19 Dalmatians, A New World Record

Hi everybody! Do you like baby dogs?
Baby dogs are called puppies.
If you like puppies, you must have seen the movie 101 Dalmatians!
看過電影101忠狗嗎
101 Dalmatians is a story about a mommy dog who has 101 babies! Yes! And all
the puppies are white and have black dots! 這些狗身上有著黑點點
That kind of white dog with black spots is called a 'Dalmatian' 大麥町---
That's why the movie is called "101 DALMATIANS."
Ok, well I have a cool story for you! A mommy Dalmatian dog in Australia had
a lot of babies … it's a new world record! The mommy dog's name is 'Melody'.
Did Melody have 101 babies? Ha! Well, no … that's just in the movies or
cartoons … but Melody the mommy Dalmatian did have 19 puppies! And that's a
new record! 她生了19隻小「大麥町」，是新紀錄呢
Melody the Dalmatian mommy dog now has 10 little Dalmatian boys and 9 little
Dalmatian girls.
(SINGS) "One little, two little, three little, puppies, four little, five
little, six little puppies, … 7 little, 8 little, 9 little puppies, …that's
a lot of dogs…… (10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 ).. 19 little Dalmatian
dogs!
There was once another mommy Dalmatian that had 18 puppies … but Melody had
19! That's why we call it a "world record!"
Amazing, yeah? So many puppies! It must be a lot of work to feed them and
take care of them… my friend has five dogs … but 19 … plus mommy?!! -
That's a lot of doggies!
The puppies all have interesting names! All the names are from movies!
One is called "Belle" like the girl in Beauty and the Beast… and one is
called Pumbaa … like the funny little guy from the Lion King!
What a cool world record!

Vocabulary:
Everybody loves puppies, puppies are baby dogs.
1) Puppy 小狗。Look at that cute puppy 你看那隻可愛的小狗狗! An Australian
mommy dog had 19 puppies, and it's a world record
一隻澳洲的狗媽媽生了19隻小狗，這是世界紀錄!
2) Record紀錄。He made a new world record 他創造了新的世界紀錄!
3) Cartoon卡通。[101忠狗]和[美女與野獸]都是卡通電影，101 Dalmatians and
Beauty and the Beast are both cartoon movies.
4) Feed餵食。You need to feed the puppies every day and take care of
them你得每天都餵小狗吃東西並且照顧牠們。
5) Take care of照顧。
So let's repeat these lovely words, puppy 小狗 record 紀錄 cartoon卡通
feed餵食 take care of照顧。

QUIZ TIME
1. What do we call baby dogs?
A: Kittens? B: Puppies? C: Pumba?

2. What does a "world record" mean?
A: It means something that has never happened before.
B: It means a new movie.
C: It means 'a baby dog.'

3. How many baby dogs did Melody the Dalmatian have?
A: 101 B: 19 C: 90

Answers:
1:B 2:A 3:B
 

Eating Bugs!

Hi Everybody! What do you think about eating a sandwich -- of BUGS!
(SFX: ;SCREAM!!!!) What??? A bug sandwich! Ya think I'm crazy??
天啊？！吃蟲子三明治？我瘋了嗎？
Nope! Eating bugs is actually a really good idea! Let me tell you why!
吃蟲子是不錯的主意
Lots of people around the world don't have enough food to eat.
世界上還有很多人是吃不飽的
That's really sad, right? So many people are hungry … and then they get sick
and have a sad life! 很多人沒有東西吃,肚子餓 ,生病還過著悲慘生活
They need more food!
Hmm… where can we get more food? Where does food come from?
Well, we can grow more food … we can grow more vegetables like carrots and
tomatoes ... and we can get more animals for food … like more chickens …
more cows and more pigs.我們要生產更多的蔬菜和肉類
But there's a problem! Vegetables and chickens and cows and pigs need space
… and we don't have much space! 空間都不夠啊
Bugs are small! They don't need much space. And they are healthy. Bugs are
good for you.
You can cook the bugs … and make a bug hamburger!
Bugs actually taste good. Some bugs even taste sweet!
Cool, yeah? Sweet bugs!
Eating bugs is a good idea that can help people. 可以幫助人類.
Wow! Maybe I'm ready to try a bug burger! How about you? Bugs for lunch?
哇，我已經等不及要吃吃蟲子漢堡， 你會想試試看嗎?
Ha! Maybe someday!!
Vocabulary
Hi, would you like to have a bug sandwich for lunch?

1) Sandwich 三明治。A sandwich is two pieces of bread with things like meat,
cheese and tomatoes in between 三明治就是兩片麵包，中間夾著肉片，起司和番茄。
2) Chicken 雞，所以營養好喝的雞湯就是chicken soup. Chicken soup is good for
you when you're sick生病時喝一點雞湯對你有好處。
3) Sick 生病。Hungry people often get
sick餓肚子的人經常會生病，並且過得不好They have a sad life.
4) Sad悲慘的，傷心的。That's a sad story那個故事真慘!

