Learning English Grammar Podcast
Practise your English grammar with these short programmes. Each week we explore a new piece of grammar you need to improve your English.
Practise your English grammar with these short programmes.
Each week we explore a new piece of grammar you need to improve your English.
Hear how grammar is used in everyday situations, and test what you鈥檝e learnt with games and quizzes.
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Episodes to download
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Present perfect continuous
Tue 16 Feb 2021
'What have you been doing?' Learn how to use the present perfect continuous tense.
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Present tenses
Tue 9 Feb 2021
Finn and Catherine take a look at the present simple, continuous and perfect.
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'Can', 'could', 'be able to', 'manage to'
Tue 2 Feb 2021
Learn key words and phrases to talk about ability in the present and the past.
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'Used to' and 'would'
Tue 26 Jan 2021
Hear about a strange habit Finn had when he was a child. He used to sleepwalk!
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Talking about the future
Tue 19 Jan 2021
Learn how to use 'will', 'going to', 'might' and 'be likely to' to talk about the future.
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Question tags
Tue 12 Jan 2021
"You didn't eat all the chocolate, did you?" Learn how to use 'did you' - a question tag.
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Present perfect and past simple
Tue 5 Jan 2021
Catherine and Neil talk about unusual food and give you rules to help you choose tenses.
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State verbs
Tue 29 Dec 2020
Is it OK to say 'I'm loving your work'? Neil and Catherine take a look at state verbs.
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The second conditional
Tue 22 Dec 2020
"If my team won, I'd be so happy!" Learn how to use the second conditional.
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The first conditional
Tue 15 Dec 2020
"If it rains, I will take my umbrella." Learn how to use the first conditional.
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Present and past passives
Tue 8 Dec 2020
Passive forms can be tricky to understand but Rob, Neil and Mike are here to help you.
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Indirect questions
Tue 1 Dec 2020
Rob and Catherine tell you what they are, how to make them and when to use them.
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Too, very, enough
Tue 17 Nov 2020
Too expensive? Using 'too', 'very' and 'enough' with adjectives to talk about degree.
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Subject questions
Tue 10 Nov 2020
Learn how to form questions when you want to ask about a subject or an object.
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'Used to'
Mon 2 Nov 2020
Using the phrase 'used to' to talk about the past: "I used to meet my friends every day."
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Might, may, could
Tue 27 Oct 2020
Catherine might cook curry for dinner. Learn how to use 'might', 'may' and 'could'.
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Defining relative clauses
Tue 20 Oct 2020
How to use defining relative clauses. They give information about a noun in a sentence.
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The present perfect with 'just', 'already' and 'yet'
Tue 13 Oct 2020
'I've just been to the London eye!' Learn how to talk about your activities.
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Comparatives and superlatives
Tue 6 Oct 2020
Who's taller and who is the thinnest? Learn how to compare people and things in English.
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The present perfect with 'for' and 'since'
Tue 29 Sep 2020
Learn how to answer questions with 'how long' using the words 'for' and 'since'.
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The present perfect with 鈥榚ver鈥� and 鈥榥ever鈥�
Tue 22 Sep 2020
Have you ever ridden a camel? Use the present perfect to talk about life experiences.
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Verb patterns
Tue 15 Sep 2020
When is a verb followed by a gerund, and when is it followed by an infinitive?
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Present continuous and 'going to'
Tue 8 Sep 2020
We talk about making plans and... what is Finn doing tonight?
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Articles
Tue 1 Sep 2020
Rob and Emma talk about articles and Finn talks about elephants in Cambodia...
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Past simple and past continuous
Tue 25 Aug 2020
We talk about the Titanic disaster and teach you two past verb forms.
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The past simple tense
Tue 18 Aug 2020
"Did you have breakfast?" Learn how to use the past simple tense.
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'Have to' and 'must'
Tue 11 Aug 2020
Learn how to talk about obligations in English using 'have to' and 'must'.
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'Like' for preference and description
Tue 28 Jul 2020
We explain different meanings of the word 'like', and talk about food...
