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小明的班级选举
Xiao Ming's Third-Grade Class Election — A Story About Voting at School
HSK 1 Chinese listening practice. A simple story about Xiao Ming and Xiao Qiang running in a third-grade class election — students, teachers, and friends.
This is an HSK 1 Chinese listening episode that runs about 6 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 15 key vocabulary words such as 学生、老师、学校 and walks through 8 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 3 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.
A person who studies at a school. Measure word: 个.
A person who teaches at a school. Measure word: 位 or 个.
A place where students learn. No measure word needed.
A person you know well and like. Measure word: 个.
A group of students who study together.
A student leader who helps the teacher and classmates.
Doing something one after another in sequence.
To talk with others to make a decision together.
Armed conflict between countries or groups.
The citizens of a country. Often used with 国家.
A political entity. Measure word: 个.
To pick one option from several.
A person who leads a country or organization.
Rules and order that people follow.
Actually, in fact, not false or pretend.
* beyond level超纲词
是 + noun + 的
The '是...的' construction is used to emphasize or describe a characteristic. Here '三年级的学生' means 'a third-grade student'.
小明是三年级的学生。
老师是女的。
有 + noun (existence)
Used to indicate the existence of something or someone in a place.
学校里有老师和学生。
班级里有很多同学。
今天班级里有一件事。
Subject + 想 + verb
Expresses wanting to do something. '想' means 'to want' or 'would like to'.
小明想去选班长。
小强也想去选班长。
Subject + 会 + verb
Expresses ability or future action. '会' can mean 'can' or 'will'.
小明说：我会帮老师。
小强说：我会帮同学。
小明说：同学不听话，我会说。
先...后...
Means 'first...then...' to describe the order of actions.
小明先说。
小强后说。
就是 (definition)
Used to define or explain what something means. '就是' here means 'that is' or 'means'.
轮流是什么意思？
就是你做一下，我做一下。
要...不要...
Expresses what one should and should not do. '要' = should, '不要' = should not.
要为自己的国家好。
不是为自己做事。
不是为别的国家做事。
如果...会...
Conditional structure meaning 'if...then...'.
同学不听话，我会说。
同学有困难，我会帮。