外国朋友来中国上学英语作文【热门20篇】

最近，你们班召开了以“我的中国梦”为主题的班会活动。请写一篇日记，记述班会情况及自己的感受。内容要点如下：

1.每位同学都畅谈了自己对中国梦的理解;

2.你谈到了自己的梦想;

3.如何实现自己的梦想。

注意：

1.总词数不少于100。 2.不可逐条翻译。

3.开头已给出，不计入总词数。

April 8 Monday Fine

Recently we had a class meeting on the topic of My Chinese Dream....

参考范文：

April 8 Monday Fine

Recently we had a class meeting on the topic of My Chinese Dream. Inspired by President Xi’s Chinese Dream, everyone talked enthusiastically about his understanding of the Chinese Dream. We all believe that this dream will come true in the future. I also talked about my own dream. I have always wanted to be a doctor. Not only can doctors save people’s lives but also they are doing a respectable job. Doctors can also help people to live a better life with their professional knowledge. To realize my dream, I must try to work hard from now on. I must learn as much as I can so that I can get into a good medical college, where I can prepare myself adequately for the job of a doctor. Only in this way can I accomplish my goal.

两任丈夫都是民国杰出的外交官，加上自己本身又是热爱社交的名媛，这使得严幼韵拥有一个庞大的朋友圈。

随杨光泩到欧洲期间，严幼韵与蒋士云、贝祖贻夫妇，胡世泽、陈秀英夫妇，以及张福运夫妇，成为了好友。蒋士云也是江南名媛，与张学良有过一段交往，后来嫁给了著名建筑师贝聿铭的父亲银行家贝祖贻。胡世泽是首位中国籍联合国副秘书长，张福运则是中国第一个留学哈佛的学者、中国现代法学家，曾担任中华民国国民政府海关总署署长、税务总署署长等重要职务。在欧洲期间，严幼韵还和黄蕙兰颇有交往。

在香港，宋子文夫人张乐怡成为了严幼韵的另一个闺蜜。而在马尼拉，除了菲律宾的政要外，美国麦克阿瑟将军和赵四小姐赵一荻也是聚会上的常客。待与顾维钧结合后，这位中国最著名的外交家的朋友圈自然也纳入进来了。比如原中华民国驻维也纳总领事何凤山、台湾“总统府”秘书长张群等。

而在自传中，我们还能看到如民国古钱币收藏家张叔驯、荣氏家族的荣鸿三、孔祥熙女儿孔令仪、商人董浩云和他的儿子香港首任特首董建华、上海银行老总朱如堂夫妇、徐志摩的元配夫人张幼仪、张幼仪的妹妹张嘉蕊、谭延闿的女儿谭端等等。这还没有算上两任丈夫的家族那边庞大的亲戚团。所以，透过严幼韵的朋友圈，如果我们仔细挖掘，几乎可以窥探到整个中国近现代史。

维系这样一个朋友圈，当然不能光靠牌局和派对，更重要的是严幼韵一直坚持的“惠及他人”的人生哲学。这种哲学甚至推展到严家、顾府的每一个佣人，他们都曾亲身体验过严幼韵式的体贴。

在过了百岁之后，老太太麻将打得越来越少了，但每年大大小小的派对必不可少。每次见人，她仍然是当初沪上大家闺秀的做派：要穿精心剪裁的旗袍，描红妆，洒香水，拢好头发，踩上高跟鞋才肯出现。

I have several friends. Wang Lin is my best friend. He is eleven years old. He comes from Beijing.

我有几个朋友。王麟是我最好的朋友。他十一岁。他是从北京来的。

Wang Lin came here three years ago. He came with his parents. His father is an engineer and his mother is a middle school teacher. He has no brothers or sisters. He is the only child of his parents.

王麟三年前来到这里。他与他的父母。他父亲是一名工程师，母亲是中学教师。他没有兄弟姐妹。他是父母唯一的孩子。

We are classmates at school, so we see much of each other.He is fond of English and I am good at maths. We always help each other. Both of us have made GREat proGREss in our studies.

我们是同班同学，所以我们看到对方。他很喜欢英语，我擅长数学。我们总是互相帮助。我们都在学习上取得了很大的进步。

亲爱的迈克小朋友：

你好!

