钟琬婷8年级英语文章《The Jolly Christmas Party》
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The Jolly Christmas
Party
By Zhong
Wanting
‘The boat is sinking! Group yourselves into
three!’
As Eden’s voice echoed through the air, we all darted around
anxiously, trying to form ourselves into groups of three. Someone
was left alone, dashing around frenziedly, trying to find a craft
with two people on it. Yet, there was none. Helplessly, she sank
into the dark ocean……
Don’t mistake it for a real sailing disaster! It was only a
game in our Christmas party at Linguaphone and it was called ‘The
Boat is Sinking’. The room was soon filled with laughter from the
participants, as we dodged around, trying to form ourselves into
safe groups. There was absolute confusion as people bumped into one
another, and we even tried to hide an extra person in our group
by
packing together closely and screening the crouched down extra from
view!
‘The Newspaper Dance’ is a very traditional game in which two
people try to stand on a newspaper together. Be careful, the
newspaper gradually gets smaller after each round!
Although it was an old game, we still enjoyed playing it!
After finding partners, we started playing the game. We all struck
acrobatic poses in this game, standing on one foot and trying to
keep our balance in ‘dangerous’ ways. My partner and I held on to
each other firmly and finally, we lasted to the end.
Have you ever gone shopping like a real housewife? We really
had some fun and enjoyed the happiness of teamwork.
It would definitely have been a difficult task had we been
separated, yet with the help of our team members, we were able to
complete the seemingly insurmountable task, in which we had to wear
an apron (it must be tied up well!), a pair of gloves, a silk
scarf, a pair of sunglasses and a large Christmas hat and walk two
lengths of the room while carrying a large basin without hitting a
large bottle of coke at one end of the room.
At first, it seemed impossible to do so within half an hour
with ten people in a team. However, with good teamwork, we managed
to do so rapidly.
‘Quick! Give her the sunglasses!’ A girl ordered as she was
tying the apron for another girl.
‘Gloves? Gloves?’ ‘Where’s the hat?’
‘Here, and don’t forget the basin!’
Sometimes a girl’s apron would fall lose and somebody else
might sprint up immediately, trying to help her with the
strings.
Soon it was my turn to ‘go shopping’. The hat was stuffed
onto my head, the sunglasses were crammed onto my nose and the
scarf was tied around my neck as I clumsily stuck my hands into the
woolly gloves. The apron was already tied firmly and I stumbled out
in the excited screams of my teammates.
No sooner had I finished my turn than all my heavy shopping
garments were stripped in barely more than three seconds. I was
rather amazed at their speed! See, this was what we called
‘cooperation’!
We played several other games such as ‘Word Rearrangement’,
‘Christmas Quiz’ and ‘Potato’. With the final game, ‘Make a
Snowman’, we reached the climax of the party. We were organized
into groups of five. By wrapping one person in tissue, we could
make ‘snowman’.
After asking the ‘mould’ person in our group to sit down, we
others started unrolling the roll of tissue. We carefully wrapped
the tissue around his body. Soon, he looked like a snowman mummy
entangled in tissue!
There was a lot of laughter in the party, and we all enjoyed
ourselves. This was a merry Christmas! I hope that all of you can
enjoy yourselves during this year’s jolly Christmas!
广东实验中学 初二（1）班
钟琬婷
