Learning English Vocabulary

Acronyms 28.06.2021 6:18 ↓

Nasa, Fifa, Unesco, Nato - Peter and Catherine talk about acronyms.

Antonyms 21.06.2021 6:19 ↓

A good way of building vocabulary in English is to learn words with opposite meanings.

Suffixes: -ness & -ity 07.06.2021 6:19 ↓

Learn how to use the suffixes '-ness' and '-ity' in English.

Discourse markers: Attitude 31.05.2021 6:19 ↓

Words and phrases we use to express our attitude to what we’re saying or writing.

Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence 24.05.2021 6:15 ↓

ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.

Someone, somewhere, anywhere... 17.05.2021 6:19 ↓

Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'.

Irregular verbs 10.05.2021 6:07 ↓

Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.

Reporting verbs 03.05.2021 6:20 ↓

Learn about verbs that we use when we talk about what someone else has said.

False friends 26.04.2021 6:13 ↓

Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.

Words with 'ough' 19.04.2021 6:19 ↓

Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.

Easily confused words 13.04.2021 6:19 ↓

Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.

Suffixes: -less and -free 05.04.2021 6:19 ↓

Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!

Prefixes: dys- de- dis- 29.03.2021 6:19 ↓

Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.

Ordinal numbers 22.03.2021 6:21 ↓

What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.

Short spoken forms 15.03.2021 6:07 ↓

Learn how these words are used: gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha.

Uncountable nouns 08.03.2021 6:21 ↓

Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.

Time expressions 01.03.2021 6:21 ↓

Neil and Catherine look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.

Hyphenation 22.02.2021 6:18 ↓

Learn how to use hyphens: "They did a ten-foot dive into the swimming pool."

Words with double letters 15.02.2021 6:10 ↓

Catherine and Neil talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.

Pronouncing verbs and nouns 08.02.2021 6:13 ↓

'Increase' can be a noun or a verb and they aren't pronounced the same way...

British and American English 01.02.2021 6:07 ↓

Hear about differences and similarities in vocabulary from both sides of the Atlantic.

Business jargon 25.01.2021 6:20 ↓

Can you think out of the box or take the helicopter view at work? Learn business jargon.

Pronouncing words that start with ‘c’ 18.01.2021 6:23 ↓

Listen out for words that begin with the /s/ sound but start with the letter 'c'.

Phrasal verbs and context 11.01.2021 6:12 ↓

A guide to multi-word verbs and prepositions that can change the meaning of phrasal verbs.

Prefixes re-, pre- and pro- 04.01.2021 6:12 ↓

'REcycle', 'PREpacked', 'PROactive' - we talk about prefixes in 6 Minute Vocabulary.