C1 · Stretch yourself
Rich, natural texts about places, history and ideas.
- Иди вверх по течению, и ты найдёшь его The blue stone did not come from the sea. Polly follows the river up into the mountains, the way two men... Audio
- Дорога, которой не хватает места Polly reaches the southwest corner of the Dominican Republic, where the mountains push the road against the... Audio
- Восемь километров, на которых ничего нет At the far southwest tip of the country there is a bay with nothing built on it, and then it is time to fly... Audio
- Озеро, которое лежит ниже моря Inland from Barahona lies the largest lake in the Caribbean, saltier than the ocean, in a valley lower than... Audio
- Холм, полный ям Above one village the mountain is worked entirely by hand, because the only machine that could get the blue... Audio
- Крокодилы в солёной воде The salt lake holds the largest gathering of American crocodiles in the Caribbean, an island of rare... Audio
- Вода, которая стала твёрдой In the workshops of Barahona the rough rock is opened, and inside is a blue that exists in exactly one... Audio
- Два неназванных вида, найденных на отвесной скале Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Креветка с солнцем внутри клешни A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so violently that it produces a flash of heat nearly as hot as the... Audio
- Война, которую Австралия проиграла эму In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- Оказывается, у шимпанзе есть акценты A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Банк, который выдаёт кредиты под залог сыра An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Почему твоя карта ошибалась бы уже к обеду Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- Свечение, которое твоя кожа никогда не перестаёт излучать Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- Что на самом деле несёт твои слова через океан Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio
- Отель, который пересекает границы, пока ты спишь On a European night train, a traveller falls asleep in one country and wakes in another, with the Alps... Audio
- Река, которую Сеул полвека прятал от всех Seoul spent decades entombing a river beneath a highway, then reversed course and dug it back into the... Audio
- Чего до сих пор требует воскресенье An adult granddaughter returns home for Sunday paella and discovers that her octogenarian grandfather's... Audio
- Город, который живёт в одном здании Almost the entire population of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building, reached... Audio
- Одно кафе, две страны In the Belgian Dutch town of Baarle, the international border runs straight through streets, houses, and... Audio
- Замок, который его король почти не успел увидеть Bavaria's King Ludwig the Second poured a fortune into a fairy tale castle he would inhabit for barely a... Audio
- Прогулка по дну моря Twice each day, the tide withdraws for kilometres along the Wattenmeer coast, inviting walkers onto the... Audio
- Твой телефон не разрядился. Ему просто холодно. A phone that shows forty percent battery and then dies the moment you step into the cold has not run out of... Audio
- Десять километров над землёй Passenger jets cruise about ten kilometres up not for the view but because that is where thin air starts... Audio
- Мёд, переживший империи Honey sealed inside Egyptian tombs thousands of years ago remains perfectly edible today, and the reason... Audio
- Осьминог, который сбежал из-под замка An octopus named Inky vanished from a New Zealand aquarium overnight, and the ingenious route he took to... Audio
- Кит, проплывший пятнадцать тысяч километров Polly learns about two humpback whales who swam 14,000+ km from Australia to Brazil, breaking the world... Audio
- То, что не забрал огонь Polly makes one last high pass over Kanazawa, waits out the rain that comes off the Sea of Japan almost... Audio
- Фонари на рабочей улице In Higashi Chaya, Polly finds a lantern-lit street of wooden teahouses that is still a working... Audio
- Кухня на рассвете Before dawn at Omicho market, Polly watches fish laid out on ice in a market three hundred years old, and... Audio
- Куют, пока оно почти не исчезнет In a gold leaf workshop, Polly learns that Kanazawa makes almost all of Japan's gold leaf, and that a piece... Audio
- Шесть качеств настоящего сада In Kenrokuen, Polly watches koi turn under a famous pond and learns how gardeners rig great cones of rope... Audio
- Белые крыши и длинные стены At Kanazawa Castle, Polly walks ramparts built by the richest lords in Japan and finds roofs tiled in lead,... Audio
- Город, который уцелел Polly arrives in Kanazawa, a city held between the Sea of Japan and the mountains, and finds an old wooden... Audio
- Круг и утренний пароход On her last evening, Polly finds an ancient stone circle raised over four thousand years ago and sits... Audio
- Зерно девяноста дней At an old water mill, Polly learns how an ancient, fast-ripening barley became Orkney's daily bread and its... Audio
- Сбор на шхерах At a small chapel built by prisoners of war from two metal huts, an islander tells Polly how the most... Audio
