Text of Lesson 8

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Hello, everyone!

Hello, everyone! I’m Gao Xiaoyu. Everyone calls me Xiaoyu. I’m twenty now. I’m tall. I’m a student at Peking University. I study Chinese. I’m Chinese. My teacher is Chinese too. Our school has many classmates; they can all speak a little Chinese and write some characters. Some of them are British, others are American. There’s a new classmate who’s French. Her name is Bai Xue. She’s very pretty. I like her a little.

My family has four members: Dad, Mum, a younger sister, and me. My parents are good people. I don’t have an older brother or sister, nor a younger brother. My younger sister is called Yueyue. She’s nine now. She’s a primary school student. I love my family.

My family has one dog and two cats. They’re not big—they’re all small. I like playing with them; they’re all fun.