86_Pretending English Listening Practice — An Imaginative Journey Through the Prehistoric Jungle

Fifteen minutes a day, easy listening practice! This book features 2-minute short passages of moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages—previewing, grasping keywords, understanding sentence by sentence, and overall retelling—it helps learners understand over 90% of the content step by step. With persistent practice, quantity changes into quality, making your English listening skills improve dramatically! Below is a selection of listening content suitable for beginners and intermediate students (beginner level), organized by the editor of Qicai website.

I like to pretend. I like to make up things that aren't real. I use my imagination. I was pretending that I was in a time machine. I set the date for a prehistoric time. I turned on the time machine and it buzzed in word and spud madly. And it stopped spinning. I opened the door and stepped out into a very thick jungle. I listened carefully to the sounds of the jungle. I could hear strange animal noises and the leaves were rustling. I wasn't sure if I'd gone back in time or just landed in a jungle somewhere in the 21st century. It didn't take me long to realize that I had indeed gone back in time. A very strange bird-like creature, with a large beak flew overhead. I had never seen anything like it in my life. I took a few steps out into the long grass and ferns. I didn't want to go too far away from my time machine. I heard a noise over on my right side. There was a man who looked quite different from me. He was dressed in an animal skin and he carried a big stick. I didn't want him to see me, so I hid behind a tree. He didn't speak any language that I could understand. He grunted at someone who must have been in the distance. Then I felt the earth shake beneath my feet. I heard giant thumps on the ground as the floor of the jungle shook. The man and the animal skin began to run. I saw why he was running. A giant dinosaur appeared above the tops of the trees. It was bigger than anything I had ever seen. My heart began to pound in my chest. It was coming toward me. I ran toward my time machine and jumped in. I set the dial for the 21st century. The machine word and buzzed. My time machine landed in the 21st century. I got away just in time.