It’s December. It’s snowy and the weather is really cold in the north (北方) of China. You can see many children playing in the snow. Some of them are making snowmen. Some are skating on the river. It’s a white world (世界). How beautiful!

But in Australia, the weather is hot now. Many people are swimming in the sea. They are having a good time. Jim and his friends are playing soccer near the sea. They want to swim after playing soccer.

Why can they swim in December? It is winter, isn’t it? Yes, it is in China. But it isn’t in Australia. That’s because China and Australia have different seasons (不同的季节) in a year.

How’s the weather in your city? And what are you doing? I’m visiting my uncle in Beijing. He works here. It’s sunny in Beijing now. And it’s warm. My two cousins are playing volleyball in the yard（院子）. ①is, at, book, My, home, uncle , a, reading(.)

—Sally

I live in New York. It’s hot now. It’s July 7th today. And it is my birthday. My mother is cooking and my father is helping her. My brother is making a birthday cake.

—Eric

I’m in Florida. It’s cool and sunny, too. I’m surfing the Internet in the library. Lots of students are in the library. Some are reading and some are writing. They all work very hard.

—Jane

Alex is going to study in Chicago for a year. He’s reading a travel book about the weather. It says: It’s usually cool in spring. Sometimes it rains. The temperature during the day is in the forties, fifties, or sixties degrees Fahrenheit(华氏度). It’s usually very hot and sunny in summer. The temperature is sometimes in the nineties. It’s usually cool and windy in autumn. Temperatures are often in the fifties. It gets very cold in Chicago in winter. It often snows. Chicago gets about 40 inches of snow per year. Temperatures sometimes fall below zero.

He asks himself, “What will I probably do there during that time? Oh, I’ll have a lot of free time in summer. Maybe I’ll go sailing(航海) on Lake Michigan. In autumn, I won’t have a lot of free time because I’ll be at school. I’ll probably play football. Maybe I’ll be in the school team. I won’t go ice skating because I don’t know how to ice-skate. I won’t go skiing because I can’t ski. Here’s an idea: I’ll probably visit my family in Florida at Christmas and on New Year’s Day and get some sunshine.”