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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-ing and -ed (Participle) Clauses
Tue 31 Oct 2023
We explain all about present and past participle clauses.
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The future perfect
Tue 24 Oct 2023
How to use the future perfect to make educated guesses about things that will happen.
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Linking devices of contrast
Tue 17 Oct 2023
Despite, although, while - there are lots of ways we link contrasting ideas.
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Used to, be used and get used to
Tue 3 Oct 2023
We explain and demonstrate the different way these verbs, which look similar, are used.
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4 types of phrasal verbs
Tue 19 Sep 2023
Callum and Catherine discuss four different types of phrasal verb
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Talking about the future
Tue 22 Aug 2023
Learn how to use 'will', 'going to', 'might' and 'be likely to' to talk about the future.
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The definite article with abstract uncountable nouns
Tue 15 Aug 2023
Learn all about the word 'the' and how to use it with abstract uncountable nouns.
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Adverb position
Tue 8 Aug 2023
We talk about the three positions where adverbs usually go when used with verbs.
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Comparatives and superlatives
Tue 25 Jul 2023
Catherine and Finn discuss comparatives and superlatives… and commuting!
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Active and passive voice
Tue 18 Jul 2023
Learn about using the active and passive voices in this episode of 6 Minute Grammar.
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Reported speech
Tue 11 Jul 2023
What to do with pronouns, tenses and word order when you report what someone else says.
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Linking devices: cause and effect
Tue 4 Jul 2023
Learn words and phrases like 'therefore' and 'because of'.
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The third conditional
Tue 27 Jun 2023
Learn how to use the third conditional to talk about things in the past you didn't do.
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Adjectives and adverbs
Tue 20 Jun 2023
We discover that chocolate biscuits are a helpful learning tool when talking about this.
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The past perfect
Tue 13 Jun 2023
Where had John already gone when Mary rang his doorbell? We give you the answer.
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Modals of deduction and speculation
Tue 6 Jun 2023
Learn what to say when you're making a guess about a past or present situation.
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Phrasals
Tue 23 May 2023
To separate or not to separate? We look into phrasal and prepositional verbs.
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Quantifiers
Tue 16 May 2023
Learn how to use 'both', 'every', 'all', 'each', 'either' and 'neither'.
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Present perfect continuous
Tue 9 May 2023
Neil's got paint all over his clothes. What's he been doing?
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Present tenses
Tue 2 May 2023
Find out how to use the present simple, present continuous and present perfect tenses.
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'Can', 'could', 'be able to', 'manage to'
Tue 25 Apr 2023
Learn key words and phrases to talk about ability in the present and the past.
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Question tags
Tue 11 Apr 2023
"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 4 Apr 2023
We talk about unusual food and give you rules to help you choose tenses.
