MORE! Listen & learn

Have you ever wondered how long you'd be able to survive in a place like Australia's outback? Why not try our listening exercises about surviving in unfriendly environments – and surviving unfriendly people.

Listen to the dialogue between Christine and Jacob again. Then listen again while you fill in the missing lines of dialogue on page 17 of your MORE! workbook.

In this scene from the Australian film Muriel's Wedding, Muriel hears that her "friends" aren't real friends at all. Can you understand what the characters are saying?

In the magazine in February, you can read about a new science-fiction film about life after the world has been destroyed. To do our listening exercises about world-ending disasters, listen to this conversation between Phoebe and Ben. Then listen again while you answer the questions on page 16 in your MORE! workbook.

Listen to the dialogue again. Both Ben and Phoebe use a lot of words that have a very similar meaning to the word "disaster". In your MORE! booklet, fill in the missing letters to write those synonymns from the dialogue.

In the disaster film 2012, Jackson (John Cusack) hears on his radio that something bad is going to happen. He goes to the studio to talk to the radio announcer, Charlie (Woody Harrelson).