我叫楚艺超，是中国人。我的家在商贸城郑州，我是文化路一小二年级七班的学生。我现在八岁半了，我有一张圆圆的脸，乌黑的眼睛，耳朵不大也不小，当我笑起来的时候，眼睛弯弯的，好像一个小月牙，妈妈说很讨人喜欢。我的爱好是写作和练武术。我还非常想当一名科学家或是一名教师。

迈克，希望你把汉语学好，现在我的家乡很美，有中外驰名的古刹少林寺，还有黄河从我的家乡流过，它豪迈，奔放，涛涛巨浪，所向披靡，显示出一种排山倒海的雄伟气魄。李白还曾为此挥笔写下了：君不见黄河之水天上来，奔流到海不复回的奇伟诗句呢。

迈克，请你有时间来我的家乡作客，尝尝我们这里味道鲜美，非常有名的黄河大鲤鱼，到那时，我给你作免费小导游。

祝学习进步

你的朋友：楚艺超

亲爱的迈克小朋友：

你好！

我叫楚艺超，是中国人。我的家在商贸城郑州，我是文化路一小二年级七班的学生。我现在八岁半了，我有一张圆圆的脸，乌黑的眼睛，耳朵不大也不小，当我笑起来的时候，眼睛弯弯的，好像一个小月牙，妈妈说很讨人喜欢。我的爱好是写作和练武术。我还非常想当一名科学家或是一名教师。

迈克，希望你把汉语学好，现在我的家乡很美，有中外驰名的古刹少林寺，还有黄河从我的家乡流过，它豪迈，奔放，涛涛巨浪，所向披靡，显示出一种排山倒海的雄伟气魄。李白还曾为此挥笔写下了：君不见黄河之水天上来，奔流到海不复回的奇伟诗句呢。

迈克，请你有时间来我的家乡作客，尝尝我们这里味道鲜美，非常有名的黄河大鲤鱼，到那时，我给你作免费小导游。

祝学习进步

你的朋友：楚艺超

Some of the greatest success stories of history have followed a word of encouragement or an act of confidence by a loved one or a trusting friend.Had it not been for a confident wife,Sophia,we might not have listed among the great names of literature the name of Nathaniel Hawthorne.When Nathaniel,a heartbroken man,went home to tell his wife that he was a failure and had been fired from his job in a customhouse,she surprised him with an exclamation of joy.

"Now," she said triumphantly,"you can write your book!"

"Yes," replied the man,with sagging confidence,"and what shall we live on while I am writing it?"

To his amazement,she opened a drawer and pulled out a substantial amount of money.

"Where on earth did you get that?" he exclaimed.

"I have always know you were a man of genius," she told him."I knew that someday you would write a masterpiece.So every week,out of the money you gave me for housekeeping,I saved a little bit.So here is enough to last us for one whole year."

From her trust and confidence came one of the greatest novels of American literature,The Scarlet Letter.

[关于朋友间的信任英语作文

Is a lovely girl, her innocence is the origin of our happy, brings us her happy smile.

Her name is li zhang, her eyes wide, mouth like a cherry, very lovely, long hair, she is good at jumping rope, run, jump, etc...

Shes good at her grades in school, take the first every time, once dropped her grades, was beaten by her mother and father, the next day I went to school found that she didnt come to school.

I came to her shes at home, a corner to cry, I used to have a look at herll hurt all over, I asked her, "whats wrong with you." She said to me: "mom hit me, I good sad, she is the first hit me."

I was angry for her mother said: "shes your daughter, even if she is bad to also can not call her again." Her mother said: "Im sorry, daughter, mother is wrong, please let we trust." Li sent zhang said: mom, I would like to challenge you.

This is my friend, my good friend forever.

