“I liked to play with toys in the past, but now I don’t,” said one of my friends, “Playing with toys is a waste of time for students.”

Maybe you are like him. But in my class, some students love playing with a special toy—Kendama. In Chinese, we call it Jianyu.

With a rich history, Kendama is very popular in my class. It first appeared in France. In the 1600s, it came to Japan and became a kind of game after dinner. In the 1900s, Japanese people made it more interesting and shared different ways to play it. And they called it Kendama, which means “cup and ball games” in Japanese.

It has a handle(手柄), a pair of cups and a ball. And a rope gets them together. When you play with it, you can pull(抛) the ball up and get it with the cup. You can make up different moves as you like. You can buy a Kendama on the Internet. Some of them are cheap. And you can learn to play with it on the Internet, too.

“It’s really interesting,” said Deng Chuqin, a Kendama player in my class, “This toy makes my life more interesting. It’s relaxing.”

Though learning how to play Kendama is difficult, you can do it well by practicing often. It is a toy that can teach you never to give up on your dream.

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Kate is playing hide-and-seek (玩捉迷藏) with her friends at her home. Where are her friends? Can she find them?

Have you heard about the Minecraft game? Minecraft is a game that you have to pay for downloading. It’s worth every penny! It is a technical game, where everything is made up of blocks.

In the game, you are a person called Steve. At the start of the game you have nothing, so the first thing that is smart to do is to punch (猛击) a tree. You are probably thinking why you would punch a tree.

You need some wood and make it into crafting table. Then you make armor (盔甲) and tools and all kinds of stuff. It would be good if you build a shelter too. I also suggest you dig a hole under the ground and put down your crafting table. Make a shovel out of sticks and more wood, and then you can kill a sheep to get sheepskin to make a bed.

If you are not completely sure about living in a hole, you can make your hole look better. You can make a furnace to bake stuff, though. I think that you will need cobblestones (鹅孵石) to make a furnace. Once you have your furnace, be sure to get some sand. Bake your sand to get glass, and then cover up your cave with it. This will make a very efficient protection. A glass can protect you from monsters. There are so many out there like Creepers, Zombies and Skeletons. Be sure you make some strong weapons to fight all the monsters during the day and night.