The kiwi lives only in NewZealand. It is very strange bird
.Because
it can not
fly.The
kiwi is the same size as a
chicken.It
has no wings or
tail.It
does not have feathers like other
birds.It
feathers look like
hair.Each
foot has four toes.It"s beak is very long. A kiwi likes to have a lot of trees around it. It sleeps during the
day.Because
sunlight hurts its
eyes.It
can smell things very
well.It
smells things better than most birds
do.The
kiwis eggs are very big.
There"re only a few kiwis in New Zealand now. People do not often see them. The government says that people can not kill kiwis. New Zealanders want their kiwis to
live.There
is a picture of a kiwi in New Zealand money. People from New Zealand sometimes called "kiwis".
The hippopotamus, or hippo, lives in the hot part of Africa, it’s a mammal, that is, its babies are born alive, and they drink milk from their mother’s body.
The hippopotamus is a large animal. A hippo weighs four tons. Its stomach is seven meters long, it eats only plants. A hippo is a mammal, but, it spends a lot of time in the water.
During the day, it sleeps beside a river or a lake. Sometimes, it wakes up. Then it goes under the water to get some plants for food. It can close its nose and stay under water for ten minutes. Its ears, eyes and nose, are high up on its head. It can stay with it’s body under the water, only its ears, eyes and nose above the water, then it can breathe the air.
在晚上，河馬走在陸地上，而且，尋找食物。它從不去遠離水的地方
At night, hippo walks on the land and looks for food. It never goes very far from the water.
一個小河馬，經常站立在媽媽的背上，媽媽在水底下尋找食物，小河馬騎在她的背上，在水上。
A baby hippo often stands on its mother’s back, the mother looks for food under the water, the baby hippo rides on her back above the water. 第一單元 第五課 海豚The Dolphin
海豚會說話嗎？可能它們不會用語言說話，但是它們可以用聲音說話，它們用聲音來表達它們的感情。
Can dolphins talk? Maybe they can’t talk with words, but they can talk with sounds. They show their feelings with sounds.
Dolphins travel in a group. We call a group of fish “a school”. They don’t study, but they travel together. Dolphins are mammals, not fish, but they swim together in the school.
海豚跟在學校裡其他的海豚說話。它們給資訊，它們說當在它們高興或者傷心或者害怕的時候，它們說”歡迎”當一隻海豚回到學校的時候，它們玩的時候說話。 Dolphins talk to the other dolphins in the school. They give information, they tell when they are happy or sad or afraid, they say “welcome” when a dolphin comes back to the school, they talk when they play.
They make a few sounds above water. They make many more sounds under water. People can’t hear these sounds because the sounds are very very high. Scientists make tapes of sounds and study these tapes.
Sometimes people catch dolphins for a large aquarium( an aquarium is a zoo for fish”. People can watch dolphins in a show. Dolphins don’t like to be away from their school in the aquarium. They are very sad and lonely.
有很多關於海豚的故事，它們幫助過人們。有時它們救命某人生命，海豚的肉很好吃，但是人們不喜歡殺死海豚。它們說海豚帶來好運氣，很多人相信這個。 There are many stories about dolphins. They help people. Sometimes they save somebody’s life. Dolphin meat is very good, but people don’t like to kill dolphins. They say dolphins bring good luck, many people believe this.
二單元 第一課 我們為什麼打哈欠 Why do we yawn?
熊打哈欠，駱駝打哈欠，很多哺乳動物也打哈欠。我們為什麼要打哈欠？實際上沒有一個人知道答案。
Bears yawn, camels yawn, most mammals yawn. Why do we yawn.? No one really knows the answer.
We know that everyone yawns in the same way. First you open your mouth slowly. Your mouth stays open for about five minutes , then you close your mouth quickly. 我們知道打哈欠是有傳染性的或者易傳染。當你看到有人打哈欠的時候，你也會打哈欠，很多人說他們打哈欠是因為很無聊或者很累。這可能是真的，然而我們知道當人們興奮或者緊張不安的時候他們也會打哈欠，參加奧運會跑步專案的運動員，比如說 在賽跑之前運動員經常會打哈欠，為什麼呢？
We also know that, yawning is contagious or catching. When you see someone yawn, you also yawn, many people say that they yawn because they are very bored, or tired. This might be true. However we know that people also yawn, when they are excited or nervous, Olympic runners, for example, often yawn before a race. Why is that? 許多科學家認為打哈欠讓你更加警覺。當你打哈欠時，你呼吸更深，你還伸展你臉部和脖子上的肌肉。可能這讓你感覺更加警覺。
Some scientists believe that yawning makes you more a alert , when you yawn, you breathe more deeply, you also stretch your muscle in your face and your neck. Maybe this makes you feel more alert.
科學家不花費時間研究打哈欠。那可能因為打哈欠不會傷害人，它只是我們做的某事。
Scientists do not spend time studying yawning, that is probably because yawning does not hurt. It is just something we do.
第二單元 第二課
為什麼人們會大笑? Why do people laugh?
你每天會大笑嗎？大多數人會這樣做，科學家說這些人笑的次數大約一天17次，那是很多笑聲。
Do you laugh everyday? Most people do. Scientists say that people laugh about 17 times a day. That is a lot of laughter.
In India, there are hundreds of laughter club. The people in these clubs get together every morning. First, they stretch their hands above their heads. Then, they pretend to laugh. Soon everyone is laughing naturally. People say that they feel good after laughing together.
Scientists believe that laughter is good for you, why? For one thing, laughter is good exercise. When you laugh, you exercise muscles in your body. Scientists say that one hundred laughs equal ten minutes of running. When you laugh, you also breathe deeply. This helps you relax. That is good for you, too.
Why do we laugh? That is a hard question to answer. We know that people laugh more often in a group. They don’t laugh very often when they are alone. Many scientists believe that we use laughter to connect to other people. Laughter helps us feel part of a group.
Unit one Lesson one: The kiwi 第一單元，第一課：無翼鳥
The kiwi lives only in NewZealand. It is very strange bird
.Because
it can notfly.The
kiwi is the same size as achicken.It
has no wings ortail.It
does not have feathers like otherbirds.It
feathers look likehair.Each
foot has four toes.It"s beak is very long. A kiwi likes to have a lot of trees around it. It sleeps during theday.Because
sunlight hurts itseyes.It
can smell things verywell.It
smells things better than most birdsdo.The
kiwis eggs are very big.There"re only a few kiwis in New Zealand now. People do not often see them. The government says that people can not kill kiwis. New Zealanders want their kiwis to
live.There
is a picture of a kiwi in New Zealand money. People from New Zealand sometimes called "kiwis".無翼鳥住在紐西蘭，它是一隻很奇怪的鳥，因為，它不會飛，無翼鳥跟小雞的大小相同，它沒有翅膀，也沒有尾巴，它沒有像別的鳥一樣的尾巴，它的羽毛看起來很像頭髮，每隻腳都有4個腳指頭，它的嘴巴很長。無翼鳥喜歡周圍有很多樹。它白天睡覺，因為，Sunny會傷害它的眼睛。它的嗅覺非常好，它的嗅覺比大多數的鳥要好。無翼鳥蛋非常大.
在紐西蘭現在只有一些無翼鳥，人們不經常看見它們，政府說人們不能殺死無翼鳥。紐西蘭人想要它們的無翼鳥活下去，紐西蘭的錢上有無翼鳥的圖片，住在紐西蘭的人們有時被叫作無翼鳥。 第一單元 第四課 河馬 The hippopotamus
河馬住在非洲的熱的部分，它是哺乳動物，也就是說，它的孩子們生下來是活的，而且，它們喝媽媽身上的牛奶。
The hippopotamus, or hippo, lives in the hot part of Africa, it’s a mammal, that is, its babies are born alive, and they drink milk from their mother’s body.
河馬是一個很大的動物，河馬的重量有四噸，它的胃是7米長，它只吃植物，河馬是哺乳動物，但是，它花費很多時間在水裡。
The hippopotamus is a large animal. A hippo weighs four tons. Its stomach is seven meters long, it eats only plants. A hippo is a mammal, but, it spends a lot of time in the water.
在白天，它睡在河邊或睡在湖邊，有時，它醒來，然後，它去水底下，得到一些植物當做美餐，它能夠閉上鼻子，在水底下呆十分鐘，它的耳朵、眼睛和鼻子，都在它頭上高的地方。它能夠停留它的身體在水底下，只有它的耳朵、眼睛、鼻子在水上面，然後它可以呼吸空氣。
During the day, it sleeps beside a river or a lake. Sometimes, it wakes up. Then it goes under the water to get some plants for food. It can close its nose and stay under water for ten minutes. Its ears, eyes and nose, are high up on its head. It can stay with it’s body under the water, only its ears, eyes and nose above the water, then it can breathe the air.
在晚上，河馬走在陸地上，而且，尋找食物。它從不去遠離水的地方
At night, hippo walks on the land and looks for food. It never goes very far from the water.
一個小河馬，經常站立在媽媽的背上，媽媽在水底下尋找食物，小河馬騎在她的背上，在水上。
A baby hippo often stands on its mother’s back, the mother looks for food under the water, the baby hippo rides on her back above the water. 第一單元 第五課 海豚The Dolphin
海豚會說話嗎？可能它們不會用語言說話，但是它們可以用聲音說話，它們用聲音來表達它們的感情。
Can dolphins talk? Maybe they can’t talk with words, but they can talk with sounds. They show their feelings with sounds.
海豚成群結隊的去旅行。我們把一群魚叫做一所學校，它們不學習，但是它們一起旅行，海豚是哺乳動物，不是魚，但是它們在學校一起游泳。
Dolphins travel in a group. We call a group of fish “a school”. They don’t study, but they travel together. Dolphins are mammals, not fish, but they swim together in the school.
海豚跟在學校裡其他的海豚說話。它們給資訊，它們說當在它們高興或者傷心或者害怕的時候，它們說”歡迎”當一隻海豚回到學校的時候，它們玩的時候說話。 Dolphins talk to the other dolphins in the school. They give information, they tell when they are happy or sad or afraid, they say “welcome” when a dolphin comes back to the school, they talk when they play.
