Learn English easily in just 1 minute a day! This website provides short English readings suitable for beginners, each with audio and text. The content is interesting and moderately difficult. By reading one article daily, you can develop a sense of language and improve reading and listening skills. Start your English improvement journey now! Below is a beginner English reading practice compiled by Qicai editors, featuring daily short English passages with listening content.
I am learning to swim this summer. At first, I was afraid of the water, but my coach helped me a lot. He showed me how to float and how to breathe in the water.That's all for the beginner English reading practice daily short passages collected by Qicai editor Xiao Wu. We hope you gain something after listening!
adj
1. filled with regret or concern
used often to soften an unpleasant statement
e.g. I'm afraid I won't be able to come
he was afraid he would have to let her go
I'm afraid you're wrong
2. feeling worry or concern or insecurity
e.g. She was afraid that I might be embarrassed
terribly afraid of offending someone
I am afraid we have witnessed only the first phase of the conflict
3. having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
e.g. afraid of hard work
afraid to show emotion
noun
1. a vehicle carrying many passengers
used for public transport
e.g. he always rode the bus to work
Synonym: busautobuscharabancdouble-deckerjitneymotorbusmotorcoachomnibuspassenger vehicle
2. a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver
Synonym: four-in-handcoach-and-four
3. a railcar where passengers ride
Synonym: passenger carcarriage
4. a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)
Synonym: private instructortutor
5. (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team
Synonym: managerhandler
noun
1. a customary way of operation or behavior
e.g. it is their practice to give annual raises
they changed their dietary pattern
Synonym: pattern
2. translating an idea into action
e.g. a hard theory to put into practice
differences between theory and praxis of communism
Synonym: praxis
3. the exercise of a profession
e.g. the practice of the law
I took over his practice when he retired
4. systematic training by multiple repetitions
e.g. practice makes perfect
Synonym: exercisedrillpractice sessionrecitation
5. knowledge of how something is usually done
e.g. it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner