Learning English Vocabulary

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

Episodes

Total: 261

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.

Eponyms as nouns and verbs

2022/12/30

To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.

Adjectives from names

2022/12/26

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

Large numbers

2022/12/19

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

2022/12/5

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

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