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[4:36] English Listening Practice for Beginners: A Fun First Snow Story

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This English listening short story describes a warm first snow experience, perfect for beginners to improve their listening skills. Through vivid winter scenes, learners can grasp vocabulary and enhance comprehension in a seasonal setting.

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15 minutes a day, easily practice listening! This book selects 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages — "pre-listening, catching keywords, understanding sentence by sentence, and overall retelling" — you will gradually understand over 90% of the content. With consistent practice, quantity turns into quality, and your English listening will improve rapidly! Here are some beginner-level listening materials for junior and senior high school students, compiled by qicai.com.

First snowfall. Today is November 26th. It snowed all day today. The snow is beautiful. The snow finally stopped. My sister and I are excited. My mom doesn't like the snow. My mom has to shovel the driveway. My sister and I get to play.

I put on my hat and mittens. My mom puts on my scarf. My mom zippers my jacket. My sister puts on her hat and mittens. My mom puts on her scarf. My mom zippers her jacket. My sister and I go outside. We begin to make a snowman. My mom starts to shovel the snow.

My sister and I make snow angels. My sister and I throw snowballs. It starts to snow again. We go inside for hot chocolate.

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chocolate
noun
1. a medium brown to dark-brown color
Synonym: coffeedeep brownumberburnt umber
2. a food made from roasted ground cacao beans
3. a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar
usually drunk hot
Synonym: cocoahot chocolatedrinking chocolate
shovel
noun
1. a machine for excavating
Synonym: power shovelexcavatordigger
2. a hand tool for lifting loose material
consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle
3. a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace
4. the quantity a shovel can hold
Synonym: shovelfulspadeful
snowman
noun
1. a figure of a person made of packed snow
angels
snowfall
noun
1. precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
Synonym: snow
mittens