Storms Grow in the Pacific Ocean
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
The Pacific Ocean had many storms.
- A2
The Pacific Ocean had many storms in 2026.
- B1
By 28 September 2026, the northeastern and central Pacific had seen 20 named storms, including nine hurricanes.
- B2
By 28 September 2026, the northeastern and central Pacific had seen 20 named storms, including nine hurricanes.
- C1
By 28 September 2026, the northeastern and central Pacific had seen 20 named storms, including nine hurricanes.
- C2
By 28 September 2026, the northeastern and central Pacific had seen 20 named storms, including nine hurricanes.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- spin
- turning around and around quickly
- pattern
- a regular way in which something happens or is done
- condition
- the situation in which people live or work, or in which things happen
- satellite
- a machine sent into space to travel around the Earth and collect information
- flood
- large amounts of water covering an area that is usually dry
- remains
- the parts of something that are left after the rest has been destroyed or has disappeared
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.