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    This article offers a short listening practice suitable for English beginners through Susan's wedding story. The content is simple and practical to help learners improve their listening comprehension skills.

    Practice listening easily with 15 minutes daily! This book selects 2-minute short passages at a moderate difficulty level, suitable for beginners. Through four stages—'pre-listening, catching keywords, understanding sentence by sentence, and overall retelling'—learners progressively understand over 90% of the content. Consistent practice leads to qualitative changes and rapid improvement in your English listening skills! Below is a selection by qicai website editors of some listening materials starting from the simplest level, suitable for junior and senior high school (beginner level).

    Susan is getting married. Her fiance's name is Michael. They are in love. They are getting married today. Susan wakes up early. She is getting her hair done. Susan is having her makeup done too. Susan looks beautiful.

    She puts on her white wedding dress. She puts on her veil. Susan needs something blue. Her garter is blue. Susan needs something old. Her grandmother's ring is old.

    Susan needs something borrowed. She is wearing her mother's jewelry. Susan needs something new. Her shoes and dress are new. Susan needs a penny for her shoe. It will bring her good luck. Susan is ready to get married.

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Vocabulary Guide

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  • veil

    noun

    1. a garment that covers the head and face

    Synonym: head covering

    2. a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church
    a silk shawl

    Synonym: humeral veil

    3. the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)

    Synonym: caulembryonic membrane

    4. a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms

    Synonym: velum

  • penny

    noun

    1. a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit

    Synonym: centcentime

    2. a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom
    equal to one hundredth of a pound

  • makeup

    noun

    1. cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance

    Synonym: make-upwar paint

    2. the way in which someone or something is composed

    Synonym: constitutioncompositionphysical compositionmake-up

    3. an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event

    e.g. he missed the test and had to take a makeup
    the two teams played a makeup one week later

    Synonym: make-up

  • borrowed
  • garter

    noun

    1. a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)

    Synonym: supporter

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