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Paula Wojcik First Polish Reader For beginners Bilingual for speakers of English

L a n g u a g e P r a c t i c e P u b l i s h i n g

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Narrator Paula Wojcik Editor-in-chief Vadim Zubakhin

2010©Language Practice Publishing

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Zawartość Table of contents

FFiirrsstt PPoolliisshh RReeaaddeerrEElleemmeennttaarryy ...................................................................................7 Chapter 1 .....................................................................................................................8

Mike has a dog.........................................................................................................9 Chapter 2 ...................................................................................................................11

They live in Gdynia ...............................................................................................11 Chapter 3 ...................................................................................................................13

Are they Polish?.....................................................................................................14 Chapter 4 ...................................................................................................................16

Can you help, please? ............................................................................................16 Chapter 5 ...................................................................................................................19

Mike lives in Poland now ......................................................................................20 Chapter 6 ...................................................................................................................22

Mike has many friends...........................................................................................23 Chapter 7 ...................................................................................................................25

Marcin buys a bike.................................................................................................26 Chapter 8 ...................................................................................................................27

Linda wants to buy a new DVD ............................................................................28 Chapter 9 ...................................................................................................................29

Alexandr listens to American songs ......................................................................30 Chapter 10.................................................................................................................32

Alexandr buys textbooks on design.......................................................................33 Chapter 11.................................................................................................................35

Mike wants to earn some money (part 1) .............................................................36 Chapter 12.................................................................................................................38

Mike wants to earn some money (part 2) ..............................................................39 It is time to go to college .......................................................................................40

FFiirrsstt PPoolliisshh RReeaaddeerr PPrree--IInntteerrmmeeddiiaattee........................................................................41 Rozdział 13 ...............................................................................................................42

Nazwa hotelu .........................................................................................................42 Rozdział 14 ...............................................................................................................44

Aspiryna.................................................................................................................45 Rozdział 15 ...............................................................................................................47

Ania i kangur .........................................................................................................48 Rozdział 16 ...............................................................................................................50

Spadochroniarze.....................................................................................................51 Rozdział 17 ...............................................................................................................54

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Wyłącz gaz!........................................................................................................... 55 Rozdział 18............................................................................................................... 57

Urząd pracy ........................................................................................................... 58 Rozdział 19............................................................................................................... 61

Marcin i Mike myją ciężarówkę (część 1) ............................................................ 62 Rozdział 20............................................................................................................... 64

Marcin i Mike myją ciężarówkę (część 2) ............................................................ 65 Rozdział 21............................................................................................................... 68

Lekcja .................................................................................................................... 69 Rozdział 22............................................................................................................... 71

Alexandr pracuje w wydawnictwie ....................................................................... 72 Rozdział 23............................................................................................................... 75

Zasady dla kotów .................................................................................................. 76 Rozdział 24............................................................................................................... 78

Praca zespołowa .................................................................................................... 79 Rozdział 25............................................................................................................... 82

Mike i Marcin szukają nowej pracy ...................................................................... 83 Rozdział 26............................................................................................................... 88

Ubiegać się o pracę w Wiadomości Gdyni ........................................................... 89 Rozdział 27............................................................................................................... 93

Patrol policyjny (część 1)...................................................................................... 94 Rozdział 28............................................................................................................... 98

Patrol policyjny (część 2)...................................................................................... 99 Rozdział 29............................................................................................................. 103

Szkoła dla studentów z zagranicy (SSZ) i Au-pair ............................................. 104 Polish-English dictionary ....................................................................................... 107 English-Polish dictionary ....................................................................................... 121

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Polski alphabet - Polish alphabet Polish Alphabet contains 32 letters. Specific for polish language are letters: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ź, ż. A a like a in Madrid

Ą ą nasal a, like chanson (French)

B b like b in big

C c like ts in cats

Ć ć like ts in pots

D d like d in do

E e like e in devil

Ę ę nasal e, like in engineer

F f like f in fit

G g like g in begin

H h like h in hamburger

I i like e in bee, ea in eagle

J j like u in duty

K k like c and k in coke

L l like l in love

Ł ł like w in water

M m like m in meet

N n like n in need

Ń ń like ñ in señor (Spanish)

O o like o in rock

Ó ó like oo in book

P p like p in pour

R r like r in korrida (Spanish)

S s like s in seed

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Ś ś like ch in ich - [ɕ] (German)

