Prefixes re-, pre- and pro-
Learning English Vocabulary
BBC
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🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
'REcycle', 'PREpacked', 'PROactive' - we talk about prefixes in 6 Minute Vocabulary.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to Learning English Vocabulary. |
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| 0:21.6 | Six minutes vocabulary. Six-minute vocabulary. |
| 0:23.5 | From BBC Learning English. |
| 0:27.9 | Hello and welcome to six-minute vocabulary. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm Catherine. |
| 0:31.7 | And I'm Neil. |
| 0:33.5 | You know, Catherine, six-minute vocabulary is great |
| 0:37.2 | because you can listen to each program again and again. |
| 0:40.7 | You can, Neil. You can reuse them. |
| 0:42.9 | You can. And the word reuse is a clue to today's topic. |
| 0:47.6 | It is. We're talking about prefixes. Those are the two or three letters that we can add to the beginning of words to change their meaning. |
| 0:56.5 | Like re in reuse. |
| 0:58.7 | Yeah, we'll tell you more about re later and we'll also tell you about the prefixes pre and pro. |
| 1:06.0 | We'll explain what all three prefixes mean and give you lots of examples. |
| 1:10.6 | There'll be a quiz at the end. |
| 1:11.9 | And a top tip for learning vocabulary. |
| 1:15.1 | But first, let's hear from Katie. |
| 1:17.5 | She's an environmental campaigner. |
| 1:20.2 | While you listen, try to answer this question. |
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