Learning English Vocabulary

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

Episodes

Total: 260

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.

Adjectives from names

2020/6/22

Freudian, Dickensian, Orwellian... learn about adjectives that come from names.

Large numbers

2020/6/15

How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.

"I have a confesSION: my ambiTION is to meet a MarTIAN!" - We teach you suffixes.

Synonyms

2020/6/1

Learn about synonyms - words that have the same or similar meaning.

Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.

Commonly misspelled words

2020/5/18

Finn and Catherine talk through some of the complexities of English spelling.

Neil and Finn's top tips for dealing with specialist vocabulary