英语口语练习材料(可用于背诵练习)

1. Mrs. Brown is forty-two years old, and has two sons and one daughter, Alice.
Mrs. Brown gets up earlier than any other member of her family. She is very
busy every day. She is a good cook. Alice sometimes helps her mother with
the cooking.

2. Yesterday was Sunday. Because there was no school, I went to a movie
with three of my friends. It was raining, so we took our umbrellas. There were
many people on the train.

The movie began at two o’clock. We liked it very much. We enjoyed the
movie for two hours. After the movie, we went to a coffee shop. My friends
drank coffee, but I drank tea. It was a good day.



3. Every Saturday, John goes to the store with his mother. They get on the bus
at 9:00 in the morning. The trip doesn’t take long and they reach the store at
9:30.

John’ s mother buys meat and vegetables. John looks at the magazines. He
wants to buy candy, but he has no money. Sometimes John’ s mother buys
him candy. They leave the store at 11:30.

4. Mr. Brown often goes to the park with his family on Sundays. He goes with
his wife, son, and two daughters. They get on the train after lunch and ride for
an hour to the park. They usually leave the park at dinner time.

At the park, they walk together and look at the trees. Mr. Brown’ s daughters
often read books. Sometimes, Mr. Brown and his son, Peter, play catch. They
have a good time at the park.

5. Linda comes home at eight o’clock. She is surprised to find the front gate is
open. When she gets into the kitchen, she notices that the gas oven is missing
and a lamp has been knocked over. You can tell what must have happened to
the gas oven and what Linda should do about it.

6. Mr. White owns a bar in New York. He likes children. He has two children
himself. But he thinks that children should not come into his bar. In New York,
children under eighteen can not drink alcohol and they can’ t go into bars. In Mr.
White’ s bar, there is a sign over the bar. It says: Anyone under eighteen is
prohibited from drinking. It’ s the law of New York.

7. Whenever I have a meeting, Mary is always the first person that I’ d like to
invite. She is a talkative lady. This is the reason why I want her to come to the
meeting. She will be able to make my other guests laugh. She doesn’t get any
angry even if someone tries to make fun of her. She can also discuss almost
anything you can think of.

8. Anna was five years old. Her mother took her to the biggest shop in town.
Anna found a beautiful doll in one of the show windows, and looked at it for a
few minutes. When she looked around, she could not find her mother. She was
very young, but she did not cry. She saw a policeman in the street, and went to
him. She asked, “Have you seen a lady without a small girl?” “Yes, I have,”
answered the policeman. Anna said with a smile, “I am the small girl. Where is
the lady?”

9. Last Sunday was a beautiful day. Paul went on a picnic to a mountain with
his parents. They went to the foot of the mountain by car. Then they walked up
to the top, and it took about one hour and a half. Paul was the first to reach the
top, the next was his father, and his mother was the last. on the top of the
mountain they saw some people who were enjoying hand gliding. Down below

a lot of cows were eating grass in the field. Paul and his parents had a very
good time at the picnic.

10. This is a story of one of the most famous men in the world. His name is
Albert Schweitzer. When he was thirty years old, he began to study to become
a doctor. He wanted to help many poor and sick people in Africa. In 1913 he
went to Africa. He was very busy every day, because he had to take care of
many people who needed his help. He did everything he could for them. They
did not have to pay for his help. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was given to
Albert Schweitzer.

11. Jack lives a small town in Texas with his father, mother and Betty, his
younger sister. One day in the summer his mother asked him to go to the
super-market to buy some cold drinks for the family. His mother handed him
four dollars. He went to the supermarket by bicycle. It took him fifteen minutes
to get there. He paid three dollars and sixty cents for four cans of orange juice
and received forty cents in change. When he returned home, he gave the
change back to his mother.

12. Miss White is from America. She lives in Taipei. She has been in Taiwan
for six months. She teaches English at a university from Monday to Friday. She
likes to teach very much. She tells her students a lot of things about her
country in her classes. When she teaches, she tries to speak easy English
very slowly. Her students can understand her easily. Since her first visit, more
and more students have become interested in English, and enjoy studying it.

