Practice listening easily with just 15 minutes a day! This book features carefully selected 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, perfect for beginners. Through four stages — "pre-listening, catching key words, understanding sentence by sentence, and overall retelling" — learners progress step by step to understand over 90% of the content. Persistent practice transforms quantity into quality, making your English listening skills improve rapidly! Below is a collection from the Qicai website editor starting from the simplest English listening materials suitable for junior and senior high school (beginner level).
I changed my clothes a lot. If I am going somewhere fancy, I wear a dress. I wear stockings on my legs and I wear a pair of nice shoes. If I am going to play sports, I wear sweatshirt and jeans. If I am going to the beach, I wear bathing suit or a bikini. My brother wears swimming trunks to the beach.noun
1. a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
2. something many people believe that is false
e.g. they have the illusion that I am very wealthy
Synonym: illusionfantasyphantasy
3. a predisposition to like something
e.g. he had a fondness for whiskey
Synonym: fondnesspartiality
noun
1. a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration
2. a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end
Synonym: scarf joint
noun
1. undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments
Synonym: underclothesunderclothing
noun
1. (usually in the plural) pants for casual wear
adj
1. unproductive of success
e.g. a fruitless search
futile years after her artistic peak
a sleeveless errand
a vain attempt
Synonym: bootlessfruitlessfutilevain
2. having no sleeves
e.g. sleeveless summer dresses