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Hi students! Today we're talking about electric vehicles. 我們今天要講的是電動交通工具。 There are electric bicycles, electric cars, and even electric buses! The world is changing: now, there is even an electric airplane! 現在有電動腳踏車、電動車、電動巴士，甚至還有電動飛機！ No way! That's amazing! A new electric airplane! They are testing the electric airplane in America. This electric airplane...

What's that? A cockroach?! Ahhh! I don't like cockroaches, how about you? You don't like them either, right? 我不喜歡蟑螂！你也是，對吧？ You know, some animals can help people. Dogs can help find lost people or help the police catch bad guys. Now scientists have found a way for cockroaches to help people too! Thanks to a super tiny computer. 科學家找到讓蟑螂幫助人的方法！他們用一個超級小電腦。 Th...

Do you like dogs? I do! I love my dog! She is so sweet! Every day when I come home she is so happy to see me! Who's a good dog?! Yes you are! She waits by the door and then starts barking happily when she hears me coming back home! 我很喜歡我的狗狗！她每天都會等我回家。 It makes me feel happy to know she loves me. And guess what? Scientists say some dogs cry when their human comes home! 科學家說，...

Hi, students! Let's talk about robots. Lots of companies use robots. There is even a convenience store in Taiwan that uses robots. It's in Kaohsiung. The store in Kaohsiung is testing robots to deliver coffee. 高雄有一間便利商店，用機器人送咖啡！ This robot doesn't look like a person. It looks like a cart. It is a cart with wheels that can travel inside and outside to deliver coffee to people. 它...

Surf's up! I love surfing in the ocean. 我好愛衝浪！ But what's that? A surfing dog? That's right! Dogs can surf too. They just stand on the surfboard and ride the waves. 狗狗也可以衝浪，它們可以站在衝浪板上。 At first, a person surfs together with them. The person can teach them how to surf. After the dog learns, it can surf by itself. 一開始，狗狗跟主人一起衝浪，狗狗學會後，就可以自己衝浪了。 Ev...

Mushrooms are part of a group of amazing living things that are not really an animal and not really a plant. 香菇不是動物也不是植物，它們是菇類！ You can eat some mushrooms, and they're super yummy. But you can also make leather from them. 它們不只很好吃，還可以做成皮革！ We use leather for many things. I have a leather belt and leather shoes. 皮革可以做成很多東西，像是我自己有皮帶或跟皮鞋。 But s...

Hi students! Do you know what year it is? Sure, it's 2022. But it's also another year. Let me give you a hint. Yep, it's the Year of the Tiger. Tigers are special animals. 今年是虎年！ They are the biggest of the big cats. Lions are also big cats. So are leopards… But tigers are endangered. That means tigers are in danger of becoming extinct. 老虎、獅子、豹都是大貓咪，但是現在老虎快要絕種了。 Why...

Hi students! Today is a special day for Taiwan. It's Double 10 Day, also called Taiwan's National Day. 今天是雙十國慶！ October 10th in Taiwan is a day of parades. Military jets fly over people's heads. And at night, people get to see great fireworks. 今天會有遊行、戰鬥機表演，還有煙火秀！ Almost every country in the world has a national day. There are only two countries that don't have a national...

Hi students! Can you imagine being deaf? Talking to people would be really hard if you couldn't hear anything. 聽不見的時候，應該很難了解別人在說甚麼。 Some people can talk to deaf people using their hands. This is called sign language. But not many people know how to sign. 有一些人可以用手語溝通，但不是很多人會。 Now, to help deaf people, someone has made some very special glasses. They let you r...

Wow! I love this new song. I've got to tell my friends about it. I'm sure they'll love it too! 我好喜歡這首歌，我要分享給我朋友！ My friends and I like to share new songs with each other. If I hear a song I like, I always let my friends know about it. And, did you know, humpback whales do the same thing! 你知道嗎？座頭鯨也會這樣！ Scientists found that if one humpback whale starts singing a new so...

Look at that bus! It looks really cool! And it's so quiet! Do you know why it's so quiet? It's an electric bus. It uses an electric motor! 你知道為甚麼這麼安靜嗎？因為它是電動巴士。 Electric motors are great! They don't make all that smelly smoke that's bad for the air… and bad for people, too. 電動馬達不會產生髒空氣。 But, there is one problem with electric motors. An electric motor needs some ve...

Do you like riding on trains? You can see lots of things while on trains, like mountains and forests. Sometimes, you can see animals. 你們喜歡搭火車嗎？搭火車可以看到山、森林，有時候還有動物。 In England, one woman even saw a tortoise. A tortoise is a kind of turtle. 在英國，有人搭火車的時候看到一隻陸龜！ A woman in England named Diane Akers saw a tortoise while she was on a train. The turtle was...

Do you know what a "milestone" is? In Chinese, it's 【里程碑】. There are many kinds of milestones. When you become 18 years old, that's a milestone. When you get your first job, that's a milestone. And, if you get married or have a baby, those are milestones, too. 18歲成年、第一份工作、或是結婚生小孩，每一個都是一種里程碑。 Today, I want to talk about a different kind of milestone. This one is ab...

