BBC 6 Minute Vocabulary

6 Minute Vocabulary

Build your English vocabulary in six minutes. Every Monday join two of our presenters and hear about different ways to develop your vocabulary knowledge and skills. Our presenters include Finn, Emma, Rob, Neil, Sophie and Alice. They are there to teach you new vocabulary and to test your language knowledge and they'll do it all in just six minutes.
English United Kingdom Language Learning
4 Episodes

Word stress

Do you know how to pronounce the words photographer and photograph? We can help you.
27 Mar 6 min

Compound adjectives

Learn how to use compound adjectives (e.g. low-fat yoghurt, high-quality carbohydrates).
20 Mar 6 min

Lexical sets

Finn and Catherine give you some tips on how to remember new words.
13 Mar 6 min

-ing and -ed adjectives

Interested or interesting? Which adjective do you use? We discuss -ing and -ed adjectives
6 Mar 7 min