Vocabulary

2015-10-26 How to use antonyms – 6 Minute Vocabulary

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…

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2015-10-19 Forming words with the suffixes -ness and -ity – 6 Minute Vocabulary

Suffixes: -ness & -ity Is responsibility the key to happiness at work - or can it lead to illness? Listen to Neil and Catherine talk…

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2015-10-12 Discourse markers for attitude – 6 Minute Vocabulary

Fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally. These words do a very useful job. How do we use them - and other phrases -…

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2015-10-05 Forming words with the suffixes -ment, -ance and -ence – 6 Minute Vocabulary

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…

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2015-09-21 How to use irregular verbs – 6 Minute Vocabulary

Verbs, verbs, verbs In this programme we look at the difficult subject of irregular verbs: verbs that don't behave normally. Unfortunately,…

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2015-09-14 How to use reporting verbs like insist, demand and advise – 6 Minute Vocabulary

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…

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2015-09-07 Someone, nothing and anywhere – 6 Minute Vocabulary

Someone, nothing, anywhere... Tracey thinks there’s someone else in her boyfriend’s life. Find out why she thinks that and learn about words…

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2015-08-31 Dealing with false friends – 6 Minute Vocabulary

False friends A Spanish woman was on a train in Australia. She said "Can I sit down please? I'm embarrassed." What…

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2015-08-24 Spelling and saying words with o-u-g-h – 6 Minute Vocabulary

Words with 'ough' Enough, cough, thought, although - these four words have similar spellings but very different pronunciation. Find out more about pronouncing words…

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2015-08-17 Easily confused words – 6 Minute Vocabulary

Easily confused words Sensible and sensitive are two words that look and sound similar but have very different meanings. They are often confused…

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