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British and American English

Hear about differences and similarities in vocabulary from both sides of the Atlantic.

• 6 mins

Pronouncing verbs and nouns

'Increase' can be a noun or a verb and they aren't pronounced the same way...

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Words with double letters

Catherine and Neil talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.

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Hyphenation

Learn how to use hyphens: "They did a ten-foot dive into the swimming pool."

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Time expressions

Neil and Catherine look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.

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Uncountable nouns

Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.

• 6 mins

Short spoken forms

Learn how these words are used: gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha.

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Ordinal numbers

What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.

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Prefixes: dys- de- dis-

Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.

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Suffixes: -less and -free

Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!

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Easily confused words

Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.

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Words with 'ough'

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

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False friends

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

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Reporting verbs

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

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Irregular verbs

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

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Someone, somewhere, anywhere...

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

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Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence

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

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Discourse markers: Attitude

Words and phrases we use to express our attitude to what we鈥檙e saying or writing.

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Suffixes: -ness & -ity

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

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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.

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Words with more than one spelling

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

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Linking words

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

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Commonly misspelled words

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

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Discourse Markers: Interjections

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

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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.

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Large numbers

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

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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.

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