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Helping Kids Make Friends Sammie helps lonely kids. They feel sad… They need a friend. Sammie helps them find friends! Sammie幫助孤單的孩子交朋友。 How does Sammie help? She gives buddy benches to schools. What are they? Well, buddy means friend. And benches are long seats for two or three people. Buddy benches are seats for friends! Sammie 怎麼幫助他們呢? 她捐好朋友長板凳給學校。Buddy的意思是朋友，Bench 是兩到三個人可以坐的板凳。好朋友板凳就是用來交朋友的。 How do buddy benches work? When a kid feels lonely, she sits on one. Other kids know she needs a friend. They can sit with her or play with her. They can be friends! 小朋友感到孤單的時候，可以坐在好朋友長板凳上，其他的小朋友就會知道她需要朋友，會跟她坐在一起、跟她玩，成為朋友。 Sammie learned about buddy benches when she was eight years old. She wanted a bench for her school. She wanted one that was kind to the Earth. Sammie八歲的時候知道好朋友長板凳，她希望她的學校也有，她也希望能夠對地球友善。 A company takes plastic bottle caps to make plastic benches. So Sammie asked everyone for bottle caps. She got 725 kilograms of caps! That made three buddy benches! 有一家公司把塑膠瓶蓋做成長板凳，所以Sammie跟人家要瓶蓋，收集多達725公斤，然後做了三個長板凳。 Sammie is 14 now. She didn't stop at three benches. She gave more than 200 benches in the USA and one in Africa! And she's still helping! Sammie現在14歲，她收集的瓶蓋在美國做了超過200個這樣的椅子，還有一個在非洲。 Let's have buddy benches in Taiwan and help lonely kids find friends! Vocabulary 坐在好朋友長板凳上，可以讓人知道你需要朋友。 1. sad 悲傷的 Good morning! 早安 ! Hi! What’s the matter? 怎麼了? You look so sad. 你看起來很難過。 Yeah, I do feel a little down today. 對啊，我今天有點心情不好。 2. sit 坐 I can't find anyone to play with. 我找不到人跟我玩。 I need to go to work in 20 minutes. 我二十分鐘後要去上班了。 But I can sit with you for a while. 但我可以跟你坐一會兒。 3. kind 和善的 That’s very kind of you! 你人真好。 So you wanted to play football? 所以你是想玩美式足球? Yeah. 對啊。 4. want 想要 It’s hard to play it all by myself. 很難自己一個人玩。 You’re right. I’d want to play football with a friend too. 你說得對，我也會想跟朋友一起打球。 你記得今天的單字嗎? sad悲傷的 sit坐 kind和善的 want想要 Quiz 1. What is a buddy? a. A chair b. A friend c. A cap 2. What are Sammie’s buddy benches made of? a. Plastic b. Wood c. Metal 3. How many buddy benches did Sammie give to schools? a. Less than 14 b. More than 200 c. 725 Answers: 1. b 2. a 3. b -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Artist Fights to Save Art on Old Chewing Gum Do you like chewing gum? Some sugar-free chewing gums can be healthy! They make your teeth whiter, calm you, and stop bad breath. 你喜歡嚼口香糖嗎? 有一些無糖口香糖很健康。它們可以美白牙齒、防止口臭，也可以安撫情緒。 When you finish chewing your gum, do you eat it? Don't do that! It's CHEWING gum! It isn't EATING gum! It goes in the trash, not in you! 嚼完口香糖，你會吞下去嗎? 不可以喔! 你是嚼口香糖，不是吃它! 它應該要進垃圾桶，而不是進到你的身體。 Some people spit their chewing gum onto the ground. It becomes litter. Old chewing gum is sticky, ugly, and bad for the environment. 有一些人把口香糖吐在地上，成了垃圾。嚼過的口香糖又黏又難看，而且破壞環境。 Ben Wilson is an artist from the UK. He paints old chewing gum! He uses bright colors. His pictures are very small. Some have fun messages. Many people ask for special chewing gum pictures. 英國藝術家Ben Wilson 用鮮艷的顏色在口香糖上作畫! 他的作品很小，也很有趣。很多人都跟他要他的藝術作品。 The Millennium Bridge is in London. Thousands of people use this bridge every day. Hundreds of Wilson's bright chewing gum pictures are on the bridge! Kids like to jump from picture to picture! 每天有上萬人走倫敦的千禧橋。橋上有上百件Wilson的作品。 But the bridge needs cleaning. Many of Wilson's chewing gum pictures will go in the trash! He's fighting to keep them safe. 但是千禧橋需要清理，許多Wilson的作品都會被丟進垃圾桶，所以他正在爭取保留。 Wilson takes ugly litter and makes pictures people love. Let's hope he can save them! ________________________________________ Vocabulary 藝術家用吃過的口香糖，黏在橋面上，然後塗上顏色，變成一幅幅小小的畫作。 1. picture 圖畫 You have so many pictures at home! 你家裡有好多畫! Believe it or not, I painted all of them. 信不信由你，它們都是我畫的。 That IS hard to believe! 真難以置信。 2. artist 藝術家 I never knew you were an artist. 我從不知道你是藝術家。 No, I only tried to be one. 沒有啦，我試著做個藝術家而已。 3. color 顏色 So you like bright colors, don't you? 所以你喜歡鮮豔的顏色，對吧? Yeah, yellow and orange are my favorite colors. 對，黃色跟橘色是我最喜歡的。 4. every day 每天 Do you paint every day? 你每天都畫畫嗎? No, I paint when I feel bad. 不，心情不好的時候才畫。 Do you like painting? Let's read the words. picture圖畫 artist藝術家 color顏色 every day每天 ________________________________________ Quiz 1. Where should old chewing gum go? a. In you b. In the trash c. On the ground 2. What is the chewing gum painter's name? a. Bright Wilson b. Art Wilson c. Ben Wilson 3. What needs cleaning in this story? a. London Bridge b. The Litter Bridge c. The Millennium Bridge Answers: 1. b 2. c 3. c -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Capybaras Run Away Do you have a pet? Many people have cats or dogs. These animals are cute and friendly. What other animals are cute and friendly? 你有養寵物嗎? 很多人養貓跟狗，牠們很可愛也很友善。還有哪些動物又可愛又友善呢? Capybaras are! Do you know about capybaras? They look like small pigs. They're fast runners. They can run up to fifty kilometers an hour! 你知道水豚嗎? 牠們看起來像小豬，牠們跑得很快，時速可以到50公里。 Capybaras like water and wet places. They like to swim. They're peaceful too. So some people have pet capybaras. 水豚喜歡水跟濕濕的地方，也喜歡游泳。牠們很溫和，因此很多人養水豚當寵物。 A man in Nantou had two capybaras. They lived outside in a pen. A fence kept the capybaras in the pen. People used a gate to go in and out of the pen. One day, the gate was open. The two capybaras ran away very fast! 南投有個人養了兩隻水豚。他把牠們養在室外的圍欄裡。有一天，圍欄的門沒關，那兩隻水豚飛快地跑走了! The man looked for his pets. But he didn't find them. Where did they run to? 那個人找不到他的寵物，牠們跑去哪裡呢? The man asked people online for help. They helped him find one capybara. She was near a river.* *Maybe she wanted to swim!But the man cannot find the other capybara. 主人在網路上求助，他們在河的附近找到一隻，但是找不到另外一隻水豚。 Capybaras are cute, friendly, and peaceful. But they're very fast too. So be careful! Don't let them run awayyyyyyyy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vocabulary 人類熱愛自由，動物似乎也一樣。 1. cute 可愛的 Your dog is so cute! 你的狗好可愛! Yeah, Buddy is a nice dog. 對啊，巴弟是好狗。 Right, Buddy? 對不對，巴弟? 2. run away 逃走、跑掉 He likes all my friends.我的朋友牠都喜歡。 And he never runs away. 而且牠從來不跑掉。 Yeah, I remember your last dog, what’s its name…Bennie! Bennie, ran away. 對，我記得你上一隻狗…叫什麼名字，班尼就跑了。 3. fast 快速地 Bennie ran away 3 times.班尼逃走三次。 And I finally lost him.最後我失去了牠。 Did you try to find him? 你有試著去找牠嗎? Yes, but he ran too fast. 有，但是牠跑太快了。 4. pet 寵物 For me, if I want a pet, I’d like to have fish. 我的話，假如我要養寵物，我會養魚。 They don’t run. 牠們不會跑。 一起來讀單字。 cute可愛的 run away逃走、跑掉 fast快速地 pet寵物 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quiz 1. Where does the man live? a. Taipei b. Nantou c. Yilan 2. What can capybaras do? a. Run fast b. Jump high c. Climb trees 3. How many capybaras did the man lose? a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 Answers: 1. b 2. a 3. b -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

The Moon Shakes! What happens in an earthquake? Under our feet, the ground shakes - on the Earth! What about moonquakes? Yup, the ground shakes on the moon! 發生地震的時候，我們腳下的地球震動。那月震呢? 沒錯，就是月球的地面發生震動! Why do moonquakes happen? The moon gets VERY hot during the day. This means it get a little bigger.* *The moon gets VERY cold at night. It gets a little smaller. The moon changes from hot to cold every afternoon. Moonquakes happen then! 為什麼會發生月震呢? 月球白天非常炎熱，月球會稍微膨脹。而夜晚非常寒冷，月球會因此收縮。每到下午，月球的氣溫從熱到冷，就會發生月震。 Scientists studied these moonquakes. They found very small moonquakes too. Why do these happen? Well, many years ago, the USA left a big rocket part there… 科學家研究發現月球也會發生一些微小的月震。為什麼會發生呢? 很多年前，美國在月球留下了一大塊的火箭零件。 It's made of metal. When metal gets very cold, it gets a little smaller.When metal gets very hot, it gets a little bigger.The rocket part changes from cold to hot every morning.Very small moonquakes happen then! 它是金屬做的，金屬會熱脹冷縮。每到早上，火箭零件由冷轉熱，就會發生微小的月震。 Scientists will take many things to the moon. When the heat and cold change there, what will happen to these things? Scientists will study this. 科學家將帶很多東西到月球去研究。他們會研究當月球的溫度發生變化的時候，這些東西會發生什麼事呢? On the moon, big heat and cold changes can make things a little bigger or a little smaller. And they shake the moon! Vocabulary 地球有地震，月球也有月震，而且是熱脹冷縮造成的。 1. earthquake 地震 What’s that? 那是什麼? Oh no, it’s an earthquake! 糟糕，是地震! Should we run? 我們應該跑嗎? No, let’s hide under the table. 不，來躲到桌子底下。 2. bigger 更大的 Wow, this one is big! 哇，這個地震好大! And it’s getting bigger! 還更大了。 I wonder what’s happening. 我想知道發生了什麼事。 3. year 年 The TV says it’s the biggest earthquake in ten years. 電視上說這是十年來最大的地震。 It’s certainly very scary. 真的很嚇人。 4. shake 震動 My books are all on the floor! 我的書都掉到地上了。 It must be because of the shaking.一定是因為震動的關係。 I was shaking for sure.我剛剛是真的在發抖。 Let’s read the vocabulary together. earthquake地震 bigger更大的 year年 shake震動 Quiz 1. What happens when the moon gets very hot? a. It gets bigger. b. It gets smaller. c. It shakes. 2. When is the moon very cold? a. In the morning b. All day c. At night 3. What makes the very small moonquakes happen? a. Earthquakes b. A rocket part c. Our feet Answers: 1. a 2. c 3. b -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

These Blind Farmers Help With Your Rice and Noodles Do you like grains? Some grains are rice, corn, and wheat. 你喜歡穀物嗎? 譬如說米飯、玉米跟小麥。 In Taiwan, we use rice to make braised pork rice. We use cornstarch to make egg crepes, sauces, and fried chicken. We use wheat flour to make noodles for beef noodle soup and buns for pork belly buns. 在台灣，我們用米飯做滷肉飯，用玉米粉做蛋餅、醬料跟炸雞，還用麵粉做牛肉麵跟割包。 Scientists say there's a big group of farmers. The farmers help grow 140 BILLION kilograms of grain every year.* *The biggest grain growers in the world are China, the US, India, and these farmers! 科學家說有一大群農夫，每年幫助種植1400億公斤的穀物。種最多糧食的是中國、美國、印度跟這一群農夫。 Grains grow well in good dirt. 穀物需要在肥沃的土壤才能長得好。 These farmers make holes in dirt. The holes let air and water go into it. They break down leaves and other things in dirt. And they put their poop there! 牠們在土壤鑽洞，讓水跟空氣進到土裡。牠們分解樹葉跟其他的東西，也會將牠們的排泄物混入土裡。 You know WHAT these farmers are, right? They're NOT people. They're earthworms! 你知道這些農夫是什麼，對吧? 牠們不是人類喔，是蚯蚓! Earthworms live all over the world. They’re helping to grow our food and they do everything with no arms or legs. And they do everything with no eyes. They're blind farmers! 蚯蚓生活在世界各地，牠們幫助種植糧食，而且牠們沒有手跟腳，也看不到! Now let's eat some of the grain these hardworking earthworms helped grow! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vocabulary 住在泥土裡面的蚯蚓，對於農作物有非常大的幫助。 1. flour 麵粉 Flour is amazing stuff. 麵粉很神奇呢。 Because it feeds so many people? 因為它可以餵飽很多人? That too, but think about the different ways people use it. 是沒錯，但是想想看，有好多種用它的方式。 2. noodle 麵條 Yeah, like noodles and bread. 沒錯，比如說麵條、麵包。 I love noodles.我愛吃麵。 Me too! And birthday cakes and pizzas. 我也是! 還有生日蛋糕和披薩。 3. egg 蛋 You’re right. Cakes are made of flour, eggs and sugar. 你說得對，蛋糕是用麵粉，雞蛋和糖做的。 4. pork 豬肉 And when you wrap pork inside flour skin. 而當你把豬肉包進麵皮裡… You get dumplings! 就得到了水餃! Exactly. 正是。 今天的單字你可記住了? flour麵粉 noodle麵條 egg蛋 pork豬肉 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quiz 1. What are some grains? a. Corn and pork b. Eggs and flour c. Rice and wheat 2. How many kilograms of grain do these farmers help grow every year? a. 40 billion b. 100 billion c. 140 billion 3. What are these farmers? a. People b. Earthworms c. Scientists Answers: 1. c 2. c 3. b -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Halloween Saved for Dog Lovers Hi everyone, Happy Halloween! Halloween is fun. People wear costumes. They are ghosts, witches, monsters, or anything else they want. 萬聖節快樂! 萬聖節很好玩，大家裝扮成巫師、巫婆或是怪物，或其他模樣。 Many kids knock on doors. They say "trick or treat!" Some people have Halloween parties and wear costumes. 小朋友敲門說:「不給糖就搗蛋」! 也有人會舉辦萬聖節派對跟化裝舞會。 In New York City, a park has a Halloween Dog Parade every year. People and their dogs line up. Then they walk slowly so everyone can see them. That's a parade! 紐約有一個公園每一年都會舉辦萬聖節狗狗變裝遊行，主人可以帶著狗慢慢走，讓大家欣賞。 People and their dogs wear costumes! Some dogs are dressed like cats, or kings and queens … even hot dogs! 人跟狗都精心打扮，有的狗打扮起來像貓咪，有的是狗國王、狗王后，甚至有的打扮成熱狗。 Last year, 8,000 people came! 去年有8000個人參加。 This parade is 33 years old. But this year, the Halloween Dog Parade almost stopped. The park is too small for 8,000 people. Moving the parade to some streets costs a lot of money. 今年第33屆的遊行差一點點被取消，因為公園太小無法容納8000個人。移動到街上遊行很花錢的。 But many people wanted to see the Halloween Dog Parade. So the parade will be on some streets. And a dog food company is paying for the parade! 但是很多人還是想看萬聖節狗狗大遊行，幸好有寵物食品公司提供資金讓他們上街。 Dog lovers and dogs in the city are happy again. Happy Halloween Dog Parade! Vocabulary 今天是萬聖節，大家都準備過節。 1. parade 遊行 A Halloween Parade! 萬聖節遊行! This should be fun. 這應該很好玩! I knew you’d like it. 我就知道你會喜歡。 2. queen 女王、王后 So what will you go as? 你要變裝成什麼呢? How about a zombie? 