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[9:28] Winter English Listening Practice: Easy Improvement for Beginners
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Practice listening easily with just 15 minutes a day! This book selects 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages of “pre-listening—grasping keywords—understanding sentence by sentence—overall retelling,” learners progress step by step to understand over 90% of the content. Consistent practice transforms quantity into quality, allowing your English listening skills to improve dramatically! Below is a compilation by the qicai website editor of some listening content starting from the easiest level, suitable for elementary and high school (beginner level).
Once the fall is over and the snowflakes start to fall, I get very excited. I can hardly wait for the ground to be covered with a blanket of white snow. I put on my mittens, my scarf, my hat, coat, and winter boots, and I run out into the fluffy snow. I have to be careful not to slip on the ice. It can get very icy and cold in the winter. The first thing that I do is to build a snowman. I sometimes build a snow fort too. My friends and I have a good snowball fight. We laugh a lot, and our cheeks and noses get very red. When we get too cold, we go into the house and have a cup of hot chocolate. My father fills the backyard with water that freezes and turns into an ice rink. When the ice is hard enough, my friends and I get our skates and we go out on the ice to play hockey. All of my friends own hockey sticks. I am usually the goalie, and I have to keep the puck from going into the net. My sister and her friends don't really like to play hockey. They would rather just skate around on the ice. I took skating lessons so I don't usually fall down. My little brother is just learning to skate, so he falls down a lot. My father has to shovel the snow off the paths and the driveway in the winter. I help him. Shoveling snow is hard work. When my dad and I finish shoveling the driveway, we go into the house and warm our hands and feet in front of the fireplace. There is probably nothing more beautiful than fresh fallen snow on the trees. In the morning, when the sun shines on the snow, it glistens. I like to leave my footprints in the snow. Winter can be very beautiful and exciting.Listening Comprehension- icy
adj
1. covered with or containing or consisting of ice
e.g. icy northern waters
2. shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice
e.g. roads and trees glazed with an icy film
3. extremely cold
e.g. an arctic climate
a frigid day
gelid waters of the North Atlantic
glacial winds
icy hands
polar weatherSynonym: arcticfrigidgelidglacialpolar
4. devoid of warmth and cordiality
expressive of unfriendliness or disdaine.g. a frigid greeting
got a frosty reception
a frozen look on their faces
a glacial handshake
icy stare
wintry smileSynonym: frigidfrostyfrozenglacialwintry
- shovel
noun
1. a machine for excavating
Synonym: power shovelexcavatordigger
2. a hand tool for lifting loose material
consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle3. a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace
4. the quantity a shovel can hold
Synonym: shovelfulspadeful
- glisten
noun
1. the quality of shining with a bright reflected light
Synonym: glitterglisterscintillationsparkle
- mitten
noun
1. glove that encases the thumb separately and the other four fingers together
- snowball
noun
1. snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully)
2. ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup
3. ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce
4. plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers
grows in sandy arid regionsSynonym: sweet sand verbenaAbronia elliptica
- footprint
noun
1. the area taken up by some object
e.g. the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches
2. a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
e.g. the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window
Synonym: footmarkstep
3. a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important
e.g. the footprints of an earlier civilization
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