Do More Things by Yourself!
Sunday is Mother's Day! Let's talk about moms... and kids!
這星期日是母親節! 我們來談談媽媽跟小孩!
A movie star in the U.S. has three kids. When her kids have problems, she
doesn't always help them.
美國有一位電影明星有三個孩子。當他們遇到困難，她不會每次都幫忙。
Kid: Mommy, I dropped my toy! Waaaah!
Mom: Honey, pick that up by yourself.
Kid: Mommy, I can't find my pencil! Waaaah!
Mom: Sweetie, look for it yourself.
玩具掉了，她就叫孩子把玩具撿起來。找不到鉛筆，就讓他們去找出來。
Is this movie star a good mom? Scientists say yes, she is! If you're not a baby, you can learn how to do some things by yourself!
這位電影明星是不是好媽媽?科學家覺得是的!
只要你不是小寶寶，就可以學習自己怎麼動手做。
Moms usually run to help when kids have problems. But scientists say moms can
let kids take care of some problems by themselves.
通常媽媽都會解決小孩的問題。但科學家說媽媽們可以讓小孩自己處理某一些事情。
You don't always need to say, "Mommy!!!! Help me!!!" You're not a baby, right?
你不用一直喊媽媽，你已經不是小娃娃了。
Moms work so hard every day. That's why they have a special day: Mother's
Day! You can show your mom how much you love her. How? You can do more things
by yourself!
媽媽每天辛苦地工作，這就是為什麼有母親節，你可以自己多動手做，表達你有多愛媽媽。
On Sunday, you can say "Happy Mother's Day" to your mom by yourself! Let's
all try now. Are you ready? One, two, three... Happy Mother's Day!
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Vocabulary
科學家認為媽媽應該多多鼓勵孩子自己做事情。
1. look for 尋找
Did you buy these? 這些是你買的?
Yeah, anything wrong? 對，有什麼不對嗎?
There's too much sugar in them. 這些含有太多糖了。
You need to look for better snacks. 你需要找比較健康的點心。
2. always總是
I can't do that by myself. 我自己沒辦法那樣。
Why not? 怎麼沒辦法?
Because I'm always attracted to sweet stuff. 因為我總是被甜食吸引。
3. yourself你自己
It's not that hard. 沒有那麼難。
Just tell yourself, "I can do this. Yes, I can!" 只要告訴自己，「我可以的!
是的，我可以!」
4. try 嘗試
Come to the store with me next time.下次跟我一起去店裡。
No, no. Try to do it yourself. 不了，你試試看自己做。
請注意，讀單字時間。
look for尋找
always總是
yourself你自己
try嘗試
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Quiz
1. Who helps when you're doing things by yourself?
a. Nobody
b. Mom
c. Dad
2. How often do kids need to ask for help?
a. Always
b. Sometimes
c. Never
3. What day is Sunday?
a. Kids' Day
b. A sunny day
c. Mother's Day
Answers:
1. a
2. b
3. c
This Cat Loves Salad
A woman wanted a cat. She went to an animal shelter to get one. Animal
shelters take care of animals with no homes. People can get a pet and take it
home.
有一位女士想要養貓，於是她去動物收容所想要領養一隻。
The animal shelter had many cats. The woman saw a cute black cat. She liked him very much. He went home with her.
收容所有很多貓，她看到一隻可愛的黑色貓咪，非常喜歡就帶牠回家。
At home, she learned something about the cat. He ate a lot! And he wanted to eat more than cat food!
這隻貓進家門之後，女士發現牠很會吃，而且想吃的還不只是貓食。
One day, she ate a sandwich. The cat smelled the sandwich. He meowed and
meowed loudly.
有一天她在吃三明治，貓咪聞到了味道，大聲的喵喵叫。
The woman cut up vegetables for a salad every day. The cat started to steal
some. He took lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, and avocados.
每天女士切蔬菜做沙拉。她的貓咪就會偷走像是生菜、番茄、胡蘿蔔跟酪梨。
Since then, the cat wants salad with his cat food! He loves vegetables and
fruit. They make him very healthy!
之後這隻貓除了貓食之外，還一定要吃沙拉，牠很喜歡蔬果，這些食物也讓牠身體健康。
But sometimes the cat eats other food. He likes bread, hamburgers, cheese,
and potato chips too! Uh-oh! Does the woman give these to him? Nope! He
steals them from her!
這隻貓偶爾也吃其他的食物，牠也喜歡吃麵包、漢堡、起司跟洋芋片!是牠主人給牠的嗎?
