PollyStop
A2 · Bien démarré 166 mots · 2 min

The Flight That Lasts Ninety Seconds

Illustration de The Flight That Lasts Ninety Seconds

Avant de lire

Avant de lire

Écoutez Polly la lire
Voix : anglais

This flight lasts ninety seconds. Tag the friend who hates flying. In the far north of Scotland there are small green islands in a grey sea. Two of them are called Westray and Papa Westray. A very small plane flies between them.

The plane is tiny. It carries fewer than ten people. There is no wall in front, so the passengers watch the pilot wor...

The plane is tiny. It carries fewer than ten people. There is no wall in front, so the passengers watch the pilot work. The runway is short. It is grass and gravel and a windsock, and sheep stand in the field beside it. The plane goes up, turns a little, and comes down again. The whole trip is under three kilometres.

The timetable says one and a half minutes. Most days it is faster than that. The fastest flight ever took fifty-three...

The timetable says one and a half minutes. Most days it is faster than that. The fastest flight ever took fifty-three seconds, which is shorter than this story. The people who live on the islands do not think it is special. For them it is just the bus to the next island. For everybody else, it is the shortest flight in the world.

Voilà l'histoire.

Votre tutrice IA

Maintenant, dites-le à voix haute. Parlez de cette histoire avec Polly.

Polly est la tutrice vocale de PollyStop. Elle discute avec vous, à voix haute, d'histoires comme celle-ci.

Obtenez PollyStop gratuitement.

  • Chaque jour, une nouvelle histoire graduée, avec audio.
  • Enregistrez les mots rencontrés et révisez-les plus tard.
  • Entraînement à l'oral avec retour.
  • Polly, la tutrice vocale, s'ouvre à davantage d'apprenants.

Continuez à apprendre avec PollyStop

Écoutez, enregistrez des mots, entraînez-vous

Obtenir l'appli