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.…
2014-03-08 Contractions – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Contractions When you’re talking about your life experiences, are you going to pronounce every single word in a sentence like…
2014-03-01 Job suffixes – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Job suffixes What’s the connection between a teacher, a driver or, like Neil and Sophie, a presenter? Well, these words…
2014-02-26 Word stress – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Word stress Weddings are special days, to be remembered for many years. To take the perfect pictures, most people book…
2014-02-19 Compound adjectives – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Compound adjectives What vocabulary helps you describe a car journey that took nine hours – or an airline that offers…
2014-02-12 Lexical sets – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Lexical sets Finn and Catherine give you some tips which can help you to remember new words. In 6 Minute…
2014-02-05 -ing and -ed adjectives – 6 Minute Vocabulary
-ing and -ed adjectives They’re easy to confuse – so when should we use them? Finn and Catherine explain in…
2014-01-29 Binomials – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Binomials Mr Christmas said he never gets sick and tired of his celebrations. Sick and tired is a phrase which…
2014-01-22 Chunks of language – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Chunks of language In this session, you’ve seen folding bike and Oyster card – we can think of these as…
2014-01-15 Prefixes, un-, in- and dis- – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Prefixes: un-, in- and dis- Here is this week’s 6 Minute Vocabulary, all about prefixes. We can put prefixes at…
2014-01-08 Adjectives and adverbs – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Adjectives and adverbs Do you like fashion? Is being fashionable important to you – or do you hate dressing fashionably?…
2014-01-01 Suffixes, -ee, -able, -ible, -ness – 6 Minute Vocabulary
Suffixes In this episode, Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes. FinnHello and…