當然不是喔，牠偷偷叼走的!
The woman shares her salad with her cat. Every day, they eat healthy food
together!
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Vocabulary
這隻貓喜歡吃主人吃的食物。
1. sandwich 三明治
Hey, Jane, what's up? 過得如何?
Not much, Paz. I just got myself a sandwich. 沒事，我剛買了一個三明治。
Want a bite? 要吃一口嗎?
No, I ate a big hamburger half an hour
ago.不了，我半個鐘頭前才吃了一個大漢堡。
2. hamburger 漢堡
A good hamburger? 好吃的漢堡嗎?
Yeah, very good. 很好吃的。
It has tomatoes, cheese and beef. 有番茄，起司和牛肉。
3. vegetable 蔬菜
I thought you prefer vegetables and fruit.我以為你比較愛青菜水果。
I do. But I can't eat those things every day.我是啊，但是不能天天吃那些。
4. bread 麵包
I know what you mean. 我懂你的意思。
I like bread, and I have a different kind of bread every week.
我喜歡麵包，每個星期換吃不同的麵包。
今天的單字都是食物。
sandwich三明治
hamburger漢堡
vegetable蔬菜
bread麵包
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Quiz
1. Where did the woman get the cat from?
a. The street
b. An animal shelter
c. Her home
2. What does the cat like to eat?
a. Soup
b. Chocolate
c. Salad
3. What did the cat steal?
a. A sandwich
b. Vegetables
c. Cat food
Answers:
1. b
2. c
3. b
Microplastics Are Everywhere
Plastic makes our lives easy. We use plastic bottles for drinks and plastic
bags for food. When we're done with them, we throw them away!
塑膠製品像是塑膠瓶、塑膠袋讓我們的生活更便利。通常使用之後就把它扔掉。
Lots of plastic trash goes into the ocean. After some years, it breaks down
into microplastics. Microplastics are very small. How small? They're smaller
than 5 millimeters.
很多塑膠垃圾流入海裡。幾年後，就會被分解成塑膠微粒，微粒有多小呢? 小於5毫米。
Fish and other animals eat and drink microplastics. Sometimes microplastics
are in our food and water. Microplastics can be everywhere!
塑膠微粒無所不在。魚類跟其他的海洋生物會把塑膠微粒吃下肚。還會出現在我們的食物跟水中。
Microplastics can be everywhere because we use too much plastic. This isn't
good. Some scientists think microplastics can make us sick!
我們用了太多塑膠製品，科學家擔心塑膠微粒會讓人生病!
Microplastics are a big problem. But we can fix it together! How? We can use
less plastic. We can use reusable water bottles and bags. We can recycle. We
can put plastic trash into the bins for plastic!
塑膠微粒是個大問題，但是我們可以一起來解決。我們可以減少使用塑膠，改用環保杯跟環保袋，也可以做塑膠回收。
We can also stop plastic from going into the ocean. We can pick up trash on a
beach. Then the plastic in the trash won't become microplastics!
清理海灘上的垃圾，也會阻止塑膠流進大海，它們就不會變成塑膠微粒。
We can do these small things to make a big change. Let's stop more
microplastics from being in the ocean!
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Vocabulary
海洋中的塑膠會分解成微小粒子，跑進食物鏈裡面。
done 完成
Are you done drinking? 你喝完了嗎?
Yeah. You want some water, too? 對啊，你也要喝點水嗎?
No, I just want your bottle. 不，我只要你的瓶子。
recycle 回收
Hey, you threw it away! 你把它扔掉了!
No, I'm just having it recycled. 沒有，我只是回收它。
By tossing it in the trash? 扔進垃圾裡回收?
trash 垃圾
That's not a trash bin. 那不是垃圾桶。
It's a bag for empty bottles. 是放空瓶子的袋子。
But I may get thirsty later on.可是我等一下也許會口渴。
change 改變
You should bring your own water bottle.你應該自己帶水。
So you want to fix the Earth's problems now? 所以你現在要解決地球的問題啦?
Just to make a small change. 只是做一點小小改變。
這些單字很常用。
done完成
recycle回收
trash垃圾
change改變
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Quiz
1. Where does lots of plastic trash go into?
a. The ocean
b. Space
c. Forests
2. How small are microplastics?
a. 5 milligrams
b. 5 milliliters
c. 5 millimeters
3. How can we help fix the microplastics problem?
a. Recycle plastic
b. Use plastic bags
c. Throw away plastic
Answers:
1. a
2. c
3. a
Spider Webs with DNA
Ahhh! What's that little monster with eight legs? Oh, it's a spider!
