Beginner English Listening Practice: Short Passages about Wild Animals

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—grasping keywords—understanding sentence by sentence—overall retelling,” learners can progressively understand more than 90% of the content. Consistent practice leads to qualitative improvements, greatly advancing your English listening! Below is a selection by the qicai website editor of some listening materials suitable for elementary and middle school students (beginner level) starting from the simplest English listening.

Some animals are wild. They don't live in homes or cages. They live in jungles or on plains. The lion is the king of the beasts. He is very mighty. He roars loudly. The giraffe has a long neck. He eats leaves from the tallest trees. The elephant is very large. He has a trunk and two tusks. A tiger has stripes. Some bears are black and some are brown. There are even white bears called polar bears. A kangaroo lives in Australia. That is the only place that you would find a kangaroo except in a zoo.

It might be frightening to run into a wolf or a fox. Monkeys run and play in the trees. In Canada we don't see lions, tigers, giraffes or monkeys running wild. There are squirrels in my backyard. Sometimes I see a raccoon or a chipmunk. In Northern Ontario you might see a moose or a bear. I have seen a deer in the forest. There are many wild animals. You can see wild animals if you go to the zoo.