Jack has some new pencils that are red, black, blue, white, yellow and green. Jack likes his new pencils because he loves to draw pictures.
Right now Jack is drawing a house. The door of the house is yellow, the walls are green and the windows are blue. In front of the house Jack draws some yellow flowers and behind the house he draws a black are white sheep.
The picture is so good that we will put it on the wall in our classroom!

pencil['pɛnsl]：铅笔
in front of：在...前面
behind[bɪ'haɪnd]：在...后面

What’s in my bag? Well, there is an English newspaper and also an English dictionary. I think I have two pens in the bag, too. I have a picture of my family. I have my vocabulary notebook that I write new words in everyday. I have my keys and that is it. Oh. Wow! I also have a letter from my friend Mr. Green, he wants me to come see him!

bag [bæɡ]：包
new [nu]：新的
news [nuz]：新闻
newspaper ['nuzpepɚ]：报纸
dictionary ['dɪkʃə'nɛri]：字典
vocabulary [və'kæbjəlɛri]：词汇

Australia has many different types of animals that can’t be found anywhere else in the world. One of these animals is the Koala. Koalas have grey fur all over their bodies, fuzzy ears and big round black eyes. Koalas sleep for 20 hours during the day and are awake only at night. Even though Koalas are very cute, we cannot keep them as pets because they need to stay in the wild.

koala [ko'ɑlə]：考拉
different ['dɪfrənt]：不同的
grey [ɡre]：灰色的
fuzzy ['fʌzi]：毛茸茸的
round [raʊnd]：圆圈

One day two crabs took a walk on the beach.
“Child,“”said the mother crab,
“you are walking quite funny. You should walk straight and keep your head up, not twist so much.”
“Mother,” said the young crab, “I am just copying you.”
We should always lead by example.

crab [kræb]：螃蟹
twist [twɪst]：扭成一束，捻
lead by example ：以身作则

One day a very strong donkey was playing with his friends. He was being mean to his friends because he was so much stronger than them and would always brag. He even stopped playing with the other donkeys because they could not pull a heavy cart like he could. To show off to the other donkeys, the strong donkey put a lot of things into the cart and tried to pull it. It was so heavy that the cart broke and the strong donkey fell over! So all of the other donkeys laughed at him because he looked so funny on the ground!

strong [strɔŋ]：强壮
mean [min]：苛刻， 意思
brag [bræg]：自大，吹嘘
cart [kɑrt]：运货马车，手推车

Today is my first day of school, I get up early so I could walk there on time. My mother tells me how to get to my new school, it is easy because it is only a ten minutes’ walk. I just leave our house and turn left, when I see a store I turn left again, and then I am on Wall Street. My school is on Wall Street on the right side.

get up ：起来
on time ：准时
turn [tɝn]：转
turn left ：左转
my turn ：轮到我了
your turn ：轮到你了
store [stɔr]：商店,储存

Dick is eleven. He has a sister named Anna. She is fifteen. Dick and his sister are in the same school. Their father and mother are teachers but they don’t work in the same school. Their father is an English teacher and their mother is a Chinese teacher. They have many books at home because they love to read. They often tell Dick and Anna that it is important to read a lot. Dick and Anna have many books, too. They like reading very much. They often borrow books from the school library.

eleven[ɪ'lɛvn]：十一
fifteen[,fɪf'tin]：十五
teacher['titʃɚ]：老师
important[ɪm'pɔrtnt]：重要的
borrow['bɑro]：借
library[laɪˌbrɛrɪ]：图书馆

Jim, Sam, Leo and I live in a building with four floors. We each live on a different floor and we also have different jobs. One of us is a driver, one is a manager, one is a painter and one is a writer. I live above Leo but Below Jim and Sam lives on the fourth floor. The writer lives above the driver and the driver lives above the manager. The painter lives on the first floor. Do you know who I am and what my job is?

floor [flɔr]：室内的地，层楼
different ['dɪfrənt]：不同的
writer ['raɪtɚ]：作家
paint [peɪnt]：油漆，刷漆
painter ['pentɚ]：画家，油漆匠

One night, I fell ill and my mother took me to a hospital. When we left the hospital, it was raining heavily. It was late and there were no buses on the road. We stood by the road and didn’t know what to do. Then a car came up and stopped in front of us. The driver opened the door and said to my mother, “Is the boy ill? Get in and I’ll take you home.”
一天夜里，我生病了，妈妈带我去医院。离开医院的时候，雨下得非常大，那时候天色很晚了，路上已经没有了公交车。我们在路边站着，不知道该怎么办。这时一辆车停在我们面前，司机打开车门对妈妈说：“这个孩子是生病了吗？快上车，我来带你们回家！”

fall[fɔl]：跌，摔 （fell fallen）
fell ill：生病
hospital['hɑspɪtl]：医院
in front of：在···前面

A month ago a teacher was giving a lesson to class of boys. She told them to write a composition about the last football match. Dick wrote a few words and then stopped. The teacher asked Dick why he wasn’t writing, and he said he finished. The teach took his exercise book and read: “Rain. No Play.”

上个月，老师在给一群男孩子上课，她让这群孩子写一篇关于足球赛的作文。迪克写了几个字便停下来了，老师问他怎么回事，为什么不继续写了，迪克说自己写完了。老师拿起他的练习册，读了出来：“下雨了，没有比赛。”

last [læst]：上一个
Last week ：上一周
You are the last one ：最后一个
How long does it last? ：持续多久？
match [mætʃ]：比赛，火柴，配
composition [,kɑmpə'zɪʃən]：创作，布置
exercise ['ɛksɚsaɪz]：锻炼