13. Tom got a surprise yesterday. When he got home from school, he couldn’t
find his mother anywhere. His sister, Anna, said to him, “Mother is in the
hospital. Out new sister was just born.” Tom went to the hospital in a hurry with
Anna. They saw their mother. She said, “Now you have another little sister. We
will call her Mary.” In the evening their father came to the hospital. He took

Tom and Anna to see the baby. Mary was sleeping in a little bed. Tom thought
she wasn’t very pretty.

14. Jack likes studying history very much. One Sunday morning he was
planning to visit a museum. He hurried to the station to catch the 7:30 train. As
soon as he got there, he tried to buy a ticket for that train. The ticket clerk said,
“The 7:30 train has just left. The next train will leave in thirty minutes.” “Has the
7:30 train gone already? It’s 7:27 by my watch,” said Jack. The clerk said a
smile, “Look at that clock on the wall. It’s already past 7:30. your watch is three
minutes slow.

15. Arthur goes to school by train. One morning he was very sleepy. After he
left the station, he remembered that he left his bag in the train. Some textbooks,
a box lunch and a dictionary were in the bag. At school he telephoned the lost
and found office of the station to ask about the bag. But “We don’t have your
bag” was the answer. He was shocked. He returned home and told his mother
about it. His mothe
16. This summer, Limei was taken to San Francisco by her aunt and uncle who
are living in Taipei. She spent a week there. It was her first visit to a foreign
country. San Francisco was full of visitors. There are many hills in the city.
Limei rode on the famous cable car running through the city. When the cable
car went up the hills, she was able to look down over the city. It was a great
experience for her. She learned many things about San Francisco while she
was there. She enjoyed San Francisco very much because she could see
things with her own eyes.

17. One evening Taming went to a supermarket to buy some fruit and
vegetables. The store was very crowed with shoppers. An American girl came
up to him and said, “Excuse me, but I want to buy some milk. Do you know
where it is?” Taming knew where it was, but he did not know how to answer in

English. He could only point out the place to the girl. Taming was very unhappy,
because he could not even say “over there” in English. He decided to study
English much harder.

18. Lihua is a college student. One day, on her way home, she met her friend
Takong. She met him last two years ago. They said “Hello!” to each other.
Takong said, “I’m going to India next spring as an engineer. I have to teach
people there how to make computers, so I have studied English conversation
for two years.” She was in high school, he often slept in his English classes.
She thought to herself he changed his mind about English.

19. One day, Mary and her mother went shopping to buy a pair of shoes. The
shoe store was in the center of the city. The street was full of people. Everyone
looked very busy. There were five young girls standing in front of the store.
They were holding small boxes in their hands. Several people stopped and put
something in the boxes. Mary asked her mother, “What are those people
putting in the boxes?” “They’re putting money in them. Those girls are
collecting money from people because they want to help the poor children in
this city,” answered her mother.

20. This summer, Mr. Brown took a week’s holiday and decided to go camping
with his family. His children, Alice and Mike were very glad. It was sunny on the
day they left. They started early in the morning. On their way to the
campground, they enjoyed looking at the beautiful mountains and lakes. They
got there at noon, and began to get ready for lunch. Mike gathered some
firewood. Father made a fire. Mother prepared food. Alice helped her mother
cook. They enjoyed their lunch. After lunch, Alice and Mike went for a walk in
the woods.

21. Lisa likes rabbits. She has ten pictures of rabbits on the walls in her room.
Some of the rabbits are running and some are eating. Some are hopping and

some are sleeping. One day, Lisa told her mother she wanted a real rabbit
because she was tried of just looking at pictures of them. She wanted to hold a
rabbit in her arms and play with it. She wanted to feed it carrots and green
vegetables. On Lisa’s tenth birthday, her mother bought her a real rabbit. This
made Lisa very happy. She played with it all day. That evening, she put the
rabbit in a box in her room.

22. Taming practiced baseball every day. He was the best player in his school.
No one hit the ball harder than he. No one ran faster than he. One day, an
exchange student from Canada came to his school. His name was Peter. He
was also a good baseball player. He could pitch better than anyone else. He
joined the team and started practicing with Taming. They became good friends.
They were both asked to play on the school team. Their team went to the finals.
In the game, Peter pitched well and Taming hit a home run. Their team won
the championship that year.
23. Almost every American child wants a summer job. It is a chance to get
away from Mon and Dad, to make new friends, to do things by himself, and to
make some pocket money. It may also be a useful experience for the future.
Children wash cars, take care of babies, or cut the grass for their family or
neighbors. John’s first summer job was selling lemonade with Tom on the
beach. They could save little money, because they drank much of their
lemonade themselves. It was so hot on the beach.

