Practice listening easily for 15 minutes every day! This book selects 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages — "pre-listening, catching keywords, sentence-by-sentence understanding, and overall retelling" — learners can progressively understand over 90% of the content. Consistent practice leads to qualitative improvement, making your English listening skills soar! Below is a selection from Qicai.com editors, starting from the simplest English listening content suitable for junior and senior high school (beginner level).
Some fruit grows on trees. Apples grow on trees. You can get red, yellow or green apples. Some apples are green until they ripen. Then they turn red. Peaches grow on trees. Peaches have a fuzzy skin. Peaches grow on trees. You can climb a ladder and pick cherries from the tree. Cheries and peaches have pits inside them. The pits are not edible. Pairs also grow on trees. Lemons grow on trees. They are very sour. Have you ever picked strawberries? Strawberries do not grow on trees. You have to bend down to pick strawberries. Have you ever tried strawberry shortcake? It is very good. Grapes grow on vines. People use grapes to make wine. There are many types of berries. There are blackberries, blueberries, raspberries and cranberries just to name a few. Some fruits are more exotic. There are mangoes and papayas. They don't grow in Canada. Bananas and oranges don't grow in a Canadian climate either, but we are able to buy them here. Some fruits have to be peeled and some can be eaten as they are. It is always a good idea to wash fruit before you eat it. The farmers spray the crops with pesticides to kill bugs, so it is good to wash that off.noun
1. any substance that can be used as food
Synonym: comestibleeatablepabulumvictualvictuals
noun
1. curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
Synonym: curve
2. diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
Synonym: bend dexter
3. movement that causes the formation of a curve
Synonym: bending
4. a circular segment of a curve
e.g. a bend in the road
a crook in the path
Synonym: crooktwistturn
5. an angular or rounded shape made by folding
e.g. a fold in the napkin
a crease in his trousers
a plication on her blouse
a flexure of the colon
a bend of his elbow
Synonym: foldcreaseplicationflexurecrimp
adj
1. strikingly strange or unusual
e.g. an exotic hair style
protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants
the exotic landscape of a dead planet
2. being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
e.g. alien customs
exotic plants in a greenhouse
exotic cuisine
Synonym: alien
adj
1. covering with fine light hairs
e.g. his head fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed
Synonym: fuzzed
2. confused and not coherent
not clearly thought out
e.g. a vague and fuzzy idea of the world of finance
3. indistinct or hazy in outline
e.g. a landscape of blurred outlines
the trees were just blurry shapes
Synonym: blearyblurredblurryfoggyhazymuzzy
verb
1. grow ripe
e.g. The plums ripen in July
2. cause to ripen or develop fully
e.g. The sun ripens the fruit
Age matures a good wine
Synonym: mature
noun
1. a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface