A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- Η Μπλε Πέτρα στην Παραλία Polly flies along a coast between mountains and the sea, and finds a strange blue stone. Audio
- Η Γέφυρα Που Είχε Κόστος Polly walks the Brooklyn Bridge, where workers got sick building it underwater, and elephants once proved... Audio
- Το Ανοιχτό Χέρι του Λιμανιού Polly flies into New York Harbor and looks at the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France with metal skin no... Audio
- Ο Σταθμός Που Κανείς Δεν Περνάει Polly finds an old subway station built to look nice, closed long ago because new trains were too long for... Audio
- Το ζώο που κάνει κύβους Wombats make cube shaped poop, and now we know why. Audio
- Αυτό το πουλί κοιμάται ενώ πετάει Frigatebirds fly for many days and sleep only a little. Audio
- Το μεσημεριανό που τρώει μια ολόκληρη χώρα In the Dominican Republic, everyone eats the same lunch at the same time. Audio
- Δείπνο μαγειρεμένο από ένα ηφαίστειο In the Azores, people cook food inside a hot volcano. Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Ένας Λόφος Γεμάτος Τρύπες The blue stone is dug out entirely by hand, because a machine would break it. Audio
- Ο Δρόμος που Τελειώνει ο Χώρος Polly arrives in the southwest of the Dominican Republic, where the mountains meet the sea, and finds one... Audio
- Ο αγώνας που πάντα κερδίζει το τυρί Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- Δύο ολοκαίνουργια ζώα, το καθένα στο μέγεθος ενός νυχιού Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Η μέρα που ένα αληθινό ζωύφιο χάλασε έναν υπολογιστή In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- Η γαρίδα με έναν ήλιο μέσα στη δαγκάνα της A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- Το σπίτι χωρισμένο ανάμεσα σε δύο χώρες In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- Ο Στρατός Που Έχασε Από Πουλιά In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- Επτά Φούστες και Ασημένια Ψάρια Polly rides the old funicular down to town, where gull ladies in seven layered skirts dry silver fish in... ? Quiz included Audio
- Δύο είδη που κανείς δεν είχε ονομάσει, βρέθηκαν σε έναν βράχο Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Ο πόλεμος που έχασε η Αυστραλία από τους εμού In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- Οι χιμπατζήδες, όπως αποδεικνύεται, έχουν προφορές A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Η τράπεζα που δανείζει έναντι τυριού An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Γιατί ο χάρτης σου θα ήταν λάθος μέχρι το μεσημέρι Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- Η λάμψη που το δέρμα σου δεν σταματά ποτέ να εκπέμπει Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- Τι πραγματικά μεταφέρει τα λόγια σου πέρα από έναν ωκεανό Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio