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Education and aspirations: reading and responding task answers

The writer is studying Chinese, English, history, chemistry, maths and geography.
The writer plays soccer on Saturday mornings, but if it rains, he or she plays basketball. Sometimes there are sports competitions.
On his trip to China, the writer visited the sister school, studied with the local students, played ball games and visited famous historical sites.
After university, the writer plans to travel in China and to study Chinese there.

In your answer, you should:

use e-mail reply format
write about your exam
write about your new school (size, number of teachers and students, comparison with your old school)
write about any extra-curricular activities in which you participate
talk about your new classmates as requested in the e-mail message.

Xiuying and Xiaofang are penfriends. Xiuying lives in Beijing and Xiaofang in Australia. They last met in Beijing when Xiaofang went for a visit.
Xiuying wrote this letter because she wants Xiaofang to give her some information about studying at a university in Australia as she wants to go to Australia to study engineering.
In your letter, you should include the following:
- response about receiving the letter
- talk about universities in Australia, in particular those that offer engineering courses
- suggest how to apply for courses at these universities.

use letter format
thank Xiaohua for his praise (write how you enjoy learning Chinese)
state whether there are overseas Chinese students in your school
tell roughly about how much time you spend at school each day and how many days you go to school each week
state how many school holidays you have each year and in which seasons they are found
suggest which month is the best time for Xiaohua to come to Australia to study and explain why.