Let's review the words we've learned today: sandwich三明治 chicken雞
sick 生病 sad悲慘的。So don't eat too many sandwiches, you may get sick!


Quiz

1. What do vegetables ... and even people need?
A: They need space! B: They need dogs! C: They need pigs and carrots!

2. Why is eating bugs a good idea?
A: Bugs are vegetables B: Bugs are good for you …
C: Chickens like bugs!

3. What do all people need everyday?
A: Food! B: Monkeys! C: Bugs!

Answers

1, A 2, B 3, A
 

Giant Parrot

Hi everyone! Welcome! Make yourselves comfortable, it's time for another
story!

Everyone knows that many, many, many years ago, there were lots of giant
animals walking around the earth, right? Like dinosaurs!
以前，地球有很多很大的動物.像是….恐龍

When you think of dinosaurs, what's the first thing that comes into your
head? 一提到恐龍，你會想到甚麼? ………Woah!!!! Yeah! Something like that,
right?

But what if I told you there was another animal that lived many, many years
ago that sounded more like this?

Heh! What did that sound like to you? 剛那個聲音像甚麼?.........

Yep! That was a parrot! 那是鸚鵡!..........

But this… This parrot wasn't just any parrot, ya know? Oh no...
這隻鸚鵡超大的This was a giant parrot!…………

One day, special scientists who dig up and study super old stuff found some
big bones! !

From these bones they know that many millions of years ago, there used to be
giant parrots! 科學家從挖出的化石知道…很久以前有一種巨型的鸚鵡!

They named the giant parrot… SQUAWKZILLA… Cool name, right?

Squawkzilla was the biggest parrot ever… probably too big to fly.........
Ahem! 我剛說牠不會飛………!

Okay. The giant parrot weighed about 7 kilograms, 大概有7公斤重. About the
same as a bowling ball!

Squawkzilla was also about 1 meter tall, meaning it could reach a grown-up's
belly button!

高度大概1公尺...嗯嗯…差不多到大人肚臍的位置!

Deep voice: Polly wants a cracker.

Uhhh… Yes, Polly!…. Whatever you say, Polly!

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Vocabulary

1) Sound聲音，或是[聽起來]。You sound just like your
father你聽起來跟你爸爸好像! Listen to the dinosaur's sound 你聽恐龍的叫聲。

2) Giant巨人，或是[巨大的]。Dinosaurs are giant animals恐龍是巨大的動物。

3) Bone骨頭。Scientists have found a lot of big bones in the ground
科學家在地底下找到好多大骨頭.

4) Million百萬。Dinosaurs lived on the earth millions of years ago
恐龍好幾百萬年前住在地球上。

5) Big, bigger, biggest 很大，更大，最大。Horses are big animals, much bigger
than cats馬是很大的動物，比貓咪大得多。It's the biggest ice cream I've
seen那是我見過的最大的冰淇淋!

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So today we learned something new about a giant bird, let's review the words.

Sound 聲音 giant巨人，巨大的 bone骨頭 million百萬 big, bigger, biggest
很大，更大，最大。

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Quiz

1. What does giant mean?

A: Really big B: Really small C: Really thin

2. What kind of animal did the scientists find?

A: A turtle B: A bear C: A parrot

3. How heavy was the giant parrot?

A: 4 kilograms B: 7 kilograms C: 1 meter



Answers

1: A 2: C 3:B
 

Ten-Year-Old Rock-Climbing Queen

Hey, everybody!

Rock climbing … mountain climbing … rock climbing … mountain climbing …

HMMM … is rock climbing the same as mountain climbing?

NO!

Rock climbing is using ropes to climb up a rock! It's like climbing up a wall
--- climbing up a rock wall!

Lots of people like to climb mountains 很多人都喜歡爬山…… even some kids
like to climb mountains!! 甚至小朋友也喜歡

But rock climbing?那攀岩呢？ Kids don't go rock climbing, right?
小孩子不會去攀岩，對不對

Oh, really … well … a ten-year-old can't climb the most famous super crazy
rock in America, right? 10歲小孩不可能去最有名的一塊大石頭攀岩，對不對？

She did! Really?? … wow!

El Capitan is a crazy rock in America! It's … super steep.它超陡的 No,
wait! It's super, super, super, super, SUPER steep! It's a wall! A rock wall!
就像一座陡峭的石牆

BUT … she did it! Yep! A ten-year-old girl! 但是一個10歲小女孩爬上去了

The youngest person in the world to climb that famous rock in America … is a
10-year-old girl!

