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Hi students, have you guys ever been to a farm? If you have, you know there are many animals on a farm. Cows moo… pigs oink… dogs bark… And the noisiest are roosters. 你有去過農場嗎？農場有牛、豬、狗，還有很吵的公雞。 Have you ever heard a rooster? The sound a rooster makes is called a "crow". A rooster crows. Roosters are OK on farms. But they aren't good in cities. How would you feel if your nei...

Hi, students! Today might be the best holiday ever… it's International Chocolate Day! 今天是國際巧克力日！ And, if you want to try some of the best chocolate in the world, you don't need to go very far. You don't even have to leave Taiwan! In the UK there is a very special group of chocolate pros, called "The Academy of Chocolate". An "academy" is a kind of school. This is their name because they...

I love monkeys. And we have a special monkey here in Taiwan. They are called "Formosan macaques", but let's just call them Taiwan monkeys. 台灣有一種特別的猴子，叫做台灣獼猴。 Taiwan monkeys are different from monkeys anywhere else in the world! But Taiwan's monkeys are wild animals. And wild animals are not pets. Some people take baby Taiwan monkeys, and make them pets! 有一些人把野生的台灣獼猴當...

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, everybody! Do you know why we eat mooncakes today? It all comes from the old story of Chang'e, Goddess of the Moon… Chang'e was married to Hou Yi, a famous hero. 中秋節吃月餅的習俗來自嫦娥的故事。嫦娥是后羿的太太。 Back then there were ten suns in the sky, which made the earth way too hot! So Hou Yi shot nine of them down with his arrows. 以前天上有十個太陽，太熱了！所以...

Hi students, have you ever seen a dinosaur? Probably not. Because dinosaurs are extinct. "Extinct" means they are all gone or all dead. Lots of animals are extinct. 恐龍跟很多動物都已經絕種了。 Have you ever seen a Tasmanian tiger? 你有聽過塔斯馬尼亞虎嗎？ No, right? That's because they are all extinct. Tasmanian tigers used to live in Australia. They are not really tigers; people called them "tig...

Hey there! Today we're walking along a beautiful mountain path. Exercising like this is called 'hiking'. It's such a fun way to get outside and get active with your friends! There are great places for hiking all over the world. In the USA they have over 200,000 miles of hiking paths! That's the same as walking all the way around the world 8 times! 美國的健行步道連起來，可以繞地球八圈！ When you ar...

Do you know the name of the tallest mountain in the world? In English it's called "Mount Everest". 世界最高的山叫做聖母峰。 Many people go to Nepal to see it, and many climb all the way to the top. But one man has jumped off of Mt. Everest! 很多人都想爬上去，但有個人卻從上面跳下來！ No, don't worry, he didn't die! Pierre Carter is a man from South Africa who likes to use a paraglider and jump off...

Hi there! Today is the International Day of Charity. 今天是國際慈善日！ Charity is when people do things to help the causes they care about. Maybe you want to look after sick people, or help stop global warming, or help save animals… Good causes around the world need all kinds of charity. Some people need help making money, to pay for things that help people. This is called "fundraising". Fundrais...

Hey there! Today, We're at an auction house! 我們今天在拍賣會場！ Auction houses are a bit like shopping malls… people go to them to buy things. Say you want to buy a new hat. In an auction house, they only have one very special hat, and lots of people want to buy it! 如果你想要買帽子，在拍賣會只會有一頂特別的，而且大家都搶著要！ The auction house has to decide who gets to buy it. They do this by...

Hi, students! Do you play sports like basketball? Or maybe you like to play baseball… tennis… or bowling! 你喜歡打籃球、棒球、網球，或保齡球嗎？ If you do like to play sports, I have good news for you! Playing sports makes people tougher. It also makes them try harder. And it makes them braver. 運動可以讓人更堅強、更勇敢！ How do I know that? Well, some scientists at an American university told us...

What's that sound? Oh, it's my robot vacuum cleaner! It got stuck! Okay, that's better. Robots can do so many things! They can vacuum floors and help build cars! 機器人可以幫忙掃地，也可以製造汽車。 But, can you imagine a robot so small, that it can walk on the edge of a 10 NT coin? Well, scientists now have one! It's called a "micro-robot." 科學家做了一個迷你機器人，可以在十元硬幣的邊邊上走路！ "...

Woof! It is so hot today! I need some water… Ahh! That's better… You know, the world is getting hotter and hotter every year. And it's important for all of us to stay healthy and drink lots of water. 地球越來越熱，我們要保持健康，也要多喝水！ It's getting hotter because of something called "climate change". "Climate" means weather. The weather is changing because of all the pollution people have b...

Today, I want to tell you about a place where you can hear a lot of bees buzzing. Over a million bees! 有一個地方可以讓你一直聽蜜蜂的嗡嗡聲，有超過一百萬隻蜜蜂！ A man in Italy made a special house. This man is a beekeeper. His special house has a big beehive. 有一個義大利的養蜂人蓋了一間特別的房子，裡面有個大蜂窩。 The hive has more than a million bees in it. People can pay money to stay in the h...

