News For Kids

In basketball, players are on a court. They bounce the ball. They throw it. They want the ball to go into the basket. When it does, the crowd cheers!打籃球時，球員在場上拍球、傳球、投球，努力讓球射進籃框。球一進去，觀眾就歡呼。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Do you remember the axolotl? Axolotls are small amphibians. Young amphibians breathe with gills. Fish do this too. Most grown-up amphibians breathe with lungs. We do this too. 美西螈是一種小型兩棲動物。兩棲動物小時候會像魚一樣用鰓呼吸，長大後就會用肺呼吸。Click here to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary and quiz.

Superheroes help people! But we do not see them in our daily lives. Seeing a superhero is a surprise! Does this surprise make more people kind? Scientists in Italy studied this.英雄會幫助別人，但平常看不到這樣的人，所以一旦見到，大家都會覺得又驚又喜。碰到超級英雄會不會讓人變得更善良？有幾位義大利的科學家做了一個研究。Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary, and quiz.

AI is amazing! It can do so much. It can make music. It can find answers fast. It can make good food!AI 可以完成很多事情，比如說創作音樂，也可以很快回答問題，甚至還能烹飪。Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary, and quiz.

What do you do when your toys break? Do you throw them away? Wait! Too many toys are thrown away. Take them to a toy hospital! That is better for the Earth!壞掉的玩具，先不要急著丟！你可以把它帶去玩具醫院修復，對地球也比較友善！Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary, and quiz.

Swordfish are big fish! They swim very fast. They have long, sharp noses. Their noses look like swords.旗魚很大，游得也很快。牠們有又長又尖的鼻子，看起來就像一把劍。Click HERE for the full transcript!

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!

Taoyuan has a new library. It has 23,000 books. And it has robots and self-driving vehicles!桃園有一間新的圖書館。這間圖書館有兩萬三千本書，而且還有機器人跟自動駕駛車！Click HERE for the full transcript!

Narrator: It is 2026! Happy New Year!Crowd: Happy New Year!!Narrator: 現在是 2026 年！新年快樂喔！Click HERE for the full transcript!

It is New Year's Eve! Tomorrow is a new year!今晚是跨年夜！明天就是嶄新的一年了！Taipei is having a big New Year's Eve party tonight. Thousands of people are going! There will be famous people and great music. And Taipei 101 will have beautiful fireworks!台北今晚有一場超大的跨年派對，有好幾千人要參加！除了會有很多藝人出席，也會有好聽的音樂。最棒的是，台北 101 會有漂亮的煙火秀！Click HERE for the full transcript!

In an island country, some women fished. They fed their families the fish they caught. They sold their extra fish.在一個島國上，一群婦女靠捕魚維生。她們抓到的魚可以餵飽家人，多的魚可以拿去賣。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Babies start out very small. They are so small that they need lots of care and help.小嬰兒剛出生時都很小，他們需要很多照顧與幫忙。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Oh, no! That beautiful bird is hurt! It flew into a shiny window. And it was flying fast! Ouch!糟糕！那隻漂亮的鳥撞上窗戶後受傷了！小鳥飛得很快，一定非常痛。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Santa: Ho-ho-ho! Merry Christmas! Narrator: Everyone knows Santa Claus! But how about “Granny Claus”?大家都認識聖誕老公公，但你認識「聖誕老奶奶」嗎？Click HERE for the full transcript!

There is a small island in an ocean. It is far away from everything. The next island with people is two thousand four hundred kilometers away!在海中有一座小島。這座島與世隔絕，離它最近的島也有兩千四百公里！Click HERE for the full transcript!

There's a very strong man in Egypt. He pulled a 279-ton train. He used his teeth to pull it!在埃及有一個超級強壯的男人。他可以用牙齒拖動一列 279 噸重的火車！Click HERE for the full transcript!

Orcas live in the ocean. They are black and white. They are also called "killer whales." They are whales, and they are the biggest dolphins in the world. They weigh three to six tons.全身黑白的虎鯨生活在海中，也被稱作為「殺人鯨」！虎鯨是海豚科內體型最大的物種，重量可以高達三到六噸！Click HERE for the full transcript!

There is a big sea. It is below Europe and above Africa. It has big flat places on the bottom. They are meadows.在歐洲跟非洲大陸的中間有一片叫做地中海的海域。地中海海底有很多寬闊的草原。Click HERE for the full transcript!

You study hard at school. What makes you study? Do rewards for good grades make you study? 你在學校努力學習是為了什麼？如果好成績可以換來獎勵的話，你會更認真嗎？Click HERE for the full transcript!

In Taipei, a big black dog worked in a hospital. He was the first dog to do this in Taiwan.有一隻大黑狗在台北的醫院工作。牠是台灣第一隻在醫院工作的狗！Click HERE for the full transcript!

How many languages do you speak? Maybe you speak three: a Taiwanese language, Mandarin Chinese, and English! Maybe you speak more than three!你會說幾種語言呢？也許你會一種台灣的方言、中文，還有英文！也許你會的還不只這三種！Click HERE for the full transcript!

Alligators are dangerous. They have long, strong jaws. Their jaws have many teeth. They can eat small animals like cats and dogs!美洲鱷魚很危險，牠強而有力的大嘴巴有很多牙齒，能夠獵食小動物。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Every year, a small town in Ireland has an exciting sports contest. It's on two kilometers of a road! For three days, everyone has fun … road bowling?每年，愛爾蘭的一個小鎮都會舉辦為期三天的道路保齡球比賽！Click HERE for the full transcript!

Aaagh! Mosquitoes are everywhere! They are a big problem in many countries. They carry sicknesses. They like to bite people. Millions of people get sick from mosquito bites every year.到處都是蚊子！蚊子會叮人，散布病菌。每年都有好幾百萬人因為蚊子叮咬而生病。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Student: Let's get out of here!Narrator: Uh oh! Some students are having trouble at school! The trouble is not about their homework or tests. It is about some big birds!有些學生惹上大麻煩了！這個大麻煩不是考試或是作業，而是一些很大隻的鳥！Click HERE for the full transcript!

Narrator: Every year there are new toys to buy. But one is the newest, coolest, cutest toy! Everyone wants it! They run to the stores!每一年，都會有很多人搶著買最新、最酷、最可愛的玩具。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Narrator: A 13-year-old boy took some medicine. Every day, millions of people take this medicine safely. But it hurt the boy's eyes. Boy: Oh! My eye!Narrator: He was in the hospital for a long time.每天有數以百萬計的人安全服用一種很普通的藥。但一個十三歲的小男孩卻在服藥之後眼睛受傷。他住院很長一段時間接受治療。Click HERE for the full transcript!