Learning English Vocabulary Podcast
Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to improve your English.
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Episodes to download
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English in a Minute: Learn common verb collocations with the noun 鈥榙ata'
Wednesday
Come and interpret some data in this podcast with Beth.
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Male and female job words
Monday
Policeman / policewoman, actor / actress - learn about job titles and gender.
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English in a Minute: Verbs that go with 'role'
Wed 2 Apr 2025
Play the role of student and listen to this podcast about the word 'role'.
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Weather words
Mon 31 Mar 2025
The British love to talk about weather! Learn some useful vocabulary about it here.
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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'design'
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Do you know any verbs that go with 'design'?
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Homophones
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Mail and male... Learn about words that sound the same but have different spellings.
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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'view'
Wed 19 Mar 2025
Georgie is here to help you learn some verbs commonly used with 'view'
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Compound nouns
Mon 17 Mar 2025
Ice cream, popcorn... Learn about nouns made up of a combination of two words.
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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'answer'
Wed 12 Mar 2025
Georgie is here to help you learn some verbs commonly used with 'answer'
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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'office'
Wed 5 Mar 2025
Learn some verbs commonly used with office.
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Contractions
Mon 3 Mar 2025
"I've run a marathon." Look at the shorter form 'I've'. Learn how to use contractions.
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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'research'
Wed 26 Feb 2025
What does it mean to 'undertake' research? Phil has the answer.
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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'paper'
Wed 19 Feb 2025
Do you often have to prepare a paper? Phil can help with that.
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Word stress
Mon 17 Feb 2025
How to pronounce the words 'photographer' and 'photograph'? Learn about word stress.
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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'language'
Wed 12 Feb 2025
How do you master a language? Listen to Phil to find out
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Compound adjectives
Mon 10 Feb 2025
Learn how to use compound adjectives (e.g. low-fat yoghurt, high-quality carbohydrates).
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English in a Minute: Verbs that go with the noun 鈥榗ar'
Wed 5 Feb 2025
There are lots of verbs we use with 'car'. Hear some of them now.
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English in a Minute: Verbs that go with 鈥榟ope鈥�
Wed 29 Jan 2025
How many verbs do you know that can be used with 'hope'? Learn some more with Neil.
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-ing and -ed adjectives
Mon 27 Jan 2025
Interested or interesting? Which adjective do you use? We discuss -ing and -ed adjectives
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English in a Minute: Verbs that can be used with 'idea'
Tue 21 Jan 2025
Do you have any idea how many verbs you can use with 'idea'? There are a lot! Listen now.
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Binomials
Mon 20 Jan 2025
Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together
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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'programme'
Wed 15 Jan 2025
What does it mean to draw up a programme? Phil has the answer.
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Useful chunks of language
Mon 13 Jan 2025
Do you like to eat a full English breakfast? Listen to find out how to use this phrase.
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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'example'
Wed 8 Jan 2025
Phil wants to give you an example of how to use 'example'. Listen now.
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Words with 'ough'
Mon 6 Jan 2025
Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.
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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'plan'
New Year's Day 2025
Here is a simple plan to help you learn English. Listen to this podcast.
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Easily confused words
Mon 30 Dec 2024
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
