Fifteen minutes a day, easy listening practice! This book selects 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages of “pre-listening—catching keywords—understanding sentence by sentence—overall retelling,” learners can gradually understand more than 90% of the content. Persistent practice brings qualitative changes from quantitative ones, making your English listening improve rapidly! Below is a collection from qicai.com of some listening materials suitable for junior and senior high school beginners (beginner level).
The church bells are ringing. I am inside the church waiting for my cousin to walk down the aisle. Today is her wedding day. She is a bride. The organist is playing a song on the organ. We all stand up and watch my cousin walk down the aisle. She is arm and arm with her father. She is dressed in a long white dress and a veil. She looks so beautiful. She looks like a princess.noun
1. the act of receiving
Synonym: receipt
2. (American football) the act of catching a pass in football
e.g. the tight end made a great reception on the 20 yard line
3. quality or fidelity of a received broadcast
4. the manner in which something is greeted
e.g. she did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors
Synonym: response
5. a formal party of people
as after a wedding
noun
1. an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present
Synonym: corsageposynosegay
2. a pleasingly sweet olfactory property
Synonym: fragrancefragrancyredolencesweetness
noun
1. a holiday taken by a newly married couple
2. the early (usually calm and harmonious) period of a relationship
business or political
verb
1. express indirectly by an image, form, or model
be a symbol
e.g. What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?
Synonym: typifysymbolisestand forrepresent
2. represent or identify by using a symbol
use symbols
e.g. The poet symbolizes love in this poem
These painters believed that artists should symbolize
Synonym: symbolise
noun
1. a man who has recently been married
Synonym: bridegroom
2. a man participant in his own marriage ceremony
Synonym: bridegroom
3. someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses
Synonym: stablemanstableboyhostlerostler