A2 · Getting started
Longer stories about daily life, past and future.
- A Estação Onde Ninguém Passa Polly finds an old subway station built to look nice, closed long ago because new trains were too long for... Audio
- O animal que faz cubos Wombats make cube shaped poop, and now we know why. Audio
- Esse pássaro dorme enquanto voa Frigatebirds fly for many days and sleep only a little. Audio
- O almoço que um país inteiro come In the Dominican Republic, everyone eats the same lunch at the same time. Audio
- Jantar cozido por um vulcão In the Azores, people cook food inside a hot volcano. Audio
- O último trem Tomas misses the last train in Tokyo and sleeps in a tiny room. Audio
- A xícara vazia On his first day, Pedro drinks from a cup that is not his. Audio
- Número quarenta e sete Carla waits a long time at the clinic for a small cut. Audio
B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- A corrida em que o queijo sempre vence Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- Dois animais novíssimos, cada um do tamanho de uma unha Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- O dia em que um bicho de verdade quebrou um computador In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- O camarão com um sol dentro da garra A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- A casa dividida entre dois países In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- O exército que perdeu para pássaros In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
- Chimpanzés têm sotaques A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls found that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- A internet fica debaixo d'água Almost all international internet traffic travels along cables lying on the sea floor, which break... Audio
B2 · Building confidence
Real places, real news, richer language.
C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- Duas espécies que ninguém tinha nomeado, encontradas em uma parede rochosa Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- A guerra que a Austrália perdeu para as emas In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- Chimpanzés, ao que parece, têm sotaque A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- O banco que empresta dinheiro em troca de queijo An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Por que seu mapa estaria errado até a hora do almoço Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- O brilho que sua pele nunca para de emitir Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- O que realmente carrega suas palavras através de um oceano Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio
- O hotel que atravessa fronteiras enquanto você dorme On a European night train, a traveller falls asleep in one country and wakes in another, with the Alps... Audio