[10:46] 80_Television: Fun Short Story and Tips for Improving English Listening

15 minutes a day, practice listening with ease! This book selects 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages—pre-listening, catching keywords, understanding sentence by sentence, and overall retelling—you can gradually understand more than 90% of the content. With consistent practice, quantity turns into quality, and your English listening will improve rapidly! Below is some listening material compiled by the editor of qicai.com, starting from the simplest English listening, suitable for junior high and high school students (beginner level).

Do you watch television? My mother says that I watch too much television. I watch cartoons on Saturday mornings. Cartoons make me laugh. My brother and I each have our favorite cartoons. We have trouble deciding which cartoons we will watch.

On Saturday afternoons we like to watch sports. My brother really likes to watch baseball. But usually my mother tells us to go out and play on a Saturday afternoon.

On weeknights we have our own favorite shows. I like shows about outer space and monsters. My brother likes comedies. He likes to laugh. My mother likes shows about real life situations. She likes to watch the news. She says that the news is important. She watches the news and weather to find out what is going on in the world.

Sometimes she watches real life shows about doctors or policemen. My father doesn't watch television. He says that he would rather read a good book or the newspaper. My dad gets all his news from the newspaper.

My favorite thing is to sit in front of the television with a bag of popcorn and a bottle of pop. I sit there and change the channels with the remote control. I change channels and watch a few different shows at once.

My mother won't let me watch too much television. She doesn't want me to get lazy. Television is good if you don't spend too much time watching it. You can learn a lot from television if you watch the educational channels. I learned about dinosaurs and rainforests last week just from watching television.