Her name is Selah and she climbed a rock called "El Capitan."

So … is Selah Spiderman? How can she climb a rock wall? ---- For rock
climbing, you need ropes.

Selah and her dad used ropes to climb up the rock wall … it took them FOUR
DAYS! Selah和爸爸花了整整四天就爬上去Yeah!

One…Two…Three...Four days! They had to eat on the wall … and even sleep on
the rock wall 他們靠著石壁吃飯、睡覺… with ropes! 只靠繩子支撐 Wow! That's
really amazing!! 哇，太令人驚訝了

After Selah climbed 'El Capitan' … she said she felt very, very happy!

Nice work, Selah! You're a 10-year-old rock-climbing queen!

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Vocabulary

Many children like to climb trees, walls or rocks.

1) Climb爬。Mountain-climbing 爬山，rock-climbing攀岩。We're planning to
climb Jade Mountain next summer我們計畫明年夏天去登玉山。

2) Rope繩索。You need ropes when you climb big rocks. 攀登大石頭需要繩子。

3) Use 使用。Do you use toothpaste every day 你每天都用牙膏嗎? No, not every
day沒有每天。

4) Famous 有名的。A little girl climbed the most famous rock in
America小女孩爬上了美洲最有名的岩石。A-mei is a famous Taiwanese
singer阿妹是台灣著名的歌手。

5) Feel感覺。How do you feel when you eat chocolate?
你吃巧克力的時候有什麼感覺?
I feel happy 我覺得開心。

I hope you feel happy when learning English. Let's read the words together:
climb爬 rope繩子 use使用 famous 有名的 feel感覺

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Quiz

1. What is the famous rock called?
A: Big Tall Rock B: Really Famous Rock C: El Capitan

2. How old is Seelah?
A: 1-year-old B: 10-years-old C: 22-years-old

3. What do people use to climb?
A: Horses B: Elevators C: Ropes



Answers: 1 C, 2 B, 3 C
 

921 Earthquake

Narrator: 地震! Hurry up, take cover! ………Phew … is everyone all right?
Thank goodness everyone is all right. 我最不喜歡地震了。 And that was a big
one!
But it still wasn't as big as the 921 Earthquake.
Have you heard of the 九二一大地震? The 921 Earthquake was one of the biggest
earthquakes to ever hit Taiwan.
That earthquake happened on September 21, 1999.
That means it happened exactly twenty years ago. 剛好20年前發生
It was a magnitude 7.3 earthquake, which means it was a very, very strong
earthquake!
It was was so strong that it knocked down power lines in Taiwan,
然後全台灣就大停電! There was a blackout!
The blackout lasted a long time. There was no electricity for days.
我們過了好多天都沒有電，都停電了During the day people could not turn on their
fans or air conditioners, so everyone was very sweaty under the hot sun.
晚上沒有電，白天也沒辦法開電扇或冷氣，大家都熱得汗流浹背!
And at night, there was no electricity for lights, so everything was very
dark.
Sadly, more than two-thousand people were also killed in the earthquake.
And thousands of buildings were damaged.

…….Uh oh, aftershock!........
Everyone still ok? That was just an aftershock. That is when the ground
shakes again after an earthquake.
Hopefully there won't be any more aftershocks. 拜託不要再來餘震了!
Anyway, the 921 Earthquake was a terrible thing to happen, but experts are
studying how we can be ready for other earthquakes in the
future.未來如果我們能預測地震的話， 我們就可以先準備了

And hopefully, we will be!



Vocabulary
Earthquakes are scary, aren't they? They can cause a blackout for a lot of
people.
1) Blackout 停電。Black黑色的，blackout就是停電。Typhoon Maria caused a
blackout in Tainan颱風瑪麗亞讓台南停電了。
2) Power力量，或者是電力。Taiwan Power Company台電公司， The earthquake left
5 hundred homes without power地震讓五百戶居民沒有電。
3) Electricity電。Why is it so dark 為什麼這麼暗? Because there's no
electricity for lights因為沒有電來點亮電燈。
4) Building建築物。Taipei 101 is the tallest building in
Taipei台北101是台北市最高樓。
5) Happen發生。What happened發生了什麼事? Nothing 沒事兒。
We've learned some good words about earthquakes, now let's review them.
Blackout停電 power力量或是電力 electricity電 building建築物 happen發生


Quiz:
1. When did the 921 Earthquake happen?
a. 20 years ago
b. Yesterday.
c. It hasn't happened yet.


2. What is a blackout?
a. When the power goes out.
b. When you use a black marker.
c. When it's night time.


3. What is an aftershock?
a. When you are shocked by electricity.
b. When the ground shakes again after an earthquake.
c. When you are surprised by something.


Answers
1. A 2. A 3. B