Learning English Grammar

Learn English grammar with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new piece of grammar you

Episodes

Total: 234

'Have to' and 'must'

2021/10/12

Learn how to talk about obligations in English using 'have to' and 'must'.

Adverbs of Frequency

2021/10/5

Learn how to use words like 'always', 'never' and 'sometimes'.

We explain different meanings of the word 'like', and talk about food...

Question forms

2021/9/21

We’ll take a look at yes-no questions and questions to get to know each other.

How long have Neil and Catherine been talking about the present perfect continuous?

Present tenses

2021/9/7

Finn and Catherine take a look at the present simple, continuous and perfect.

Learn key words and phrases to talk about ability in the present and the past.

'Used to' and 'would'

2021/8/24

Hear about a strange habit Finn had when he was a child. He used to sleepwalk!

Talking about the future

2021/8/17

Learn how to use 'will', 'going to', 'might' and 'be likely to' to talk about the future.

Question tags

2021/8/10

"You didn't eat all the chocolate, did you?" Learn how to use 'did you' - a question tag.

Learn when we use the present perfect and past simple tenses.

State verbs

2021/7/27

Is it OK to say 'I'm loving your work'? Neil and Catherine take a look at state verbs.

The second conditional

2021/7/20

For an explanation about the 2nd conditional, just give us 6 minutes and we can help!

The first conditional

2021/7/13

'If it rains, I will take my umbrella'. Learn how to use the first conditional.

Listen to this programme for examples of passives and explanations of how they're used.

Indirect questions

2021/6/29

Learn different ways of asking for information and making requests.

Verb tenses

2021/6/22

Neil and Catherine go on a 'tour' of 6 very important English tenses.

Too, very, enough

2021/6/15

We will help you understand how 'too', 'very', and 'enough' are used and what they mean.

Subject questions

2021/6/8

Learn how we form questions when we want to ask about a subject or an object.

How to use 'used to'

2021/6/1

Learn how to talk about something you did regularly in the past, but don’t do now.