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Six Minute Vocabulary from BBC Learning English.
Hello and welcome to Six Minute Vocabulary.
I'm Catherine.
And I'm Neil.
Oh, Catherine.
Yeah.
A present.
Yes.
How kind.
It's not even my birthday.
I know, Neil, but every day is a present day in Learning English.
Actually, I bought it because the word present is a keyword for the topic we're going to present in this program.
Ah, yeah.
Present and present.
Yes, they're spelt the same way, but we say them differently.
That's right, because today we're talking about words that are spelt the same but pronounced differently, depending on whether we're using.