Learning English Vocabulary

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English in a Minute: Phrases with 'clock'

2025-10-2901:561

What phrases do you know with 'clock'? Learn some in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/s5english_in_a_minuteFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English Grammar ✔️ Learning Easy EnglishThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Contractions

2025-10-2707:123

"I've run a marathon." Look at the shorter form 'I've'. Learn how to use contractions.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English Grammar ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

English in a Minute: Phrases with 'home'

2025-10-2201:564

Get comfy, make yourself a hot drink – make yourself at home! Learn 'make yourself at home' and more in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/s5english_in_a_minuteFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning Easy English ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English GrammarThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Job suffixes

2025-10-2006:573

What's the connection between a teacher, a driver and a presenter? We explain.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English Stories They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

English in a Minute: Phrases with 'look'

2025-10-1501:434

Learn 4 phrases with 'look'' in this podcast. If you learn them all you'll really look sharp.TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/s5english_in_a_minuteFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English Stories ✔️ Learning English Grammar ✔️ 6 Minute EnglishThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Word stress

2025-10-1307:312

How to pronounce the words 'photographer' and 'photograph'? Learn about word stress. THE PRONUNCIATION LOUNGE ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the_pronunciation_loungeFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

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

2025-10-0801:396

What does it mean to draw on and squander resources? Learn that and more in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/s5english_in_a_minuteFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English Stories ✔️ Learning English Grammar ✔️ 6 Minute EnglishThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Compound adjectives

2025-10-0607:101

Learn how to use compound adjectives (e.g. low-fat yoghurt, high-quality carbohydrates). FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusTHE LONDON LETTER CHALLENGE - an easy English series for pre-intermediate (A2) learners ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/the_london_letter_challenge/SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

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

2025-10-0101:015

What verbs can we use 'task'? Learn some here.TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/s5english_in_a_minuteFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English Conversations ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning Easy EnglishThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Lexical sets

2025-09-2907:184

Finn and Catherine give you some tips on how to remember new words. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusTHE LONDON LETTER CHALLENGE - an easy English series for pre-intermediate (A2) learners ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/the_london_letter_challenge/SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

English in a Minute: Phrases with 'hit'

2025-09-2401:485

Make sure your English learning isn't hit-and-miss – be consistent! Learn this phrase and more in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/s5english_in_a_minuteFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning Easy English ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ 6 Minute EnglishThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

-ing and -ed adjectives

2025-09-2206:494

Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English Stories They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

English in a Minute: Phrases with 'red'

2025-09-1701:485

Learn 4 phrases with 'red' in this podcast. Don't worry, none of them are red herrings!TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/s5english_in_a_minuteFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ 6 Minute English ✔️ Learning Easy EnglishThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Binomials

2025-09-1507:507

Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

English in a Minute: Phrases with head

2025-09-1001:075

What phrases do you know with 'head'? Beth has a few to tell you.TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/s5english_in_a_minuteFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English Stories ✔️ Learning English Grammar ✔️ Learning Easy EnglishThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Useful chunks of language

2025-09-0807:186

Do you like to eat a full English breakfast? Listen to find out how to use this phrase.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

English in a Minute: Phrases with 'ear'

2025-09-0300:585

If you 'play it by ear', you don't make a plan. Learn this phrase and more in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/s5english_in_a_minuteFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ 6 Minute English ✔️ Learning English Grammar ✔️ Learning Easy EnglishThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Words with 'ough'

2025-09-0106:564

Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.Try the new Learning English Grammar episodes - just search 'Learning English Grammar' in your podcast app, or go to our website: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammarFor more pronunciation: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/learn_pronunciationFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English Grammar ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

English in a Minute: Phrases with heart

2025-08-2801:392

How many 'heart' phrases do you know? Phil talks about three he knows in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT Find a free transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/s5english_in_a_minuteFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English Stories ✔️ Learning English Grammar ✔️ Learning Easy EnglishThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Easily confused words

