News For Kids

I love looking up at the sky! When you look at the sky, what can you see? 看天空的時候，你們會看到什麼呢？ You might see an airplane, or a bird. What else can you see? Can you see the Sun? Or the Moon? Or the stars? Well, scientists can see a lot more than you and me! 科學家比我們可以看到更多東西！ When they are looking at the sky, scientists use a special tool called a 'telescope'. This helps the...

Taiwan gets very hot in the summer. I like the summer, but it is so hot! Sometimes after just a short walk… I'm dripping with sweat! 台灣的夏天非常熱，走路幾分鐘就滿頭大汗！ Most of us use air conditioners at home in the summer. But what about when you go out for a walk? You could carry a small fan, or a bottle of water… but… I want an "air con", or air conditioner, I can wear! 在家有冷氣可以吹，...

Today, I want to talk about frogs and toads. 今天的主題是青蛙跟蟾蜍。 Do you know the difference between a frog and a toad? 你知道牠們的差別嗎？ Well, frogs have smooth skin, like a tomato. Also, they look a bit slimy! Toads look dry. Their skin is not smooth, it is rough, like a melon! They look like they have many warts. 青蛙的皮膚很光滑，看起來有一點黏黏的。蟾蜍的皮膚又乾又粗糙，上面有小小的凸...

Have you ever tried VR? VR means 'virtual reality.' You put a special mask over your eyes, and you can see a new world. A 3D virtual world! 你有嘗試過虛擬實境嗎？只要戴上特別的頭盔，就可以看到一個立體的新世界。 VR looks so real! You can play many different VR games… and you feel like you are inside the game! VR games can be really fun! VR感覺就像真的在遊戲裡面！ But, I don't like a new idea from o...

Hey, kids? Are you Harry Potter fans? He's a pretty cool character. 你們喜歡哈利波特嗎？ If you are a fan of Harry Potter, then you know about his cloak of invisibility. He wears this to become invisible. 如果你喜歡，一定會知道隱形斗篷。 It would be great if there really were a cloak of invisibility. You could do so many interesting things with it. It would be good for a game of hide-and-seek! 如...

There's a new 'super skyscraper' in New York City! 紐約有一座新的超級摩天大樓！ A 'super skyscraper' is a building that's between 300 and 600 meters tall. Taipei 101 is about 508 meters tall… so Taipei 101 is a 'super skyscraper.' 超級摩天大樓300到600公尺高，像台北101就有五百零八公尺。 Many cities around the world are building super skyscrapers because there isn't any more room! The only place to...

When you get your haircut, what do you do with the hair clippings? Your hair clippings are the pieces of hair that you have cut off. 剪完頭髮之後，你要如何處理剪下來的頭髮？ Well, most of the time, all that chopped off hair goes into the garbage. But leftover hair can actually be very useful! 這些被剪掉的頭髮通常進垃圾桶，但其實它很有用。 Did you know that hair can help clean up oil spills? 你知道...

Hey, kids! Has your mom or dad ever run out of gas? I hate running out of gas! 車子沒油了很討厭！ This is also a problem for electric vehicles, or EVs. But electric vehicles don't use gas. They use electricity. So, EVs don't run out of gas. They run out of power. 電動車也會有沒電的問題。 This can be a big problem for electric cars and scooters because they must often be recharged. 電動車常常會需要...

Name some fruits and vegetables that are the color purple! Well, there are grapes, eggplants… And I've also seen some purple carrots… But have you ever seen a purple tomato? 葡萄、茄子、還有某一些胡蘿蔔都是紫色的，但你看過紫色的番茄嗎？ Probably not. 大概沒有吧？ That's because there is no such thing as a purple tomato, right? Well, you're wrong! A very smart farmer in the U.S. invented a purple t...

Not very many places in the world still have a king or a queen… but the United Kingdom, or the U.K. for short, has a queen. And guess what? She's been queen for 70 years! 英國女王已經在位70年！ Her name is Queen Elizabeth the Second… and today, April 21st, is her birthday! She's now 95 years old! WOW! Happy Birthday, your Majesty! 女王伊莉莎白二世今天生日，她95歲了。 Queen Elizabeth the Second bec...

Do you hear that? That is the sound of monkeys. These kinds of monkeys are called Formosan macaques. 這是台灣獼猴的叫聲。 And there are a lot of them in Taiwan. Especially in the mountains. Formosan macaques have gray and light brown fur, and pink faces, and they're usually not afraid of people! This is why you need to be very careful if you ever see one close by. 台灣獼猴有灰色、棕色的毛，還有粉...

Hi, everyone. Do you like riding a bike for fun? I do. I really enjoy cycling. That's another name for bike riding… "cycling". "Cycling"也是騎腳踏車，我很喜歡騎車！ Lots of people like cycling. But some people can't do it. Some people are too old to ride a bike anymore. Some old people are very weak. Also, some people are not old, but they are disabled. 有一些人太老，也有一些人身體有障礙，騎不動腳...

