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Learning English Grammar

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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.

Find more at bbclearningenglish.com

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  • 20 episodes
  • Updated Tuesday

Episodes20

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  • July 21 · 9 min

    Highs and lows

    We learn about superlatives like 'the best' and 'the most unusual'.

  • July 14 · 8 min

    Holiday habits

    Georgie explains how to talk about usual behaviour.

  • July 7 · 7 min

    Gossip

    Georgie explains language we can use when we're speculating about something.

  • June 30 · 9 min

    Learning to cook

    Our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use adverbs with the past perfect tense

  • June 16 · 8 min

    Life advice

    How to give advice using the verb 'try'. Grammar guru Georgie explains

  • June 9 · 8 min

    Emotions

    Learn 'make someone do or feel something', 'on the verge of' and 'about to'.

  • June 2 · 8 min

    Asking strangers

    How can you ask questions politely? Find out with our grammar guru

  • May 26 · 8 min

    Describing a job

    What's the most interesting job you've ever had? Neil and Beth talk about this

  • May 19 · 8 min

    Choosing a home

    Our grammar guru explains how to use ‘a bit’ and ‘a lot’ with comparisons.

  • May 12 · 9 min

    Things you have to do

    Our grammar guru Georgie explains ways to talk about social obligations.

  • April 28 · 9 min

    Hobbies we enjoy doing

    When do we use infinitives and when do we use the -ing form? Georgie explains it all

  • April 21 · 8 min

    Things we collect

    What's the difference between 'loads of' and 'lots of'?

  • April 14 · 8 min

    Regrets

    Learn to talk about regrets using the third conditional, 'wish' and regret plus -ing

  • April 7 · 8 min

    Reminiscing

    We talk about our memories all the time. Learn how to reminisce in English.

  • March 31 · 8 min

    Preferences

    Hear real examples and learn to use prefer, would prefer and would rather.

  • March 24 · 6 min

    To-do lists

    Learn ‘need to’, ‘have to’, ‘got to’ and ‘needs doing’ with Beth, Neil and Georgie.