Drift by Denis Glover

Denis Glover is a New Zealander, was in the navy and received a Distinguished Service Cross for bravery.

Chinese tones

Pinyin uses letters with tones above, each tones completely changes the meaning.
Chinese is a tonal language witch means it uses tone to change the mean ing of a word.
There are four Chinese tones.
The tone of your voice changes with each tone E.G

Tone 1: ā : A hight flat sound
Tone 2: á : A rising sound
Tone 3: ä : A sound that falls then rises
Tone 4: à : A sound that falls

Chinese characters don't show how they should sound.

Bā means the number 8
Bà means dad

There, their and they're

There: He is over there now.
In or at a place instead of here.

Their: I love their dog he's very fluffy.
You use there when you are talking about something someone owns.

They're: They're are leaving to go to the movies.
They're is a abbreviation for they are.

Interview

Last night I had my school interview with my parents. I was a little bit nervous but I think I did well. We had to explain how we are doing in our school work.

short stories

Derryn decided to mix random chemicals, thinking it would change colors like a rainbow instead it EXPLODED destroying half of the kitchen.

I was on a yacht and then my dad said "duck" and I said "no those are seagulls" then the mast hit me in the head.

Chinese characters

There is over 50,000 chinese characters altogether.

A educated chinese person will know about 8,000 characters.

Chinese characters have been used for over 3,500.

Some chinese characters and called pictographs because they look like pictures.

Baby and Mother means good.

Electric vision mean television.

fact or opinion

A fact is where something is true but a opinion is what one or more people think and may be true or not.

Coca Cola:
Fact: It is dark brown coloured. It has caffeine in its ingredients. It is carbonated.
Opinion: It's really delicious. It's one of the best drinks.