6 Minute Vocabulary
Build your English vocabulary in six minutes. Every Monday join two of our presenters and hear about different ways to develop your vocabulary knowledge and skills.
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Someone, nothing, anywhere
Learn about words like someone, nothing and anywhere in 6 minutes.
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Irregular verbs
Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.
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Easily confused words
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
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Suffixes: -less and -free
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
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Prefixes: dys- de- dis-
Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.
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Ordinal numbers
What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.
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Spoken short forms
Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha... We give you an introduction to short spoken forms.
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Uncountable nouns
Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.
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Time expressions
We look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.
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Hyphenation
Find out why we write some phrases with hyphens but not others.
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Words with double letters
We talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.
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Pronouncing verbs and nouns
Learn how to pronounce verbs and nouns with Neil and Catherine.
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British and American English
Hear about differences and similarities in vocabulary from both sides of the Atlantic.
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Business jargon
Do you 'think out of the box' or 'push the envelope' at work? Learn business jargon.
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How to pronounce words beginning with 'c'
Catherine cycled through the city centre! How do you pronounce all those words with 'c'?
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Phrasal verbs and context
Learn phrasal verbs in sentences to help understand their meanings.
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Prefixes: 'Re-', 'pre-', and 'pro-'
Learn about words with the prefixes 're-', 'pre-' and 'pro-' in 6 Minute Vocabulary.
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Silent letters
Silent letters are letters that we see in words, but don’t actually pronounce.
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Onomatopoeia
Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe.
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Multi-word verbs
Learn how to use multi-word verbs to make your English sound much more natural.
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Adjectives ending with -ic and -ical
'Classic' or 'classical'? Learn about adjectives ending in -ic and -ical.
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Strong adjectives
What word do you use when you want to say something is very good or very bad?
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Contractions
Learn how to use 'I've' and 'isn't' - your English will sound more natural.
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Male and female job words
We teach you job titles for men and women.
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New words
What do the words selfie, photobomb and trolling mean? Help us update your language!
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Weather words
Rainy, snowy, windy, sunny. Learn how to describe the weather.
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Homophones
Mail and male... Learn about words that sound the same but have different spellings.
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Compound nouns
Do you like ice cream? Do you use a keyboard? Words like are compound nouns.
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Job suffixes
What's the connection between a teacher, a driver and a presenter? We explain.
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Similar words
Explore the similarities and differences in words like 'big' and 'large'.
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Adjective order
Do you know how to put adjectives in the right order? We can help.
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Contractions
To sound fluent and natural when you speak you might want to learn about contractions.
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Job suffixes
What's the connection between a teacher, a driver and a presenter? We explain.
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Word stress
Do you know how to pronounce the words photographer and photograph? We can help you.
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Compound adjectives
Learn how to use compound adjectives (e.g. low-fat yoghurt, high-quality carbohydrates).
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Lexical sets
Finn and Catherine give you some tips on how to remember new words.
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-ing and -ed adjectives
Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.
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Binomials
Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together.
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Chunks of language
Find out how you can sound much more natural by learning and using chunks of language.
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Prefixes
Learn how to add prefixes to the beginning of some words to change their meanings.
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Adjectives and adverbs
Fashionable? Fashionably? Learn how to use adjectives and adverbs.
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Suffixes
Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.
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Academic Vocabulary
Do you have to write academic texts and essays? Finn and Neil give you some tips.
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Talk like Shakespeare
Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.
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Irregular verbs 2
Break, broke, broken... We look at verbs that don't behave themselves.
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Eponyms as nouns and verbs
To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.
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Adjectives from names
Freudian, Dickensian, Orwellian... learn about adjectives that come from names.
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Large numbers
How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.
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Suffixes -sion -tion -tian
"I have a confession to make. My ambition is to meet a Martian!" - We teach you suffixes.
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Synonyms
Learn about synonyms - words that have the same or similar meaning.
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