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谢贤走了：一位香港的大明星
Patrick Tse Has Died: A Great Hong Kong Movie Star
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Patrick Tse Has Died: A Great Hong Kong Movie Star. HSK 1 Chinese listening practice.
This is an HSK 1 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 9 key vocabulary words such as 电影、电视、儿子 and walks through 2 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, we're talking about a person.
This person is called Xie Xian (Patrick Tse).
Xie Xian was a very famous man.
He was from Hong Kong.
Xie Xian was an actor.
He made many, many films.
He also made a lot of TV.
For many years, many people watched his films.
In Hong Kong, many people knew him.
Many people loved him too.
When Xie Xian was young, he was very good-looking.
When he was young, he was a big star.
He acted in films for over seventy years.
For over seventy years, he kept acting.
He had a son, named Xie Tingfeng (Nicholas Tse).
Xie Tingfeng is also a very famous person.
When Xie Xian was in his eighties, he was still making films.
In his eighties, he was still a very good actor.
Many people said: Xie Xian is wonderful.
Today, Xie Xian passed away.
When he passed, he was eighty-nine.
He passed away at home.
Many people miss him very much.
His son said: remembering him at his best is enough.
The films Xie Xian made, we can still watch.
This man, Xie Xian — we will all miss him.
A big star has gone.
Goodbye, Xie Xian.
Goodbye, Fourth Brother.
OK, that's it for today.
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇他拍了很多很多电影 — he made many, many films.
他也拍了很多电视 — he also made a lot of TV.
他有一个儿子，叫谢霆锋 — he has a son named Nicholas Tse.
很多人也都很爱他 — many people loved him too.
今天，谢贤走了 — a gentle way to say he passed away.
Beyond HSK 1. 谢贤，是一个演员 — Xie Xian was an actor.
Beyond HSK 1. 他是一个大明星 — he was a big star.
Beyond HSK 1. 谢贤是一个很有名的人 — Xie Xian was very famous.
Beyond HSK 1. 他拍了七十多年 — he made films for over seventy years.
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法还在 + Verb
"still doing something" — stresses that an action continues.
谢贤八十多岁的时候，还在拍电影。
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