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Improve Your English in Just 60 Seconds

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Overview

Improve your English language skills with a comprehensive series of short, one-minute videos covering a wide range of grammar, vocabulary, and everyday phrases. Learn essential topics such as cooking verbs, polite complaining, silent 'e' rules, comparative adjectives, phrasal verbs, pronunciation tips, and British English expressions. Master the differences between commonly confused words, explore various tenses and modal verbs, and enhance your understanding of prepositions, conditionals, and idiomatic expressions. Dive into over 150 bite-sized lessons that cover everything from formal apologies to slang words, helping you become a more confident and proficient English speaker in just 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Syllabus

4 verbs for cooking - English In A Minute.
How to complain politely - English In A Minute.
Rules for silent 'e' part 2 - English In A Minute.
Modifying Comparative Adjectives - English In A Minute.
5 ways to use 'stand' as a verb - English In A Minute.
3 phrasal verbs for feelings - English In A Minute.
5 ways to use 'set' - English In A Minute.
How to use 'ish' - English In A Minute.
5 ways to say 'ough' - English In A Minute.
3 ways to use 'put up' - English In A Minute.
Pronunciation of 'th' - English In A Minute.
4 ways to use 'like' - English In A Minute.
4 phrasal verbs for clothes and accessories - English In A Minute.
4 phrasal verbs for dating - English In A Minute.
Regret + ing or + to - English In A Minute.
3 ways to pronounce 'ed' - English In A Minute.
4 uses of 'as' - English In A Minute.
Ways to say 'tired' in British English - English In A Minute.
Assure vs Ensure vs Insure - English In A Minute.
Alone vs Lonely - English In A Minute.
Using different tenses to be polite - English In A Minute.
4 English word pairs - English In A Minute.
4 verbs to use instead of 'walk' - English In A Minute.
4 ways to exaggerate like a Brit - English In A Minute.
At school vs At the school - English In A Minute.
'My own' vs 'On my own' - English In A Minute.
Will vs Be going to - English In a Minute.
Five uses of 'flat' - English In A Minute.
Forget to do vs forget doing - English In A Minute.
Look vs Look like - English In A Minute.
'You and me' or 'You and I' - English In A Minute.
When to use 'the' to talk about places - English In A Minute.
How to use adjectives without nouns - English In A Minute.
So vs Neither - English In A Minute.
Ways to say 'sorry' part 2 - formal apologies - English In A Minute.
How to say 'no' politely (like a Brit) - English In A Minute.
Next vs The next vs Nearest - English In A Minute.
4 ways to use 'fair' - English In A Minute.
Ways to say 'sorry' Part 1 - English In A Minute.
Beside vs Besides: English In A Minute.
As if vs As though - English In A Minute.
When vs If - English In A Minute.
Also vs As well vs Too - English In A Minute.
5 ways to use 'let' - English In A Minute.
Whisper vs Murmur vs Mumble - English In A Minute.
Peep vs Peer vs Glimpse - English In A Minute.
Could vs Was able to - English In A Minute.
Needn't vs No need to - English In A Minute.
3 ways to use infinitive with to - English In A Minute.
Soon vs Early vs Quickly - English In A Minute.
As ... as comparatives - English In A Minute.
Last vs For the last vs In the last - English In A Minute.
All vs Everybody or Everyone - English In A Minute.
Hire vs Rent vs Let - English In A Minute.
All vs Every vs Whole - English In A Minute.
Hear vs Listen - English In A Minute.
How to use modal verbs of deduction - English In A Minute.
Sensible vs Sensitive - English In A Minute.
4 ways to use 'quite' - English In A Minute.
5 verbs followed by 'verb-ing' - English In A Minute.
Mixed conditionals - English In A Minute.
Continuously vs continually - English In A Minute.
How to use the future in the past - English In A Minute.
On time vs In time - English In A Minute.
Match vs Fit vs Suit - English in a Minute.
'Try + verb-ing' or 'Try to + verb'? - English In A Minute.
American English vs British English spelling.
Use comparatives to show something is changing - English In A Minute.
Fine vs Finely - What's the difference? - English In A Minute.
Each vs Every - English In A Minute.
See vs Watch vs Look - English in a Minute.
6 ways to use 'late' - English In A Minute.
5 ways to use 'run' - English In A Minute.
Too vs Enough - What's the difference? - English In A Minute.