Argh! Exercise is so tiring! I'm exhausted. 我快累死了！ I don't like working out. 我不喜歡運動。 It takes so much time, and I'm always so tired afterward. I wish there was an easier way I could get stronger, without spending all this time at the gym. 真希望有更簡單的方法變得更壯，而不用上健身房。 Actually, have you heard? There is new research that says if people flex their biceps as hard as they...

Hey, there! You students probably know a lot about Christmas. There are presents, Christmas trees, lots of songs, and Santa Claus. But how much do you know about Easter? It's another big holiday in the West. It happens in March or April. This year, it is on April 17th. 今年的復活節在四月十七號。 Let me tell you a few things about Easter. First, you need to know about the Easter Bunny. Some kids ea...

Have you ever gotten lost? Have you ever been in a place where you did not know how to get home? Well, let me tell you, it is a very scary feeling. It is even scarier if you're all alone. 迷路很可怕，尤其是只有你一個人的時候。 This is what happened to a three-year-old boy named Casey in the United States. He was playing outside his grandmother's house, when he went a little bit too far into the wo...

Did you know Sweden has ice hotels? 你聽說過瑞典有冰旅館嗎？ It's now been 32 years since the first one was made. 它已經有32年歷史了。 Of course, what happens to ice in the summer? Umm hmm… it melts. So, every year… they build a new one. 夏天的時候，旅館會融化，所以他們每一年都會蓋一座新的冰旅館。 The ice hotel idea started after someone in Sweden showed some art in a huge igloo. That was back in...

Ok, let's go to outer space! We're going to a super weird planet that scientists found in 2015. But… it is really, really far away from earth. Humans will never be able to go there. Even if we traveled at the speed of light, it would take more than 800 years to get there! 科學家發現一顆很遠的行星，就算我們用光速，也要800年才能到！ Scientists found the planet with a special telescope. The planet is...

Hi, there! Today, I want to tell you a cool story and teach you an idiom. 我今天要跟你們講一個很有趣的故事，也要教你們一句諺語。 First, the idiom: Have you ever heard someone say "Better late than never?" It means that it is better to do something late than to never do it at all. 這一句話的意思是，遲到總比沒到好。 Why am I talking about the idiom, "Better late than never?" It's because I read a st...

Today I'm going to talk about a frog. This is a special frog. It usually lives in Africa. And it is really small. This frog is about the size of a fingernail! 非洲有一種青蛙，跟指甲一樣小！ Wow! This frog is really tiny. But there is something else special about this frog. Remember that I said it usually lives in Africa? This frog was found a long way from Africa. 這種青蛙通常住在非洲，但是在距離...

I'm sure you have seen electric cars and electric scooters on the roads in Taiwan, right? There are now lots of different electric vehicles. 現在有各式各樣的電動交通工具。 In Kaohsiung, there are quite a few electric buses. You can see them in other parts of Taiwan, too… but there are a lot in Kaohsiung. 高雄的電動巴士有很多台。 The electric buses in Kaohsiung are so quiet… they only make a small...

In Taiwan, you can get a driver's license when you are 18. Driving a car isn't easy… but after lots of practice, young people can become good drivers. But can you imagine a 19-year-old woman flying around the world… by herself? All alone? In a tiny airplane? 你能想像19歲的女孩單獨開飛機嗎？ That's what our story is about today. Zara Rutherfield is 19-years-old. She started learning to fly small ai...

Hey there, I'm just cleaning up a little to prepare for Qing Ming Jie… Tomb Sweeping Day. Do you know about Tomb Sweeping Day? People in Taiwan mark this festival every year, usually on April 5th. 清明節通常在四月五號。 "Mark" here means to remember or celebrate a holiday or special day, like a birthday! It is a special day for everyone to honor their ancestors. Ancestors are the people in a famil...

You may have heard of space junk falling back to Earth, but have you ever heard of space junk crashing into the moon? 你有聽說過外太空的垃圾撞到月球嗎？ I hadn't… until recently! According to some reports, in early March, a leftover piece of junk from a space rocket crashed into the moon! 今年三月，有一塊火箭垃圾墜毀在月球！ Researchers say the piece of junk may have created a new crater on the mo...

In many countries, April 1st is a special day. It's not a holiday… you still have to go to school… but it's a day people do pranks. Yep! April first is April Fools' Day! A 'prank' is like a joke… but you don't 'tell' a prank… you do something! 四月一號是愚人節，通常有人在這一天對別人惡作劇。"Prank" 就是惡作劇。 Some April Fools' Day pranks try to make people believe something silly. Last year, a c...

In 1997… 25 years ago… way, way, way before some of you were born… a container ship got hit by a huge wave! 25年前，有一艘貨櫃輪被大浪打中！ The ship was sailing near the UK when the wave hit. The ship was lucky. It didn't sink… but more than 60 containers fell off the ship and into the ocean. 這艘船當時很靠近英國海岸，它沒有沉沒，但是60多個貨櫃掉進了海裡。 One of the containers was full of Legos!...