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Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. 

Each week we explore a new topic to improve your English vocabulary. Learn words for the weather, how to talk about people’s jobs, adjective order, and so much more. 

Plus, in our English in a Minute episodes, give your vocabulary a boost in under a minute. 

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6 Minute Vocabulary

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

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Uncountable nouns

What phrases do you know with 'eye'? Learn four here.

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'eye'

Neil and Catherine look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'.

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Time expressions

Do you hate it when people pour water on your ideas, or is it like water off a duck's back? Learn these 'water' phrases and more here.

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'water'

Learn how to use hyphens: "They did a ten-foot dive into the swimming pool."

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Hyphenation

There are a few phrases in English about card games. Learn what it means to lay all your cards on the table, and more in this podcast.

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'cards'

How would you recommend people remember which double letters are in accommodation? Catherine and Neil talk about spelling words with double letters, such as 'accommodation'.

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Words with double letters

Here are 4 phrases with 'grass'. Don't kick learning them into the long grass!

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'grass'

So you want a salary increase? Who doesn't? But do you pronounce 'increase' with the stress on the first syllable in, or the second syllable crease? The answer depends on whether you're using increase as a noun or a verb... And that's the subject that Neil and Catherine are talking about in this 6 Minute Vocabulary programme.

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Pronouncing verbs and nouns

What phrases do you know with the word 'big'? Learn some in this podcast.

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'big'

Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together 

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