6 Minute Vocabulary

'Terrified', 'fantastic', 'amazing' - learn how to use strong adjectives.

Policeman / policewoman, actor / actress - learn about job titles and gender.

'Selfie', 'photobomb', 'trolling'. Learn what these new words mean and how they are made.

The British love to talk about weather! Learn some useful vocabulary about it here.

Mail and male... Learn about words that sound the same but have different spellings.

Ice cream, popcorn... Learn about nouns made up of a combination of two words.

We talk about words like 'big' and 'large' and explore the similarities between them.

This is a big, old, smelly dog! Learn which adjective has to come first.

"I've run a marathon." Look at the shorter form 'I've'. Learn how to use contractions.

What's the connection between a teacher, a driver and a presenter? We explain.

How to pronounce the words 'photographer' and 'photograph'? Learn about word stress.

Learn how to use compound adjectives (e.g. low-fat yoghurt, high-quality carbohydrates).

Finn and Catherine give you some tips on how to remember new words.

Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.

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

Find out how you can sound much more natural by learning and using chunks of language.

Have no fear... Finn and Alice are here and they'll teach you everything about prefixes!

Fashionable? Fashionably? We teach you adjectives and adverbs.

Finn and Alice look at a very important part of word building – suffixes.

Do you have to write academic texts and essays? Finn and Neil give you some tips.