299-word version:
Unlike before when I had an opportunity to teach English to the 5th graders in our school, the Chinese children were different...

425-word version:
Unlike before when I had an opportunity to teach English to the 5th graders in our school, these children were different. One day, my friend and I were playing hangman with the children and like any other hangman game, they struggled to find the word...

439-word version:
It did not take long for me to notice that Chinese children were different. Unlike before when I had an opportunity to teach English to the 5th graders in our school, these children were different. One day, my friend and I were playing hangman with the children and like any other hangman game, they struggled to find the word...

500-word version:
...Unlike before when I had an opportunity to teach English to the 5th graders in our school, these children were different... When we finally wrote “alligator” in Chinese on the board after a bout of incessant tries to no avail, I was very surprised to see a girl using her left hand to hold up her right hand in an exactly 90-degree angle...