2016-06-30 Stop Saying – Tim’s top tips for progressing to advanced English
Learning English can be hard work. Progress can seem particularly slow when your level gets higher. What can you do to move from intermediate to advanced? Tim has some tips…
2016-06-23 Stop Saying – Past habits without ‘used to’
Is there another way of talking about past habits without using ‘used to’? This is the question that Tim tackles in this video. In it he has to reveal some…
2016-06-16 Stop Saying – Three Tims argue about a common grammar ‘mistake’ with English conditionals
Do native English speakers make grammar mistakes? It can be confusing when you’ve studied grammar hard – and then you hear a native English speaker saying something that isn’t in…
2016-06-09 Stop Saying – Tim explains phrasal verbs: informal, formal or neutral?
Are phrasal verbs formal, informal or neutral? Join Tim as he travels back in time to tackle some of the mysteries of multi-word verbs. Learn more here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/upper-intermediate/unit-27/session-4
2016-06-02 Stop Saying – Alternatives to ‘and’
Do you use the word ‘and’ too much? Helen’s here to give us a few alternatives – and to entertain us with some wonderful singing and dancing. Learn more here:…
2016-05-26 Stop Saying – Helen explains how to pronounce the ‘dark L’
The letter L doesn’t always behave as you expect it to! In this pronunciation special Helen explains the mysterious ‘dark L’. Find out what it is in Stop Saying. Learn…
2016-05-19 Stop Saying – Learn different ways of talking about the future
When we think of the future, if we’re thinking grammatically, we think of will. However, the future can be different depending on what we’re talking about. Will is not the…
2016-05-12 Stop Saying – Phrasal verbs with Tim
Tim’s a master linguist! Listen to him speak French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese… and even English. Why is he speaking all these languages? To help you learn about phrasal verbs,…
2016-05-05 Stop Saying – Adjective or adverb?
How are you feeling? Are you feeling good or are you feeling well? The answer to that question you might expect to be the adverb ‘well’, but you will often…
2016-04-28 Stop Saying – How to use unfinished conditional sentences
If you do something, something will happen. That’s an example of a typical conditional sentence. It has two parts. An ‘if clause’ and a main clause. In spoken English, in…
2016-04-21 Stop Saying – British and American English Pronunciation
Improve your spoken English with BBC Learning English. Tim’s looking at some common differences between British English and American English pronunciation. For more, visit our website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/upper-intermediate/unit-20/session-4
2016-04-14 Stop Saying – Learn about transitive and intransitive verbs
What are transitive and intransitive verbs?! Why is grammar so confusing? Watch this and learn more here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/upper-intermediate/unit-19/session-4
2016-04-07 Stop Saying – How to make compound words
Some English words, like ‘nevertheless’, look and sound like one word made up of different words. In this video, Tim gives some advice and a quiz on these compound words
2016-03-31 Stop Saying – Stress in long words
It’s often difficult with long words in English to know which syllable is stressed. Tim answers a question on this topic and gives some tips and advice for learning the…
2016-03-24 Stop Saying – Using the correct verb form for ‘I wish’
We all have wishes and regrets. The phrase ‘I wish’ can be used to talk about the past, present or future. What verb form should follow ‘I wish’? Helen takes…