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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

Pet Food on the Move

News For Kids ·

2024/05/15

Pet Food on the Move Do you like to go grocery shopping? It's easy for many people to do this. Then they go home and cook. 你喜歡去超市買東西嗎？很多人可以很容易做到，然後回家煮飯。 But some older people and people with disabilities need help. It's hard for them to shop. Some of them don't have much money. Some can't leave their homes. It's hard for them to cook, too. 但是有一些老人跟身障者需要幫助。他們不方便去購物，有一些沒那麼多錢或者沒辦法離開家，煮飯也有困難。 In many places in the U.S., a program makes food for them. Volunteers take the food to them

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5:13

The World's Fastest Ride-On Toy Car

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2024/05/14

The World's Fastest Ride-On Toy Car Vroom! Toy cars are great! There are many kinds. There are wind-up cars. You turn the knob …one, two, three times… and they zip away! 發條玩具車，只要發條轉幾圈，車子就會跑。 There are remote-controlled cars. You can make them go far away! 還有遙控車，你可以讓他們走很遠。 How about ride-on cars? Some ride-on cars help very young kids walk. They sit on the cars. They move the cars with their legs. 那兒童滑步車呢？幼兒坐在車上，用腳滑動，幫助他們學習走路。 Ride-on cars are bigger toy cars. Older kids can

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5:37

Gray Whale Swims to Another Ocean

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2024/05/13

Gray Whale Swims to Another Ocean Whoa, what a splash! At 27,000 kilograms and 15 meters long, gray whales are big! 灰鯨的體型很大，牠們重達2萬7千公斤，長15公尺。 Gray whales swim more than 16,000 kilometers a year! That's more than other whales. Why do they swim so far? It's to look for food and have babies! 灰鯨一年游超過1萬6千公里，比其他鯨魚還要多，因為牠們需要覓食跟繁衍後代。 There aren't many gray whales today. They live in the North Pacific Ocean. Gray whales also lived in the Atlantic Ocean 200 years ago. But fishermen there caught

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5:19

Finding the French Fry Friend

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2024/05/12

Finding the French Fry Friend In a small town in the U.S., there's a barbecue restaurant. It has delicious French fries. One day, a little kid called. The kid wanted fries. But… the kid didn't give a name. 美國小鎮有一間烤肉餐廳接到一位小朋友的電話說要吃薯條，但是她沒有留下名字。 The kid called many times. But the kid never gave a name! The restaurant owners wanted to give the kid some fries! But who was their French Fry Friend? 這位小朋友打了很多通，餐廳主人很想給她薯條，但她沒有講名字，到底是誰呢? Hmmmm. Maybe a friend – or a friend’s friend – knew the kid. So

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5:12

Do More Things by Yourself!

News For Kids ·

2024/05/09

Sunday is Mother’s Day! Let's talk about moms… and kids! 這星期日是母親節! 我們來談談媽媽跟小孩! A movie star in the U.S. has three kids. When her kids have problems, she doesn't always help them. 美國有一位電影明星有三個孩子。當他們遇到困難，她不會每次都幫忙。 Kid: Mommy, I dropped my toy! Waaaah! **Mom: **Honey, pick that up by yourself. Kid: Mommy, I can’t find my pencil! Waaaah! **Mom: **Sweetie, look for it yourself. 玩具掉了，她就叫孩子把玩具撿起來。找不到鉛筆，就讓他們去找出來。 Is this movie star a good mom? Scientists say*** ***yes, she is! If you're not a baby,

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5:23

Bus Brings Banned Books To All

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2024/05/08

Bus Brings Banned Books To All Books are magical. They tell us new stories. They teach us new things. They open our minds and hearts. Books bring people together. With books, we can learn from different people from different places! 書籍告訴我們新的故事，教我們新的事物，也打開我們的心胸，讓我們可以從書裡學習不同地方的人。 But sometimes some people don't like the stories in some books. So they ban the books. That means no one can read them! 但有時候不是每一個人都喜歡書裡的故事，有人就會禁止這些書，不讓人閱讀。 LGBTQ+ stories are banned in some places. This makes

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5:18

Screen Time Takes Talk Time from Young Kids

News For Kids ·

2024/05/07

Screen Time Takes Talk Time from Young Kids Do you love screen time? There are screens on computers, smartphones, tablets, and TVs… Maybe you watch videos! Maybe you play games! Screen time is fun! 你喜歡看螢幕嗎?像是用電腦、手機、平板跟電視看影片或打電玩。 But is it good for young kids? They don't know many words. Most kids need to learn how to talk. They learn how to talk from their families. 但這對幼兒好嗎? 他們還不知道很多字，他們需要從家人身上學習如何說話。 In Australia, scientists studied 220 families with a one-year-old kid. The parents

