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Hi students! Do you know what a flamingo is? 你們知道 Flamingo 是什麼嗎？Flamingo 就是紅鶴。 Flamingoes are cool birds. They are pink, and they have really long legs. They sound like this. That sounds like a goose or a duck. But those are flamingoes. 紅鶴是粉紅色的，有長長的腿，叫聲像鵝或鴨子。 Today, I want to talk about one flamingo. This flamingo's name is Pink Floyd. About 17 years ago, Pink F...

I want to ask you a fun question. What would you do if you won the lottery? I mean a really big, big lottery. No, more money than that. Yes, lots and lots and lots of money. 如果你中大樂透，你會想做什麼？ Would you buy a really cool sports car? Or maybe an airplane? Or a big house with a big swimming pool? 你會買跑車嗎？買飛機、或是有游泳池的大房子？ Or would you use the money to help save our pla...

Are you afraid of snakes? I think a snake is a cool animal… but I don't really want to get close to one! 我覺得蛇很酷，但是我可不想靠近牠！ And I definitely don't want to be on a train with a snake! 更不希望在火車上碰到蛇！ But that's what happened to some people on a train here in Taiwan! 但是在台灣就發生這種事！ Someone looked up and said, "Hey! What's that? Is it a snake?" Then some other peopl...

Yes! The Dragon Boat Festival is here! I like this holiday. 端午節要到囉！ I like to eat sticky rice dumplings, and it's fun to watch people racing in those long boats with a dragon at the front. 我很喜歡吃粽子，也喜歡看划龍舟比賽。 Sometimes they have a drum on the boat and everyone rows to the sound of the drum… dum, dum, dum… 有時候船上會有鼓，大家會跟著打鼓的節奏划船。 Did you know that the Dr...

Can you throw a baseball really far? I can't. 打棒球的時候，你可以把球投得很遠嗎？我不行。 But, when I spin my arm around and around and then throw a baseball, the ball flies farther. 如果我先旋轉我的手臂，再把球丟出去，球會飛得比較遠。 Spinning around and around gives the ball more energy. This is called "momentum". 這叫做【動力】。 When something has a lot of momentum, it can be thrown really fa...

We use energy every day. We use energy for cars and scooters and for machines. 我們每天都會用到能源。 We get most of our energy from coal and oil. But coal and oil make a lot of pollution. Yuck! 這些能源大多來自煤炭跟石油，造成很多污染。 You guys know about solar energy and wind energy. But do you know about geothermal energy? 你聽過太陽能跟風力發電，但你知道地熱嗎？ Geothermal energy comes from t...

Be careful! Don't swallow your toothbrush! 不要吞掉你的牙刷！ What? You can't swallow a toothbrush! Well, one woman in Pingtung did! 屏東有一位婦人吞了一支牙刷！ The doctors at the hospital were very surprised. They said they never heard of someone swallowing a toothbrush before. 醫生從來沒聽過有人吞下牙刷。 She told the doctors, "Oh… I was super tired when I woke up and when I was brushing my tee...

Hello! Sorry about all this water, my house is flooded! 我家淹水了！ A flood happens when there is too much water! So the water starts rising higher and higher, and going everywhere! Even inside people's houses, like mine… Don't worry, I'm safe! But floods can be very dangerous. If they are big they can really hurt people, or buildings, or crops, or all sorts of things. 洪水對人、建築物，或是農作...

Do you guys like fishing? Lots of people like to go fishing for fun. And they like to eat the fish they catch. Some people earn money from fishing, too. They sell the fish to other people. Some people can earn a lot of money from just one big fish! 你們喜歡釣魚嗎？有一些人可以靠著釣魚賺大錢！ In Pingtung County, a fisherman made more than 2 million NT from one big fish. Wow, that's a lot of money!...

Do you want to live to be 100? Or 120? Or 200? 你想要活到幾歲呢？ Did you know there was a person from France who lived to be 122 years old? It's true! We know for sure that a woman in France really lived for 122 years and 164 days! 法國有一個老奶奶活了122歲！ Amazing, huh? Most people, and most animals, don't live that long. Most dogs live for about 10 years. 10 years for a little dog is about 55...

Some people love going to museums… but other people think art museums are… um… a little boring. 有人喜歡，也有人覺得美術館有一點無聊。 What do you think? Do you like looking at art? Well, there's one art museum in Sweden I think almost everyone would want to go to. At this museum in Sweden, there is no art hanging on the walls. In fact, this museum has nothing on the walls! 瑞典有一座美術館，牆壁...

Hi, everybody! Have you ever seen a volcano erupt? 你看過火山爆發嗎？ When a volcano erupts, it spits out very hot lava. 火山爆發，會噴出滾燙的岩漿。 But, there are lots of different kinds of volcanoes. One strange kind is a mud volcano. 火山有很多種，有一種奇怪的火山叫做泥火山。 They spit out… mud! 這種火山不會噴出岩漿，而是噴泥巴！ In April, a mud volcano erupted in Pingtung County. It happened...

