Adjectives and adverbs
Fashionable? Fashionably? We teach you adjectives and adverbs.
Feb 06, 2023•6 min
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Episodes
Suffixes
Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.
Jan 30, 2023•6 min
Academic Vocabulary
Do you have to write academic texts and essays? We give you some tips on how to do it.
Jan 23, 2023•6 min
Talk like Shakespeare
Learn some idioms from 'the Bard' which are in common use today.
Jan 16, 2023•6 min
More irregular verbs
Write, wrote, written. Speak, spoke, spoken - learn more about irregular verbs.
Jan 09, 2023•6 min
Eponyms as nouns and verbs
To google, to hoover... Learn about words that have come from commercial products.
Dec 30, 2022•6 min
Adjectives from names
We discuss a group of adjectives that are made from the names of famous people.
Dec 26, 2022•6 min
Large numbers
How many stars are there in the universe? Learn how to say big numbers in English.
Dec 19, 2022•6 min
Suffixes: -tian, -sion and -tion
Have we got your attention? Listen and learn how to use suffixes -tian, -sion and -tion.
Dec 12, 2022•6 min
Synonyms
Learn about synonyms - words that have the same or similar meaning.
Dec 05, 2022•6 min
Discourse Markers: Interjections
Do you know your ouch! from your ugh!? These words are called interjections.
Nov 28, 2022•6 min
Commonly misspelled words
Weird or weird? English spelling is fascinating – but it's not always straightforward!
Nov 21, 2022•6 min
Linking words
Listen to Angela talk about her lucky shark escape and learn some linking words.
Nov 14, 2022•6 min
Words with more than one spelling
Disk or disc? Confused about which one to use? Finn and Catherine talk about spelling.
Nov 07, 2022•6 min
Acronyms
Listen to Peter and Catherine talking about acronyms like NASA and FIFA in this podcast.
Oct 31, 2022•6 min
Antonyms
A good way of building vocabulary in English is to learn words with opposite meanings.
Oct 24, 2022•6 min
Suffixes: -ness and -ity
‘Happiness’ and 'responsibility'. Learn words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.
Oct 17, 2022•6 min
Discourse markers for showing attitude
Fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally. These words are useful. How do we use them?
Oct 10, 2022•6 min
Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence
ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.
Oct 03, 2022•6 min
Someone, nothing, anywhere
Learn about words like someone, nothing and anywhere in 6 minutes.
Sep 20, 2022•6 min
Irregular verbs
Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.
Sep 12, 2022•6 min
Easily confused words
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
Sep 05, 2022•6 min
Suffixes: -less and -free
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
Aug 26, 2022•6 min
Prefixes: dys- de- dis-
Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.
Aug 15, 2022•6 min
Ordinal numbers
What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.
Aug 08, 2022•6 min
Spoken short forms
Gonna, wanna, dunno, whatcha... We give you an introduction to short spoken forms.
Aug 01, 2022•6 min
Uncountable nouns
Can you count knowledge, money or happiness? How to deal with uncountable nouns.
Jul 25, 2022•6 min
Time expressions
We look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.
Jul 18, 2022•6 min
Hyphenation
Find out why we write some phrases with hyphens but not others.
Jul 11, 2022•6 min
Words with double letters
We talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.
Jul 04, 2022•6 min