2025-08-2507:199

Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

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time flies زمان مثله برق (باد) داره میگذره In the nick of time در آخرین لحظه pressed for time وقت کم داشتن time will tell زمان همه چیز رو مشخص میکنه

Oct 31st

against the clock زیر فشار زمان around the clock شبانه روز، بی وقفه like clockwork منظم و دقیق، مثله ساعت دقیق the clock is ticking زمان (فرصت) داره تموم میشه

Oct 30th

contractions اختصار، انقباض I have = I've he has=he's

Oct 27th

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the last part of something that is being done: on the home stretch

Oct 26th

home sweet home هیچ جا خونه ادم نمیشه make yourself at home مثله خونه خودت باش، معذب نباش ، راحت باش nothing to write home about ارزش تعریف نداره، چیز خاصی نیست home stretch مرحله آخر، نزدیک به پایان

Oct 24th

Job names ending in –er: presenter, teacher, train driver Job names ending in –or: actor (some people say actress for female actors), translator Job names ending in –ian: librarian, politician, optician Job names ending in –ist: journalist, receptionist, dentist

Oct 20th

librarian کتابدار optician اپتومتریست

What's the connection between a teacher, a driver or, like Neil and Sophie, a presenter? Well, these words all end in the letters -er. This is a common job suffix, but it's not the only one. In the programme you'll learn others like -ist, -ian and -or

look the part ظاهر مناسب داشتن look sharp خوش تیپ بودن، باهوش به نظر آمدن if looks could kill یه جور نگام کرد انگار میخواست بکشه look before you leap بی‌گدار به آب نزن ،عاقل آن است که اندیشه کند پایان را

Oct 15th

pool resources منابع را روی هم گذاشتن یا تجمیع کردن allocate resources تخصیص منابع draw on resources استفاده از منابع conserve resources حفظ منابع یا صرفه جویی در منابع use up resources تمام کردن کامل مصرف کردن squander resources اسراف کردن، هدر دادن

Oct 8th

take on a task پذیرفتن یک کار یا عهده دار شدن وظیفه است get to grips with a task به چم و خم چیزی پی بردن assign a task to someone entrust someone with a task مسئولیتی به عهده کسی سپردن engrossed in a task غرق کاری شدن

number + (singular) noun ex. two-week trip

Oct 7th

Compound adjectives without hyphens: adverb/noun + past participle after a noun the politicians were well respected three-word compound adjectives after a noun that voucher is out of date compound adjectives made with an adverb ending in –ly, both before and after a noun a carefully written letter, the letter was carefully written

Compound adjectives with hyphens: adjective/adverb + present participle a hard-working student ages and numbers before a noun a forty-year-old father, a two-door car numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine fifty-two adjective/adverb + noun a last-minute decision noun + adjective a world-famous athlete adverb/noun + past participle before a noun well-respected politicians three-word compound adjectives before a noun out-of-date fashion

rain rainfall water level burst its banks water poured flooded soaked waterlogged lexical sets مجموع واژگانی

Sep 29th

hit the ground running طوفان به پا کردن، گل کاشتن، شروع طوفانی hit the nail on the head زدی تو خال، درست گفتی hit or miss شانسی و اتفاقی، گاهی موفق گاهی ناموفق hit it up مجذوب هم شدن ، از هم خوششون اومدن

Sep 27th

to see red از کوره دررفتن red faced سرخ شده از خجالت red hearing رد گم کن in the red بدهکار بودن

Sep 20th

exes & pains دردی که جدی نیست black and blue کبود و زخمی sick & tired خسته و کلافه bit by bit نرم نرمک short & simple, quick & dirty , cheap & cheerful کوتاه و مختصر

Sep 19th

give s.o a heads up کسی را درجریان گذاشتن head over hills دیوانه وار عاشق بودن loose your head از دست دادن خونسردی off the top of your head همین طوری یه چیزی گفتن اولین چیزی که به ذهن میرسد

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Hossein

Thanks.

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