6 Minute Vocabulary

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.

-ing and -ed adjectives

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

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'change'

Do you know any phrases with 'change'? Learn four here.TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for this episode...

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Binomials

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

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'leave'

What's the difference between leaving a bad taste and leaving a lot to be desired? Learn these 'leave'...

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Useful chunks of language

Do you like to eat a full English breakfast? Listen to find out how to use this phrase. FIND BBC LEARNING...

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English in a Minute: Phrases with heart

How many 'heart' phrases do you know? Phil talks about three he knows in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT Find...

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Words with 'ough'

Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'. Try Learning English Grammar...

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'life'

Give your English learning a new lease of life with this podcast. Learn this phrase and more with Georgie.TRANSCRIPT...

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Easily confused words

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

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'day'

Is learning English phrases all in a day's work for you? Learn this 'day' phrase and more here with...

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Suffixes: -less and -free

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'look'

What phrases do you know with 'look'? Learn some here with Beth.TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for...

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'end'

How many phrases do you know with the word 'end'? Learn four here with Georgie.TRANSCRIPT Find a free...

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English in a Minute: Phrases with fire Learning English Vocabulary

Did you know it can be a good thing to be 'on fire'? Learn this phrase and more in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT Find...

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English in a Minute: Phrases with hat

Learn these three hat phrases! Phil will take his hat off to you if you do!TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript...

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Prefixes: dys- de- dis-

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

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'money'

What phrases do you know with 'money'? Learn some here with Beth.TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript...

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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.FIND BBC LEARNING...

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'thing'

What's the next big thing, and what's a thing of the past? Learn these 'thing' phrases and more here.TRANSCRIPT...

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Short spoken forms

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

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'hand'

If you want to learn phrases, don't worry! You're in good hands. Learn four phrases with the word 'hand'...

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Uncountable nouns

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

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'eye'

What phrases do you know with 'eye'? Learn four here.TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for this episode...

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Time expressions

Neil and Catherine look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit...

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