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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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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Discourse Markers: Interjections
Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.
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Commonly misspelled words
Finn and Catherine talk through some of the complexities of English spelling.
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Linking words
Rob and Catherine talk about words and short phrases used to connect ideas.
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Words with more than one spelling
Disk or disc? Confused about which one to use? Finn and Catherine talk about spelling.
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Acronyms
Nasa, Fifa, Unesco, Nato - Peter and Catherine talk about acronyms.
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Antonyms
A good way of building vocabulary in English is to learn words with opposite meanings.
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Suffixes: -ness & -ity
Learn how to use the suffixes '-ness' and '-ity' in English.
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Discourse markers: Attitude
Words and phrases we use to express our attitude to what we’re saying or writing.
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Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence
ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.
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Someone, somewhere, anywhere...
Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'.
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Irregular verbs
Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.
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Reporting verbs
Learn about verbs that we use when we talk about what someone else has said.
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False friends
Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.
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Words with 'ough'
Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.
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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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Short spoken forms
Learn how these words are used: gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha.
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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
Neil and Catherine look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.
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Hyphenation
Learn how to use hyphens: "They did a ten-foot dive into the swimming pool."
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Words with double letters
Catherine and Neil talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.
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Pronouncing verbs and nouns
'Increase' can be a noun or a verb and they aren't pronounced the same way...
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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
Can you think out of the box or take the helicopter view at work? Learn business jargon.
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Pronouncing words that start with ‘c’
Listen out for words that begin with the /s/ sound but start with the letter 'c'.
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Phrasal verbs and context
A guide to multi-word verbs and prepositions that can change the meaning of phrasal verbs.
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Prefixes re-, pre- and pro-
'REcycle', 'PREpacked', 'PROactive' - we talk about prefixes in 6 Minute Vocabulary.
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Silent letters
We talk about letters in English 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
Do you ever 'meet up with' your friend in the park? We talk about multi-word verbs.
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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
'Terrified', 'fantastic', 'amazing' - learn how to use strong adjectives.
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Male and female job words
Policeman / policewoman, actor / actress - learn about job titles and gender.
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New words
'Selfie', 'photobomb', 'trolling'. Learn what these new words mean and how they are made.
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Weather words
The British love to talk about weather! Learn some useful vocabulary about it here.
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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
Ice cream, popcorn... Learn about nouns made up of a combination of two words.
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