2015-07-05 Hyphens – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Hyphenation My sixty-year-old mother-in-law did a ten-foot dive into the swimming pool and was greatly admired. Why do we write…
2014-07-15 Words with double letters – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Words with double letters Spelling in English can be hard, and one of the trickiest areas is double letters. Is…
2014-07-08 Pronouncing verbs and nouns – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Pronouncing verbs and nouns So you want a salary increase? Who doesn’t? But do you pronounce ‘increase’ with the stress…
2014-07-01 British and American English – 6 Minute Vocabulary
British and American English What’s the difference between a mobile phone and a cellphone? Not much, except the first term…
2014-06-26 Business jargon, think out of the box – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Business jargon Are you able to think out of the box or take the helicopter view at work? How good…
2014-06-19 How to spell words that begin with a /s/ sound – 6 Minute Vocabulary
How to spell words that begin with a /s/ sound Seven sisters cycled through the city centre wearing smart suits…
2014-06-12 Phrasal verbs and context – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Phrasal verbs and context When we’re talking about moving in, moving out and moving on, what do we mean? And…
2014-06-05 Prefixes, Re- pre- and pro- – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Re- pre- and pro- Do you recycle your rubbish? Do you buy prepacked food? How proactive are you in protecting…
2014-05-29 Silent letters – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Silent letters What is the opposite of day? And what is the name of the chess piece in this picture?…
2014-05-22 Onomatopoeia – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Onomatopoeia Poor Oliver hates the city. There are too many cars zooming around and honking their horns, music blaring in…
2014-05-15 Multi-word verbs – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Multi-word verbs Do you ever meet up with your friends at the shopping centre? In English meet up with is…
2014-05-08 -ic and -ical adjectives – 6 Minute Vocabulary
-ic and -ical Some adjectives can end in either –ic or –ical, depending on their meaning. Rob and Catherine explain…
2014-05-01 Strong adjectives – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Strong adjectives We’ve already heard how Goldilocks was terrified by the three bears. It was a fantastic story, wasn’t it?…
2014-04-25 Male and female job words – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Male and female job words They might do the same job but many jobs have different titles depending on whether…
2014-04-18 New words – 6 Minute Vocabulary
New words In this unit so far we’ve already heard the words selfie, photobomb and trolling. What do these new…
2014-04-11 Weather words – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Weather words Windy, snowy, wet, hot – how do you describe the weather? The British love to talk about it…
2014-04-04 Homophones – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Homophones What is the connection between a world-famous classical composer – and the thing you use to open a door?…
2014-03-29 Compound nouns – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Compound nouns Do you like ice cream? Have you ever had problems with your computer keyboard? Words like ice cream…
2014-03-22 Similar words – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Similar words It’s time for 6 Minute Vocabulary with Rob and Sophie. Today we’re talking about similar words, like ‘big’…
2014-03-15 Adjective order – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Adjective order So in this session we’ve heard all about Bush House, where the BBC World Service broadcast until 2012.…