6 Minute Vocabulary

Recycling, prepacked, proactive - we talk about words with the prefixes re, pre and pro

There are letters in English that we see in words - but don't actually pronounce. They are called 'silent letters'

'Cars zooming around', 'machines buzzing and bleeping' are examples of onomatopoeia. Words that sound like the thing they describe are called onomatopoeic.

Do you ever meet up with your friends at the shopping centre? In English 'meet up with' is an example of a multi-word verb