitresses(女服务员) greet you with smiles on their faces and with teapots and cups in their hands. After you sit down, they set the cups on the table and pour the tea into the cups.

People who go to teahouses are not really thirsty. They pay 20 cents to go to a teahouse and sit there all day long to chat(聊天)with each other. Nowadays, more and more people go to teahouses for business(生意)talks. Some teahouses also have performances, such as storytelling and Sichuan Opera.

Alice and I have many interests .

What are most 13-year-old boys doing? Going to school, playingsports with friends and doing their homework.

TFBOYS is a singers' group started in 2013. Its name is The Fighting Boys. It has three members, Wang Junkai, Wang Yuan and Yi Yangqianxi. The other two boys were both 12 years old. They make albums(音乐专辑)and have won many awards(奖). Now the three boys are among the most popular teenage stars in the country.

Many people are interested in TFBOYS. After all, its members were still junior school students when they debuted. On weekends and holidays, they had singing classes, dancing classes and other trainings. In the fans' eyes, the group has a healthy and friendly image(形象). " We are of similar age," teens say," They feel like friends to us and we love their songs!"