Spiders can help scientists. They make spider webs. Spider webs are sticky!
That's how they trap flies, mosquitoes, and... DNA!
蜘蛛可以助科學家一臂之力，蜘蛛網很黏，抓得住蒼蠅、蚊子還有...基因!
Maybe you know "DNA" from the K-pop song by BTS. All living things have DNA.
It's the code that makes living things look and work in one way.
你大概有聽過DNA這首歌，生物都有DNA，它決定生物的模樣跟行為。
Getting DNA is important for learning about living things. Getting it from
cats, dogs, and zoo animals is easy. But getting it from wild animals is
hard!
要研究生物，取得它的DNA很重要。從貓狗或動物園裡的動物身上取得很容易，但是野生動物就有困難。
Hmmmm... spider webs are everywhere. And wild animals walk by spider webs!
Their DNA may be on them. How?
野外到處都是蜘蛛網，野生動物經過，牠們的DNA遺傳密碼可能會黏在上面。
Well, DNA from the animals' skin, hair, or breath goes into the air. When the
wind blows, sticky spider webs may trap it. Also, if animals touch spider
webs, they may leave their DNA.
動物的皮膚、毛髮跟牠們呼出的氣體，都可能隨著風黏到蜘蛛網上，動物碰到蜘蛛網也會留下基因的資訊。
Scientists find and take spider webs. Then they study the trapped DNA.
科學家尋找蜘蛛網，並且研究黏在上面的生物分子。
With spider webs, scientists can get wild animals' DNA. It helps us learn
more about these animals. The more we know about animals, the more we can
understand them!
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Vocabulary
蜘蛛網能夠協助科學家研究各種生物的遺傳基因。
1. spider 蜘蛛
Yikes, a spider web! 蜘蛛網!
I hate spiders! 我討厭蜘蛛!
Spiders are good. 蜘蛛很好啊。
They eat mosquitoes.牠們吃蚊子。
I don't care what they eat.我不在乎牠們吃什麼。
2. sticky 黏黏的
Why are you so afraid of them? 你為什麼那麼怕蜘蛛?
Because spider webs are sticky. 因為蜘蛛網黏黏的。
And they are just ugly.而且牠們就是好醜。
3. trap 抓住
But look at these scientists' work. 但是你看看這些科學家的工作。
Isn't it amazing? 不是很了不起嗎?
Studying the skin trapped by the webs? 研究被蜘蛛網黏住的皮膚嗎?
It's gross! 很恐怖!
4. scientist 科學家
You could never be a scientist. 你永遠當不成科學家。
No, and I don't want to be. 沒錯，我也不想當。
你怕不怕蜘蛛?
spider蜘蛛
sticky黏黏的
trap抓住
scientist科學家
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Quiz
1. Why can spider webs trap things?
a. They're sticky.
b. They're important.
c. They're easy.
2. What is DNA?
a. Baseball
b. Code
c. Monsters
3. What do scientists want from spider webs?
a. Wild animals
b. Wild animals' DNA
c. Spiders' DNA
Answers:
1. a
2. b
3. b
From Cow Poop to Clear Water
In India, many communities need to clean their dirty water. It's not easy.
Many cleaning systems use chemicals and energy. They need workers.
印度有很多人需要淨化髒水，這個工作可不容易。汙水處理系統需要化學物質跟電力，也需要人手。
A man wanted to make a new system. But he didn't want his system to use
chemicals, energy, or workers.
有一名男子想要研發新的系統，但是他不希望用到化學物質、能源跟人力。
The man had an idea. A cow's stomach has four parts. Each part has a special
job. His system has four parts. Each part has a special job.
他想到讓系統跟牛的胃一樣，有四個部分而且每一個部分都有特殊功能。
Cow poop is in part one. Yes, smelly cow poop! This is smart. Brown water
goes in. The poop's bacteria clean the water. Next, in part two, other
bacteria clean it.
第一個部分要用到牛的糞便，因為裡面的細菌可以淨化水質。第二部分有其他的細菌來處理。
Then in part three, sand and small stones clean it. Last, in part four,
plants clean the water! And clear water comes out!
第三部分需要沙子跟石頭，最後一個部分用植物來淨化水質，於是清水就出來了!
The man's cleaning system works! People can use this water for plants and
toilets. More than three hundred communities use this system now. It has
cleaned two billion liters of water. That's a lot of water!