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5:32

Saving Blue Crabs and Their Mangrove Forests

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2024/05/06

Saving Blue Crabs and Their Mangrove Forests Women in one part of Ecuador love blue crabs. The crabs' top shell is blue. But their bottom shell is orange. Eight legs are red. Their claws are white! How colorful! 厄瓜多的女性喜歡藍螃蟹。這種螃蟹有藍色的殼，橘色的腹部，牠們的八隻腳是紅色的，螯是白色的。 The delicious blue crabs are food for the women's families. Selling crabs gives the women jobs. Blue crabs are very important to them. They sing about the crabs! 這種美味的螃蟹對這些女性很重要。不僅是她們家庭的食物，還以賣這種螃蟹維生。 The crabs live in mangrove

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5:14

Emotions That Feel Bad Can Be Good

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2024/05/05

Emotions That Feel Bad Can Be Good Hulk: "Hulk Smash!!!" Narrator: That's Bruce Banner. When he's happy, he's a person like us. 那是班納博士，當他開心的時候，他就像我們一樣是個人類。 But sometimes he feels another emotion: anger. He doesn't like it. It feels bad. He becomes a big green monster. He's the Incredible Hulk! He fights bad guys! He uses anger to protect people and save the world! 但他憤怒的時候，他就變成綠巨人浩克打擊犯罪，維護和平。 We want to protect the people and things we care about. But when something is stopping us,

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5:17

Telescope Finds An Old, Old Galaxy

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2024/05/02

Telescope Finds An Old, Old GalaxyTomorrow is Star Wars Day! So here’s a story about a galaxy far, far away… 明天是星際大戰日! Telescopes let us see things that are very far away. We can see the moon, stars, and planets. The bigger the telescope is, the more we can see. 望遠鏡可以讓我們看到很遠的東西，像是月球、恆星、還有行星。望遠鏡越大，看得越遠。 The James Webb Telescope is the biggest telescope in space today. It goes around and around the sun. It takes pictures. Then it sends them to Earth. Scientists study the

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5:23

A Corpse Flower Blooms and Stinks

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2024/05/01

A Corpse Flower Blooms and Stinks Whoa! What's that smell?! Is there a dead fish somewhere?! Are there dirty socks? Is there stinky cheese? Is there… poop?!? 這是什麼氣味?是死掉的魚、臭襪子、臭起司，還是糞便的氣味呢? This year, a corpse flower bloomed.* *It’s at a museum in California. That bad smell came from this very big, beautiful, dark red flower. 今年加州一座博物館裡有一株巨花魔芋開花了，它又叫做屍花。花朵本身暗紅色，又大又漂亮，但是很難聞。 It doesn’t have a nice name! But the name tells us the smell is VERY bad. "Corpse" means dead

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5:24

Kaohsiung Harbor Duck Race

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2024/04/30

Kaohsiung Harbor Duck Race Kaohsiung Harbor has many things to see. It has big ships! They carry many things to and from Taiwan. It has ferryboats! They take visitors around the harbor. And sometimes it has races!* * 高雄港有很多船隻運送貨物，也有渡輪可以帶遊客繞港口，有時候還會辦比賽! Many people came to watch one race. They watched from the harbor. And they watched from the Great Harbor Bridge! People wore yellow hats with… duck faces? Huh! 很多人為了看一場比賽，擠滿高雄港跟大港橋，而且大家都戴著黃色小鴨的帽子。 The race was three hundred fifty meters long! Who

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5:14

Snow for Kids

News For Kids ·

2024/04/29

Snow for Kids Have you seen snow? Every year, in winter, many places around the world get cold. Some places get so cold, it doesn't rain. It snows. Cold white fluffy snow falls. It makes everything white! 你看過雪嗎?很多地方每年冬天都會下雪，白雪讓所有的東西都變成白色。 In the north of China, winter gets very, very cold. Everything is white with snow. But in the south, it doesn't get cold. Kids don't see snow there. 中國北方冬天非常寒冷都會下雪，但是在南方就沒有那麼冷，南方的小朋友都看不到雪。 Some nice people in the north wanted to take snow to a school in the

