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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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5:22

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

News For Kids ·

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

News For Kids ·

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?

News For Kids ·

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

News For Kids ·

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

News For Kids ·

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

News For Kids ·

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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5:16

Watching Sports is Good for You

News For Kids ·

2024/07/01

Watching Sports is Good for You Baseball! Basketball! Soccer! Playing sports is good for us. We get exercise. We become healthier. Playing sports makes us feel happy too. We make friends. We are part of a team or a group. That's good for us too. 棒球、籃球、足球! 從事運動可以讓我們會變得更健康，還會交到朋友，成為團隊的一份子。 Many of us don't play sports. But maybe we watch sports. This doesn't make us exercise. But it can make us feel happy. So… is watching sports good for us?

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5:20

The Race on Stairs

News For Kids ·

2024/06/30

The Race on Stairs One morning, 5,000 runners went to Taipei 101, Taiwan's tallest building! They came from 34 countries. All were running in the Taipei 101 Run Up and some in the Towerrunning World Championship. 有一天早上，5000名跑者聚集在台北101，他們來自34個國家參加台北101 垂直馬拉松跟世界高樓登高錦標賽。 The runners entered the Run Up race one at a time. Then they started to run up 2,000 steps! 跑者一個接一個開始跑垂直馬拉松，要爬2000個階梯。 After a while, they didn't know what floor they were on! If a runner passed by, they were running too

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5:24

How Wind Spins into a Tornado

News For Kids ·

2024/06/27

How Wind Spins into a Tornado Do you know what tornadoes are? They are towers of wind. They spin around and around very fast. They're very strong and very, very scary! 你知道什麼是龍捲風嗎? 它是一個旋轉的空氣柱，破壞力很強，又非常嚇人! A big tornado hit an American town. The tornado destroyed buildings and cars. People had no electricity. They needed help! 龍捲風襲擊美國一個小鎮，摧毀建築物跟車子。當地還停電，民眾需要幫助。 How do tornadoes happen? 龍捲風怎麼形成的呢? During some storms, warm air goes up to the clouds. At the same time, cold air falls

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5:23

Black Soldier Flies Fight Climate Change

News For Kids ·

2024/06/26

Black Soldier Flies Fight Climate Change Many people eat pork and chicken. Pork comes from pigs. Chicken comes from… well, chickens! Pigs and chickens eat lots of corn, soy, and fish. 很多人會吃豬肉跟雞肉，而豬跟雞吃很多玉米、大豆跟魚。 We need lots of big corn farms, soy farms, and fish farms to feed them. But these farms are bad for our land, air, and water. They make climate change worse. 所以要餵豬跟雞，我們需要很多玉米田、大豆田跟魚類養殖場，但是這些農場對土地、空氣跟水都不好，讓氣候變遷惡化。 But a company in the UK is fighting climate change with soldiers …

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5:27

This Election King Loses But Wins

News For Kids ·

2024/06/25

This Election King Loses But Wins This is the world's biggest election year! But what's an election? 今年是全球選舉年。那什麼是選舉呢? An election is when a group of people say who they want for their leaders. Maybe the leaders are for their city or country. 選舉就是一群人選出他們想要的領導者，像是一個城市或是國家的領導者。 People vote to say who they want. The person who gets the most votes is the winner. 民眾投票表達他們想要什麼樣的人，得到最多票的人就是贏家。 This year, Taiwan had a big election. Some people wanted to be leaders. They ran for election

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5:20

A New Kind of New Teacher

News For Kids ·

2024/06/24

A New Kind of New Teacher There's a new teacher at a school in the UK. She has short dark hair and kind eyes. She helps the headmaster. But she's different from the other teachers there. She's a chatbot, not a person! 英國有一所學校來了一位新老師，她有一頭短髮跟一雙和善的眼睛。她是來幫校長的忙，但是她不是真人，而是聊天機器人。 A chatbot thinks and acts like a person. But it doesn't have a body. It's not a robot. It's a computer program. It uses AI. AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. 聊天機器人的行為和思考方式像真人，它利用 AI 人工智慧的電腦程式，但是沒有人類的身體構造。 This

