Christmas Eve English Listening Practice – Simple and Fun Holiday Story

Practice listening for 15 minutes every day with ease! This book features selected 2-minute short passages of moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages — “pre-listening, catching keywords, sentence-by-sentence understanding, overall retelling” — learners progress step by step to understand over 90% of the content. Persist with practice, and quantitative changes will lead to qualitative leaps, greatly improving your English listening! Below is a selection by the qicai website editor of some listening content starting from the easiest English listening materials, suitable for junior and senior high school (beginner level).

Ben and Melissa are getting ready for Christmas. Ben and Melissa's house has lots of lights on the roof. The lights are many colors. Inside they listen to Christmas music. Ben and Melissa drink eggnog. Eggnog tastes good. Ben and Melissa hang stockings on the fireplace. They string popcorn. Ben and Melissa put the popcorn string on the Christmas tree. They put Christmas lights on the tree. They put tinsel on the tree. Ben and Melissa put ornaments on the tree. They put a star on top of the tree. They get ready for Santa Claus. They leave milk and cookies for Santa. Ben opens one present. Melissa opens one present. They go to sleep. Ben and Melissa wake up early. They run downstairs. There are a lot of presents under our tree. They wake up their mom and dad. Ben and Melissa open their presents. They love our presents. Everyone cleans up the wrapping paper. It is time for breakfast.