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Commonly misspelled words
Finn and Catherine talk through some of the complexities of English spelling.
Linking words
Rob and Catherine talk about words and short phrases used to connect ideas.
Words with more than one spelling
Disk or disc? Confused about which one to use? Finn and Catherine talk about spelling.
Acronyms
Nasa, Fifa, Unesco, Nato - Peter and Catherine talk about acronyms.
Antonyms
A good way of building vocabulary in English is to learn words with opposite meanings.
Suffixes: -ness & -ity
Learn how to use the suffixes '-ness' and '-ity' in English.
Discourse markers: Attitude
Words and phrases we use to express our attitude to what we鈥檙e saying or writing.
Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence
ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.
Someone, somewhere, anywhere...
Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'.
Irregular verbs
Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.