T t like t in tip

U u like oo in school

W w like v in vaseline

Y y like i in disc

Ź ź soft z

Ż ż similar to s in pleasure - [ʐ]

Z z like z in zoo

Dwuznaki (double-marks, diagraphs)

CH, CZ, RZ, SZ, DZ, DŻ, DŹ are pronounced as a single letter: CH – sounds like h in heat

CZ – sounds like ch in chocolate

RZ – sounds like Polish Ż

SZ – sounds like sh in bush

DZ – sounds like ds in reads

DŻ – sounds like g in German DŹ – sometimes dzi (before vowel), /d ͡ʑ/

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FFiirrsstt PPoolliisshh RReeaaddeerr

EElleemmeennttaarryy

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Rozdział 1 Chapter 1

Mike ma psa Mike has a dog

Słówka Words

1. czarny - black 2. cztery - four 3. dużo, wiele - many, much 4. duży - big 5. gwiazda, gwiazdka

(diminutive, used with hotel***) - star

6. hotel - hotel 7. hotele- hotels 8. i - and 9. ja - I 10. jeden - one 11. jego - his;

jego łóżko - his bed 12. kot - cat 13. książka - book

14. ładny- nice 15. łóżka - beds 16. łóżko- bed 17. mały - little 18. mieć - to have

on, ona, ono ma - he/she/it has; On ma książkę. - He has a book.

19. mój, moja, moje - my 20. nie- not 21. niebieski - blue 22. nos - nose 23. notes - notebook 24. notesy - notebooks 25. nowy - new

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26. oczy - eyes 27. okna - windows 28. okno - window 29. oko - eye 30. on - he 31. oni, one - they 32. park - park 33. parki - parks 34. pies - dog 35. pióra - pens 36. pióro - pen 37. pokój - room 38. pokoje - rooms 39. rower - bike 40. sen, marzenie - dream 41. sklep - shop

42. sklepy - shops 43. słowa, słówka - words 44. słowo - word 45. stół - table 46. stoły - tables 47. studenci - students 48. student - student 49. te, ci, tamte,tamci - these, those50. tekst - text 51. ten, ta, te - that 52. ten, ta, te - this;

ta książka - this book 53. też - too 54. ulica - street 55. ulice - streets 56. zielony - green

Mike ma psa Mike has a dog

1. Ten student ma książkę. 2. On ma też pióro.

3. Gdynia ma dużo/wiele ulic i parków. 4. Ta ulica

ma nowe hotele i sklepy. 5. Ten hotel ma cztery

gwiazdki 6. Ten hotel ma dużo/wiele ładnych

pokoi.

7. Tamten pokój ma wiele okien. 8. A te pokoje

nie mają wielu okien. 9. Te pokoje mają cztery

łóżka. 10. A te pokoje mają jedno łóżko. 11. Ten

pokój nie ma wielu stołów. 12. A te pokoje mają

wiele dużych stołów.

13. Na tej ulicy nie ma hoteli. 14. Ten duży sklep

ma wiele okien.

15. Ci studenci mają notesy. 16. Oni mają też

1. This student has a book. 2. He has a pen too. 3. Gdynia has many streets and parks. 4. This street has new hotels and shops. 5. This hotel has four stars. 6. This hotel has many nice big rooms. 7. That room has many windows. 8. And these rooms do not have many windows. 9. These rooms have four beds. 10. And those rooms have one bed. 11. That room does not have many tables. 12. And those rooms have many big tables. 13. This street does not have hotels. 14. That big shop has many windows. 15. These students have

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pióra.

17. Mike ma mały czarny notes. 18. Alexandr ma

cztery nowe zielone notesy.

19. Ten student ma rower. 20. On ma nowy

niebieski rower. 21. Marcin też ma rower. 22. On

ma ładny czarny rower.

23. Alexandr ma marzenie. 24. Ja też mam

marzenie.

25. Nie mam psa. 26. Ja mam kota. 27. Mój kot

ma zielone oczy. 28. Mike nie ma kota. 29. On

ma psa. 30. Jego pies ma mały czarny nos.

notebooks. 16. They have pens too. 17. Mike has one little black notebook. 18. Alexandr has four new green notebooks. 19. This student has a bike. 20. He has a new blue bike. 21. Marcin has a bike too. 22. He has a nice black bike. 23. Alexandr has a dream. 24. I have a dream too. 25. I do not have a dog. 26. I have a cat. 27. My cat has nice green eyes. 28. Mike does not have a cat. 29. He has a dog. 30. His dog has a little black nose.