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[0:46] Beginner English Daily Reading: Describing a Bad Day

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This article uses a short story describing a bad day to help beginners practice daily English reading and listening. The content is lively and interesting, suitable for improving language sense and English skills.

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Learn English easily in just one minute a day! This website provides short English readings suitable for beginners, each with audio and the original text. The content is fun and moderately challenging. By reading one article every day, you can develop a sense of language and improve your reading and listening skills. Start your English learning journey now! Below is a beginner English reading exercise collected by the qicai website editor, featuring daily short English passages for listening practice.

Today is a bad day for me. In the morning, I spilled my breakfast on my new shirt. Spilling food can be really annoying, especially when you are wearing something new. It made me feel clumsy and frustrated, and I had to clean up quickly before going to school.

Then I missed the school bus and had to walk to school. Walking in a hurry while carrying my bag was exhausting. I was worried about being late and felt stressed as I tried to get to school on time.

At lunchtime, I dropped my sandwich on the ground. Losing my food made me even hungrier and more upset. It was one of those moments when nothing seems to go right.

In the afternoon, it rained and I forgot my umbrella. I got wet and cold, which made me feel uncomfortable and tired. I wished I had remembered to bring an umbrella or a raincoat.

When I got home, I found my favorite toy was broken. Seeing it damaged made me very sad. After a series of unfortunate events, I finally realized that it had been a terrible day.

Above is the beginner English reading exercise collected by qicai editor Xiao Wu. We hope you gained some benefits after listening!

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broken
adj
1. physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
e.g. a broken mirror
a broken tooth
a broken leg
his neck is broken
2. (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded
e.g. broken (or unkept) promises
broken contracts
Synonym: unkept
3. not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
e.g. broken lines of defense
a broken cable transmission
broken sleep
tear off the stub above the broken line
a broken note
broken sobs
4. lacking a part or parts
e.g. a broken set of encyclopedia
5. discontinuous
e.g. broken clouds
broken sunshine
6. out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken')
e.g. a broken washing machine
the coke machine is broken
the coke machine is busted
Synonym: busted
7. destroyed financially
e.g. the broken fortunes of the family
Synonym: wiped out(p)impoverished
8. weakened and infirm
e.g. broken health resulting from alcoholism
9. thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
e.g. troops fleeing in broken ranks
a confused mass of papers on the desk
the small disordered room
with everything so upset
Synonym: confuseddisorderedupset
10. imperfectly spoken or written
e.g. broken English
11. subdued or brought low in condition or status
e.g. brought low
a broken man
his broken spirit
Synonym: crushedhumbledhumiliatedlow
12. topographically very uneven
e.g. broken terrain
rugged ground
Synonym: rugged
13. tamed or trained to obey
e.g. a horse broken to the saddle
this old nag is well broken in
Synonym: broken in
dropped
missed
adj
1. not caught with the senses or the mind
e.g. words lost in the din
Synonym: lost
rained