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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Past simple and past continuous
Tue 23 Aug 2022
We talk about the Titanic disaster and teach you two past verb forms.
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The past simple tense
Tue 16 Aug 2022
"Did you have breakfast?" Learn how to use the past simple tense.
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‘Have to’ and ‘must’
Tue 9 Aug 2022
Do you know how to talk about obligations in English? Join Finn and Alice to find out!
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Adverbs of frequency
Tue 2 Aug 2022
Do you often listen to things in English? Learn more adverbs of frequency here.
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Like for preference and description
Tue 26 Jul 2022
This week Sophie and Finn explain different meanings of the word 'like'.
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Present simple and present continuous
Tue 19 Jul 2022
Listen to Finn and Sophie explain the present simple and present continuous tenses.
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Question forms
Tue 12 Jul 2022
How do you ask questions in English? Join Finn and Sophie and find out!
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Future perfect continuous
Tue 5 Jul 2022
Learn how to use the future perfect continuous grammar form in English.
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Verb patterns
Tue 28 Jun 2022
Verb + infinitive with 'to'? Verb + gerund? Learn about verb patterns.
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-ing and -ed (Participle) Clauses
Tue 7 Jun 2022
We explain all about present and past participle clauses.
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The future perfect
Tue 31 May 2022
How to use the future perfect to make educated guesses about things that will happen.
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Linking devices of contrast
Tue 24 May 2022
Despite, although, while - there are lots of ways we link contrasting ideas.
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Used to, be used to and get used to
Tue 10 May 2022
We explain and demonstrate the way these verbs, which look very similar, are used.
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So, such, enough, too
Tue 19 Apr 2022
"There was such a long queue for coffee!" Learn how to use intensifiers.
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-ing and -ed (Participle) Clauses
Tue 12 Apr 2022
Catherine and Callum explain all about present and past participle clauses.
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Linking devices of contrast
Tue 29 Mar 2022
We explain words and phrases we can use to link contrasting ideas together.
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Review of conditionals
Tue 22 Mar 2022
Join us for this programme as we review four different types of conditionals.
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Used to, be used and get used to
Tue 15 Mar 2022
We explain and demonstrate the different way these verbs, which look similar, are used.
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Multi-word verbs
Tue 1 Mar 2022
We explain the different types of phrasal verbs to use with different grammar.
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Adverb position 2
Tue 15 Feb 2022
We discuss where we use adverbs with adjectives and other adverbs.
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Talking about the future
Tue 1 Feb 2022
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 25 Jan 2022
Learn all about the word 'the' and how to use it with abstract uncountable nouns.
