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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.

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June 30 · 9 min
Learning to cook
Our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use adverbs with the past perfect tense
June 23 · 8 min
Secrets and surprise
Have you ever noticed someone being secretive?
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.
May 5 · 8 min
Predicting the future
Georgie explains the grammar of future predictions.
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.

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