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Acronyms
Listen to Peter and Catherine talking about acronyms like NASA and FIFA in this podcast.
Antonyms
A good way of building vocabulary in English is to learn words with opposite meanings.
Suffixes: -ness and -ity
鈥楬appiness鈥� and 'responsibility'. Learn words with the suffixes -ness and -ity.
Discourse markers for showing attitude
Fortunately, obviously, seriously, ideally. These words are useful. How do we use them?
Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence
ExciteMENT, performANCE, differENCE - how suffixes turn verbs and adjectives into nouns.
Someone, nothing, anywhere
Learn about words like someone, nothing and anywhere in 6 minutes.
Irregular verbs
Choose, chose, chosen... We talk about verbs that don't follow the -ed pattern.
Easily confused words
Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.
Suffixes: -less and -free
Is this a smoke-free or a smokeless workplace? Learn the difference!
Prefixes: dys- de- dis-
Do you suffer from DYSpepsia? Could a DEtox diet help? Neil and Finn talk about prefixes.
