Practice listening easily with just 15 minutes a day! This book selects 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages: “pre-listening — catching key words — sentence-by-sentence understanding — overall retelling,” learners gradually understand over 90% of the content. Consistent practice leads to qualitative improvements, boosting your English listening dramatically! Below is a collection from qicai website of some listening content starting from the simplest English listening, suitable for junior and senior high school students (beginner level).
Stewart and Brenda are having a baby together. Brenda is seven months pregnant. Stewart and Brenda still don't know if the baby is a boy or a girl. The doctor had asked them if they wanted to know, and they said no. They did not want to know because they want to be surprised. They think that it will make the day of the birth more special. Their friends and families do not approve. Stewart's mom wants to know the sex of the baby because she wants to know what color bib to buy. If it's a boy, then she will buy a blue bib. If it's a girl, then she will buy a pink bib. Stewart's mom has been nagging him to ask the doctor about the baby's sex.verb
1. judge to be right or commendable
think well of
2. give sanction to
e.g. I approve of his educational policies
Synonym: O.K.okaysanction
noun
1. (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome
e.g. the signal contained thousands of bits of information
Synonym: selective informationentropy
2. knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
3. a message received and understood
Synonym: info
4. formal accusation of a crime
5. a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
e.g. statistical data
Synonym: data
adj
1. carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
2. filled with or attended with
e.g. words fraught with meaning
an incident fraught with danger
a silence pregnant with suspense
Synonym: fraught(p)
3. rich in significance or implication
e.g. a meaning look
Synonym: meaning(a)significant
noun
1. the act of inducing hypnosis
Synonym: hypnotismmesmerism
2. the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association
3. an idea that is suggested
e.g. the picnic was her suggestion
4. a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
e.g. it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse
Synonym: propositionproffer
5. persuasion formulated as a suggestion
Synonym: prompting
6. a just detectable amount
e.g. he speaks French with a trace of an accent
Synonym: tracehint
noun
1. a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder
Synonym: back packknapsackpacksackrucksackhaversack