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Words with 'ough'

Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.

• 6 mins

False friends

Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.

• 6 mins

Reporting verbs

Learn about verbs that we use when we talk about what someone else has said.

• 6 mins

Irregular verbs

Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.

• 6 mins

Someone, somewhere, anywhere...

Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'.

• 6 mins

Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence

ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.

• 6 mins

Discourse markers: Attitude

Words and phrases we use to express our attitude to what we’re saying or writing.

• 6 mins

Suffixes: -ness & -ity

Learn how to use the suffixes '-ness' and '-ity' in English.

• 6 mins

Antonyms

A good way of building vocabulary in English is to learn words with opposite meanings.

• 6 mins

Acronyms

Nasa, Fifa, Unesco, Nato - Peter and Catherine talk about acronyms.

• 6 mins

Words with more than one spelling

Disk or disc? Confused about which one to use? Finn and Catherine talk about spelling.

• 6 mins

Linking words

Rob and Catherine talk about words and short phrases used to connect ideas.

• 6 mins

Commonly misspelled words

Finn and Catherine talk through some of the complexities of English spelling.

• 6 mins

Discourse Markers: Interjections

Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.

• 6 mins

Synonyms

Learn about synonyms - words that have the same or similar meaning.

• 6 mins

Suffixes -sion -tion -tian

"I have a confession to make. My ambition is to meet a Martian!" - We teach you suffixes.

• 6 mins

Large numbers

How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.

• 6 mins

Adjectives from names

Freudian, Dickensian, Orwellian... learn about adjectives that come from names.

• 6 mins

Eponyms as nouns and verbs

To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.

• 6 mins

Irregular verbs 2

Break, broke, broken... We look at verbs that don't behave themselves.

• 6 mins

Talk like Shakespeare

Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.

• 6 mins

Academic Vocabulary

Do you have to write academic texts and essays? Finn and Neil give you some tips.

• 6 mins

Suffixes

Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.

• 6 mins

Adjectives and adverbs

Fashionable? Fashionably? Learn how to use adjectives and adverbs.

• 6 mins

Prefixes

Learn how to add prefixes to the beginning of some words to change their meanings.

• 6 mins

Chunks of language

Find out how you can sound much more natural by learning and using chunks of language.

• 6 mins

Binomials

Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together.

• 6 mins

-ing and -ed adjectives

Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.

• 6 mins

Lexical sets

Finn and Catherine give you some tips on how to remember new words.

• 6 mins

Compound adjectives

Learn how to use compound adjectives (e.g. low-fat yoghurt, high-quality carbohydrates).

• 6 mins