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Mother’s Day

One of the best ways to celebrate Mother’s Day is to give your mum the Day off. Let her relax with the rest of the family doing all the housework. Usually, dad and the kids will let mum sleep late that morning as they go into the kitchen to prepare her favourite breakfast. Never forget to place a vase with a single flower on the table beside the food. The kids can pick up the flower from the garden or buy one from the shop. Arrange everything nicely before mum wakes up. Some families will carry the food and mum’s favourite sections from the newspaper to her bedroom so that mum can have breakfast in bed. Presents and cards from the kids can be handed to mum by themselves or just placed on the dining table.

After breakfast, go anywhere mum likes to go. Shopping, swimming or going on a picnic in the garden. Make a special Mother’s Day dinner or take mum out for a great meal in a famous restaurant she loves most.

Mark’s family went to the Transportation Museum (交通博物馆) last Sunday. They went there by bus. Mark was very excited. First they went to see the old cars. Mark sat in the driver’s seat. Next Mark went to see an old locomotive (火车头). He climbed up and stood in the train. But his sister Kathy didn’t like them. She didn’t like anything in the Transportation Museum. Finally they all left the museum and waited at the bus stop. After a few minutes, a very old bus arrived. They got on the bus. The seats were broken. The bus made a lot of noise. It went very slowly. It was a terrible old bus. But Kathy liked it very much. She thought it was great. Sometimes Mark didn’t understand his little sister.

Great inventions

The useful Robots

There will be many kinds of robots in the future. They will all be very useful. Dear children, do you know what they can do?

The home-help robots can tidy up a room and do the housework. Look! There is a robot at the bottom of the sea. What’s it doing? It is looking for something useful for mankind (人类). Robot policemen can control the traffic.

There is a kind of robot that can collect (收集) information from other planets (星球). Medical (医用的) robots can perform an operation (进行手术). Dear kids, do you know anything else about robots?

Musicians in Vienna

Vienna is a beautiful old city on the river Danube. It's the capital city of Austria and the centre of European classical music. From 1750 a lot of composers and musicians came to study and work in Vienna. The most famous family of musicians was the Strauss family.

There were two composers called Johann Strauss: a father and a son. The father, Johann Strauss the elder, wrote and played music for a classical dance—a waltz. His waltzes made his famous all over Europe.

The son, Johann Strauss the younger, was even more successful and popular than his father. He wrote more than 400 waltzes and his most famous one was the Blue Danube. He wrote it in 1867. Strauss and Mozart were two of the most important composers.

Mozart was bornin Austria in 1756. Before he was six he played not only the piano, but also the violin and the organ. His family took him around Europe and he gave concerts in many cities. He wrote his first opera at the age of 12 and hundreds of beautiful pieces of music for the classical orchestra. But he died in 1791 when he was only 35. Some people say he was the greatest European composer.

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