6 Minute Vocabulary

Reporting verbs

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

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False friends

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

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• 6 meses

Words with 'ough'

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

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• 6 meses

Easily confused words

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

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• 6 meses

Suffixes: -less and -free

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

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• 6 meses

Prefixes de, dis, dys

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

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• 6 meses

Ordinal numbers

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

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• 7 meses

Short spoken forms

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

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• 7 meses

Uncountable nouns

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

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Time expression with in, on and at

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

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• 7 meses

Hyphenation

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

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• 8 meses

Words with double letters

Catherine and Finn talk about spelling words with double letters in 6 Minute Vocabulary.

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• 8 meses

Pronouncing verbs and nouns

Learn how to pronounce verbs and nouns with Neil and Catherine.

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• 8 meses

British and American English

Catherine and Doug discuss British and American English

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• 8 meses

Business jargon

Can you think out of the box or take the helicopter view at work? Learn business jargon.

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• 8 meses

How to pronounce words that start with 'c'.

'c' or 's'? Learn how to spell words that begin with a /s/ sound.

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• 9 meses

Phrasal verbs and context

When talking about moving in, moving out and moving on, what do we mean? We explain.

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• 9 meses

re, pre and pro

Do you recycle your rubbish? Do you buy prepacked food? Are you proactive?

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• 9 meses

Silent letters

How do you pronounce the words night and knight?

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• 9 meses

Onomatopoeia

Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe.

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• 10 meses