A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- 石头顺河而下 Polly learns that the blue stone came down from the mountains, and that it has a name. ? Quiz included Audio
- 骑士和鹿 Polly hears the old story of a rider and a deer at the cliff edge. ? Quiz included Audio
- 七条裙子和银鱼 Polly goes down to town and sees gull ladies in seven skirts drying fish in the sun. ? Quiz included Audio
- 全国人都吃的午饭 In the Dominican Republic, everyone eats the same lunch at the same time. ? Quiz included Audio
- 穿越乌拉尔山脉 Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the line between Europe and Asia, on the Trans-Siberian train. ? Quiz included Audio
- 雅罗斯拉夫斯基火车站 Polly boards the Trans-Siberian train at Moscow and begins her seven-day journey to Vladivostok. ? Quiz included Audio
- 骑手们到了 The riders arrive with jet skis and long boards, ready for the giant waves. Audio
- 海底的大峡谷 Polly finds a giant canyon hidden under the sea near the beach. Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- 螯里藏着太阳的虾 A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... ? Quiz included Audio
- 花园应有的六种特质 In Kenrokuen, Polly watches koi in a famous pond and learns how gardeners rig cones of rope over the pines... ? Quiz included Audio
- 攀登世界最干燥之地 Polly arrives at ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama, the driest place on Earth, where four enormous... ? Quiz included Audio
- 河谷里的马 Polly wakes to thunder from a clear sky. It is horses, running on the sand, and the walls make twenty sound... Audio
- 墙壁中的房子 Polly finds old stone rooms built high inside a hollow in the cliff, and a squirrel tells her people have... Audio
- 沿河而上，你就会找到它 The blue stone came down the river, not out of the sea. Polly follows it up into the mountains. Audio
- 永远是奶酪赢的比赛 Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- 两种指甲大小的全新动物 Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- 悬崖上发现的两个无名新物种 Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... ? Quiz included Audio
- 那头游了一万五千公里的鲸鱼 Polly learns about two humpback whales who swam 14,000+ km from Australia to Brazil, breaking the world... Audio
- 澳大利亚败给鸸鹋的战争 In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- 原来黑猩猩也有口音 A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- 用奶酪做抵押放贷的银行 An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- 为什么到了午饭时间你的地图就会错 Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- 你的皮肤从未停止发出的光 Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- 到底是什么把你的话带过大洋 Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio