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News For Kids

News For Kids brings you easy stories in English, with Chinese translations to help students and second language learners here in Taiwan! Stories are written and recorded by ICRT correspondents, and uploaded every weekday morning.

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5:18

Super Light Shoes Made With Spray

News For Kids ·

2024/09/17

Super Light Shoes Made With Spray Ready… Set… Go! Look at them run! What a race! How do they run so fast? 你看他們跑步! 真是精采的一場賽跑! 他們怎麼能跑這麼快? The Paris Olympics was this summer. The fastest runners in the world were there. 巴黎奧運在今年夏天舉行，全世界跑得最快的選手都聚集在那裡。 Hellen Obiri was there. She's from Kenya, an East African country. She's one of the greatest marathon runners. Hellen Obiri 也參加了比賽，她來自東非國家肯亞。她是最優秀的馬拉松跑者之一。 Marathon runners run over 42 kilometers! Heavy things make them slower. So the

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5:16

Taiwan’s First Medal in Paris

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2024/09/17

Taiwan’s First Medal in Paris This year, the world came together for the Summer Olympics. It was in Paris. 全世界都在上個月為了巴黎奧運聚在一起 ! Many countries compete in many sports. Some sports are swimming and running. Other sports use guns.* *Skeet uses guns. 許多國家都會參與各項比賽。有些運動是游泳和跑步，也有些運動要使用到槍。定向飛靶射擊比賽就需要用到槍。 In skeet, an athlete shoots two flying discs. They're eleven centimeters wide. That's small! 定向飛靶射擊比賽，選手必須射中兩個飛靶，都只有 11 公分寬，非常的小 ! The athlete says "Pull!" Then the discs fly out very fast! One flies

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5:15

Taiwan's Kids Get Free Milk

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2024/09/12

Taiwan's Kids Get Free Milk Ahhhh! Milk is good for you. Most of the milk people drink comes from cows. This milk helps your bones and teeth become stronger. 牛奶對身體好，喝牛奶可以幫助骨頭跟牙齒強壯。 Last year, people in Taiwan drank 20 liters of milk each. But that's much less than people in Europe and Australia. Europeans drank 53 liters each. Australians drank 92 liters each! 台灣去年每人平均喝20公升的牛奶，比歐洲跟澳洲人少很多。歐洲每個人一年喝掉53公升，澳洲每人喝92公升。 Taiwan knows that milk is good for kids. So kids from three years old to

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5:29

Good Health for Back to School

News For Kids ·

2024/09/11

Good Health for Back to School It's back to school for you! But! It's also back to catching colds… More sneezing and coughing are around you! But there are many ways to stay healthy. 嘿!該是你們回學校上課的時後囉! 但是隨著開學，越來越多身邊的人咳嗽和打噴嚏，你們也更加容易感冒，不過，有很多保持健康的好方法哦。 Listen up! What's the first thing to do before you eat? Well, you wash your hands! Using soap is important. You can't see the germs and viruses on your hands. But germs and viruses can make you sick. Water doesn't kill them… Soap kills them! When

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5:21

Lost King Found on Social Media

News For Kids ·

2024/09/10

Lost King Found on Social Media Do you look at pictures of your family and friends on social media? Or do you look at funny pictures and animal videos? 你會在社群媒體上瀏覽朋友的照片嗎?還是看好笑的照片或動物影片呢? Some people who like art look at art on social media. Maybe they're looking at a picture of a family. But if there's art in the picture too, the art lover sees the art! 藝術愛好者會在社群媒體瀏覽藝術，可能也會看家庭合照，但是假如藝術品出現在照片裡，他們一定會注意到。 That's how one man found a painting of a king. It is more than 400 years old. It was

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5:06

Green Electricity in Taitung

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2024/09/09

Green Electricity in Taitung Deep in the earth, it's very, very hot. In Taiwan, under Taitung, it's very, very, very hot! The water there is hot too. It's so hot that it makes lots of steam! 台東地底下的溫度非常高，地下水也很燙，會產生很多的蒸氣。 The hot water and steam come out of the earth. The hot water makes hot springs. Many people go to Taitung's hot springs. They sit and relax … ahh! Clouds of steam go up and away. 熱水跟蒸氣從地底下冒出來就變成溫泉。很多人會到台東泡溫泉放鬆。 Some companies had a big idea. They helped the Bunun

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5:24

Saying Goodbye With Fantasy Coffins

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2024/09/08

Saying Goodbye With Fantasy Coffins Ghost Month is done. 農曆鬼月已經結束囉。 When a person's life is done, they might be put in a coffin. Then their family and friends say goodbye to them. 人的生命結束的時候，他可能會被放進棺材裏面。他的親友會再跟他道別。 Most coffins are long boxes.* *Most are made of wood. But sometimes the person has a very different coffin! 多數棺材是長長的木製箱子。不過有時候還是有特殊的棺材。 In Africa, Ghana makes fantasy coffins. They can look like something the person loved: a superhero lunch box, a golden lion*, *or a cool sports

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5:21

An Inside Look at Mascots

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2024/09/05

An Inside Look at Mascots Mascot: T-E-A-M! Goooooo team! Narrator: That's a mascot cheering at a baseball game. The mascot is the cute animal or the cool superhero dancing around. Mascots make fans loud and excited! 那個吉祥物正在為棒球比賽加油! 吉祥物可以是可愛的動物或是大英雄，他們會跳舞逗粉絲開心。 Being a mascot actor looks easy and fun. They dance, cheer, and do funny things. 當吉祥物的演員看起來很容易也很有趣。他們會跳舞、歡呼還會搞笑。 But the job can be hard. Mascot costumes are hot inside. During Taiwan's hot summer, the actors get very hot

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5:16

No Cows Needed for This Butter

News For Kids ·

2024/09/04

No Cows Needed for This Butter Mmm … Toast and butter, yum! Most butter is made from cow's milk. But a company has a new way to make butter. 烤土司加奶油真好吃! 大多數的奶油是用牛奶做的，現在有一間公司有新的方式做奶油。 It uses carbon dioxide and other gases that come from the air. It heats the gases. That makes the fat for the butter. No cows are needed! 這間公司加熱空氣中的二氧化碳跟其他氣體，做出奶油中的脂肪，完全不需要乳牛。 But why are they making butter this way? Well, cows create a lot of pollution. They belch methane. Methane is a bad gas. It makes

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5:15

Kids in Taiwan Need More Exercise

News For Kids ·

2024/09/03

Kids in Taiwan Need More Exercise Narrator: In Taiwan, many kids from eleven to thirteen years old took a survey. Seventy percent said they needed more exercise. Kids: What?/Huh?!/No way! Narrator: You know what? They're right! 台灣很多11歲到13歲的小朋友填問卷調查，有百分之70的說他們需要運動。他們說的沒錯! Kids from five to seventeen years old need one hour of exercise a day. That's seven hours of exercise a week! 5到17歲的孩童需要每天運動1小時，一周要7個小時。 Kids have PE. But at most schools, PE is eighty to ninety minutes a week

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5:16

Scientists Say It's Raining More… And Less

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2024/09/02

Scientists Say It's Raining More… And Less Do your mom and dad say it's raining more? Because of climate change, it is. Air holds more water in our warmer world. 你爸媽有說過雨越下越多嗎?沒有錯，因為氣候變遷的關係，氣候暖化讓空氣中有更多的水分。 Scientists say it's raining much more during wet times, and much less during dry times. And these changes are causing problems. 科學家說雨季的雨水越來越多，乾季越來越乾燥，這些變化都會造成問題。 Too much rain can cause floods. There's too much water everywhere. Heavy rain and floods damage farmers' crops. They

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5:19

What's Your Name, Mr. Elephant?

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2024/09/01

What's Your Name, Mr. Elephant? Scientists say elephants have names! How do they know this? 科學家說大象有自己的名字! 他們怎麼知道的呢? We can hear some elephant sounds. Here's a loud sound. They make low sounds too. Here's a low sound. 我們可以聽到大象的叫聲，牠們可以叫很大聲，也可以發出低沉的聲音。 Elephants also make VERY low sounds. Our ears can't hear them! With these very low sounds, they call each other. They use a different sound for each elephant. That different sound is the elephant's name! 大象還會發出我們聽不到、非常低沉的聲音來稱呼彼此，不同的聲音就是不同大象的名字。

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5:22

Feeding Ghosts in Toucheng

News For Kids ·

2024/08/29

Feeding Ghosts in Toucheng The Toucheng Ghost Grappling Competition is in Yilan. It's in the seventh month of the lunar year. 頭城搶孤儀式會在農曆七月的時候，在宜蘭舉行。 In Taiwan, the seventh month of the lunar year is Ghost Month. During Ghost Month, ghosts can come and visit. This old ghost grappling competition feeds the ghosts and shows them respect. 在台灣，農曆七月就是鬼月。鬼魂在這個期間來人間拜訪。這個古老的搶孤儀式會提供鬼魂食物並表示尊敬。 Teams of five people climb a tall tower. There's lots of food on it for the ghosts. The teams want to

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5:32

Clothes Made of Human Hair Are Good for the Earth

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2024/07/10

I want to buy a new sweater. But I don’t want to buy a cotton one. Cotton needs chemicals to grow faster. It needs chemicals that kill bugs. These chemicals are bad for the Earth. 我想買新的毛衣，但我不要棉花做的。棉花需要化學物質才能除蟲、長得快，可是化學物質對地球有害。 Should I buy one made from polyester? No, thanks! Polyester makes microplastics. They're bad for the Earth… and us. 那要買聚酯纖維做的嗎？也不行! 因為聚酯纖維會製造塑膠微粒，對地球跟我們也有害。 How about a sweater made of … human hair!? It sounds gross, but I heard it feels very soft

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5:28

Robot Carts for the Moon

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2024/07/09

NASA is the space agency of the U.S. It wants to do many things in space. It looks for ideas to help. 美國太空總署NASA想要在太空做不同的事，NASA也會收集各種好主意來解決問題。 Many scientists have good ideas about doing things in space. Some ideas can help NASA. Scientists make these ideas better. NASA will use the best ideas in space! 許多科學家對於在太空中做事有很多好的想法。有一些可以幫到 NASA。科學家們把想法變得更好。 NASA會將最好的創意運用到太空！ NASA will send people to the moon. They need buildings to live and work in. NASA will use moon rocks to make buildings. So one

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5:23

Will Taiwan Have Longer, Hotter Summers?

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2024/07/08

Oh boy, it's so hot. Let's go for a drive to cool down. 天啊，真的好熱。我們去開車兜風。 Ugh. There are so many cars on the road. Hey, we need to get some gas! 路上有好多車，而且我們還需要加油！ Summers are hot in Taiwan. We turn on air conditioners to cool down. Maybe we go for drives and use gas. When we do these things, we use fossil fuels. 台灣的夏天真的很熱，我們都會開冷氣或是開車出去兜風，都會用到化石燃料。 What happens if our fossil fuel use doesn’t change? Climate change will make Taiwan's summers hotter and longer. 如果我們不減少化石燃料的使用，氣候變遷會讓台灣的夏天又長又熱。 By

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5:20

Reading for the Brain

News For Kids ·

2024/07/07

Do you like stories about magic? How about stories about superheroes? These stories are fiction. Fiction means the stories are NOT real. But they're exciting! You can use your imagination! 你喜歡關於魔法的故事嗎？或是關於超級英雄呢？這些故事都是虛構的，不是真的。但是閱讀它們很令人興奮，因為可以運用你的想像力。 One girl loves fiction. She likes adventure stories. She likes stories about magic. But she LOVES fairy tales… 有個女孩很喜歡閱讀小說，像是冒險故事、魔法故事。她還特別喜歡童話故事。 Once upon a time, the girl had a question … Is reading fiction good for the brain

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5:15

Cleaning the Earth’s Air

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2024/07/04

Do you help clean your home? Maybe you vacuum dust from your floor. 你會打掃家裡嗎？像是用吸塵器吸家裡地板。 Hmmm… What can we do to help clean the Earth, everyone's home? The Earth's air has too much carbon dioxide. This is bad. Carbon dioxide makes the Earth warmer. It comes from cars, factories, and us! We breathe out carbon dioxide. 那我們該怎麼打掃我們的家園地球呢？空氣裡有太多二氧化碳讓地球更熱。汽車、工廠甚至是我們都會產生二氧化碳。 Well, we can't stop breathing! How about vacuuming? Some companies are vacuuming carbon dioxide from the air

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5:09

This Plastic Eats Itself

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2024/07/03

Plastic garbage is a very big problem. We put lots of plastic in the ground with other garbage. This is bad for our Earth. 塑膠垃圾是一個很嚴重的問題，我們把塑膠跟其他的垃圾丟在一起，這樣很不環保。 There's also lots of plastic in our oceans. It breaks down into small pieces there. Ocean animals eat this plastic. It's bad for them. And many ocean animals die when they get trapped in plastic. 大海裡也有很多塑膠垃圾，它們被分解成小碎片，很多海生動物把碎片吃下肚，有的還會被塑膠纏住而死亡。 Plastic can take hundreds of years to break down. The pieces become too small to see. But they

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5:07

Earth’s Hot, Dry Twin

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2024/07/02

Earth’s Hot, Dry Twin Four and a half billion years ago, Venus and Earth were born together. They looked almost the same. They both had blue oceans and green mountains. They were twin planets! 45億年前，金星跟地球一起誕生。兩個星球看起來幾乎一樣，都有藍色的大海和綠色的山，簡直是雙胞胎! Earth is the right distance from the sun. Earth's oceans are full of water. Earth is warm but not too hot. The air is cool. 地球的海洋充滿水分，又離太陽的距離很剛好，讓地球很溫暖又不會太熱，空氣也很涼爽。 But Venus is too close to the sun.* *The sun’s heat made Venus’ oceans lose water

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