Is the weather actually becoming more extreme?

"LESSON 13 - Amber Comes Over to Bake Cookies"

LESSON 13 - At a Dinner Party

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Big bushy beards have become so fashionable that there's now an art exhibition dedicated to them.

Listen to Rob and Neil discussing a London apartment block with front and back entrances for private and social housing - or so-called rich and poor doors. You can decide whether this makes sense, whilst learning some housing-related vocabulary.

Fifty years ago, on 18 March 1965, Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov took the first space walk.

Are you tethered to your smartphone? Is it a struggle to keep it charged? The answer may be wireless furniture.

As the number of people living on Earth grows, so does the pressure on animals. We have already lost countless species. And today many other breeds face extinction. But all is not lost. More and more people are realising that they must act now to stop further losses.

Research shows that it actually influences us more than we realise - whether we're at the movies, the supermarket, or down the pub.