Practice your listening skills easily with just 15 minutes a day! This book selects 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, perfect for beginners. Through the four stages of “pre-listening—grasping keywords—understanding sentence by sentence—overall retelling,” learners progressively understand over 90% of the content. Consistent practice transforms quantity into quality and dramatically improves your English listening! Below is a compilation by qicai website editors of some listening materials starting from the simplest English listening, suitable for junior and senior high school (beginner level).
There is a bathtub in my bathroom. On the wall over the bathtub there is a shower head. We have a shower curtain hanging on the rod over the bathtub. If you want to take a shower we close the curtain.noun
1. emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it
Synonym: drainage
2. a gradual depletion of energy or resources
e.g. a drain on resources
a drain of young talent by emigration
3. a pipe through which liquid is carried away
Synonym: drainpipewaste pipe
4. tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material
noun
1. the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
e.g. he studied medicine at Harvard
Synonym: practice of medicine
2. punishment for one's actions
e.g. you have to face the music
take your medicine
Synonym: music
3. (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
Synonym: medicationmedicamentmedicinal drug
4. the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
Synonym: medical specialty
noun
1. the act of washing your hair with shampoo
2. cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair
noun
1. the act of dressing and preparing yourself
e.g. he made his morning toilet and went to breakfast
Synonym: toilette
2. a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
Synonym: lavatorylavcanjohnprivybathroom
3. a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
Synonym: cancommodecrapperpotpottystoolthrone
4. misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
e.g. his career was in the gutter
all that work went down the sewer
pensions are in the toilet
Synonym: guttersewer
noun
1. cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance
Synonym: make-upwar paint
2. the way in which someone or something is composed
Synonym: constitutioncompositionphysical compositionmake-up
3. an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event
e.g. he missed the test and had to take a makeup
the two teams played a makeup one week later
Synonym: make-up
noun
1. a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
Synonym: bathing tubbathtub