Selected English Listening Passages for Beginners with School Subject Introductions
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DescriptionPractice listening easily in 15 minutes a day! This book selects 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages of “pre-listening—spotting keywords—sentence-by-sentence understanding—overall retelling,” you can progressively understand over 90% of the content. Persistent practice leads to qualitative improvement and rapid progress in your English listening! Below is a selection from qicai.com’s editor, starting from the simplest English listening materials suitable for junior and senior high school students (beginner level).
There are many subjects that you can take at school. My favorite subject is music. I like to sing and to play the clarinet. I also like art. I am quite good at drawing and painting. History is a good subject. I like learning about the past. Geography is very interesting. We look at many maps in geography. We learn where there are deserts and mountains. I know the names of all the continents and all the oceans. Mathematics is my least favorite subject. I'm not very good with numbers. I am good at addition and subtraction. But I'm not good at division and multiplication. In my school we learn to speak French. We learn French because Canada has French and English-speaking citizens. English literature is a good subject. I enjoy reading books. I also like to write compositions and poetry. Science is my brother's favorite subject. He is interested in plants and he likes to do experiments. We also take drama at my school. I like to act. I got the lead role in the school play.Listening Comprehension- drama
noun
1. the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
2. the literary genre of works intended for the theater
3. a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
e.g. he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway
Synonym: playdramatic play
4. an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional
Synonym: dramatic event
- geography
noun
1. study of the earth's surface
includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetationSynonym: geographics
- painting
noun
1. the occupation of a house painter
e.g. house painting was the only craft he knew
Synonym: house painting
2. the act of applying paint to a surface
e.g. you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush
3. creating a picture with paints
e.g. he studied painting and sculpture for many years
4. graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
e.g. a small painting by Picasso
he bought the painting as an investment
his pictures hang in the LouvreSynonym: picture
- multiplication
noun
1. the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
Synonym: generationpropagation
2. an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division
the product of two numbers is computede.g. the multiplication of four by three gives twelve
four times three equals twelveSynonym: times
3. a multiplicative increase
e.g. repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors
this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth - experiments
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