English Listening Practice: Basic Passage and Vocabulary on Weather

Practice listening easily with 15 minutes a day! This book features selected 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages—pre-listening, catching key words, understanding sentence by sentence, and overall retelling—you can understand more than 90% of the content step by step. Consistent practice leads to qualitative improvement, boosting your English listening dramatically! Below is a selection from qicai website for beginner to intermediate listening content suitable for junior and senior high school (beginner level).

You can watch the weatherman on TV to find out what the weather will be like. It might be a nice clear day with no clouds in the sky. The sun might be shining. It could be a cloudy day. Sometimes cloudy days are just dull. On some cloudy days it begins to rain or snow. Some days are rainy. You need a raincoat, umbrella and boots on a rainy day. Rain makes the flowers and grass grow. The weather forecast might say that it will be windy. You could have a gentle breeze. It might be very gusty so that the wind pushes you. It is dangerous if the wind is very strong. A hurricane or tornado is very dangerous. Once in a while the weatherman says there will be hail. Hailstones are hard cold pellets of ice that fall from the sky. Sometimes the weatherman will say that there will be snowflakes. Sometimes there is just a light dusting of snow. Sometimes there is a blizzard or a snow storm. It can be dangerous driving through a blizzard. If there is a lot of snow the streets have to be plowed. You need a hat, coat, mittens and boots on a very cold day. Sometimes the weather forecast is wrong. The weatherman might say that it will be a sunny day, but then the clouds come in and it rains. That is not good if you are planning a picnic. I prefer sunny days that are warm but not too hot. I like to feel a gentle breeze to cool me down.