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[0:45] A Middle School Student's First Day Experience in English Class

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This article shares a middle school student's experience on the first day of English class, including classroom atmosphere, teaching methods, and student feelings. It also provides short English readings and listening exercises suitable for beginners.

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Learn English easily in just 1 minute a day! This website provides short English readings suitable for beginners, each accompanied by audio and original text. The content is interesting and of moderate difficulty. By reading one piece every day, you can develop a sense of language and improve your reading and listening skills. Start your journey of English improvement now! Below is some listening content from beginner English reading exercises compiled by the qicai web editor, Xiao Wu, with one short English passage per day.

I had a fantastic first day of school. Many of my friends from last year were in my class. My English teacher, Mr. Chen, was funny.

The desks were arranged in a circle around the room, instead of in rows. When Mr. Chen was teaching, he stood in the centre of the circle, turning from time to time to face different students as he taught.

I love English class.

That is all the listening content of one beginner English reading passage per day collected by qicai web editor Xiao Wu. We hope you gain something from listening!

Listening Comprehension

fantastic
centre
noun
1. a building dedicated to a particular activity
e.g. they were raising money to build a new center for research
Synonym: center
2. a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
e.g. in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere
Synonym: centernerve centernerve centre
3. the object upon which interest and attention focuses
e.g. his stories made him the center of the party
Synonym: centercenter of attentioncentre of attention
4. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
e.g. the gist of the prosecutor's argument
the heart and soul of the Republican Party
the nub of the story
Synonym: kernelsubstancecorecenteressencegistheartheart and soulinwardnessmarrowmeatnubpithsumnitty-gritty
5. the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
Synonym: center
6. a place where some particular activity is concentrated
e.g. they received messages from several centers
Synonym: center
7. a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
Synonym: centermidpoint
8. an area that is approximately central within some larger region
e.g. it is in the center of town
they ran forward into the heart of the struggle
they were in the eye of the storm
Synonym: centermiddlehearteye
arranged
adj
1. deliberately arranged for effect
e.g. one of those artfully staged photographs
Synonym: staged
2. planned in advance
e.g. an arranged marriage
3. disposed or placed in a particular kind of order
e.g. the carefully arranged chessmen
haphazardly arranged interlobular septa
comfortable chairs arranged around the fireplace
Synonym: ordered