他成功了!淨化出來的水可以澆花或當作馬桶水。目前有超過300個社群團體用這個系統，一共清了20億公升的水。
The man's system is easy, and it's good for the Earth. Now many communities
can clean their dirty water!
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Vocabulary
這個淨化水質的系統，大大節省人力和電力。
1. bacteria 細菌
My God! I'm so tired! 天哪，我累死了!
Oh, there's cool spring water here,這裡有很涼的泉水。
Hey, you can't drink that! 你不可以喝泉水!
There are lots of bacteria in the water.水裡有很多細菌。
2. clear 清澈的
Really? But it looks so clear.真的嗎?可是它看起來很清澈。
No, you have to boil it first. 不，你一定要先煮沸。
3. idea 主意
But I can't do that now! 但是我現在沒辦法煮啊!
I know. I have an idea. 我知道，我有個主意。
4. need 需要
I'll tell those climbers we need water. 我去告訴那些登山客我們需要水。
What if they ignore you? 要是他們不理你呢?
They won't. I'll beg. 不會的。我會哀求。
來跟我一起讀單字。
bacteria細菌
clear清澈的
idea主意
need需要
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Quiz
1. What needs to be cleaned?
a. Air
b. Water
c. Bacteria
2. What animal stomach gave the man the idea for his cleaning system?
a. Cow
b. Horse
c. Sheep
3. What does the man's cleaning system use?
a. Energy
b. Chemicals
c. Plants
Answers:
1. b
2. a
3. c
A Garbage Warning System for Taiwan's Beaches
Yuck! Nobody likes garbage on the beach. Where does it come from?
沒有人喜歡海灘上的垃圾，這些垃圾到底從哪裡來的呢?
Some garbage comes from people at the beach. They drink soda. Then they leave
the cans on the beach. Or they eat a bag of chips. Then they leave the bag.
有一些垃圾是去海灘玩的人留下來的。他們喝完汽水、吃完洋芋片，就隨手丟在海灘上。
Lots of the garbage comes from the ocean. Waves push garbage from other
places onto the beach.
很多海洋垃圾也會被海浪推到海灘上。
Environmental groups try to help the Earth in some way. Some environmental
groups in Taiwan clean up beaches. But sometimes these beaches have lots of
ocean garbage a few days later!
環保團體都在想辦法如何幫助地球。台灣有一些環保團體會淨灘。但是淨灘後又會出現很多垃圾。
Soon, a warning system can help environmental groups here. It uses cameras to
watch ocean garbage. It will warn environmental groups about where and when
ocean garbage will come to beaches. When it's coming, the groups can wait for
the garbage and then clean it up.
不久後會有一個系統可以協助環保團體。它用攝影機觀察海洋垃圾，提醒他們海洋垃圾沖上海灘的時間跟地點，就可以去把垃圾清理乾淨。
The system uses three colors. Green means no garbage is near the beach.
Yellow means some garbage is nearby. Red means garbage is at the beach!
系統用三種顏色示警。綠色是指沒有垃圾靠近海灘，黃色代表附近有垃圾，紅色是垃圾已經沖上海灘了!
This warning system helps people help the Earth. That's something to be happy
about today. It's Earth Day!
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Vocabulary
海灘垃圾有多種來源，環保人士希望更有系統的清除垃圾。
1. clean up 清理
Will you take out the garbage tonight? 你今晚會去倒垃圾吧?
Me? Isn't it your turn? 我? 不是輪到你了嗎?
Well, I'm the one who cleaned up the kitchen.這個嘛，是我把廚房清理乾淨的。
2. come from 來自
But most of the garbage came from you and your friends!
但是大部分垃圾是你跟你的朋友製造的。
You ate lots of things here last night.你們昨晚在這裡吃了一堆東西。
3. leave 留下
That's why I cleaned it up.那是為什麼我有清理。
Please, don't leave the garbage to me. 拜託不要把垃圾留給我。
4. when 當
Okay. But next time when you have a party, invite me!
好吧，但是下次當你辦派對，要邀請我!
It's a deal. 就這麼說定了。
請注意，要讀單字了。
clean up清理
come from來自
leave留下
when當
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Quiz
1. What will the warning system do?
a. Stop garbage
b. Watch garbage
c. Push garbage
2. What will the warning system use?
a. Cameras
b. Boats
c. Bags
3. What does green mean in the warning system?
a. Lots of garbage
b. Some garbage
c. No garbage
Answers:
1. b
2. a
3. c