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Learning English Grammar

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 Follow us at bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus

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Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

Used to and would 31.01.2023

Listen to the programme to practise the grammar we've learned so far in the series.

Will, going to, might 24.01.2023

Finn and Catherine talk about the future.

Question Tags 17.01.2023

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

Present Perfect and Past Simple 10.01.2023

Catherine and Neil talk about unusual food and give you rules to help you choose tenses.

State verbs 03.01.2023

If you’re unsure about the difference between state verbs and action verbs, listen on.

The second conditional 27.12.2022

If you need to learn about the second conditional, give us 6 minutes and we can help!

First Conditional 20.12.2022

Learn all about the first conditional in 6 minute grammar.

Present and past passives 13.12.2022

Passive forms can be tricky to understand but Rob, Neil and Mike are here to help you.

Indirect questions 06.12.2022

Learn different ways of asking for information and making requests.

Tenses 29.11.2022

Listen to Neil and Catherine discussing how to use six different English tenses.

Too, very, enough 22.11.2022

Does Catherine buy the very expensive red dress? Listen to find out and learn more.

Subject questions 15.11.2022

How do we form questions when we want to ask about a subject or an object?

‘Used to’ 08.11.2022

Did Rob use to play video games? Listen to find out and learn more.

‘May’, ‘might’ and ‘could' 08.11.2022

What are you having for dinner tonight? Listen to find out what Catherine might have.

Defining relative clauses 25.10.2022

Do you know who married Ron Weasley in Harry Potter? Find out and learn more.

The present perfect with 'just', 'yet' and 'already' 18.10.2022

Learn how to use the present perfect with 'just', 'yet' and 'already'.

Comparatives and superlatives 11.10.2022

Who's taller and who is the thinnest? Learn how to compare people and things in English.

The present perfect with 'for' and 'since' 04.10.2022

Learn how to answer questions with 'how long' using the words 'for' and 'since'.

The present perfect with ‘ever’ and ‘never’ 27.09.2022

Have you ever ridden a camel? Use the present perfect to talk about life experiences.

Verb patterns 20.09.2022

We explain when is a verb followed by a gerund and when is it followed by an infinitive.

Present continuous and 'going to' 13.09.2022

Rob, Emma and Finn are going to help you talk about future arrangements in this podcast!

Articles 30.08.2022

Join Rob, Emma and Finn to learn about articles.

Past simple and past continuous 23.08.2022

We talk about the Titanic disaster and teach you two past verb forms.

The past simple tense 16.08.2022

"Did you have breakfast?" Learn how to use the past simple tense.

‘Have to’ and ‘must’ 09.08.2022

Do you know how to talk about obligations in English? Join Finn and Alice to find out!

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