Hey, students! Let's talk about art. There are paintings, and drawings… There is sculpting… Even photography can be art! 畫畫、雕刻、攝影，都可以變成藝術！ Almost anything can be art, even a vegetable! 就連蔬菜也是可以！ In New Zealand, a man named Matthew Griffin made art with a pickle! 有一個紐西蘭藝術家，用酸黃瓜做藝術品！ He put a pickle on the ceiling of an art gallery in New Zealand. It's a...

Hey students! Do you know what's cool? Flying cars! They can drive on roads like regular cars. But they have wings that let them fly in the air, too! 飛天汽車很酷吧！這台車在陸地跟一般的車子一樣，但它也有翅膀，可以讓它飛起來！ Today, I want to talk about a company called Samson. Samson wants to make a flying car called the Switchblade. When the car flies, the wings swing out from under the car. Th...

Hey students, do you know what animal this is? 這是什麼動物呢？ Did you guess a pigeon? 你們猜到的是鴿子嗎？猜對了！ You see them a lot in parks. Some people like to feed them. Pigeons are okay on the ground. But the trouble with pigeons is that they fly. And when they fly… That's right, they poo! And sometimes that poo lands on people's heads. Yuck! 很噁心！鴿子邊飛邊大便，有時候會掉在人的頭上。...

Do you kids like to sing? Some people can sing well. Others sing like this. For bad singers, there is now help! A company in Japan made a special device. This device can help people sing better. 日本的公司做了一個裝置，讓人唱歌更好聽。 It's small and you put it in your mouth. It looks like that thing parents give babies to suck on, to stop them from crying. 它要放在嘴巴裡面，有一點像奶嘴。 People...

I'm in Pingtung today! It's sunny and… Wow! What is that? It's a Green Iguana! 是一隻綠鬣蜥耶！ Wow! It's huge! It looks like a little dinosaur! Listen, I like iguanas, but they are not supposed to live in Taiwan. These kinds of iguanas live in South America, and it's never a good idea to take animals to a place where they don't come from. 綠鬣蜥是南美洲的動物，不應該帶進來台灣。 These iguanas in...

We use our ears to hear many things, like music, animals, and of course, talking. But many people cannot hear. So how do they talk with other people? 耳朵聽不見的人，要怎麼跟別人溝通呢？ One way is with sign language. People can use their hands to talk! For example, they can touch their mouth to say thank you. They can wave their hand to say goodbye. This is called "sign language". 其中一種方法是...

Today is World Car Free Day! It's a time when some people stop driving their cars for a whole day. 今天是世界無車日！ Cars make a lot of pollution. There are lots of other ways to stop cars from making so much pollution. Like in California… they want to stop selling gas cars by 2035. 汽車製造了很多污染。美國加州想從2035年以後不賣燃油車了。 California won't stop selling all cars. They will just sto...

Do you like walking in the forest? It's so peaceful. Today, I'm going to tell you about a very special forest. It's special because it is really old. It is so old that it is ancient. 有一個很特別的森林，超級古老！ But that is not the only reason the forest is special. It's special because it is at the bottom of a sinkhole. 他特別的是，在一個天坑底部被發現！"Sinkhole" 就是天坑。 A sinkhole is a big...

Hey students! Let me ask you a question. Have you ever heard of a poisonous bird? 你們有聽過有毒的鳥嗎？ It's a small orange and black bird. It lives in a country called Papua New Guinea. 這種鳥小小的，有黑色跟橘色的毛，住在一個叫做巴布亞紐幾內亞的國家。 Papua New Guinea is on a big island, near Australia. But it's still much bigger than Taiwan. There's an interesting story about how the bird was...

What do you usually do after you eat? Sit down and read a book? Or maybe you take a short nap. Well guess what? Doctors say taking a short walk after eating helps your body control your blood sugar. 醫生說，吃飽後走走路可以降低血糖。 When most people think about sugar, they think about candy or ice cream or cake. Sweet things have lots of sugar in them, right? Well, actually, many foods have sugar...

The last time I was at this beach, it was covered in garbage! There was so much garbage I couldn't even walk along the water. 上ㄧ次來海邊，有好多垃圾！這一次好多了。 There were glass bottles, old boxes, and a lot of plastic garbage. Those are not things that should be on a beach. 上一次來這裡，有玻璃瓶、舊的箱子，還有很多塑膠垃圾。 Some experts say as much as 150,000 bags of garbage can be found...

Nature is so beautiful. I love hiking through the mountains of Taiwan. Ew! But it is not nice when I see garbage in nature. 在大自然中看到垃圾好噁心。 According to Greenpeace, who are a very large environmental organization, all this plastic is ending up inside animals' bodies! 綠色和平組織說，有很多塑膠到最後進了動物身體裡！ Greenpeace knows this because they are finding microplastics in animal p...