Practice listening easily for 15 minutes every day! This book selects 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through the four stages of “pre-listening — catching key words — understanding sentence by sentence — overall retelling,” it progresses step-by-step, enabling understanding of over 90% of the content. Consistent practice transforms quantity into quality, greatly improving your English listening skills! Below is a collection by the Qicai website editor of listening materials suitable for beginners and middle school students (beginner level), starting from the simplest English listening content.
There are seven days of the week. Sunday is a day of rest for some people, but many people still have to work. Quite a few people go to church on a Sunday.noun
1. the act of starting something
e.g. he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations
Synonym: startcommencement
2. the first part or section of something
e.g. `It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story
3. the event consisting of the start of something
e.g. the beginning of the war
4. the place where something begins, where it springs into being
e.g. the Italian beginning of the Renaissance
Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
communism's Russian root
Synonym: originrootrootagesource
5. the time at which something is supposed to begin
e.g. they got an early start
she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her
Synonym: commencementfirstoutsetget-gostartkickoffstarting timeshowtimeoffset
adj
1. being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
e.g. late evening
late 18th century
a late movie
took a late flight
had a late breakfast
2. at or toward an end or late period or stage of development
e.g. the late phase of feudalism
a later symptom of the disease
later medical science could have saved the child
Synonym: later(a)
3. of a later stage in the development of a language or literature
used especially of dead languages
e.g. Late Greek
4. after the expected or usual time
delayed
e.g. a belated birthday card
I'm late for the plane
the train is late
tardy children are sent to the principal
always tardy in making dental appointments
Synonym: belatedtardy
noun
1. freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
e.g. took his repose by the swimming pool
Synonym: easereposerelaxation
2. a support on which things can be put
e.g. the gun was steadied on a special rest
3. a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
4. something left after other parts have been taken away
e.g. there was no remainder
he threw away the rest
he took what he wanted and I got the balance
Synonym: remainderbalanceresidualresidueresiduum
5. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
e.g. she was laid to rest beside her husband
they had to put their family pet to sleep
Synonym: eternal restsleepeternal sleepquietus
6. a state of inaction
e.g. a body will continue in a state of rest until acted upon
7. a pause for relaxation
e.g. people actually accomplish more when they take time for short rests
Synonym: respitereliefrest period
noun
1. a television production that features a particular person or work or topic
e.g. the last of a series of BBC specials on Iran is being shown tonight
2. a special offering (usually temporary and at a reduced price) that is featured in advertising
e.g. they are having a special on pork chops
3. a dish or meal given prominence in e.g. a restaurant
noun
1. (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer
Synonym: foodstuff
2. a marketplace where groceries are sold
e.g. the grocery store included a meat market
Synonym: grocery storefood marketmarket