殭屍如何? Too common.太普通了。 Queen Elizabeth? 伊莉莎白女王呢? You’re way too young for that. 你太年輕了啦。 3. wear 穿著 I know. 我知道了。 I’ll wear a black pointed hat, a black cape and black boots. 我會戴尖尖的黑帽子，穿黑披風和黑靴子。 Can you guess what I’ll be? 你猜得到我是什麼嗎? 4. monster 怪物 You’ll be a monster! 你會是怪物! What? No, I’m a witch! 什麼？不是，是女巫! 請注意，來讀單字。 parade遊行 queen女王 wear穿著 monster怪物 Quiz 1. How many years ago did the dog parade start? a. 3 b. 23 c. 33 2. Where is this year’s parade? a. Nowhere b. The park c. Some streets 3. Who is paying for the parade this year? a. The people of New York b. A dog food company c. A hot dog company Answers: 1. c 2. c 3. b -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Groups Move “In Time” to Music Narrator: How do soldiers march? They march together. **Sergeant Major: **“Left! Right! Left! Right! Left! Right! …” *(cont.)* Narrator: They’re moving “in time”. Together, they step with their left foot.* *Together, they step with their right foot. Then their left, then their right, then … ah! You get the idea! 他們同時做一樣的動作，一起同時踏出左腳，然後右腳。 When people walk with friends, sometimes they walk in time. “Left! Right! Left! Right!” No one tells them to move in time! They don’t think about it! It’s natural. 當人們跟朋友走在一起，有時候會很自然地踏出相同步伐。 When you dance, you move in time to the music. That’s natural too. You don’t think about it … you dance, baby! 跳舞的時候，你也會自然地跟著音樂的旋律跳。 Scientists in Switzerland had some questions. How does music make people in big groups move? Does music make these people move together, in time? 瑞士科學家想知道，為甚麼音樂會讓一群人動作同步呢? They did a study. But they didn’t want to study people dancing! They wanted to look for smaller natural movements. So they used classical music. 他們做了研究，為了捕捉到更小的動作，他們使用古典音樂。 They found some amazing things! Groups moved together, in time, without thinking about it!Their hearts beat in time!They breathed in time! 他們發現音樂會讓一群人下意識同步動作，連心跳跟呼吸頻率也一樣! Music moves us! We move together, in time! We do this naturally! How cool is that?! Vocabulary 人在走路或是舞蹈時，很自然地會跟同行的人或是音樂同樣節奏。 1. group 團體 Are you going to the party tomorrow? 你去不去明天的派對? No, it’s my line dancing group’s night. 不了，明天是我的排舞團體之夜。 2. dance 跳舞 When did you join that group? 你幾時參加那個團體的? A month ago. 一個月前。 I need to exercise more, and I like dancing.我需要運動，又喜歡跳舞。 3. music 音樂 But what’s line dancing? 但是排舞是什麼? Well, people dance to music facing the same direction. 大家跟著音樂跳，面對同一個方向。 4. want 想要 I want to learn it, too.我也要學。 Come with me tomorrow. 明天跟我一起來。 It’s a lot of fun.很好玩的。 Do you love dancing? 一起來讀單字。 group團體 dance跳舞 music音樂 want想要 Quiz 1. What is moving “in time”? a. Moving fast b. Moving clocks c. Moving together 2. Where was this study done? a. Switzerland b. Scotland c. Sweden 3. What did this study look for? a. Dance movements b. Walking in time c. Small natural movements Answers: 1. c 2. a 3. c -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Katalin Kariko is a scientist. Some people say she saved the world. Maybe she saved your life! Katalin Kariko是一位科學家。有人說她拯救了世界，也許她還救了你一命。 Vaccines help stop people from getting sick. Dr. Kariko had an idea to make better vaccines. She worked on her idea for many years. 疫苗可以防止人類生病。 