Beginner English Listening Practice: Selected Summer Vacation Story

Practice listening easily for 15 minutes a day! This book selects 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages — “pre-listening, catching keywords, understanding sentence by sentence, overall retelling” — learners progressively understand over 90% of the content. Consistent practice transforms quantity into quality, boosting your English listening rapidly! Below is a collection by Qicai website editors of some listening materials suitable for beginners and junior high school students (beginner level).

Today is the last day of school. It is summer vacation. Grace is very excited. This summer will be fun. Grace is going to visit her grandparents. They have a cottage. The cottage is on Lake Erie. It is a lot of fun. Grace is going to swim. She is going to play board games. She is going to talk with her grandparents. Grace is going to have fun.

Grace is going to a summer camp. She will sleep in a cabin. She will make lots of new friends. Grace will learn campfire songs. Camp will be fun.

Grace is going to Cape Cod with her parents. We are going for two weeks. We are going to drive. Grace will see the ocean. Cape Cod will be beautiful. Summer vacation is fun.