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美国佛州李尔喷气机坠毁 九人全部遇难
Learjet 60 Crashes in Palm Beach County, Florida, Killing All Nine On Board
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HSK 1: A Learjet 60 flying from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas crashed in Palm Beach County, Florida, killing all nine people on board.
This is an HSK 2 Chinese listening episode that runs about 2 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 12 key vocabulary words such as 飞机、人、住 and walks through 8 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
A small plane fell from the sky.
Nine people were sitting on the plane.
All nine people died.
The plane fell in a place where many people live.
That place is in Florida in the United States.
That day was Sunday, at almost one in the afternoon.
The plane set off from a city called Austin.
Austin is in Texas.
The plane was going to the Bahamas.
The Bahamas are on the sea very far away, and have many small islands.
The plane did not get there.
It fell on a road.
People live on both sides of the road.
The plane hit the ground, and then a very big fire started.
Someone filmed it with a phone.
The fire was very big, like a fireball.
There was also a very big hole in the road.
The plane broke, and many small pieces flew very far.
Florida has a governor.
The governor said this matter is very scary.
The governor said the plane came down from the sky very fast.
The governor said that apart from the people on the plane, he had not heard of anyone else dying.
The governor said he had also not heard of anyone else getting hurt.
The person in charge of this matter said the people living nearby must leave first.
They will first go to live in another place.
Right now it is still not known who these nine people on the plane are.
The company that made this kind of plane said they are very sad.
The company also said they will help investigate this matter.
The person flying the plane spoke in the sky.
He said there was ice in the sky, and the wind was also very strong.
However, why the plane fell is still not known now.
Many people are investigating this matter.
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇HSK 1. Common noun; measure word 架 (jià). Appears as 一架小飞机.
HSK 1. Used with numbers: 九个人 (nine people).
HSK 1. 很多人住的地方 = a place where many people live.
HSK 1. 那个地方 = that place.
HSK 1. 那天是星期天 = that day was Sunday.
HSK 1. 下午快一点 = almost 1 p.m.
HSK 1. 一条路 (measure word 条).
HSK 1. 用手机拍 = film with a phone.
HSK 1. 在美国 = in the US.
HSK 1. 一个叫奥斯汀的城市 = a city called Austin.
HSK 1. 很大的火 = a very big fire.
HSK 3. 别人受伤 = others getting hurt.
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What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法从 + Place + 出发
Means 'set off from a place'.
飞机从一个叫奥斯汀的城市出发。
要 + Verb
Expresses intention or plan: 'be going to do something'.
飞机要去巴哈马。
住在旁边的人要先离开。
没有 + Verb + 到
Indicates not reaching a place or not achieving a result.
飞机没有到那里。
用 + Noun + Verb
Means 'use something to do something'.
有人用手机拍了下来。
像 + Noun
Expresses similarity: 'be like ...'.
火很大，像一个火球。
除了 + Noun + 以外 / 除了 + Noun
Means 'except for' or 'besides'.
除了飞机上的人，没有听说别人死。
还不知道 + Clause
Means 'still don't know ...'.
现在还不知道飞机上这九个人是谁。
飞机为什么掉下来，现在还不知道。
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