Essential Listening for English Beginners: An Engaging Museum Exploration

Practice listening easily in just 15 minutes a day! This book features carefully selected 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, perfect for beginners. Through the four stages of “pre-listening—catching keywords—understanding sentence by sentence—overall retelling,” learners progress gradually to understand over 90% of the content. With consistent practice, quantitative changes lead to qualitative improvements, boosting your English listening dramatically! Below is a collection from Qicai.com editors of some listening materials suitable for beginners and intermediate high school students (beginner level).

The museum was very interesting. There were so many things in the museum that I would need more time to really see everything. There were clothes from the past. I don't know how people wore some of those things. They look like they would be uncomfortable. I like to wear my jeans.

There were things from wars. There were bullets and cannons and even uniforms from the soldiers. I don't think that war is a good thing, but it is good to remember the past and honor the people who died for your country.

There was an old fire truck at the museum. This fire truck was pulled by a horse. There were some very old photographs of the firemen putting out fires.

There were rooms in the museum that were set up like an old house. There were antique irons and sewing machines. The women used to clean the clothes with a washboard. There were no modern appliances back then. I'm glad that we have electricity and modern appliances. The things that we have make life so much easier.

There were mummies from Egypt at the museum. I was fascinated by those. There were artifacts from the Indians. There were arrowheads and cradles that the babies slept in.

I tried my best to see everything, but it was almost impossible. The museum is a good place to learn about your past. I tried to imagine my grandparents using some of the things that were on display at the museum.