- Построено из того, что было Polly finds one of the world's most important grey seal breeding grounds gathering on Orkney's skerries... Audio
- Деревня под штормом In a harbourside workshop, Polly watches the straw-backed Orkney chair take shape, a design born entirely... Audio
- Кресло у огня A storm-uncovered mound turns out to be a five-thousand-year-old stone village, older than Stonehenge and... Audio
- Утренний пароход приходит Polly arrives over a windswept, treeless archipelago and learns that beneath its ordinary green fields lie... Audio
- Туман закрывается за ней On her last afternoon, Polly climbs high over the whole island one more time before fog rolls in from the... Audio
- Деревня, подключённая к вулкану Walking through the village, Polly finds the same underground heat that cooked lunch also fills a giant... Audio
- Ужин, закопанный на рассвете Beside a steaming lake, Polly watches a cook lower sealed pots into holes heated only by the volcano below,... Audio
- Один кратер, два цвета Polly finds an ancient volcanic crater holding two lakes side by side, one blue and one green, joined... Audio
- Птица, которую дважды считали потерянной Deep in an old laurel forest, Polly searches for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird found nowhere else... Audio
- Последние два сада Европы Polly lands on a terraced hillside where one of only two working tea plantations left in Europe still uses... Audio
- Девять островов, три плиты Polly arrives over São Miguel, the largest of the nine Azores islands, and finds a coastline of black... Audio
- Полли едет на автобусе One nervous first ride, a capybara who has seen it all, and the exact moment a new neighborhood starts... Audio
- Полли спрашивает дорогу Twenty minutes of proud wandering, one patient owl, and the discovery that a single question is worth more... Audio
- Полли заказывает кофе A rainy afternoon pushes Polly into the corner cafe, where a badger with a bow tie, a first coffee order,... Audio
- Полли на рынке Berta keeps her promise and walks Polly through the Saturday market, where a spiky fruit, a chatty goat,... Audio
- Полли знакомится с соседкой On moving day, Polly meets Berta the bear watering her geraniums, and a chat over the fence turns into a... Audio
- Восхождение в самое сухое место Polly arrives at ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama, the driest place on Earth, where four enormous... Audio
- Владивосток Polly arrives in Vladivostok at the end of the Trans-Siberian's 9,289 kilometres, stretches her wings, and... Audio
- Амур Polly reaches the Russian Far East on the sixth day of the Trans-Siberian, sees the Amur River bordering... Audio
- Озеро Байкал Polly spends the fifth day of the Trans-Siberian running along Lake Baikal, the deepest, oldest, and... Audio
- Часовые пояса Polly explores the dining car on the fourth day of the Trans-Siberian and learns that the whole train runs... Audio
- Пересекая Урал Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the geographic boundary between Europe and Asia, on the third day of the... Audio
- Берёзовые леса Polly wakes up on the second morning of the Trans-Siberian crossing the birch forests of European Russia.... Audio
- Ярославский вокзал Polly boards the Rossiya, the flagship train of the Trans-Siberian Railway, at Moscow's Yaroslavsky... Audio
- Прощание с Пастой Polly says goodbye to Pasta the octopus, who presses one arm against the glass exactly opposite where... Audio
- Редактор самого себя Polly learns that octopuses edit their own RNA in real time, tuning their nervous systems to their... Audio
- Пицца и длинный обед Polly takes the long lunch with Chiara at a Neapolitan pizzeria, learning the protected rules behind... Audio
- Кожа, которая видит Polly watches Pasta find food under a coloured plate even though octopuses are colour-blind through their... Audio
- Тело, которое думает Polly watches Pasta solve an acrylic maze using two arms independently. She learns that two-thirds of an... Audio
- Банка Polly watches a giant Pacific octopus named Pasta open a screw-top jar to retrieve a live crab. She learns... Audio
- Неаполитанский залив Polly arrives in Naples and is welcomed into the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, the world's oldest marine... Audio
- Покидая долину Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas at the visitor centre and lifts off west out of Yosemite, leaving behind... Audio
- Млечный Путь над Глейшер-Пойнт Polly watches sunset from Glacier Point and stays for the Milky Way, looking through a park astronomer's... Audio
- Полукупольная вершина Polly climbs the 1,500-metre north face of Half Dome on rising thermals with a flock of white-throated... Audio
- Соколиный Пикирование Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive after seeing one launch from El Capitan, learning about the... Audio
- Секвойя Polly visits Mariposa Grove and climbs into the canopy of the Grizzly Giant, a giant sequoia nearly 3,000... Audio
- Поездка с рейнджером Томасом Polly rides shotgun with Ranger Tomas Rodriguez through Yosemite for a morning, learning how rangers... Audio
- Над долиной Polly arrives at Yosemite Valley from the air, taking in the U-shaped glacial geology, El Capitan with... Audio