Kariko博士想出辦法，讓疫苗更加有效。 Then Dr. Kariko worked with Dr. Drew Weissman. They worked in different ways. He said, "from A to B you zigzag, zigzag, zigzag, zigzag! I [go]… straight." Kariko 博士跟Drew Weissman博士合作。他說Kariko會來來回回的思考，而他是直線前進。 Here, "zigzag" means she studied many kinds of new ideas and information. And she had questions: What's this? How does this work? What's that? What does that do? Can it help my idea? Can we try this? Kariko研究很多新的想法跟資訊，也提出一大堆問題。 Maybe zigzagging helped! Dr. Kariko and Dr. Weissman found how to make better vaccines using her ideas. 或許這種Z型的思考方式，讓他們找出更好的疫苗。 COVID-19 came. The world needed vaccines! Their work helped scientists make two vaccines fast! It can make other vaccines too. 新冠肺炎的到來，讓全世界都需要疫苗，而這兩人的研究加快了疫苗的生產。 Every year, some people get a Nobel Prize. They did great things for the world. This year, Dr. Kariko and Dr. Weissman got the Nobel Prize for Medicine! They made her idea work and saved the world! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vocabulary 這兩位博士發明了新型的肺炎疫苗，榮獲今年的諾貝爾醫學獎。 1. sick 生病的 When I was a child, I really wanted to be a scientist.我小時候很想當科學家。 Yeah? Because you liked the sound of it? 因為科學家這個詞很好聽? Because scientists can help sick people. 因為他們可以幫助生病的人。 2. can 能夠 And they understand space and stars. 他們還能懂太空和星星。 They can do so many things. 他們可以做好多事。 3. then 然後 But then you decided to study literature. 但是之後你決定讀文學。 Yeah, I found literature much more interesting.對，我覺得文學有趣多了。 4. life 生命、人生 It deals with life.它跟人生有關。 Science deals with life, too. 科學也跟人生有關。 來一起讀今天的單字。 sick生病的 can能夠 then然後 life生命、人生 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quiz 1. What did Dr. Kariko do for many years? a. Saved the world b. Worked on her idea c. Kept getting sick 2. What did Dr. Kariko do when she zigzagged? a. Studied many things b. Went straight c. Took medicine 3. When COVID-19 came, what did the world need fast? a. A Nobel Prize b. Vaccines c. Questions Answers: 1. b 2. a 3. b -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Snails are small animals with a shell. They crawl very slowly. Snails leave silver lines on the ground. They eat fruit, vegetables, and many other things. Gardeners and farmers don't like snails. 蝸牛是個很小的動物，牠們吃水果、蔬菜等等，所以園丁跟農夫都不喜歡蝸牛。 But many people around the world like snails. They like to eat them.*** ***Some people pay a lot of money to eat snails! Where are these snails from? Sometimes they're from gardens. Many are from snail farms! 但是還是有人喜歡蝸牛，也喜歡吃牠們。那這些蝸牛來自哪裡呢? 這些蝸牛有時候是來自花園，很多是來自養殖場。 Mr. Chang was a vegetable farmer in Taitung. He grew vegetables for many years.It was hard work. And maybe snails made his work harder. 張先生曾經是台東的菜農，種菜很辛苦，菜田裡的蝸牛讓他更辛苦。 He was getting older. He wanted an easier job. Now Mr. Chang is a snail farmer. He has more than 80,000 snails! The snails need a lot of care. Small changes can kill them! But for Mr. Chang, snail farming is easier than vegetable farming. 現在張先生改養蝸牛。蝸牛需要呵護照顧，一點點的改變都會造成牠們的死亡。但是對張先生來說，養蝸牛比種菜簡單多了。 Mr. Chang also sells snails in cans. He sells sausages made of pork and snails too. He sells them in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. 張先生也賣蝸牛罐頭跟蝸牛香腸。除了國內，他還賣到香港跟澳門。 