6 Minute Vocabulary Podcast
Build your English vocabulary in six minutes.
Every Monday join two of our presenters and hear about different ways to develop your vocabulary knowledge and skills.
Episodes to download
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Suffixes
Mon 15 Apr 2024
Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.
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Academic vocabulary
Mon 1 Apr 2024
Learn how to cope if you are studying at an English-speaking university.
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Phrases from Shakespeare
Mon 25 Mar 2024
We learn phrases from Shakespeare that are still used today.
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Irregular verbs
Mon 18 Mar 2024
Some irregular verbs can be grouped into patterns to help remember the different forms.
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Eponyms as nouns and verbs
Mon 11 Mar 2024
What does the word Hoover have in common with the word Google?
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Adjectives from names
Mon 4 Mar 2024
We discuss a group of adjectives that are made from the names of famous people.
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Large numbers
Mon 26 Feb 2024
How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.
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Suffixes: -tian, -sion and -tion
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Have we got your attention? Listen and learn how to use suffixes -tian, -sion and -tion.
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Discourse Markers: Interjections
Mon 5 Feb 2024
Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.
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Commonly misspelled words
Mon 29 Jan 2024
Weird or wierd? English spelling is fascinating – but it's not always straightforward!
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Linking words
Tue 9 Jan 2024
Listen to Angela talk about her lucky shark escape and learn some linking words.
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Words with more than one spelling
New Year's Day 2024
Are you unsure whether it’s disc or disk, sympathise or sympathize, learnt or learned?
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Acronyms
Christmas Day 2023
Listen to Peter and Catherine talking about acronyms like NASA and FIFA in this podcast.
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Suffixes: -ness & -ity
Mon 11 Dec 2023
Listen to Neil and Catherine talk about words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.
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Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence
Mon 27 Nov 2023
ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.
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Someone, somewhere, anywhere...
Mon 20 Nov 2023
Learn how to use these very useful pronouns with 'some' and 'any'.
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Irregular verbs
Mon 13 Nov 2023
Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.
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Reporting verbs
Tue 7 Nov 2023
Learn about verbs that we use when we talk about what someone else has said.
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False friends
Mon 30 Oct 2023
Embarrassed - or pregnant? Words you think you know but mean something else in English.
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Words with 'ough'
Mon 23 Oct 2023
Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.
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Easily confused words
Mon 16 Oct 2023
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
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Suffixes: -less and -free
Mon 9 Oct 2023
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
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Prefixes de, dis, dys
Mon 2 Oct 2023
Do you suffer from dyspepsia? Could a detox diet help? Learn about prefixes.
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Short spoken forms
Mon 18 Sep 2023
Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha… are these really English words? Who uses them and why?
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