What color are flamingos? Pink, right? Well, actually, when they are born, flamingos are gray. The food they eat changes the color of their feathers to pink. 紅鶴剛出生的時候其實是灰色的，牠們吃的食物讓牠們有粉紅色的羽毛。 Another bird that changes color because of what they eat is called the Crossbill. It eats red berries and so its feathers also turn red. 交嘴雀吃的紅莓也會讓牠們的羽毛變紅。 But...

Oooof! That looked like it really hurt! I'm watching a game of rugby, have you ever seen one before? They are crazy, but they look fun! You have to be very strong to play! 你看過橄欖球比賽嗎？你要很強壯才可以玩！ Every year there are two very big rugby games in Europe, called the Six Nations. One is for women to play, and one is for men. 歐洲每年都會有兩場大型的六國橄欖球錦標賽，分成男子跟女子組。...

I used to have two dogs. Their names are Cheeto and Sandy. Sandy was very old though, then she became very sick, and she passed away. 我本來有兩隻狗：Cheeto跟Sandy。Sandy 後來生病過世了。 This made me very sad, but I think Cheeto is very sad as well. I think Cheeto misses Sandy. 我覺得Cheeto也很想念Sandy。 Some people think dogs do not feel sadness the same way people do. But I think they do. 我自...

Ahhh! Cockroach!! 有蟑螂！！ I hate cockroaches! But they're so hard to kill! I have tried every kind of bug spray, but they keep coming back! 蟑螂怎麼樣都殺不死！ That's because cockroaches are very good survivors. 蟑螂是很厲害的生存專家。 Dinosaurs lived on Earth 66 million years ago, but they all died when a giant asteroid crashed into our planet. 六千六百萬年前，恐龍住在地球上，直到一顆小行星...

Hey there! Today it is so easy to travel far away. We can go around the world very fast, using airplanes! But that's not how people have always traveled… A long time ago, people used wind power to cross the oceans. Those old ships had sails to catch the wind and push the ship forward. 以前的人靠著風力，開著帆船橫越海洋。 Now they're doing the same thing with ships in outer space! 現在，科學家做了...

Hey there! Have you ever wondered how to make a cartoon? 你知道卡通要怎麼做呢？ First, you need an idea for a story… 卡通要先有個點子… Next you need to draw your cartoon, which takes a loooong time! 接著開始畫畫，非常花時間。 And then you need to add some sounds, like this… And then you need some music, like this… And THEN you need to make the whole thing move! 還要加上聲音，最後讓畫面動起來。 Wow...

Yeah! I love this song! When the music is as good as this I just have to get up and dance, I can't stop myself! 我好愛這首歌，它讓我忍不住跳起舞來！ Some music is so good, it makes you want to jump up and down! But too many people jumping at the same time can be a big problem. It can even cause tremors. Tremors happen when the ground shakes, like an earthquake! 不過，如果太多人同時跳起來，會造成小...

Would you like to try a tiger steak? How about a lion burger? Or maybe you'd like a yummy bowl of elephant meat noodles! What? Eating tigers and lions and elephants? That's crazy! 吃老虎、獅子、大象？！太瘋狂了吧？ We need to save those animals… not eat them! 我們要保護這些動物，而不是吃掉牠們。 No tiger or lion or elephant is REALLY going to be eaten… but, with a special kind of science… we could...

There are lots of rainforests in South America… not only the famous Amazon rainforest in Brazil. 除了亞馬遜叢林之外，南美洲還有很多雨林。 And scientists keep finding new animals in these rainforests! 科學家常常在雨林找到新的動物。 Usually, they don't find new big animals… usually they find amazing small animals that live in these rainforests. And recently, they found a new frog. 最近他們找到一種新...

Hi, kids. Today, I have a crazy story to tell you! It might seem like a movie, but it's a true story! This is about a pilot in California. In January this year, he took off. But while he was flying his plane, he had a problem. A big problem! His plane crashed! 今年一月份有一位加州的飛行員開著飛機，結果飛機意外墜機了！ But he had another very big problem: The pilot crashed right onto some train tra...

A judge is a very important person. A judge makes decisions about important things, like new laws. 法官要做出很多判決。 But there is one group of 9 judges in America called the 'Supreme Court'. They make all the final decisions. 美國最高法院有九位大法官，負責做最終的判決。 They are the top judges in America. For a long time, only men were Supreme Court judges. But that's not fair, right? Women sho...

Aw… what a mess. I'm so bad with cards! I try to keep them ordered, but it's so hard. There are so many cards! I always drop them on the floor! 我根本不會洗撲克牌，每一次都撒了滿地。 Did you know there is a dog who is really good at keeping cards in order? 有一隻狗很會按照次序排撲克牌。 This dog lives in the USA. His name is Parks. He is very smart. His owner taught him many, many tricks! And he u...

Hey, kids! Do you think it's healthier to live in a loud, busy city. Or is it healthier to live near a nice, quiet park? 你覺得住在城市裡面跟公園旁邊，哪裡比較健康？ If you guessed a park, you are right! Scientists in Spain say that people who live close to parks are healthier. 西班牙的科學家發現，住在公園附近的人比較健康。 They found that people are 16 percent less likely to have a stroke if they...