5 ways to use 'break' - English In A Minute.
Simple Inversion: I will never or never will I? - English In A Minute.
Lend vs Borrow - English In A Minute.
'Little' vs 'A little' - What's the difference? English In A Minute.
Good vs well - what's the difference? English In A Minute.
How to say hello like a British English speaker - English In A Minute.
'Unless' vs 'As long as': What's the difference? English In A Minute.
3 English phrases with 'face' - English In A Minute.
How to use prepositions of place - English In A Minute.
When 'tell' doesn't mean 'tell' - English In A Minute.
What's the difference between 'their', 'there' and 'they're'? - English In A Minute.
What's the difference between 'hard' and 'hardly'? - English In A Minute.
Few & A few: What's the difference - English In A Minute.
How to use tag questions - English In A Minute.
Adverbs of frequency: How to use them and where they go in a sentence - English In A Minute.
The past perfect tense: how we form it and why we use it - English In A Minute.
See vs Hear - English In A Minute.
How to use 'because', 'as' and 'since' - English In A Minute.
The 3rd conditional: What is it? How to use it! - English In A Minute.
Maybe vs may be - What's the difference? English In A Minute.
4 ways to use just - English In A Minute.
Go on doing vs Go on to do - What's the difference? English In A Minute.
Bored vs Boring - What's the difference? Ed and Ing Adjectives - English In A Minute.
In the end vs At the end: What's the difference? English In A Minute.
5 ways to use dead: What does dead mean? - English In A Minute.
All together vs altogether: What's the difference? English In A Minute.
Less vs Fewer: What's the difference? English In A Minute.
How to use the future perfect continuous tense - English In A Minute.
In case vs If: What's the difference? English In A Minute.
Like vs As - English In A Minute.
Whoever vs Whatever vs Whenever vs Wherever - English In A Minute.
Wish vs Hope - English In A Minute.
Very vs Really vs Absolutely - English In A Minute.
Still vs Already vs Yet - English In A Minute.
3 uses of 'can' - English In A Minute.
Everyone vs Anyone - English In A Minute.
Don't mind vs Doesn't matter - English In A Minute.
The + adjectives - English In A Minute.
Journey and Trip - English In A Minute.
By vs Until - English In A Minute.
How to use the future continuous - English In A Minute.
Actually vs At the moment - English In A Minute.
Remember vs Remind - English In A Minute.
The...the... comparatives - English In A Minute.
Affect vs Effect - English In A Minute.
Lie vs Lay - English In A Minute.
While vs During - English In A Minute.
What vs Which - English In A Minute.
Prevent vs Avoid - English In A Minute.
Remember to do vs Remember doing - English In A Minute.
Been vs Gone - English In A Minute.
Even though vs Even if - English In A Minute.
Be going to vs Present continuous - English In A Minute.
Especially vs Specially - English In A Minute.
4 slang words - English In M Minute.
3 Facts about The - English In A Minute.
How to use infinitives of purpose - English In A Minute.
3 ways to use 'pick up' - English In A Minute.
No vs Not any vs None - English In A Minute.
Play vs Do vs Go (for sports) - English In A Minute.
Every time vs All the time - English In A Minute.
3 ways to use 'take off' - English In A Minute.
A secret about collective nouns - English In A Minute.
Steal vs Rob - English In A Minute.
Raise vs Rise - English In A Minute.
5 ways to use 'in' with time expressions - English In A Minute.
Come back vs Go back - English In A Minute.
Mustn't vs Don't have to - English In A Minute.
Person vs Persons vs People vs Peoples - English in a Minute.
Too vs Very - English In A Minute.
How to use 'wish' - English In A Minute.
Must vs Have to - English In A Minute.
Stop doing vs Stop to do - English In A Minute.
5 Ways to use 'hard' - English In A Minute.
History vs Story - English In A Minute.
Make & Do - English In A Minute.
Both vs Either vs Neither - English In A Minute.
Notify vs Let someone know - English In A Minute.
Fun vs Funny - English In A Minute.
How to use 'used to' - English In A Minute.
3 ways to use 'if only' - English In A Minute.
How to use 'have something done' - English In A Minute.
So vs Such - English In A Minute.
For vs Since - English In A Minute.
How to use real conditionals - English In A Minute.
How to use 'be used to' - English In A Minute.
5 ways to use 'actually' - English In A Minute.
Have an appointment vs Meet someone - English In A Minute.

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