Bringing the world together: events & campaigns 让世界团结起来：活动与公益

✗ answering 我常常上网看比赛 (present habit) when the task asks 以后你打算怎么支持公益活动？(how will you support good causes in future?). ✓ use a future signal: 以后我打算每年参加一次慈善活动，也想捐一点钱。(Yǐhòu wǒ dǎsuàn měi nián cānjiā yí cì císhàn huódòng, yě xiǎng juān yìdiǎn qián.) Signal the future with 会 / 打算 / 想 / 以后; do not let a present habit stand in for it.

✗ giving only a bare fact — 这是一个音乐节 (this is a music festival) — with no opinion, which caps the mark at Higher tier. ✓ add an opinion with a reason: 我觉得这场音乐节很热闹，因为有很多歌手表演。(Wǒ juéde zhè chǎng yīnyuèjié hěn rènao, yīnwèi yǒu hěn duō gēshǒu biǎoyǎn.) Theme-5 cards are the weakest area precisely because answers stop at description — always attach 我觉得……因为…….

Global-issue cards need a few exact people-nouns, and going silent because you cannot name them sinks the answer. Learn 歌手 (gēshǒu — singer), 乐队 (yuèduì — band), 运动员 (yùndòngyuán — athlete), 观众 (guānzhòng — spectators), 记者 (jìzhě — journalist), 志愿者 (zhìyuànzhě — volunteer). You may be asked to give 记者 or 歌手 in English on a reading paper, so learn them both ways.

The measure word for a match, concert or performance is 场 (chǎng), not the default 个: ✗ 一个比赛、一个演唱会 ✓ 一场比赛 (yì chǎng bǐsài), 一场演唱会 (yì chǎng yǎnchànghuì). Chinese has no plural ending, so number + correct 量词 + noun is the only way to show quantity: 三场音乐会 (sān chǎng yīnyuèhuì — three concerts). Learn 场 with the event noun.

In a 比 comparison never insert 很 before the adjective: ✗ 这场比赛比那场很好看 ✓ 这场比赛比那场好看。(Zhè chǎng bǐsài bǐ nà chǎng hǎokàn.) — This match is better to watch than that one. To add degree use 一点 or 得多, not 很: 今年的音乐节比去年热闹得多。(Jīnnián de yīnyuèjié bǐ qùnián rènao de duō.) — This year's festival is much livelier than last year's. Dropping the comparison also cost marks.

On events reading and listening, obey the rubric exactly. A choose-three item needs exactly three ticks — picking one or two loses marks, and over-marking has marks deducted. For a one-mark written answer give ONE response, no slash or bracket: only the text before a slash / counts, and info in ( ) is ignored. Read how many answers are wanted before you write.

过 (guo) marks an EXPERIENCE — something happened at least once: 我看过世界杯。(Wǒ kàn guo Shìjièbēi.) 了 (le) marks a single COMPLETED event or a change of state: 昨天我看了那场比赛。(Zuótiān wǒ kàn le nà chǎng bǐsài.) So 我去过中国 (I have been to China) is not the same as 我去了中国 (I went to China). Decide whether you mean an experience (过) or a completed occasion (了) before choosing.