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Hyphenation

Find out why we write some phrases with hyphens but not others.

• 6 mins

Time expression with in, on and at

Learn how to use time expression with the preposition in, on and at

• 6 mins

Uncountable nouns

What is more important in life: knowledge, money or happiness?

• 6 mins

Short spoken forms

Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha… are these really English words? Who uses them and why?

• 6 mins

Ordinal numbers

What's the date today? And do you know how to say it?

• 6 mins

Prefixes de, dis, dys

Do you suffer from dyspepsia? Could a detox diet help? Learn about prefixes.

• 6 mins

Suffixes: -less and -free

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

• 6 mins

Easily confused words

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

• 6 mins

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: showing attitude

fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally.

• 6 mins

Suffixes: -ness & -ity

Listen to Neil and Catherine talk about words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.

• 6 mins

Antonyms

Finn and Catherine discuss antonyms in 6 minute Vocabulary.

• 6 mins

Acronyms

Listen to Peter and Catherine talking about acronyms like NASA and FIFA in this podcast.

• 6 mins

Words with more than one spelling

Are you unsure whether it’s disc or disk, sympathise or sympathize, learnt or learned?

• 6 mins

Linking words

Listen to Angela talk about her lucky shark escape and learn some linking words.

• 6 mins

Commonly misspelled words

Weird or wierd? English spelling is fascinating – but it's not always straightforward!

• 5 mins

Discourse Markers: Interjections

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

• 6 mins

Synonyms

Learn about words that have the same or similar meanings

• 6 mins

Suffixes: -tian, -sion and -tion

Have we got your attention? Listen and learn how to use suffixes -tian, -sion and -tion.

• 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

We discuss a group of adjectives that are made from the names of famous people.

• 6 mins

Eponyms as nouns and verbs

What does the word Hoover have in common with the word Google?

• 6 mins

Irregular verbs

Some irregular verbs can be grouped into patterns to help remember the different forms.

• 6 mins

Phrases from Shakespeare

We learn phrases from Shakespeare that are still used today.

• 6 mins

Academic vocabulary

Learn how to cope if you are studying at an English-speaking university.

• 6 mins