Mr. Zhou is a Chinese teacher of Grade 1 in a school. One day while he _____ into the classroom, he heard a low ______, “Here is the teacher. I don’t like him because he is a ______ fellow (家伙) . I’m sure the boring fellow is going to ______ putting in commas (逗号) today.” It was Bill’s voice. He was talking with a boy next to him.

The teacher didn’t get angry. He said ______ about it, but began to talk about putting in commas, and then he ______ down the sentence on the blackboard, “Bill says his ______ is a boring fellow.”

The class laughed and Bill’s face ______ red.

“Now,” said the teacher. “I’ll show you ______ important commas are.”

He put ______ commas into the sentence and then read, “Bill, says his teacher, is a boring fellow.”

Each club in our school plays a sports game against another every year. This year, our club, the Filmmakers Club, was picked to play basketball against the All-star Sports Club. That’s where the trouble began.

We cared mostly about ______. We didn’t like basketball at all. The kids in the All-star Sports Club were ______. They were excellent players and took sports seriously. They wanted to win in a hard-fought game so they expected ______ to play hard, too.

I sighed! I walked onto the gym floor to take part in the ______. Here we were, the five of us: Kenny, Ana, Jamal, Mai and me. We hardly knew how to play: Mai tried to run with the ball ______ she couldn’t control it well; Kenny dribbled (控球) with two hands. We were ______.

“Basketball isn’t fun,” said Kenny. “We’d just show up for the game and go back home.”

At that moment, I decided we needed a creative game plan to ______ us. I began to imagine the game as a scene (场面) in a movie. ______ I knew what to do—turn the game into a documentary film.

I told my teammates the ______, and they all liked it.

“But do All-star kids want to be ______ our movie?” said Mai. “Let’s ask them!”

The All-star members were glad to be part of the movie. We ______ them. They talked about how excited they were about the game. And we filmed every practice we did. When doing what we were ______ we began to show a little interest in the game, and the practice as well.

On the day of the game, great scenes were ______ with the camera, though no doubt the All-star Sports Club whipped us. The final score was37-9.

Later that week, we invited them to see our movie. With the wonderful scenes from interviews, practice and the game, the movie was a ______. They agreed, “You may not do well in basketball, but you ______ make great movies!” It was music to our ears.