News For Kids

Kid: Yes! I'm going to win this game! Mom: Hey! Put that phone down! Kid: Awww … Mom! Narrator: Do you play mobile games? They are fun! Many kids like to play them. Adults do too! 你有在玩手機遊戲嗎？很多小孩跟大人都喜歡玩手機遊戲！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

We use our hands every day. We use them to play sports. We use them to clap. We use them for many things! But many of us do not think about our hands very much. 我們每天都會動手做很多事，但是卻很少注意自己的手。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

The Pacific Ocean is Earth's biggest ocean. But there is something big and bad there. It is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It has a lot of trash. It is as big as forty-four Taiwans! 太平洋是世界上最大的海域，垃圾也特別多。垃圾形成的大片漂流物，有四十四個台灣那麼大！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

What did you do when you got your first smartphone? Did you read about how to use it? Did you ask someone for help? 第一次有智慧型手機時，你做了什麼？有人教你嗎? Click HERE for the full transcript!

Alex is very good at climbing. He climbs rocks and walls. He climbs with no ropes. This way is called free solo. Alex 很會攀岩。他可以不用繩索攀爬岩石跟牆面。這種攀爬方式叫做「徒手獨攀」。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Long ago, there were many kinds of dinosaurs. T. rex is the most famous. But experts say there are thousands we do not know about! They always look for new kinds. 很久以前，地球上有很多種恐龍。除了最有名的暴龍之外，還有上千種恐龍沒有被發現！因此，專家一直在找新種的恐龍。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Every country has too much trash. Singapore does too. Singapore is very small. Fifty-two Singapores can go into Taiwan! And it has more than six million people. There is almost no space for trash!  垃圾問題讓很多國家頭痛，新加坡也不例外。新加坡是個小國家，卻有六百萬人口，實在沒有地方放垃圾。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary, and quiz.

Narrator: Have you seen this teddy bear? It is light brown. It is wearing a school uniform. Its shirt and tie are blue and white. Its shorts are dark blue. It fell from very high in the sky. What? 你有看到一隻穿著學校制服的泰迪熊嗎? 上衣跟領帶是藍色跟白色，短褲是深藍色。這隻熊是從天上掉下來的。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

More than sixty years ago, some fishers were on a boat. They were near Iceland. They saw black ash! It went up nine kilometers! It came from a volcano in the ocean! It was scary! 六十多年前，一群漁夫在漁船靠近冰島時，目睹黑色火山灰從海裡衝上雲霄，高度達到九公里! 那是海底火山爆發! Click HERE for the full transcript!

Long ago, there were no cameras. But there were portraits. Portraits are art. They show people. 很久以前沒有照相機，但是有人像畫。人像畫是重要的藝術。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Plastic bags and bottles are a big problem in the ocean. But the ocean has a bigger plastic problem. It is "ghost gear." 很多人都知道，海洋中有大批塑膠垃圾。不過更多的其實是幽靈捕魚工具。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Narrator: There is a dairy farm in the UK. It has many cows. The farmers want a lot of milk. Most goes into bottles. Some is used to make butter, yogurt, and ice cream! 英國一所畜牧場養了許多乳牛。生產出來的鮮奶會裝進容器裡面出售，或是做成奶油，優格，跟冰淇淋! Click HERE for the full transcript!

Do you want to do something new? Sometimes it is hard to do new things. It is easier to do new things with help at first. 你想嘗試新的活動嗎？有時候想做點新鮮事並不容易，假如有人在幫忙就會輕鬆很多。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Narrator: Mosquitoes like to live in warm and wet places. But most places in the world have mosquitoes. Some kinds of mosquitoes can live in cold places. 蚊子喜歡住在溫暖潮濕的地方，但全球大部分的地區都有蚊子，有些種類的蚊子甚至可以住在寒帶地區！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

We borrow books from the library. We can borrow all kinds of books! At New Taipei's Human Library, we can borrow "human books" … People are the human books! 我們可以從圖書館借到各式各樣的書，但在新北市的「真人圖書館」，大家借的不是書，而是人！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

Pythons are one of the world's biggest snakes. Some are six meters long! They are strong and dangerous. 蟒蛇力氣大又危險，是世界上最大的蛇類之一。有一些蟒蛇甚至長達六公尺！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

Everyone likes to see famous people. We see pictures and videos of them. They are everywhere! Some people see a famous person in real life. How exciting … Maybe they see Taylor Swift at their supermarket!! 通常大家都喜歡巧遇只在照片和影片裡面出現的名人。假如在真實生活中碰到，多半會很興奮！泰勒絲的粉絲假如在超市看到她，一定會尖叫。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Water buffalo look like very big dark cows. Maybe you have seen them in Taiwan. Do you think they are beautiful? Well, one country has beauty contests for them! 水牛看起來像顏色很深、很大隻的牛。你也許在台灣看過牠們！你覺得水牛漂亮嗎？有一個國家會幫水牛辦選美比賽喔！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

Tang Cheng-Yao is from Hengchun. She learned how to swim when she was four years old. 來自恆春的唐成瑤從四歲開始就會游泳。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

What is making that noise? Pigeons are! They make noise from early in the morning! 你聽見了嗎？鴿子從一大早就開始發出這些聲音。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Narrator: Thieves take other people's things. Taking other people's things is stealing. Thieves steal many kinds of things. They steal cars! They steal bikes! They steal money! 小偷會偷汽車，腳踏車，也會偷錢。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Taiwan has many Indigenous groups. Keeping their ways of life is important for Taiwan. 台灣有很多原住民，保留他們的生活方式很重要。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

Many people use their phones a lot. They use them all day. Sometimes their phones need more power. 很多人一整天都在滑手機，所以他們的手機需要時常充電！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

Ice sheets are very big and thick ice. They are not in an ocean. They are on land. 陸地上的冰原是厚厚的大冰塊構成的！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

Kiwis are birds. They have long beaks and soft feathers. They are the same size as chickens. They cannot fly. Kiwis live in New Zealand. They do not live in other countries. 奇異鳥有長長的嘴巴跟柔軟的羽毛。牠們跟雞差不多大，也不會飛行。只有在紐西蘭才見得到奇異鳥喔！ Click HERE for the full transcript!