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Learning English Vocabulary

Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to impr

Episodes

Total: 287

Homophones

2022/1/31

Mail and male... Learn about words that sound the same but have different spellings.

Compound nouns

2022/1/24

Do you like ice cream? Do you use a keyboard? Words like are compound nouns.

Job suffixes

2022/1/17

What's the connection between a teacher, a driver and a presenter? We explain.

Similar words

2022/1/10

Explore the similarities and differences in words like 'big' and 'large'.

Adjective order

2021/12/31

Do you know how to put adjectives in the right order? We can help.

Contractions

2021/12/27

To sound fluent and natural when you speak you might want to learn about contractions.

Job suffixes

2021/12/20

What's the connection between a teacher, a driver and a presenter? We explain.

Word stress

2021/12/13

Do you know how to pronounce the words photographer and photograph? We can help you.

Compound adjectives

2021/12/6

Learn how to use compound adjectives (e.g. low-fat yoghurt, high-quality carbohydrates).

Lexical sets

2021/11/22

Finn and Catherine give you some tips on how to remember new words.

-ing and -ed adjectives

2021/11/8

Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.

Binomials

2021/11/1

Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together.

Chunks of language

2021/10/25

Find out how you can sound much more natural by learning and using chunks of language.

Prefixes

2021/10/18

Learn how to add prefixes to the beginning of some words to change their meanings.

Adjectives and adverbs

2021/10/11

Fashionable? Fashionably? Learn how to use adjectives and adverbs.

Suffixes

2021/10/4

Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.

Academic Vocabulary

2021/9/27

Do you have to write academic texts and essays? Finn and Neil give you some tips.

Talk like Shakespeare

2021/9/20

Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.

Irregular verbs 2

2021/9/13

Break, broke, broken... We look at verbs that don't behave themselves.

To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.