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’ve learnt with games and quizzes.
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Episodes to download
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Present perfect and past simple
Tue 4 Jun 2024
We talk about unusual food and give you rules to help you choose tenses.
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The second conditional
Tue 21 May 2024
Give us 6 minutes and we can help you learn about the second conditional!
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Present and past passives
Tue 7 May 2024
Passive forms can be tricky to understand but Rob, Neil and Mike are here to help you.
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Indirect questions
Tue 30 Apr 2024
Learn different ways of asking for information and making requests.
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Tenses
Tue 23 Apr 2024
Listen to Neil and Catherine discussing how to use six different English tenses.
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Too, very, enough
Tue 16 Apr 2024
Too expensive? Using 'too', 'very' and 'enough' with adjectives to talk about degree.
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Subject questions
Tue 9 Apr 2024
Learn how to form questions when you want to ask about a subject or an object.
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Question tags
Tue 19 Mar 2024
"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 12 Mar 2024
We talk about unusual food and give you rules to help you choose tenses.
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The second conditional
Tue 27 Feb 2024
We talk about unreal or imaginary situations using the second conditional.
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Indirect questions
Tue 6 Feb 2024
Catherine and Rob teach you how and when to use indirect questions
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Tenses
Tue 30 Jan 2024
Neil and Catherine go on on a 'tense tour' of six very important English tenses.
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Too, very, enough
Tue 23 Jan 2024
Rob and Catherine help you understand the words too, very and enough
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Subject questions
Tue 16 Jan 2024
How do we form questions when we want to ask about a subject or an object?
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'May', 'might' and 'could'
Tue 2 Jan 2024
What are you having for dinner tonight? Listen to find out what Catherine might have.
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Defining relative clauses
Boxing Day 2023
Do you know who married Ron Weasley in Harry Potter? Find out and learn more.
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The present perfect with ‘just’, ‘already’ and ‘yet’
Tue 12 Dec 2023
Learn how to use the present perfect with just, already and yet.
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Comparatives and superlatives
Tue 5 Dec 2023
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 28 Nov 2023
Learn how to answer questions with 'how long' using the words 'for' and 'since'.
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The present perfect with ‘ever’ and ‘never’
Tue 21 Nov 2023
Have you ever ridden a camel? Use the present perfect to talk about life experiences.
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Verb patterns
Tue 14 Nov 2023
Verb + infinitive with 'to'? Verb + gerund? Learn about verb patterns.
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