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