Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to impr
Mail and male... Learn about words that sound the same but have different spellings.
Do you like ice cream? Do you use a keyboard? Words like are compound nouns.
What's the connection between a teacher, a driver and a presenter? We explain.
Explore the similarities and differences in words like 'big' and 'large'.
Do you know how to put adjectives in the right order? We can help.
To sound fluent and natural when you speak you might want to learn about contractions.
Do you know how to pronounce the words photographer and photograph? We can help you.
Learn how to use compound adjectives (e.g. low-fat yoghurt, high-quality carbohydrates).
Finn and Catherine give you some tips on how to remember new words.
Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.
Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together.
Find out how you can sound much more natural by learning and using chunks of language.
Learn how to add prefixes to the beginning of some words to change their meanings.
Fashionable? Fashionably? Learn how to use adjectives and adverbs.
Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.
Do you have to write academic texts and essays? Finn and Neil give you some tips.
Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.
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.