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5:23

Keeping Quiet in Schools

News For Kids ·

2024/06/23

Keeping Quiet in Schools In our big oceans, there's lots of space. But fish swim together in groups! 魚都會成群結伴在大海裡游泳。 Do you know what a group of fish is called? It's called a school! Being in a school helps fish stay safe from bigger fish. 那你知道魚群英文怎麼說嗎? 就是school。魚群結伴同行可以預防其他大魚靠近。 Fish move together in schools. They turn and swim the same way. Some scientists studied more about how fish move in schools. 魚群移動的時候，牠們會游相同的方向。有一些科學家研究魚在魚群中怎麼移動。 Scientists learned some amazing things! We

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5:16

Taiwan's Little Hero Finds People

News For Kids ·

2024/06/20

Taiwan's Little Hero Finds People Dogs are good friends to people. Some dogs also do important work for us. For one job, they work at airports. They use their noses! They sniff for drugs. 狗狗是人類的好朋友，有一些狗狗也會為人類工作，像是在機場工作的狗狗會用鼻子聞有沒有毒品。 The Kaohsiung police tried to teach a dog to sniff for drugs. But he wasn't good at it. He had too much energy! He's too friendly! Down, boy! 高雄的警察試著教一隻狗狗成為緝毒犬，但是牠太有活力而且又太親近人。 But having energy and being friendly are very good for another very important

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5:09

Swimming in the Seine River

News For Kids ·

2024/06/19

Swimming in the Seine River Summer is here! It's the best time to swim! Where do most people swim? That's right! They go to swimming pools or beaches. 夏天來了!夏天最適合游泳，大家通常去游泳池或海邊游泳。 But some swimmers are going to a river. At the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games, athletes are going to swim in the Seine River! 有一些人也會去河邊游泳。這一次參加奧運跟帕奧的選手就要在塞納河游泳。 Paris is getting the Seine River ready for the athletes. People are cleaning it right now. What?! Well, for 100 years, it was too dirty for

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5:24

Boy Works Hard to Make Money

News For Kids ·

2024/06/18

Boy Works Hard to Make Money Shredders cut paper into lots of very small pieces. Paper goes in and shredded paper comes out! 碎紙機會把紙切成很多小碎片，把紙張放進去，碎片就會出來。 In Japan, a man shredded some papers. He shredded an envelope. Then … oh, no! He remembered the envelope had a ?10,000 yen bill in it! That's about $2,000 Taiwan dollars… 日本有一位男子在用碎紙機的時候，不小心把裝了一張1萬日圓的信封放進碎紙機，1萬日圓大約等於兩千塊台幣。 The man told his son about the shredded bill. If the boy put the bill back together, it was his! But first, he

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5:18

The Fish Taxi Accident

News For Kids ·

2024/06/17

The Fish Taxi Accident In Oregon, lots of salmon are NOT born in rivers. These baby fish are born in hatcheries. Workers help them grow. Young fish are safe there. 奧勒岡州有很多鮭魚不是在河裡出生，而是在魚卵孵化場。工作人員把牠們安全的養大。 When salmon are about a year and a half old, they leave their hatchery. They take a fish taxi! 到了一歲半，這些小魚就會搭計程車，離開孵化場。 Fish taxis are trucks with a big tank. Hatchery workers put salmon and water in the tank. 鮭魚計程車是裝載巨大魚缸的卡車，工作人員把魚缸裝滿水，把小魚放進去。 The truck drives the fish to a river

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5:17

The Kid Teacher

News For Kids ·

2024/06/16

The Kid Teacher A young girl was inspired by her older brother and sister. They were doing very well in school. She became excited about doing well in school too! 有一個小女孩她的哥哥姊姊在學校成績優異，她受到啟發，也很希望在學校有所表現。 The girl became the youngest student at her university. Her classmates didn't know she was 13. She felt like a secret superhero! She studied hard to be a teacher. She finished university when she was 15! 她後來成為大學裡最年輕的學生，同學都沒有發現她才13歲，她覺得自己像個隱藏版的超級英雄。她很用功，希望以後當老師，15歲就從大學畢業。 But… she wanted

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