A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- البيوت في الجدار Polly finds old stone rooms high in the cliff. A squirrel says people lived here for thousands of years. Audio
- الجدار المنخفض Polly lands at a canyon in Arizona. The walls are small, but a raven says the canyon grows. Audio
- ماء أصبح صلباً Inside the grey rock there is blue stone, and it comes from only one place in the world. Audio
- تل مليء بالحفر Men dig the blue stone out of the hill by hand, because machines would break it. Audio
- براميل على كل سطح Polly watches a raccoon carpenter build a wooden water tank on a rooftop, held together with steel rings... Audio
- فطيرة كاملة، أم قطعة فقط Polly visits an old pizza shop where a baker started selling one slice at a time to people who had little... Audio
- الحيوان الذي يصنع مكعبات Wombats make cube shaped poop, and now we know why. Audio
- هذا الطائر ينام أثناء الطيران Frigatebirds fly for many days and sleep only a little. Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- السباق الذي يفوز فيه الجبن دائمًا Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... ? Quiz included Audio
- اليوم الذي عطّلت فيه حشرة حقيقية حاسوبًا In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... ? Quiz included Audio
- حيث تقف الجدران شامخة The canyon walls grow much taller, Polly finds dark stripes made by water, and swallows show her how to... Audio
- حيوانان جديدان تمامًا، بحجم ظفر إصبع Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- الجمبري الذي يحمل شمسًا داخل مخلبه A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- البيت المقسوم بين بلدين In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- الجيش الذي خسر أمام الطيور In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
- الشمبانزي له لهجات A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls found that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- نوعان لم يسمهما أحد، عُثر عليهما على جرف صخري Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... ? Quiz included Audio
- الجمبري الذي يحمل شمسا داخل مخلبه A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so violently that it produces a flash of heat nearly as hot as the... Audio
- الحرب التي خسرتها أستراليا أمام طيور الإيمو In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- يتضح أن للشمبانزي لهجات A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- المصرف الذي يقرض مقابل الجبن An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- لماذا كانت خريطتك ستصبح خاطئة بحلول الغداء Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- التوهج الذي لا يتوقف جلدك عن إصداره Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- ما الذي ينقل كلماتك حقا عبر المحيط Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio