6 Minute Vocabulary

6 Minute Vocabulary

53 episodes

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.


Podcasts

Phrases from Shakespeare

Published: March 25, 2024, 9:04 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds

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Discourse markers: showing attitude

Published: Dec. 5, 2023, 2:38 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Prefixes de, dis, dys

Published: Oct. 2, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Time expression with in, on and at

Published: Sept. 4, 2023, 2:58 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 21 seconds

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How to pronounce words that start with 'c'.

Published: July 24, 2023, 8:59 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 23 seconds

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re, pre and pro

Published: July 10, 2023, 10:52 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 12 seconds

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Binomials: phrases made of two words

Published: Feb. 27, 2023, 11:54 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 2 seconds

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Useful chunks of language

Published: Feb. 20, 2023, 12:55 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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Prefixes: un-, in- and dis-

Published: Feb. 20, 2023, 12:16 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 3 seconds

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More irregular verbs

Published: Jan. 9, 2023, 4:27 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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Suffixes: -tian, -sion and -tion

Published: Dec. 12, 2022, 10:46 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds

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Suffixes: -ness and -ity

Published: Oct. 17, 2022, 7:46 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Discourse markers for showing attitude

Published: Oct. 10, 2022, 9:33 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Someone, nothing, anywhere

Published: Sept. 20, 2022, 10:24 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Spoken short forms

Published: Aug. 1, 2022, 8:55 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 7 seconds

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How to pronounce words beginning with 'c'

Published: May 23, 2022, 3:18 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 23 seconds

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Linking words

Published: July 12, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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Words with more than one spelling

Published: July 5, 2021, 6:37 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 21 seconds

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Acronyms

Published: June 28, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 18 seconds

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Antonyms

Published: June 21, 2021, 10:03 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Suffixes: -ness & -ity

Published: June 7, 2021, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Discourse markers: Attitude

Published: May 31, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence

Published: May 24, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds

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Someone, somewhere, anywhere...

Published: May 17, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Irregular verbs

Published: May 10, 2021, 9:58 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 7 seconds

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Reporting verbs

Published: May 3, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds

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False friends

Published: April 26, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 13 seconds

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Words with 'ough'

Published: April 19, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Easily confused words

Published: April 13, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Suffixes: -less and -free

Published: April 5, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Prefixes: dys- de- dis-

Published: March 29, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Ordinal numbers

Published: March 22, 2021, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 21 seconds

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Short spoken forms

Published: March 15, 2021, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 7 seconds

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Uncountable nouns

Published: March 8, 2021, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 21 seconds

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Time expressions

Published: March 1, 2021, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 21 seconds

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Hyphenation

Published: Feb. 22, 2021, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 18 seconds

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Words with double letters

Published: Feb. 15, 2021, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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Pronouncing verbs and nouns

Published: Feb. 8, 2021, 8:52 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 13 seconds

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British and American English

Published: Feb. 1, 2021, 2:27 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 7 seconds

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Business jargon

Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds

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Pronouncing words that start with c

Published: Jan. 18, 2021, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 23 seconds

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Phrasal verbs and context

Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 12 seconds

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Prefixes re-, pre- and pro-

Published: Jan. 4, 2021, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 12 seconds

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Prefixes re-, pre- and pro-

Published: Jan. 4, 2021, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 12 seconds

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Silent letters

Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 43 seconds

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Onomatopoeia

Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds

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Multi-word verbs

Published: Dec. 14, 2020, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 2 seconds

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Adjectives ending with -ic and -ical

Published: Dec. 7, 2020, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 12 seconds

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Strong adjectives

Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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Male and female job words

Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 10:35 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

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New words

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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Weather words

Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 10:59 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 51 seconds

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Homophones

Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 8:10 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 8 seconds

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Compound nouns

Published: Oct. 26, 2020, 8:10 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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Similar words

Published: Oct. 19, 2020, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 6 seconds

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Adjective order

Published: Oct. 12, 2020, 7:56 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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Contractions

Published: Oct. 5, 2020, 7:20 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 3 seconds

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Job suffixes

Published: Sept. 28, 2020, 7:30 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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Word stress

Published: Sept. 21, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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Compound adjectives

Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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Lexical sets

Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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-ing and -ed adjectives

Published: Aug. 31, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 6 seconds

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-ing and -ed adjectives

Published: Aug. 31, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 6 seconds

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Binomials

Published: Aug. 24, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 2 seconds

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Chunks of language

Published: Aug. 17, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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Prefixes

Published: Aug. 10, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 3 seconds

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Adjectives and adverbs

Published: Aug. 3, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

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Suffixes

Published: July 27, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 12 seconds

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Academic Vocabulary

Published: July 20, 2020, 9:11 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 18 seconds

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Talk like Shakespeare

Published: July 13, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds

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Irregular verbs 2

Published: July 6, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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Eponyms as nouns and verbs

Published: June 29, 2020, 12:12 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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Adjectives from names

Published: June 22, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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Large numbers

Published: June 15, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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Suffixes -sion -tion -tian

Published: June 8, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds

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Synonyms

Published: June 1, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 12 seconds

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Discourse Markers: Interjections

Published: May 25, 2020, 9:33 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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Commonly misspelled words

Published: May 18, 2020, 10:06 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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6 Minute Vocabulary: Academic Vocabulary

Published: March 19, 2018, 10:55 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 18 seconds

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