[9:26] International Students Listening Practice: 2-Minute Passages for Beginners to Improve Step by Step
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15 minutes a day, and you can easily improve your listening! This book selects 2-minute passages of moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages — “pre-listening, catching keywords, understanding sentence by sentence, and overall retelling” — learners can gradually understand over 90% of the content. With consistent practice, quantity turns into quality, and your English listening will improve rapidly! Below is a collection prepared by the editor of qicai.com, starting from the simplest English listening, suitable for junior and senior high school students (beginner level).
International students. We have many international students at my school. Some of the students come from England. They speak English, but they have an accent that is different from a Canadian accent. Many students are from Japan. They are learning our language and our customs. We have students from Germany, Italy, China, Korea, and Iran. We try to make those students feel welcome here.The students like to see what is here. They go sightseeing. They visit all the places that the tourists like to go to. Niagara Falls and Toronto are interesting places to visit. The students practice their English by talking to Canadians. When they first get here, we show them around. They do many exercises to learn the language.
They listen to English songs. They read story books that are written in English. They listen to English language tapes. The best way to learn the language is to talk to other people. It is good to ask questions in English. Canadians try to be helpful to international students.
Some of the international students live with host families. The host families have the students living in their homes. It is a good way for the host families and the students to make friends. Many of the international students stay in contact with their friends and host families even after they have gone back to their homelands.
The international students learn a lot from their host families because they eat Canadian foods and they learn what it is like to live in a Canadian household.
Listening Comprehension- accent
noun
1. a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
Synonym: accent mark
2. the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
e.g. he put the stress on the wrong syllable
Synonym: stressemphasis
3. distinctive manner of oral expression
e.g. he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent
she had a very clear speech patternSynonym: speech pattern
4. the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
e.g. the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English
he has a strong German accent
it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navySynonym: dialectidiom
5. special importance or significance
e.g. the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis
the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accentsSynonym: emphasis
- helpful
adj
1. providing assistance or serving a useful function
- host
noun
1. an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite
it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association2. (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
Synonym: server
3. a vast multitude
Synonym: hordelegion
4. archaic terms for army
Synonym: legion
5. any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event
e.g. Atlanta was chosen to be host for the Olympic Games
6. the owner or manager of an inn
Synonym: innkeeperboniface
7. a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
8. (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor
9. a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)
Synonym: master of ceremoniesemcee
- practice
noun
1. a customary way of operation or behavior
e.g. it is their practice to give annual raises
they changed their dietary patternSynonym: pattern
2. translating an idea into action
e.g. a hard theory to put into practice
differences between theory and praxis of communismSynonym: praxis
3. the exercise of a profession
e.g. the practice of the law
I took over his practice when he retired4. systematic training by multiple repetitions
e.g. practice makes perfect
Synonym: exercisedrillpractice sessionrecitation
5. knowledge of how something is usually done
e.g. it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner
- sightseeing
noun
1. going about to look at places of interest
Synonym: rubber-necking
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