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苏格兰一比零赢了海地
Scotland Beat Haiti One to Zero
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A beginner Chinese listening lesson on the World Cup: Scotland 1-0 Haiti. Simple HSK 1 sentences about a goal, a keeper's save, and a long-awaited win.
This is an HSK 1 Chinese listening episode that runs about 4 minutes. The full Mandarin script is shown with tap-for-pinyin and a line-by-line English translation, so you can listen and read at once — comprehensible input in the sense of Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory. It teaches 7 key vocabulary words such as 重要、终于、没关系 and walks through 3 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 4 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.
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English transcript reference
Today let's talk about a soccer match.
In this match, someone won.
The team that won is Scotland.
There's another team, Haiti.
Both teams wanted to win.
Scotland wanted to win.
Haiti wanted to win too.
They all wanted to score.
Score one goal, and you get one point.
The team with more points wins.
Many people came to watch today.
So very many people.
Everyone wanted to watch the two teams play.
Both teams really wanted to win.
Both teams really wanted points.
Scotland wanted to score.
Haiti wanted to score too.
Both teams really wanted to score.
Everyone sat there watching the game.
They watched the two teams.
They watched the ball.
Both teams came out.
They all wanted to play well.
None of them wanted to lose.
Today's match, many people wanted to watch.
The match began.
Both teams were running.
Scotland played a lot of the ball.
Scotland kept pushing forward.
They wanted to score.
Haiti defended at the back.
Haiti didn't want to concede.
Then, Scotland took a shot.
The ball went toward the goal.
But Haiti's goalkeeper blocked it.
The ball didn't go in.
Everyone said, what a shame.
But the ball came back.
The ball reached McGinn's feet.
McGinn is a Scotland player.
McGinn shot again.
This time, the ball went in!
One to zero!
Scotland scored.
Everyone was very happy.
Scotland's people all stood up.
They shouted out loud together.
Wonderful!
McGinn is amazing.
He scored a very important goal.
This goal was the only goal in the match.
It was this one goal that let Scotland win.
After scoring, Scotland wanted more.
They shot many times.
Some shots were too high.
Some shots were blocked by Haiti.
Scotland didn't score again.
Haiti didn't want to lose.
They wanted to score too.
In the time after, Haiti pushed forward.
They wanted to score a goal.
They wanted to catch up.
But the ball just wouldn't go in.
Haiti's shots were blocked by Scotland.
At last, the match was over.
It was still one to zero.
Scotland won.
Haiti lost.
Haiti was a little sad.
But they tried hard too.
This match was very important to Scotland.
Scotland hadn't won at the World Cup in a very, very long time.
Today, they finally won once again.
So they were especially happy.
This was a wonderful thing for them.
Many Scots had waited a long time for this day.
Some people were so happy they cried.
Winning one match, why so happy?
Because they had waited too long.
Haiti played well too.
They are a small country.
Just to reach the World Cup is already hard.
They lost today, but they didn't give up.
Next match, they'll be back again.
This was a World Cup match.
The World Cup happens only once every four years.
Many countries come to play.
When you win, everyone is happy.
When you lose, it's okay, come back next time.
Scotland one to zero Haiti.
Scotland scored one goal.
The one who scored is McGinn.
That was today's match.
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇考纲词。很有意义,不能不在乎。这个球很重要。
考纲词。等了很久,最后发生了。他们终于赢了。
HSK 1. it doesn't matter.
HSK 1. they; them.
考纲词。比分高的队就赢了。
考纲词。比分低的队就输了。
把球踢进门。这场只有一个进球。
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法又…了
'…again' — an action happened once more.
球又回来了。
因为
'Because' — gives the reason.
因为他们等得太久了。
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