它們在水上面弄出一些聲音。它們在水下面弄出更多的聲響。人們不能聽到這些聲音，因為，聲音很大很大，科學家錄出聲音的磁帶和研究磁帶。
They make a few sounds above water. They make many more sounds under water. People can’t hear these sounds because the sounds are very very high. Scientists make tapes of sounds and study these tapes.
有時人們抓到海豚放在很大的水族館（一個水族館是個魚的動物園），人們看演出能夠看見海豚。海豚不喜歡遠離水族館裡面它們的學校，它們很傷心也很孤獨。
Sometimes people catch dolphins for a large aquarium( an aquarium is a zoo for fish”. People can watch dolphins in a show. Dolphins don’t like to be away from their school in the aquarium. They are very sad and lonely.
有很多關於海豚的故事，它們幫助過人們。有時它們救命某人生命，海豚的肉很好吃，但是人們不喜歡殺死海豚。它們說海豚帶來好運氣，很多人相信這個。 There are many stories about dolphins. They help people. Sometimes they save somebody’s life. Dolphin meat is very good, but people don’t like to kill dolphins. They say dolphins bring good luck, many people believe this.
二單元 第一課 我們為什麼打哈欠 Why do we yawn?
熊打哈欠，駱駝打哈欠，很多哺乳動物也打哈欠。我們為什麼要打哈欠？實際上沒有一個人知道答案。
Bears yawn, camels yawn, most mammals yawn. Why do we yawn.? No one really knows the answer.
我們知道每一個人打哈欠的方法都是一樣的，首先你慢慢的張開嘴巴，你的嘴巴繼續張開5秒鐘，然後你很快的閉上你的嘴巴。
We know that everyone yawns in the same way. First you open your mouth slowly. Your mouth stays open for about five minutes , then you close your mouth quickly. 我們知道打哈欠是有傳染性的或者易傳染。當你看到有人打哈欠的時候，你也會打哈欠，很多人說他們打哈欠是因為很無聊或者很累。這可能是真的，然而我們知道當人們興奮或者緊張不安的時候他們也會打哈欠，參加奧運會跑步專案的運動員，比如說 在賽跑之前運動員經常會打哈欠，為什麼呢？
We also know that, yawning is contagious or catching. When you see someone yawn, you also yawn, many people say that they yawn because they are very bored, or tired. This might be true. However we know that people also yawn, when they are excited or nervous, Olympic runners, for example, often yawn before a race. Why is that? 許多科學家認為打哈欠讓你更加警覺。當你打哈欠時，你呼吸更深，你還伸展你臉部和脖子上的肌肉。可能這讓你感覺更加警覺。
Some scientists believe that yawning makes you more a alert , when you yawn, you breathe more deeply, you also stretch your muscle in your face and your neck. Maybe this makes you feel more alert.
科學家不花費時間研究打哈欠。那可能因為打哈欠不會傷害人，它只是我們做的某事。
Scientists do not spend time studying yawning, that is probably because yawning does not hurt. It is just something we do.
第二單元 第二課
為什麼人們會大笑? Why do people laugh?
你每天會大笑嗎？大多數人會這樣做，科學家說這些人笑的次數大約一天17次，那是很多笑聲。
Do you laugh everyday? Most people do. Scientists say that people laugh about 17 times a day. That is a lot of laughter.
在印度，有幾百個笑聲的俱樂部，在這些俱樂部裡的人，每天早晨都聚集在一起。首先，他們伸展他們的手，在他們的頭上面，然後，他們假裝大笑，很快地每一個人都自然地大笑起來，人們說他們一起大笑之後感覺很好。
In India, there are hundreds of laughter club. The people in these clubs get together every morning. First, they stretch their hands above their heads. Then, they pretend to laugh. Soon everyone is laughing naturally. People say that they feel good after laughing together.
科學家相信笑對你有好處，為什麼呢?首先，笑是好的運動，當你笑的時候，你鍛鍊了你身體上的好多肌肉，科學家說那個100個笑相當於跑步10分鐘，當你笑的時候，你也深深地呼吸，這幫助你放鬆，那也對你有好處。
Scientists believe that laughter is good for you, why? For one thing, laughter is good exercise. When you laugh, you exercise muscles in your body. Scientists say that one hundred laughs equal ten minutes of running. When you laugh, you also breathe deeply. This helps you relax. That is good for you, too.
為什麼我們笑？那是個難回答的問題，我們知道人們一群的時候更經常大笑，當他們獨自一人的時候，他們不經常大笑，很多科學家相信我們利用笑聯絡其他的人，笑幫助我們感覺到我屬於這一群人裡的一部分.
Why do we laugh? That is a hard question to answer. We know that people laugh more often in a group. They don’t laugh very often when they are alone. Many scientists believe that we use laughter to connect to other people. Laughter helps us feel part of a group.
在英國，人們說笑聲是最好的藥，一些人認為笑聲幫助病人治好，你也這樣認為嗎？