Learning English Vocabulary

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

Episodes

Total: 260

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

Phil has scheduled a time to talk to you about the word 'schedule'. That time is now and he will do

Useful chunks of language

2024/5/27

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

This programme is supreme - Beth is explaining how to use the word 'supreme'TRANSCRIPT Find a full t

Words with 'ough'

2024/5/20

Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.

We have a good situation here - Beth is explaining how to use the word 'situation'TRANSCRIPT Find a

Easily confused words

2024/5/13

Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.FIND BBC LEARNI

Carefree or careless? The suffixes -free and -less.

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

Adjectives and adverbs

2024/4/22

Fashionable? Fashionably? We teach you adjectives and adverbs.

Suffixes

2024/4/15

Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH H

Academic vocabulary

2024/4/1

Learn how to cope if you are studying at an English-speaking university.

Phrases from Shakespeare

2024/3/25

We learn phrases from Shakespeare that are still used today.

Irregular verbs

2024/3/18

Some irregular verbs can be grouped into patterns to help remember the different forms.

What does the word Hoover have in common with the word Google?

Adjectives from names

2024/3/4

We discuss a group of adjectives that are made from the names of famous people.

Large numbers

2024/2/26

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

Have we got your attention? Listen and learn how to use suffixes -tian, -sion and -tion.

Synonyms

2024/2/12

Learn about words that have the same or similar meanings

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