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Beginner English Listening Practice: A Daily Talk About Vegetables
- Learn English Listening from the Basics – Perfect for Junior & Senior High Students (Beginner) Tip:It takes [7:41] to read this article.
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DescriptionSpend just 15 minutes a day to improve your listening skills easily! This book features 2-minute passages of moderate difficulty, perfect for beginners. With a four-step method—Pre-listening, Keyword Spotting, Sentence-by-Sentence Understanding, and Full Retelling—you'll gradually understand over 90% of the content. Keep practicing, and you'll make great progress in your English listening. Below is a selection of beginner-level English listening content compiled by the Qicai website, ideal for junior and senior high school students.
Vegetables are very good for you. They say that you should have three servings of vegetables every day. I like green peas. Peas come in pods. I also like snow peas. You eat the pods on the snow peas. I like corn when it is on the cob. Carrots are good to eat raw. Beans are good for you. There are many different types of beans. There are string beans, kidney beans, baked beans, and lots of other types of beans. Some people don't like green vegetables like broccoli and Brussels sprouts. I like broccoli and Brussels sprouts.You can make a salad and put lots of different vegetables into the salad. In my salads I like lettuce, tomatoes, celery, cucumber, radishes, cauliflower, and spring onions. I try to have a salad with dressing on it every day. My dad likes root vegetables like beets and parsnips. My brother will only eat potatoes. He likes his potatoes baked.
My mother likes to buy her vegetables at the market. She says they are fresher there. My mother buys a lot of onions. She puts onions in almost all the meals that she cooks. Some children won't eat their vegetables. I didn't like some vegetables at first, but I have become used to them. I like having vegetables with my meals.
Listening Comprehension- market
noun
1. the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
e.g. without competition there would be no market
they were driven from the marketplaceSynonym: marketplacemarket place
2. a marketplace where groceries are sold
e.g. the grocery store included a meat market
Synonym: grocery storegroceryfood market
3. an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
Synonym: marketplacemarket placemart
4. the securities markets in the aggregate
e.g. the market always frustrates the small investor
Synonym: securities industry
5. the customers for a particular product or service
e.g. before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it
- root
noun
1. the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support
Synonym: tooth root
2. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
e.g. thematic vowels are part of the stem
Synonym: root wordbasestemthemeradical
3. a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
Synonym: etymon
4. the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
Synonym: solution
5. the place where something begins, where it springs into being
e.g. the Italian beginning of the Renaissance
Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
communism's Russian rootSynonym: beginningoriginrootagesource
6. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Synonym: ancestorascendantascendentantecedent
7. (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes
absorbs water and mineral salts
usually it anchors the plant to the ground8. a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- salad
noun
1. food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing
usually consisting of or including greens - used
- pods
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