是一个可爱的女生，她的天真是我们快乐的起源，她的快乐带给了我们笑容。

她的名字叫李送张，她的眼睛大大的，嘴巴像樱桃，可爱极了，头发长长的，她擅长跳绳，跑步，跳远，等等……

她在学校她的成绩很好，每次都拿第一，有一次她的成绩下降了，被她的爸爸妈妈打了，第二天我来到学校发现她没来上学。

我来到她家她在家的一个角落哭，我过去一看她满身都是伤，我问她：“你怎么了。”她对我说：“妈妈打我，我好伤心，她是第一次打我。”

我生气的对她的妈妈说：“她是你女儿，即使她考的再不好也不可以打她啊。”她妈妈说：“对不起，女儿，妈妈错了，请你愿谅。”李送张说：妈妈我愿谅你。

这就是我的朋友，我永远的好朋友。

The Chinese manners is differend from other countries .In China, people first meet to shake hands.When people eat,Besides soup, table all food use chopsticks.Certain foods can move chopsticks eyes.And sometimes the Chinese host use their chopsticks to put food in your bowl or plate. This is a sign of politeness. The appropriate thing to do would be to eat the whatever-it-is and say how yummy it is. If you feel uncomfortable with this, you can just say a polite thank you and leave the food there.

Dont tap on your bowl with your chopsticks.Beggars tap on their bowls, so this is not polite.Also, when the food is coming too slow in a restarant, people will tap their bowls. If you are in someones home,it is like insulting the cook.

中国的礼仪是不同于来自其他国家的。在中国,人们第一次见面握手。当人们吃,除了汤之外,表所有食品使用筷子。某些食物可以动筷子的眼睛。有时中国主人用筷子把食物在你的碗或盘子。这是礼貌的标志。适当的事是吃不管它是什么,说有多美味。如果你觉得不舒服,你可以只说一个礼貌的谢谢,让那里的食物。

不要用筷子敲打饭碗。乞丐行乞时常敲打饭碗,所以,这是不礼貌的。同样,当食物来restarant太慢,人们会利用他们的碗。如果你在某人的家里,它就像侮辱厨师。

你的英国朋友请你给他主办的校报写一篇短文，介绍中国的春节。请根据下列信息完成短文。

时 间活动内容春节前夕大扫除，购物除 夕家庭团聚，吃年饭春节期间探亲访友，放鞭炮

注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 开头语已为你写好；

4. 参考词汇：鞭炮 firecrackers

[范文]

Falling on the first day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, the Spring Festival is in fact the Chinese New Year. Before it, people usually give their house a thorough cleaning and do a lot of shopping. On the New Year’s Eve, people come home and the whole family have a big dinner together. On the New Year’s Day and the few days to follow, people often visit their relatives and friends to give one another their best wishes for the new year. Throughout this festival period firecrackers can be heard everywhere. This festival is the most important festival for the Chinese.

[有关介绍中国的春节英语作文

friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.- eleanor roosevelt

we often focus on building relationships with others that we forget the essential first step: being friends of ourselves. that is the crucial first step if we are to have good relationships with others. how can we have good relationships with others if we dont even have good relationship with ourselves?

the problem might be worse than we expect. maybe we dont like ourselves without realizing it. here is a simple checklist; is there anything you dont like about yourself from these list?

your past

maybe you have made mistakes in the past which you feel bad about. you might be disappointed with yourself on why you could make such mistakes. even if that happened in distant past, your subconscious mind still has a reason not to like yourself.

your background

you might wish that you were born in different family, or that you have different background. maybe you could not accept the fact that you are not as lucky as others, who seem to get whatever they want effortlessly because of their background.

your personality traits

you might have some personality traits that you dont like. for example, you may be an introvert and you dont like it; you wish you are an extrovert.

I have a good friend, he is our class Wang Sheng fei. He is a very brave boy, a pair of bright eyes, with a glib mouth. Although there are some big tongues, they speak English, and we call it a "little diplomat". His eloquence is very good, has been made, but the content of humor, often make us uproarious.

On one occasion, we were in the composition class. The topic is "XXs self narration", which requires that you introduce your voice to yourself, so that all kinds of stationery in your pen will have peoples language, actions and personality. The teacher first asked us to think for a while, and then said, "who will express my thoughts." No one in the class raised his hand. Only Wang Shengfei raised his hand and looked at him with confidence. The teacher asked him to speak happily. Then he cleared his throat first, and then he said, "Im talking about the self - statement of the trash can." As soon as it was the subject, the students began to laugh and laugh. Wang Shengfei, unhurried and his voice, said, "please be quiet, please!" Listen to me! " He continued, "Hello, everybody!" I am a perfect trash can, all over and down is clean and clean... He said it was hard, as if he had really become the trash can he told. He was in a gleam of joy, a little dejected for a moment, and his own action. This part of his speech to us some of the students on the table set the whole room roaring with laughter, and some hard stomp...... But his speech was a great benefit to us. Later, the teacher asked us to write our thoughts, seems to click into place, writing if there is god. Everyone has written a wonderful good article.

