Li Hui, an excellent man, became a teacher in 2006. He teaches math in a village. The village is poor, many boys don’t like to study. Li often uses different ways to interest them. For example, he has his math classes under a tree. He thinks competitive sports are suitable for boys, especially for the ones who don’t like to study, so he chooses football to attract them and keep them in school. Before moving into the new school in 2017, they even didn’t have a sports place. Students took P.E. classes in the village library or a chicken coop (鸡舍) that had been cleaned up.

In 2009, their team was made up of children from different grades because of the limited number of students in their school. They won first prize at an important game in 2014. Before that, people didn’t understand why Mr. Li took his students to play football every day.

“Football gives children self-discipline. The children must get up at six and practice football. The kids are smart and the older students teach the younger ones. And sometimes they learn more skills from the online videos.” Li said. “In 2017, we moved to the new school about 3 kilometers away from the old one. There is an indoor gym (体育场), as well as a trophy room. The life in the past was so difficult, but everyone worked hard to change their life.”

Zhao Zhenxing, Zhao Zhenzhong and Zhao Zhenhua are triplets（三胞胎）from Hengyang, Hunan. They did a good job in gaokao this year and all went to their dream colleges.

They got 664, 674 and 654 points out of 750 and they were happy with the results. Now Zhao Zhenzhong is a student of Peking University and his two brothers are studying at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

When the brothers were in primary school, their father worked away from home and their mother, an engineer, spent time helping them with their studies. “We all liked learning Math Olympiad, so Mom would teach herself first every day and then discuss with us,” Zhao Zhenzhong said. “She never pushed（逼迫）us to study, but helped us in different ways. She also made plans for us to help us get into good learning habits.”

The boys also love sports. When they felt too tired to keep studying, they would play soccer or run to relax.

The three boys’ mother said, “______ I hope they can inspire（激励）them to study hard and then work for our country in the future.”

According to the new standard for labor education by China’s Ministry of Education, many primary and middle schools in China have started the labor course（劳动课）. Do the students enjoy themselves in the labor class? Here are their answers.