English Listening Practice: An Unforgettable Birthday Party Experience

Practice your listening for 15 minutes a day and improve easily! This book selects 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages—pre-listening, capturing keywords, understanding sentence by sentence, and overall retelling—you can gradually understand more than 90% of the content. Consistent practice leads to significant improvement in your English listening skills! Below, Qicai website editors have compiled some listening content suitable for junior and senior high school students (beginner level).

Yesterday, I went to a birthday party. My friend Jane had her tenth birthday. Her house was decorated with balloons and streamers. Her mother had baked a big birthday cake. The cake had "Happy Tenth Birthday Jane" written on it. There were ten candles on the cake. Jane blew out the candles and made a wish. I wonder what she wished for. Your wish won't come true if you tell anyone what it was.

We sang "Happy Birthday to You." At the party, we played some games. I won one of the games, so I got a prize. We also swam in Jane's swimming pool. Jane opened her gifts. Her gifts were wrapped in bright paper and bows. She got lots of nice gifts. She got some compact discs, some clothes, and some computer games. Jane thanked everyone.

We ate a lot of food at Jane's party. We had hot dogs. I put mustard and ketchup on my hot dog. Then we ate cake and ice cream. We had pop to drink. I think I had too much cake and ice cream. I was very full by the time the party was over. We thanked Jane and her mother before we all went home. It was a very good party. Everyone had a good time. I hope Jane had a happy 10th birthday.