Initial F

fabric: cloth; stuff; artifact made by weaving or synthetic fibers; structure; framework fabricate: build; put together out of components or parts face: confront; encounter; be opposite facilitate: help bring about; make less difficult facility: service, space, and equipment provided for a particular purpose faction: a party of persons having a common end in view factor: […]

Initial E

eager: avid; enthusiastic earnest: seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness earthquake: quake from underground; disturbance that is extremely disruptive; temblor ease: satisfaction; pleasure; entertainment; freedom from care eccentric: departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern eccentricity: oddity; departure from that which is stated, regular, or usual; deviation from center echo: sound reflected […]

Initial D

dagger: knife; short pointed weapon with sharp edges dainty: delicately beautiful or charming; exquisite; gratification or pleasure taken in anything dairy: place where milk is produced, kept, or converted into butter or cheese dam: barrier to prevent the flow of liquid, especially built across a water course damp: humid; moist; slightly wet dangerous: full of […]

Initial C

cab: taxi; one-horse vehicle for public hire cabin: small room on a ship or boat where people sleep cabinet: group of persons appointed by a head of state or a prime minister; hut; cottage; small house; small room; closet cable: very strong thick rope made of twisted steel or metal wire cafe: coffee house; restaurant […]

Initial B

baby-sitter: person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home bachelor: unmarried men; the first or lowest academic degree conferred by universities and colleges backbone: support; mainstay; vertebrate spine or spinal column backward: directed to the back or rear; unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; undeveloped bacon: back and sides of a pig salted […]

Inital A

abandon: lacking restraint or control; feeling of extreme emotional intensity; unbounded enthusiasm abandonment: giving up completely; freedom from constraint abbreviation: shortening something by omitting parts of it abeyance: suspended action; temporary cessation or suspension abide: endure; put up with; bear; tolerate ability: capacity; skill abnormal: unusual; not typical; not normal aboard: on a ship, train, […]

Listen 42 – Growing Roses

Upload Music – Download Audio – Growing Roses M: Excuse me, ma’am. I have a problem with my rose bush. It used to produce a lot of pink roses. But now it doesn’t produce any flowers at all. W: I see. That does seem like a problem. Do the leaves on the plant look healthy? […]

Listen 42 – Growing Roses

Upload Music – Download Audio – Growing Roses 1. What problem does the man have with his rose bush? 2. What kind of fertilizer does woman suggest to fix the problem? 3. How much is the fertilizer, according to the woman? 4. How much time does it take for the rose bush to be normal? […]

Listen 41 – Let’s Recycle!

Download Music – Free Audio – ListeningPracticeThroughDict… 1/ Where did they hear the new law from? 2/ What will be recycled in the new law? 3/ How much does the woman think to pay extra for a cup of coffee? 4/ What happens when you return the cup? Transcripts