The Ranger's Notebook
🇺🇸 English · CEFR A2 · Polly’s Adventure

The Ranger's Notebook

Polly visits a ranger who watches lions on a screen and keeps the animals safe.

💡 Tap any word for an instant translation — works seamlessly in the app.
Get PollyStop free →

Polly found a small ranger station. A ranger was drinking tea. He had a tablet with a map. The dots on the map were lions with collars. Polly looked at the screen. The ranger smiled.

By the wall there was a pile of old wires. These are snares. Bad people hide them in the grass. Rangers find them and...

By the wall there was a pile of old wires. These are snares. Bad people hide them in the grass. Rangers find them and take them away. They have removed many thousands.

How old is the great migration? Nobody knows. No one has ever seen a year without it. The rangers protect the path of...

How old is the great migration? Nobody knows. No one has ever seen a year without it. The rangers protect the path of the animals.

In the app

Read it. Then say it.

Shadow this paragraph in the PollyStop app — record yourself, see how close your pronunciation gets to a native speaker's, sentence by sentence. Free.

82% match · "Snow crunched under her running shoes"
Get PollyStop on iOS — Free
Polly walked on the ranger's notebook. Her feet made little marks. The ranger wrote: one green parrot, with glasses, ...

Polly walked on the ranger's notebook. Her feet made little marks. The ranger wrote: one green parrot, with glasses, very curious. He drew her picture too.

Now do it every day.

PollyStop puts a story like this in front of you every time you open Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube. Five minutes of English before five minutes of scroll. Free.

Get PollyStop — Free on iOS

Works on iPhone  ·  Android coming soon

Read this story in another language

1 translations

Same story, different language. Tap a flag to read it in that language — perfect for comparing or studying with a parallel translation open.

Continue in the app
Translation. Shadowing. Daily stories.
Get free →