Supplementary Readings
2. Grace and Joan
Mike: Look at that girl down there.
Tom: Which one?
Mike: The girl with fair hair in a blue dress. Who is she?
Tom: Oh, that's Grace. She's new in our school.
Paul: Her name isn't Grace. Her name is Joan.
Tom: Her name is Grace, Paul. I'm sure.
Mike: Come on. Let's go and ask her.
Tom: Hi, Grace.
Girl: Hi. But I'm not Grace. I'm Joan.
Paul: You see, Tom, her name is Joan. Where are you going, Joan?
Girl: To the teacher's room.
Paul: See you in class then, Joan.
Girl: Right, Paul.
Mike: Look, she's coming back. Hi, Joan.
Girl: Hi. But I'm not Joan. I'm Grace.
Tom: So she has two names.
Mike: All right, Grace or Joan, let's go to class.
Paul: Oh, this girl has two names. But who's that?
Tom: Look at that girl at the window. She has the same hair …
Mike: …and the same blue dress.
Tom: Ha ha! They're twins. Grace and Joan are twins.
Paul: So we have twins in our class!
Selected from page 140 to page 141 in the English Textbook (Book 1) for Junior High School
(The First Edition, People's Education Press, January 1982)