You say, is this friend of mine brilliant!

On May 4, a worthy of our anniversary festival forever. Ninety years ago that a whoop, like giant thunderbolt tore up the old China feudal remnants of the dream of more than two thousand years. On May 4, ninety years ago a group of passionate indignation is young students holding "outside our sovereignty, punish kleptocratic" slogan, uplift the flag of "democracy" and "science" on the ancient capital of Beijings streets. At that time, the great river north and south, inside and outside the Great Wall, support, magnificent and victorious anti-imperialist patriotic struggle from spark become start a prairie fire.

In this movement, uniting the people throughout the country, a common played a tune the era of haoqi forever song. The predominantly young students anti-imperialist patriotic movement, is the first time in the history of Chinese great thorough anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle, it takes the great beginning of Chinese new democratic revolution and the history books.

五月四日，一个永远值得我们纪念的节日。九十年前的那一声呐喊，如同擎天霹雳般撕碎了旧中国两千多年的封建残梦。 九十年前的5月4日，一群激情悲愤的青年学生手持“外争国权，内惩国贼”的标语，高扬着“民主”、“科学”的旗帜走上了古都北京的街头。一时间，大江南北、长城内外，群起响应，轰轰烈烈的反帝爱国斗争从星星之火成为燎原之势。

在这次运动中，全国人民同仇敌忾，共同奏起了一曲浩气长存的时代壮歌。这场以青年学生为主的反帝爱国运动，是中国历史上第一次彻底的反帝反封建的伟大斗争，它以中国新民主主义革命的伟大起点而载入史册。

2010World Expo will be held in Shanghai in China, this is the first timethat China hosted the World Expo. The theme of the Expo is "BetterCity, Better Life" (Better City, Better Life)。 Organizers expected toattract 70 million visitors from around the world to attend, at thesame time it is also the largest in the history of World Expo. Theemblem of the Expo with the main colors of green, expressing theChinese people for the future, the pursuit of sustainable developmentand create passion.

2010年世界博览会将会在我国上海举行，这是第一次由我国举办的世界博览会。这次博览会的主题是“城市，让生活更美好”(Better City, BetterLife)。主办机构预计会吸引世界各地7000万人次前来参加，同时它也是世界博览会史上规模最大的。此次博览会的会徽以绿色为主色调，抒发了中国人民面向未来，追求可持续发展的创造激情。

亲爱的小朋友：

你们好!你们怎么也想不到我会给你们写信吧!自从在电视上和报纸上看到你们的国家炮火连天，每天生活在烽火战争里，我心很不舒服!特别是听老师说你们有的家园毁灭，有的失去父母双亲，每天吃不饱、穿不暖，流浪街头，整天提心吊胆的生活，真是太可怜了!我对你们的遭遇也十分同情!我多么希望你们可以像我们一样无忧无虑、自由自在的生活、学习、快乐地过节日呀!

你们原本可以像我们一样过着幸福快乐的日子，可是可怕的战争、可恨的战争让你们不得不远离那样幸福、快乐的生活。那些引发战争的人很自私只为自己可以得利益就胡作非为，从来都没有顾及过(到)别人的感受，已强欺弱、已大欺小，真是另人愤恨!为什么他们都不懂得珍惜和平的环境呢?利益就可以抵的过一切吗?为了孩子不是去父母，为了妻子不是去丈夫，为了你们今后有一个美好的家园，我希望你们要一致行动起来，维护和平，制止战争!

朋友们，我们中国每一个人都欢迎你们的到来(来到)你们要是来了我们会热情款待(招待、接待)你们的!

祝：

平安、和平、快乐!

