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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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5:16

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

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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

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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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5:21

From Wild Goats to Pet Goats?

News For Kids ·

2024/06/13

From Wild Goats to Pet Goats? A small Italian island has about 100 people. It also has about 600 wild goats! 義大利的一座小島有差不多100位居民跟600多隻的野生山羊。 That's too many wild goats! They are a ‘biiiig’ problem. There isn't enough food for them! Now they go into people's gardens.* *They eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner there! Goodbye, beautiful flowers, fruits, and vegetables… 野生山羊真的太多了，島上沒有足夠的食物，牠們只好跑進居民的後院吃三餐，漂亮的花、蔬菜水果都沒了。 The mayor is asking for help! He wants people to take 500 goats from the

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5:20

Space Junk Zooms Over California

News For Kids ·

2024/06/11

Space Junk Zooms Over California Do you look at the sky at night? Well, one night in California, people saw a big, bright light. It zoomed across the sky. Maybe it was a plane or a shooting star. But… it was falling to the Earth! 你會抬頭看晚上的天空嗎? 加州有一天晚上，民眾看到一道很亮的光，劃過天空。那可能是飛機或是流星。但是它卻掉到了地球上! Later, scientists said it was a piece of a rocket. Pieces of broken or old rockets and satellites are space junk. 後來科學家說那是火箭的碎片。舊的火箭、衛星的碎片都是太空垃圾。 Millions of pieces of space junk zoom around the

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5:15

Man Runs Across Africa

News For Kids ·

2024/06/10

K*News for Kids 文字檔 (國小) ________________________________ Marathons are very long runs. They're about 42 kilometers long! Many people never run a marathon. But one British man ran 385 marathons in less than a year! 馬拉松是一種長跑的運動，全程差不多42公里。很多人從來沒有跑過馬拉松，但有一個人一年內跑了385場馬拉松! This British man ran in Africa. He ran from the most southern place to the most northern place. He ran through 16 countries. 這位英國男子從非洲的最南端跑到最北部，一共經過16個國家。 He had some problems during the run. Somebody stole his money and

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5:06

Dragon Boat Racing in Alabama, USA!

News For Kids ·

2024/06/09

Dragon Boat Racing in Alabama, USA! Huh? What's that sound? That's right. Today is the Dragon Boat Festival! 那是什麼聲音?今天是端午節! That sound is a drum. The drum helps the people racing in a dragon boat. Those people are paddlers. They use paddles to move the boat. They paddle by listening to the drum on their boat. 那是龍舟上的鼓聲，龍舟上的鼓可以幫助選手比賽，他們會跟著鼓聲節奏划手裡的槳。 But this isn't in Taipei. Taichung? Nope. Kaohsiung? Nope. Yilan, Hualien, Pingtung, Hsinchu, or Penghu? Nope, nope, nope, nope, and nope

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5:18

Storytelling Can Change Lives

News For Kids ·

2024/06/06

Hey kids, the storyteller is here! It's story time! In Pakistan, many poor kids can't read. Many don't go to school. There’s nothing to do. Some kids get into trouble… 巴基斯坦很多家境貧窮的小朋友不會認字，也不去學校。平常沒有事情可以做，有一些小朋友就會闖禍。 In one city, some people want these kids to love reading. 其中有一個城市，有一群人想要讓小朋友愛上閱讀。 These people wrote fun picture books.* *They also got some old ice cream bikes. These bikes have a big, strong box to hold ice cream. But now they hold lots of books. The bikes are cute, colorful little

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5:14

Working at the Penguin Post Office

News For Kids ·

2024/06/05

Working at the Penguin Post Office Five people from the U.K. got amazing summer jobs. From November to March, they're going to work in Antarctica! 五個英國人得到一份很棒的暑期工作。從十一月到明年三月，他們要在南極洲工作。 The jobs are at the Penguin Post Office! It's the farthest post office to the south! One thousand five hundred penguins live outside it! 他們會在南極企鵝郵局工作，這間是全世界最南邊的郵局，還有1500隻企鵝在周圍生活。 About 18,000 people visit every summer! They're cruise ship passengers. They send 80,000 letters and postcards

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5:20

Taipei 101 Stayed Strong During Earthquake

News For Kids ·

2024/06/04

Taipei 101 Stayed Strong During Earthquake In some places, earthquakes happen a lot. In these places, it's important for buildings to be safe during earthquakes. Engineers need to build strong and steady buildings. 有一些地區常常發生地震，所以這些地區的建築物必須堅固、穩定。 Taiwan had a strong earthquake on April third. Most buildings were fine! 台灣在4月3號發生大地震，但大部分的建築物都沒事。 Taipei 101 was fine too. It's one of the tallest buildings in the world! It was built to be very strong, even during earthquakes

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5:06

One Hundred Dogs Run in Shopping Mall

News For Kids ·

2024/06/03

K*News for Kids 文字檔 (國小) ________________________________ PA System: "Attention shoppers. One hundred dogs are running everywhere in the mall! We're very sorry. We're catching them as fast as we can!" Narrator: Huh? Where did the dogs come from? Well, in this shopping mall in China, there's a pet cafe?. That's where one hundred friendly huskies work. But one day, someone forgot to close the door! 這些狗從哪裡來的呢?這座中國的購物中心有一間寵物咖啡廳，裡面有100隻喜歡跟人親近的哈士奇。但是有一天，咖啡廳的門忘了關。 The dogs left their jobs

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