News For Kids

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!