Snails changed this vegetable farmer's life. Hmmm….I'm hungry for snails now! Are you too? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vocabulary 不種水稻而去養蝸牛，賺的錢還更多。 1. garden 花園 What a beautiful garden! 好漂亮的花園! It reminds me of my days as a gardener. 讓我想起以前我當園丁的日子。 2. grow 種植 What did you grow? 妳種什麼呢? I grew a lot of tulips.我種很多鬱金香。 Just flowers? No fruit or vegetables? 只有花嗎? 沒有青菜水果? No, tulips were trouble enough.沒有，鬱金香就夠麻煩了。 3. vegetable 蔬菜 Yeah, vegetables can be harder. 也對，蔬菜可能更難。 There would be snails and insects.會有蝸牛和昆蟲。 4. older 比較老的 I may grow cherry trees when I get older. 我年紀比較大時也許會種櫻桃樹。Cherries are delicious.櫻桃很好吃。 Let’s review these words. garden花園 grow種植 vegetable蔬菜 older比較老的 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quiz 1. Where does Mr. Chang live? a. Taitung b. Hualien c. Yilan 2. Why did Mr. Chang start farming snails? a. They need a lot of care. b. He loves to eat them. c. They’re easier than vegetables. 3. Where does Mr. Chang sell his snails? a. France b. Macau c. Italy Answers: 1. a 2. c 3. b -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

We live on Earth. Some people call it the “Blue Planet”. From far away, the earth looks blue. That’s because the earth has so much water. 地球有很多水，遠看地球是藍色的，因此有人把地球叫做藍色星球。 Most of the earth’s water is in the oceans. Oceans are very big! Many things live in them. There are animals and plants we don't know about. 大部分地球上的水都在海洋，廣闊的海洋有很多我們還不知道的生物。 Some scientists get into submarines. The submarines take the scientists down to the ocean floor. The scientists explore, looking for new animals and plants to study. 科學家坐潛水艇到海底，探索新的動植物。 Scientists in a submarine were exploring the ocean near Alaska. They found something very strange … 他們在阿拉斯加的海域到處探索，發現一個奇怪的東西。 It's smooth, gold, and shiny. And it has a hole. Maybe something came out of it. Is it an egg? But it's soft, like people's skin! And it's very big … 這個金黃色的生物又滑又亮，還有一個洞，也許有東西跑出來了，是個蛋嗎? 但是它很軟，像人類的皮膚一樣。 Scientists don’t know what it is! Is it a new kind of egg? Then what kind of animal was inside? How big is it? Is it dangerous? And where is it now …?! Watch out! 科學家不知道是什麼東西。是新物種的卵嗎? 那又是什麼樣的新物種呢? 牠多大? 很危險嗎? 牠現在在哪裡? There’s a lot we don’t know about the Earth’s animals and plants. We need to keep exploring! Who knows what we’ll find … Vocabulary 這個新發現的海底物種讓科學家十分困惑。 1. blue 藍色的 Where can I go diving in Taiwan? 台灣哪裡可以潛水? Green Island is my favorite spot. 綠島是我最喜歡的地方。 The water is blue and clean, with lots of sea animals.海水又藍又乾淨，還有很多海洋動物。 2. find 找到 Can I find sea turtles there? 在那裏可以找到海龜嗎? I’ve found lots of fish, but no turtles.我有找到很多魚，不過沒有海龜。 3. far away 很遠 Is Green Island far away? 綠島很遠嗎? It’s not far away from Taitung. 它離台東不遠。 A ferry ride takes about 40 minutes. 搭渡輪大約四十分鐘。 4. look for 尋找 I’m going to look for turtles and sharks.我要去找海龜和鯊魚。 Good luck on that! 祝你好運囉! 這些英文字簡單好用。 blue藍色的 find找到 far away很遠 look for尋找 Quiz 1. What do some people call the “Blue Planet”? a. The ocean b. Earth c. Alaska 2. What were the scientists doing in the submarine? a. Exploring b. Flying c. Climbing 3. What color was the strange thing in the ocean? a. Blue b. Green c. Gold Answers: 1. b 2. a 3. c -- Hosting provided by SoundOn