Just 15 minutes a day to easily practice listening! This book selects 2-minute short passages at a moderate difficulty level, suitable for beginners. Through four stages—pre-listening, catching key words, understanding sentence by sentence, and overall retelling—it progressively helps you understand more than 90% of the content. With consistent practice, quantity turns into quality, and your English listening will improve rapidly! Below is a collection organized by the qicai website editor, starting from the simplest English listening materials, suitable for junior and senior high school (beginner level).
Who, what, where and why? These are important words. They are all words that begin questions. Who is about a person? Who is the girl with the blue dress on? Who stole my watch? Who will come with me to the game? Who is driving us to the party? What is about a thing? What is that big thing on the sidewalk? What should I do when I get to your house? What kind of clothes should I wear to the party? What shall I buy you for your birthday?noun
1. thought that makes something comprehensible
2. a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
e.g. the explanation was very simple
I expected a brief account
Synonym: account
3. the act of explaining
making something plain or intelligible
e.g. I heard his explanation of the accident
noun
1. a human being
e.g. there was too much for one person to do
Synonym: individualsomeonesomebodymortalsoul
2. a human body (usually including the clothing)
e.g. a weapon was hidden on his person
3. a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
e.g. stop talking about yourself in the third person
noun
1. a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
e.g. what level is the office on?
Synonym: floorlevelstorey
2. a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
e.g. he writes stories for the magazines
3. a record or narrative description of past events
e.g. a history of France
he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president
the story of exposure to lead
Synonym: historyaccountchronicle
4. a short account of the news
e.g. the report of his speech
the story was on the 11 o'clock news
the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious
Synonym: reportnews reportaccountwrite up
5. a trivial lie
e.g. he told a fib about eating his spinach
how can I stop my child from telling stories?
Synonym: fibtaletarradiddletaradiddle
6. a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events
presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
e.g. his narrative was interesting
Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children
Synonym: narrativenarrationtale
noun
1. a separate and self-contained entity
2. an action
e.g. how could you do such a thing?
3. an artifact
e.g. how does this thing work?
4. an entity that is not named specifically
e.g. I couldn't tell what the thing was
5. any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
e.g. the thing I like about her is ...
6. a vaguely specified concern
e.g. several matters to attend to
it is none of your affair
things are going well
Synonym: matteraffair
7. a special abstraction
e.g. a thing of the spirit
things of the heart
8. a special objective
e.g. the thing is to stay in bounds
9. a statement regarded as an object
e.g. to say the same thing in other terms
how can you say such a thing?
10. an event
e.g. a funny thing happened on the way to the...
11. a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
e.g. he has a thing about seafood
she has a thing about him
12. a special situation
e.g. this thing has got to end
it is a remarkable thing