English Listening Practice: Mastering Daily Housework Vocabulary

Practice listening for just 15 minutes a day! This book features carefully selected 2-minute passages with moderate difficulty, ideal for beginners. By following four stages—previewing, identifying keywords, sentence-by-sentence understanding, and overall summarizing—you can progressively comprehend over 90% of the content. With consistent practice, quantity turns into quality, and your English listening skills will improve rapidly! Below is a beginner-level English listening passage suitable for junior high and high school students, compiled by the editor from qicai.net.

Housework. There is always housework to do when you live in a house. You have to wash the windows so that you can see outside. The floors and the carpet need to be vacuumed. The floors also need to be washed, and some of them need to be waxed. The furniture has to be polished. The bathroom has to be kept clean.

After you have a bath, you need to clean out the bathtub. Laundry needs to be done regularly, or you will run out of clothes to wear. The clothes go into the washing machine, and then they have to be dried in the dryer. Sometimes we hang the clothes out in the line to be dried. Some of the clothes need to be ironed.

You have to buy groceries and put them away. The clothes need to be made. You can't let the dishes pile up in the kitchen. The dishes have to be washed, and the counters need to be wiped. The stove needs to be cleaned, and sometimes the refrigerator and the cupboards need to be cleaned out.

You can dust the furniture and sweep up the dirt. You can make the beds. The beds have to be changed too. They need to have clean sheets put on them. There are just so many things to do. Household chores take up a lot of time.