
Learning English Vocabulary
BBC
Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to improve your English.
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Location:
United Kingdom
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BBC
Description:
Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to improve your English. Find more at bbclearningenglish.com Follow us at bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus
Language:
English
Episodes
English in a Minute: Verbs that go with 'task'
10/1/2025
What verbs can we use 'task'? Learn some here.
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Duración:00:01:01
Lexical sets
9/29/2025
Finn and Catherine give you some tips on how to remember new words.
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Duración:00:06:32
English in a Minute: Phrases with 'hit'
9/24/2025
Make sure your English learning isn't hit-and-miss – be consistent! Learn this phrase and more in this podcast.
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Duración:00:01:07
-ing and -ed adjectives
9/22/2025
Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.
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Duración:00:06:06
English in a Minute: Phrases with 'red'
9/17/2025
Learn 4 phrases with 'red' in this podcast. Don't worry, none of them are red herrings!
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Duración:00:01:08
Binomials
9/15/2025
Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together.
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Duración:00:06:57
English in a Minute: Phrases with head
9/10/2025
What phrases do you know with 'head'? Beth has a few to tell you.
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Duración:00:01:07
Useful chunks of language
9/8/2025
Do you like to eat a full English breakfast? Listen to find out how to use this phrase.
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Duración:00:06:30
English in a Minute: Phrases with 'ear'
9/3/2025
If you 'play it by ear', you don't make a plan. Learn this phrase and more in this podcast.
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Duración:00:00:58
Words with 'ough'
9/1/2025
Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.
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Duración:00:06:56
English in a Minute: Phrases with heart
8/28/2025
How many 'heart' phrases do you know? Phil talks about three he knows in this podcast.
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Duración:00:01:07
Easily confused words
8/25/2025
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
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Duración:00:06:42
English in a Minute: Phrases with sea
8/22/2025
What phrases do you know with 'sea'? Beth will teach you some in this podcast.
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Duración:00:01:00
English in a Minute: Phrases with fire
8/20/2025
Did you know it can be a good thing to be 'on fire'? Learn this phrase and more in this podcast.
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Duración:00:01:04
Suffixes –free and -less
8/18/2025
Carefree or careless? The suffixes -free and -less.
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Duración:00:06:35
English in a Minute: Phrases with hat
8/13/2025
Learn these three hat phrases! Phil will take his hat off to you if you do!
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Duración:00:01:13
Prefixes de, dis, dys
8/11/2025
Do you suffer from dyspepsia? Could a detox diet help? Learn about prefixes.
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Duración:00:06:38
English in a Minute: Phrases with face
8/6/2025
What phrases use the word 'face'? Beth has the answer in this podcast.
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Duración:00:00:59
Ordinal numbers
8/4/2025
What's the date today? Do you know how to say it? Listen to the programme to find out.
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Duración:00:06:21
English in a Minute: Phrases with stone
7/30/2025
Listen to a BBC Learning English podcast while you commute to work – it kills two birds with one stone! Listen to Georgie to learn more phrases that use the word 'stone'.
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Duración:00:01:03