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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

Male and female job words

2023/5/29

How words change depending on whether a man or a woman is doing the job.

New words

2023/5/22

Rob and Catherine are here to help you update your language!

Weather words

2023/5/15

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

Homophones

2023/5/9

Learn about words that sound the same but have different meanings

Compound nouns

2023/5/2

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

Adjective order

2023/4/24

We explain the order you put adjectives in when describing a dog!

Contractions

2023/4/17

Finn and Feifei help you learn this important part of speaking and writing, in English.

Job suffixes

2023/4/3

What's the connection between a teacher, a driver or a presenter?

Word stress

2023/3/27

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

Compound adjectives

2023/3/20

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

Lexical sets

2023/3/13

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

-ing and -ed adjectives

2023/3/6

Interested or interesting? Which adjective do you use? We discuss -ing and -ed adjectives

Do you want some cheap and cheerful tips to improve your English? Listen to learn more.

Useful chunks of language

2023/2/20

Do you like to eat a full English breakfast? Listen to find out how to use this phrase.

Learn some prefixes which we hope won't make you feel unhappy.

Adjectives and adverbs

2023/2/6

Fashionable? Fashionably? We teach you adjectives and adverbs.

Suffixes

2023/1/30

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

Academic Vocabulary

2023/1/23

Do you have to write academic texts and essays? We give you some tips on how to do it.

Talk like Shakespeare

2023/1/16

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

More irregular verbs

2023/1/9

Write, wrote, written. Speak, spoke, spoken - learn more about irregular verbs.