Today, I want to tell you about a cool thing scientists have done. They grew plants in moon dust, on Earth! 科學家在地球上，用月球的土種植物！ They used dust that was taken from the moon many years ago. 他們用的是很久以前帶回來的土。 It took the scientists 11 years to get the moon dust! That's a long time. But they only got a very small amount, just a few teaspoons. 科學家花了十一年才拿到幾茶匙的...

I'm exhausted! Running is very tiring. I can't run longer than ten minutes. I get too tired. 跑步好累！我只能跑十分鐘左右。 I don't know how people run marathons! A marathon is a kind of long-distance race where the runners have to run about forty-two kilometers to finish the race. 馬拉松通常要跑42公里。 That is a lot of running. But do you know what's really impressive? Running one hundred and fo...

Does your mommy or daddy snore when they sleep? No? Well, some people snore really loudly. 有一些人打呼的聲音非常大。 Last winter, a family in California heard some strange noises. 去年加州有一戶人家聽到怪聲音。 Later, they asked their neighbors. "Have you heard any strange sounds? It's a deep rumbling sound. It kind of sounds like snoring." 他們跑去問鄰居：「你們有聽到類似打呼的聲音嗎？」 But the...

Ew! What is that smell? 那是什麼臭味？ There is something rotten in my refrigerator. I must have left some food in there for too long. Now the food has gone bad. Gross. 食物在冰箱放太久都腐敗了，好噁心。 Have you ever left food out for too long? It's pretty disgusting, isn't it? Well, have you ever left food out for years? 食物放太久會腐壞，你是否曾經把食物放在外面好幾年呢？ Something like that ha...

Hi, everyone! I want to tell you about a really cool type of energy. You guys know about clean energy from the sun and wind, right? But do you know about energy from algae? 你有聽說過藻類也可以發電嗎？ Algae are those green things you see in water sometimes. You can find them in all kinds of water, like lakes and the ocean. 你常常可以在湖面上或是海面上看到綠色的藻類。 It is kind of yucky if you sw...

GASP! That was so fun! I love snorkeling! Have you been snorkeling? 你會浮潛嗎？ Snorkeling is when you swim around on the surface of the ocean, and you look at things under the water. 浮潛就是在海面上游泳，看海裡的景觀。 There are so many interesting things to see in the ocean! Such as fish, turtles, jellyfish, coral, and sometimes even sharks! 海裡面有魚、海龜、水母、珊瑚，有時候還有鯊魚！ But t...

Uh oh, there's a bee! No need to be afraid though, if you don't bother a bee, they will not usually sting you. 有蜜蜂！但不用怕，只要你不要惹蜜蜂，牠就不會叮你。 I like bees, they help the environment. They do this by helping more flowers and plants grow. 蜜蜂對環境很好，牠們會幫助花草生長。 This helps people because we need more flowers and plants to grow, so we have more vegetables to eat. 這樣...

Oh no! I can't find my notebook. Where is it? 我找不到我的筆記本。 I wrote down so many good ideas in that notebook! I hope somebody finds it and returns it to me. Some of the ideas I wrote down could change the world! Like Charles Darwin did! 我希望有人找到後可以還給我，裡面有很多的點子，可以像達爾文一樣改變世界！ Do you know who Charles Darwin is? Darwin was a very famous scientist who was known...

Humans are a kind of ape. 人類是猩猩的一種。 Can you think of some other apes? Chimpanzees, orangutans, and my favorite, gorillas! 其他猩猩還有黑猩猩、紅毛猩猩、跟大猩猩！ Gorillas in the wild usually only live for about 40 years. But the world's oldest gorilla just had a birthday. 野生大猩猩只能活40年左右。但是世界上最老的猩猩才剛過生日！ Fatou the gorilla lives in a zoo in Germany and she is now...

I have a funny question for you: Have you ever heard a cow burp? 你有聽過牛打嗝嗎？ Yes, cows burp. They burp a lot! A cow burp probably sounds like this… Oh, wait. That's a moo. Here's a burp… Maybe you've heard a cow burp. But have you ever seen a picture of a burp? 你可能聽過牛的打嗝，但是你有看過牛打出來的嗝的照片嗎？ Yes, you can take a picture of a burp. But, you need a special camera. Scien...

Hey students! Have you ever been to Qingjin Farm? It's in Nantou County. 你們去過南投清境農場嗎？ It's a great place to see sheep. You can watch the sheep run. And you can watch the sheep getting sheared. 在那裡你可以看到很多綿羊，也可以看剪羊毛秀。 Do you know what the hair of sheep is called? No, it's not called hair. It isn't called fur, either. It's called fleece. Sheep have a lot of fleece. F...

Here are a few questions for you: What grows outside in the forest, but is not a plant? What is alive, but is not an animal? What is not an animal, and not a plant, but you can eat them? 什麼東西是長在森林裡面，卻不是植物？有生命，卻不是動物？但是卻可以吃？ The answer is mushrooms! Mushrooms are part of a special family of living things… not animals and not plants. 蕈菇類是一種特別的生物，不是動物...