A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- Zwierzę, które robi kostki Wombats make cube shaped poop, and now we know why. ? Quiz included Audio
- Krokodyle w słonej wodzie There are hundreds of crocodiles in the salty lake, and the lake once grew and covered farms and roads. Audio
- Jezioro poniżej morza Polly finds a big salty lake in a dry valley, with old coral in the rocks around it. Audio
- Wzgórze pełne dziur Men dig the blue stone out of the hill by hand, because machines would break it. Audio
- Woda, która stała się twarda Inside the grey rock there is blue stone, and it comes from only one place in the world. Audio
- Kamień spłynął rzeką Polly learns that the blue stone came down from the mountains, and that it has a name. Audio
- Niebieski kamień na plaży Polly flies along a coast between mountains and the sea, and finds a strange blue stone. Audio
- Plaża, na której nic nie ma Polly finds a long empty beach in a national park, and then she flies home. Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Obiad ugotowany przez wulkan On a green island in the Azores, cooks lower a pot into a hot hole in the ground and let the earth slowly... ? Quiz included Audio
- Zamek, w którym król prawie nie mieszkał A Bavarian king built a fairy-tale castle on an alpine crag, slept there only a handful of nights, and left... ? Quiz included Audio
- Spacer po dnie morza Twice a day the North Sea pulls back for kilometres, and people walk barefoot across the bare seabed before... ? Quiz included Audio
- Dlaczego twój telefon wyłącza się na mrozie Your phone shows forty percent battery, then dies in the snow. The battery is not empty. It is cold, and... ? Quiz included Audio
- Miasto, które odkopało rzekę For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... ? Quiz included Audio
- Dziesięć kilometrów w górze Passenger planes cruise about ten kilometres above the ground. That number is not random: it is where the... ? Quiz included Audio
- Starożytni ludzie doskonale radzili sobie w dżungli Scientists once thought ancient humans avoided rainforests. New evidence from West Africa says they thrived... ? Quiz included Audio
- Dlaczego miód sprzed trzech tysięcy lat wciąż nadaje się do jedzenia Honey jars from Egyptian tombs three thousand years old are still edible. The chemistry behind a food that... ? Quiz included Audio
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- Dwa gatunki, których nikt nie nazwał, znalezione na ścianie skalnej Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... ? Quiz included Audio
- Krewetka ze słońcem w kleszczu A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so violently that it produces a flash of heat nearly as hot as the... Audio
- Wojna, którą Australia przegrała z emu In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- Okazuje się, że szympansy mają akcenty A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Bank, który udziela pożyczek pod zastaw sera An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Dlaczego twoja mapa myliłaby się już przed obiadem Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- Blask, którego twoja skóra nigdy nie przestaje wydzielać Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- Co naprawdę niesie twoje słowa przez ocean Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio