How I Met My Best Friends
Mrs. Choi, my social studies teacher, made an important ____.
"____ will create a newspaper in groups. Check out your new group members."
Mrs. Choi started calling out the ____ of the students in each group.
After a while, my ____ was called.
"____ 4, Jisu..." "Who will be in my group?" I wondered.
Mrs. Choi continued, "____, Inho, and Min."
I couldn't ____ my ears.
I didn't know ____ in that group.
I ____ like crying when I sat with my group members.
We didn’t have anything in common.
Lina was always drawing something by ____.
____ never said anything, and his only interest seemed to be soccer.
Min was smart, but he always had his nose in a ____.
I couldn't ____ thinking how unlucky I was.
I decided to convince Mrs. Choi that I ____ be with my friends.
"____ she would let me change the group," I thought.
But before I could say anything, she gently placed her hand on my ____.
"I know what you want, Jisu," she ____,
"but I'm sure you ____ get to like your group members.
Don't you think ____ worth trying?"
I ____ really believe her, but I said, "Okay," and walked away.
The project wasn’t easy from the start.
We couldn't ____ on the topic for our newspaper.
I ____ like giving up on the project, so I asked my friend Ryan for some advice.
"Try to understand your group ____ first," he said.
So I carefully ____ my group members.
And I came ____ some amazing facts about them.
Lina read a ____ of Japanese comic books, so she was an expert on Japanese culture.
Inho's ____ sounded a bit different, but that was because he lived in Argentina when he was young.
He ____ a lot about Argentina and its soccer.
Min's ____ was Vietnamese, and Min used to spend some time in Vietnam.
He read a lot of history books and loved to talk about ____ and its history.
I thought of the perfect topic for our group.
We ____ to write about world culture. I had Lina introduce Japanese culture.
Inho ____ about Argentina and its soccer, and Min covered Vietnamese culture and its history.
I was in charge of ____ the whole newspaper.
Our ____ project was a great success.
We received an A⁺, and my group members ____ my best friends.
I will end my ____ with this saying.
Don't judge a book by its ____.
Read it. It ____ turn into your favorite book.