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5:20

Dancing with Frogs

News For Kids ·

2024/04/28

Dancing with Frogs Five, six, seven, eight! Let’s dance! Today is International Dance Day! 今天是世界舞蹈日，來一起跳舞吧! Let’s dance with some poison dart frogs! Poison?! 我們一起跟箭毒蛙跳舞! 什麼?! Yes. Don't touch them, but dance with them! These colorful frogs are very good at tap dancing! 沒有錯，記得不要碰牠們喔! 這些顏色鮮豔的青蛙很會跳踢踏舞。 Poison dart frogs have four toes on their feet. They can tap their long middle toes very fast. How fast? They can tap them about 500 times… in one

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5:26

From Cow Poop to Clear Water

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2024/04/25

From Cow Poop to Clear Water In India, many communities need to clean their dirty water. It's not easy. Many cleaning systems use chemicals and energy. They need workers. 印度有很多人需要淨化髒水，這個工作可不容易。汙水處理系統需要化學物質跟電力，也需要人手。 A man wanted to make a new system. But he didn't want his system to use chemicals, energy, or workers. 有一名男子想要研發新的系統，但是他不希望用到化學物質、能源跟人力。 The man had an idea. A cow's stomach has four parts. Each part has a special job. His system has four parts. Each part has a special

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5:12

Protecting the Moon from Garbage

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2024/04/24

Protecting the Moon from Garbage Over fifty years ago, the USA sent a rocket to the moon. An astronaut got out and walked! Whoa! How exciting! But after that, not many rockets went there. 五十多年前，美國發射火箭登陸月球，太空人還在月球上漫步。但是在這之後，登上月球的火箭沒那麼多。 Now many countries and companies want to go to the moon. They want to do many things. The USA wants to build houses on the moon! 很多國家跟公司現在都想要登陸月球，美國甚至想要在月球上蓋房子。 Some people are worried. Why? Well, soon, many people will go to the moon. Maybe they will take bad things

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5:33

Spider Webs with DNA

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2024/04/23

Spider Webs with DNA Ahhh! What's that little monster with eight legs? Oh, it's a spider! Spiders can help scientists. They make spider webs. Spider webs are sticky! That’s how they trap flies, mosquitoes, and… DNA! 蜘蛛可以助科學家一臂之力，蜘蛛網很黏，抓得住蒼蠅、蚊子還有…基因! Maybe you know "DNA" from the K-pop song by BTS. All living things have DNA. It's the code that makes living things look and work in one way. 你大概有聽過DNA這首歌，生物都有DNA，它決定生物的模樣跟行為。 Getting DNA is important for learning about living things. Getting it from

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5:34

Microplastics Are Everywhere

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2024/04/22

Microplastics Are Everywhere Plastic makes our lives easy. We use plastic bottles for drinks and plastic bags for food. When we’re done with them, we throw them away! 塑膠製品像是塑膠瓶、塑膠袋讓我們的生活更便利。通常使用之後就把它扔掉。 Lots of plastic trash goes into the ocean. After some years, it breaks down into microplastics. Microplastics are very small. How small? They're smaller than 5 millimeters. 很多塑膠垃圾流入海裡。幾年後，就會被分解成塑膠微粒，微粒有多小呢? 小於5毫米。 Fish and other animals eat and drink microplastics. Sometimes microplastics are in our

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5:16

A Garbage Warning System for Taiwan's Beaches

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2024/04/21

A Garbage Warning System for Taiwan's Beaches Yuck! Nobody likes garbage on the beach. Where does it come from? 沒有人喜歡海灘上的垃圾，這些垃圾到底從哪裡來的呢? Some garbage comes from people at the beach. They drink soda. Then they leave the cans on the beach. Or they eat a bag of chips. Then they leave the bag. 有一些垃圾是去海灘玩的人留下來的。他們喝完汽水、吃完洋芋片，就隨手丟在海灘上。 Lots of the garbage comes from the ocean. Waves push garbage from other places onto the beach. 很多海洋垃圾也會被海浪推到海灘上。 Environmental groups try to help the Earth in some way

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5:18

Gambian Photographer Works for Her Dreams

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2024/04/18

Gambian Photographer Works for Her Dreams**Narrator: **One, two, three, say cheese! Do you like taking photos? You can take photos of people, places, food … anything you want! People who take photos are photographers. 你喜歡拍照嗎?不論是人、物或地方都可以拍，專業拍照的人叫做攝影師。 A young photographer loves taking photos of soccer games. She’s from the Gambia.* *Her dream is to be a sports photographer for the Gambia. 一位甘比亞的年輕攝影師很喜歡拍足球比賽。她的夢想是成為甘比亞的運動攝影師。 One day, she got a big chance. There was a men's soccer competition in

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