某国一位女士来到中国一所小学，找了五位小朋友，要求他们配合做一件事情。这位女士拿出一只瓶子，里面有五个小球，每个小球有一根线牵着。女士对五位小朋友说："你们每人拽住一只小球，在7秒钟内必须全部从瓶中拽出，否则就会被瓶中的水淹死。记住，颇愫泌只容得下一只小球，谁的小球出得慢，谁就有被淹死的危险。"五个小朋友中最大的一位想了想，然后和其他四个小朋友耳语了几句，之后示意女誓愫蒙以下令了。女士说："开始!"只见年龄最小的小朋友最先将小球拽出，第二、三、四个小球随后出来，最后拽出来的是那位年龄最大的小朋友。7秒钟内5只小球全部拽出。这位女士被眼前中国小朋友的举动惊呆了，接着便流出感动的泪水。她说："这个试验我在其他国家做过好几次了，那些小朋友都争着往外拽，结果挤在颇愫泌谁也出不来，全淹死在里面了。中国的小朋友了不起!"

I have a lot of friends in Simon English School. One of them is my best friend. His name is boyd.

He and I are both thirteen years old. but I am older than he, and I am fatter than he too. He is shorter than I, and he is thinner than I. He wears a pair of glasses but I dont.

He likes to eat pocket-food, and he is a gentleman in a sense that when he has pock-food he will share them with us.

He and I are in the same school and in the same class. So, we can help each other. We alway play in the school together. he likes to do thing I like. He lives in the Ningbo Jiangdong, so he hardly came to my home in Zhenghai but I alway go to his home on weekends and he sometimes will come to my home on weekends. Sometimes we will fight but we alway get along well.

His mother is a doctor in the Li-Hui-Li hospital and I know where her office is. His father is a worker in the Bei-Lun power plant. He is a head of a group. So, his father has a lot of work to do.

He and I are in the same school. We usually have a good time so he is my best friend.

Friend is like a compass, and guide us in the right direction. Friend is like the winter that a beam of sunlight, warm the heart.

Im glad that I have a friend like - jia. He had a head of black hair, big, bright eyes, two bushy eyebrows. His few words at ordinary times, but he careful, kind and helpful.

Math exam on one occasion, I the first place, began to not listen attentively in class, in the drawer board origami aircraft for a while, a while to draw... At this time, jia saw sitting behind me, wrote a little note, plug to me. I open a look, I saw the words "conceit makes one lag behind, modesty helps one to make progress." Look at these words, I felt ashamed, he felt, after finishing good thoughts, I began to listen to it.

Jia will not only help me to correct mistakes in time, and also very concerned about me.

Once, when the school, bad weather, rain cats and dogs. Watching the students are back home, looking at their back, my heart some lost and worry. Jia see I sit on the seat, and then walk to my side asked: "whats the matter with you? Why dont you walk?" I low head say: "I didnt bring umbrella, mom and dad on a student cant come to meet me, I cant go back." "That good, I can send you home." Jia said. The words sound just fell his umbrella, pulled me into the rain.

The rain goes beep, beep "constantly playing on the umbrella, see jia umbrella moved to my side. More than half of seeing his clothes were wet in the rain, beads of rain naughty and even jumped into his hair.

"Ah! You are all wet! You cant sick? Fast umbrella walked to your side." Im in alarm.

"Its okay, Im strong!" He smiled and said, "you are thin, be careful in the rain." Along the way he also remind me from time to time be careful slippery...

Raindrops pattering on the umbrella, crackling sound, as if playing a song of joy of friendship.

The rain is very big, but my heart is light into a beam of sunlight......

Have such a friend is really very happy!

朋友就像指南针，指引我们正确的方向;朋友就像冬日的那一束阳光，温暖人心。

我很庆幸，我就有一个这样的朋友——小贾。他长着一头乌黑的头发，炯炯有神的大眼睛下，两条浓密的眉毛。他平时话不多，但他心细、善良，助人为乐。

有一次，我数学考了第一名，上课就开始不专心听讲了，在抽屉板里一会儿折纸飞机，一会儿画画……这时候，坐在我后面的小贾看见了，忙写了一张小纸条，塞给了我。我打开一看，只见上面写着“骄傲使人落后，谦虚使人进步。”看着这句话，我一阵羞愧，脸上火辣辣的，在整理好思绪后，我开始认真听了起来。

