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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

Weather words

2020/11/9

The British love to talk about weather! Learn some useful vocabulary about it here.

Homophones

2020/11/2

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

Compound nouns

2020/10/26

Ice cream, popcorn... Learn about nouns made up of a combination of two words.

Similar words

2020/10/19

We talk about words like 'big' and 'large' and explore the similarities between them.

Adjective order

2020/10/12

This is a big, old, smelly dog! Learn which adjective has to come first.

Contractions

2020/10/5

"I've run a marathon." Look at the shorter form 'I've'. Learn how to use contractions.

Job suffixes

2020/9/28

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

Word stress

2020/9/21

How to pronounce the words 'photographer' and 'photograph'? Learn about word stress.

Compound adjectives

2020/9/14

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

Lexical sets

2020/9/7

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

-ing and -ed adjectives

2020/8/31

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

Binomials

2020/8/24

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

Chunks of language

2020/8/17

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

Prefixes

2020/8/10

Have no fear... Finn and Alice are here and they'll teach you everything about prefixes!

Adjectives and adverbs

2020/8/3

Fashionable? Fashionably? We teach you adjectives and adverbs.

Suffixes

2020/7/27

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

Academic Vocabulary

2020/7/20

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

Talk like Shakespeare

2020/7/13

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

Irregular verbs 2

2020/7/6

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.