Antonyms Are your clothes a bit old-fashioned or are they really trendy? Are you a decisive or indecisive person? One good way of building vocabulary in English…
Suffixes: -ness & -ity Is responsibility the key to happiness at work - or can it lead to illness? Listen to Neil and Catherine talk…
Fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally. These words do a very useful job. How do we use them - and other phrases -…
Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence Words like excitement, performance and difference have suffixes that turn verbs and adjectives into nouns. Listen to Finn and Catherine talk…
Verbs, verbs, verbs In this programme we look at the difficult subject of irregular verbs: verbs that don't behave normally. Unfortunately,…
Reporting verbs We use the verbs say, tell and ask to report what people say. But what other verbs can we use? Find out how…
Someone, nothing, anywhere... Tracey thinks there’s someone else in her boyfriend’s life. Find out why she thinks that and learn about words…
False friends A Spanish woman was on a train in Australia. She said "Can I sit down please? I'm embarrassed." What…
Words with 'ough' Enough, cough, thought, although - these four words have similar spellings but very different pronunciation. Find out more about pronouncing words…
Easily confused words Sensible and sensitive are two words that look and sound similar but have very different meanings. They are often confused…