小贾不但帮我及时改正错误，而且还很关心我。

有一次，放学时，天公不作美，下起了倾盆大雨。看着同学们一个个都陆续回家了，望着他们的背影，我的心里有些失落和着急。小贾看到我还在座位上坐着，就走到我身边问：“你怎么了?为什么不走呀?”我低着头说：“我的伞没带，爸爸妈妈上中班，不可能来接我，我没法回去。”“那好办，我可以把你送回去。”小贾说。话音刚落他撑开伞，拉着我一起走进了雨中。

雨“叭嗒、叭嗒”不停地打在伞上，只见小贾把伞移到了我这边。看到他的衣服都被雨水淋湿了一大半，调皮的雨珠甚至还跳到了他的头发里。

“呀!你都湿了!你不会生病吧?快把伞撑到你这边吧。”我惊呼起来。

“没事，我身体强壮着呢!”他笑着说，“你比较瘦弱，小心淋雨了。”一路上他还时不时地提醒我小心路滑……

雨滴打在伞上，发出噼噼啪啪的声音，仿佛在演奏一曲欢乐的友情之曲。

雨很大，但我的心里却照射进了一束阳光······

有这样的朋友真是多么幸福啊!

假设你是李华，你在报上看到北京电视台今年七月将举办外国人“学中文，唱中文歌”才艺大赛。你的美国朋友Peter正在北京一所大学学中文，你觉得他应去试一试。请按以下要点给他写信告知此事，并表示可以提供帮助。

比赛时间：7 月18日 。报名时间：截止到6月30日。报名地点：北京电视台

注意：1.词数：100左右 2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯 3.参考词汇：才艺大赛—talent show

Dear Peter,

I read in a newspaper today that a “Learn Chinese, Sing Chinese Songs” Foreigners’ Talent Show will be held in Beijing Television Station on July 18. I know you like singing, and you are in Beijing during that period. I think this is a good chance for you to show your singing talent, and how well you’ve learned Chinese. If you would like to try, you‘ U have to go to the TV station to sign up before the end of June. If there is anything I can do for you, I would be more than glad to help.

Yours,

Li Hua

[名师点评]

从整体上说，书写得简洁明快。语言简单平实，要点囊括齐全，结构完整。的主要特点是让步状语从句的使用，最后两句话，采用了if引导的让步状语从句，结合将来时使用。

[高考英语作文：给美国朋友的信

​导语：相信很多外国人来到中国都会想了解我们的家庭生活，下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

I live with my father and mother in a very big house in Dongguan. My parents are both very busy. They leave for work very early in the morning and don’t return home until late in the evening.

When I am home on weekends from school, we spend a lot of time together. We talk about my studies, my health and my school life. I love my parents very much.

My grandparents are still living, but they don’t live with us. Their health is good and they both do sports very early in the morning. My grandmother does gymnastics with elderly women her age in the park. Both of my grandfathers play basketball in the morning and sometimes they go swimming.

Chinese people eat rice for every meal, but I don’t like rice because I think it is tasteless! We eat meat, fish and vegetables. My family eats noodles and congee. My favorite is noodles.

I often play computer games because I like it so much. I often watch Japanese cartoon movies with my parents on the weekends. On long holidays we take trips, too.

That is my description of typical family life in China.

【参考译文】

我和爸爸妈妈住在东莞的一所大房子里。我父母都很忙。他们很早就动身去上班，晚上很晚才回家。

当我周末放学回家时，我们花很多时间在一起。我们谈论我的学习，我的健康和我的学校生活。我非常爱我的父母。

我的祖父母还活着，但他们不住在我们这里。他们的身体很好，他们都很早就开始运动。我祖母和公园里同龄的老年妇女做体操。我爷爷两个早上都打篮球，有时去游泳。

中国人每顿饭都吃米饭，但我不喜欢米饭，因为我觉得米饭很无味!我们吃肉，鱼和蔬菜。我的家人吃面条和粥。我最喜欢的是面条。

我经常玩电脑游戏，因为我很喜欢它。我经常在周末和我的父母一起看日本卡通片。在长假期间，我们也去旅行。

这是在中国的家庭生活。

Hello,everyone.I m Sally.I have a friend.Her name is Amy.We are in the same class.She studys harder than me.I m 160cm tall.She is 165cm.So she is taller than me.She likes darwing  very much.I like taking photos.I m 15 years old.But Amy is 16 years oid.So she is older than me.

What about you?And what about your friend?