News For Kids

Some kids have loving families. Others are not so lucky. When kids have nobody to care for them, orphanages give them a home, food, and love. 有些小孩家庭美滿，有一些則不是，當小孩沒人照顧時，孤兒院會提供他們家、食物和關愛。Click HERE to see the full episode transcript.

Big Colorful Balloons Coming to Taiwan  Something is in the sky! Is that a bird? Is it a plane? Wait, is that a hot air balloon?咦?是我近視了嗎?天空中是不是有一顆熱氣球?Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary, and quiz.

On a dark night, a small insect is on a mission. Its mission is to stay safe and not be eaten! But the tiger beetle does this in a different way from most insects. It has a superpower! It can trick its hungry hunters! Bats love to eat insects. 黑暗中，昆蟲都要保護自己，而虎甲蟲有個超能力，會欺騙想吃掉自己的獵食者!Click HERE for the full transcript!

In 2004, a big typhoon hit Taiwan. It hurt many people. It destroyed many homes and businesses. Taichung was one of the cities the big typhoon hit. The wind and rain were very strong! The typhoon destroyed an elementary school sports field!2004 年有一個大颱風襲擊台灣，台中受到很大損失，一座小學操場被風雨毀掉!Click HERE for the full transcript!

Humpback Whales are big ocean animals. They eat small fish, little shrimp, and other small ocean animals. 座頭鯨是大型海洋動物，牠們會張開嘴大口吃小魚小蝦，還有其他小動物。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Narrator: Uhh! This mattress is so bad! Urgh … I can't sleep on it! It's time to throw it away …In Taiwan, we throw away more than 950,000 mattresses every year! Cities are having a hard time with old mattresses.這個床墊好爛哦，我要丟掉! 台灣每年丟掉 95 萬個床墊! 我們面臨舊床墊大災難!Click HERE for the full transcript!

Oh no! The monkeys are here! Gah! They're taking our food!猴子來襲!牠們來搶我們的食物了!Click HERE for the full transcript!

Urgh! What is that sound! Oh! That noise is so loud!天啊! 這聲音太大聲太刺耳了!Click HERE for the full transcript!

Last year, the best athletes from many countries took part in the Summer Olympics. All athletes trained hard. Taiwan did very well. Our athletes won seven medals!去年有超精彩的夏季奧林匹克運動會，台灣運動員得了 7 個獎牌!Click HERE for the full transcript!

To keep water in a river, people build walls. These walls are called dams. Dams can also keep water out of rivers.人們建築水壩來控制河流的水位。水壩就像一道牆，把河水擋住。有時候水壩的功能是讓雨水不要進入河流。Click HERE for the full transcript!