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English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'environment'

How can we safeguard the environment? Phil explains the meaning of 'safeguard'.

30 Apr 2025,1 min

Multi-word verbs

Do you ever 'meet up with' your friend in the park? We talk about multi-word verbs.

28 Apr 2025,6 mins

English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'image'

What image do you project? Find out what that sentence means with Phil.

23 Apr 2025,1 min

Adjectives ending with -ic and -ical

We explain how some adjectives end in either -ic or -ical, depending on their meaning.

21 Apr 2025,6 mins

English in a Minute: Learn some verbs to use with 'structure'

Phil is here to help you learn some verbs commonly used with 'structure'

16 Apr 2025,1 min

Strong adjectives

Learn about strong adjectives in this wonderful, fantastic, amazing podcast

14 Apr 2025,6 mins

English in a Minute: Learn common verb collocations with the noun ‘data'

Come and interpret some data in this podcast with Beth.

09 Apr 2025,1 min

Male and female job words

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

07 Apr 2025,6 mins

English in a Minute: Verbs that go with 'role'

Play the role of student and listen to this podcast about the word 'role'.

02 Apr 2025,1 min

Weather words

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

31 Mar 2025,5 mins

English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'design'

Do you know any verbs that go with 'design'?

26 Mar 2025,1 min

Homophones

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

24 Mar 2025,6 mins

English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'view'

Georgie is here to help you learn some verbs commonly used with 'view'

19 Mar 2025,1 min

Compound nouns

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

17 Mar 2025,6 mins

English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'answer'

Georgie is here to help you learn some verbs commonly used with 'answer'

12 Mar 2025,1 min

Adjective order

We explain the order you put adjectives in when describing a dog!

10 Mar 2025,6 mins

English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'office'

Learn some verbs commonly used with office.

05 Mar 2025,1 min

Contractions

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

03 Mar 2025,6 mins

English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'research'

What does it mean to 'undertake' research? Phil has the answer.

26 Feb 2025,1 min

Job suffixes

What's the connection between a teacher, a driver or a presenter?

24 Feb 2025,6 mins

English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'paper'

Do you often have to prepare a paper? Phil can help with that.

19 Feb 2025,1 min

Word stress

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

17 Feb 2025,6 mins

English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'language'

How do you master a language? Listen to Phil to find out

12 Feb 2025,1 min

Compound adjectives

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

10 Feb 2025,6 mins

English in a Minute: Verbs that go with the noun ‘car'

There are lots of verbs we use with 'car'. Hear some of them now.

05 Feb 2025,1 min

Lexical sets

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

03 Feb 2025,6 mins

English in a Minute: Verbs that go with ‘hope’

How many verbs do you know that can be used with 'hope'? Learn some more with Neil.

29 Jan 2025,1 min

-ing and -ed adjectives

Interested or interesting? Which adjective do you use? We discuss -ing and -ed adjectives

27 Jan 2025,6 mins

English in a Minute: Verbs that can be used with 'idea'

Do you have any idea how many verbs you can use with 'idea'? There are a lot! Listen now.

21 Jan 2025,1 min

Binomials

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

20 Jan 2025,6 mins

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