Practice listening for 15 minutes every day! This book selects 2-minute passages of moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through the four stages of 'pre-listening—catching keywords—understanding sentence by sentence—overall retelling', learners can gradually understand over 90% of the content. Persistent practice leads to qualitative improvement in your English listening skills! Below is a selection from Qicai.com of listening content suitable for beginners and middle/high school students (beginner level).
Some people work in an office. There are special tools that people in an office need to do their work. There is a computer in the office. There is a telephone. Most of the time the secretary answers the telephone. The secretary sits at a desk. The secretary has pens and pencils on the desk. The secretary writes on a notepad. Some other things that you would find in an office would include the following.noun
1. a job in an organization
e.g. he occupied a post in the treasury
Synonym: positionpostberthspotbilletplacesituation
2. the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
e.g. the function of a teacher
the government must do its part
play its role
Synonym: functionpartrole
3. a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities
e.g. the offices of the mass
4. place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed
e.g. he rented an office in the new building
Synonym: business office
5. an administrative unit of government
e.g. the Central Intelligence Agency
the Census Bureau
Office of Management and Budget
Tennessee Valley Authority
Synonym: agencyfederal agencygovernment agencybureauauthority
6. professional or clerical workers in an office
e.g. the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard
Synonym: office staff
7. (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
e.g. being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage
during his first year in office
during his first year in power
the power of the president
Synonym: power
noun
1. a desk used for writing
Synonym: writing tableescritoiresecretaire
2. a person to whom a secret is entrusted
Synonym: repository
3. an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization
Synonym: secretarial assistant
4. a person who is head of an administrative department of government
noun
1. a machine that inserts staples into sheets of paper in order to fasten them together
Synonym: stapling machine