24. There are a lot of languages in the world.

In Taiwan, most boys and girls study English. Why do they have to study it?
Because it is used in a lot of countries.

English is a great help and a very important language when they try to
understand the people of other countries.

What is the best way to learn English?

Listen to good English first. Then use English at every chance. We have
some chances to use it around us.

We have to learn much about other countries.

25. Mary has moved into a five-story apartment house. Her rented room is too
dirty to live in. the wall papers are faded, the gas oven is out of order, the desk
and chair are dark brown, and the curtains and bedspread are pink. The owner
has told her that she can paint the walls and desk and chair, fix the gas oven,
and wash the curtains and bedspread in order to make the room more
comfortable. Mary gave up living here. And soon she moved out.

26. Beth went to a business college to learn typing when she was eighteen
years old. A year later, she passed her typing exams quite easily, and then
went to look for work. She was living with her parents.

A lot of people were looking for typists at that time, so it was not difficult to
find work. Beth went to several offices, and then chose one of them. It was
near her house. She thought, “I’ll walk there every morning. I won’t need to go
by bus.”

She went to the office again and said to the manager, “I want to work here,
but how much will you pay me?”

“We’ll pay you $$200 each week at first,” the manager answered, “and $$250
after three months.”

Beth thought for a minute and then said, “All right, then I’ll start three months
from now.”

27. I sat at the corner table in a restaurant. A middle-age man and woman sat
at a table next to me. The woman, who looked about fifty, drank coffee and
talked to the man. The man who was nice-looking, didn’t pay any attention to
what she said. She looked displeased. Then, it was about half an hour since
they didn’t say anything. At last, the man said something to woman. Now they
got up and walked toward the door. And then, the waiter ran after them and
said, “Here is your check.”
28. On Wednesday morning at eleven o’clock, Betty and I were walking along
the street. I had just parked my car. Because Betty wanted to walk around and
I was tired of driving a car. Suddenly I heard someone running from the bank.
He was tall and thin. More important, he had a bag of money and a gun in his
hand. Betty almost cried when she saw a man having a gun. But I couldn’t do
anything. Just standing. That man ran up the street and disappeared at last.
The police and TV reporters arrived at the spot in less than ten minutes. They
interviewed us about this case. The next morning, I was surprised to find that
our picture was in the newspaper. On reading the newspaper, I called up Betty.
She was very excited. On the phone, I promised her to meet at the park at four
o’clock to show our picture in the newspaper.

29. The sun gives more light than all the electric lights in the world. It gives us
light and heat. Without sunshine, nothing will grow in the world.

At night we can see the stars. All day the stars are in the sky, but the light
from the sun is bright, so we can’t see them. The stars are bright only when the
sky is dark.

The stars look very, very small, but some are bigger than the sun. Things
look small when they are far away. Planes in the sky look like toys, but on the
ground they are very big.

The moon is a ball, too, like the earth and the sun. It is smaller than the stars,
but it looks bigger because it is nearer to the earth. The moon has no light. It is
bright because the sun shines on it.

30. How much paper do you use every year? Perhaps you can’t you can’t
answer that question quickly. Some countries use as much as 50 kilograms of
paper for each person in a year. Countries like the United States, England and
Sweden use more paper than other countries.

Paper is made from the wood of trees. So the forest countries like Canada,
Sweden, Norway, Finland and the United states have become the most
important countries in paper making. Finland makes the best paper in the
world.

Today paper-making machines are very big, and they make paper very fast.
Watch them run! The biggest machines can make a piece of paper 400 meters
long and six meters wide in one minute.

When we think of paper, we think of newspaper, books, letters, and writing
paper. But there are many other uses. Only half of the paper that is made is
used for books and newspaper. For example, paper keeps you warm. In
Finland’s cold winters, the farmers wear paper boots in the snow. Nothing is
warmer than paper boots.