Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to impr
Weird or wierd? English spelling is fascinating – but it's not always straightforward!
Listen to Angela talk about her lucky shark escape and learn some linking words.
Are you unsure whether it’s disc or disk, sympathise or sympathize, learnt or learned?
Listen to Peter and Catherine talking about acronyms like NASA and FIFA in this podcast.
Finn and Catherine discuss antonyms in 6 minute Vocabulary.
Listen to Neil and Catherine talk about words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.
fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally.
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? Learn about prefixes.
What's the date today? And do you know how to say it?
Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha… are these really English words? Who uses them and why?
What is more important in life: knowledge, money or happiness?
Learn how to use time expression with the preposition in, on and at