Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to impr
Disk or disc? Confused about which one to use? Finn and Catherine talk about spelling.
Nasa, Fifa, Unesco, Nato - Peter and Catherine talk about acronyms.
A good way of building vocabulary in English is to learn words with opposite meanings.
Learn how to use the suffixes '-ness' and '-ity' in English.
Words and phrases we use to express our attitude to what we’re saying or writing.
ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.
Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'.
Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.
Learn about verbs that we use when we talk about what someone else has said.
Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.
Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.
What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.
Learn how these words are used: gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha.
Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.
Neil and Catherine look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.
Learn how to use hyphens: "They did a ten-foot dive into the swimming pool."
Catherine and Neil talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.
