6 Minute Grammar: Recent Episodes

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Learn English grammar in six minutes. Every Tuesday join two of our presenters and learn a new key area of grammar. Our presenters include Finn, Emma, Rob, Neil, Sophie & Alice.

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Was Pippa's date with her friend a success? Neil and Beth talk about dates and teach some phrasal verbs like 'get on', 'hit it off' and 'settle down', with grammar guru Georgie.

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What possession was stolen from Neil, and who stole it? Neil and Pippa talk about crime, and Beth and Phil discuss the passive, e.g. 'was stolen', with our grammar guru Georgie.

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Do you enjoy climbing mountains and swimming in lakes? Beth and Phil talk about being outdoors, and our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use articles like 'a', 'an' and 'the'.

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What's the most unusual food you've ever eaten? Or the furthest you've travelled in one day? Beth and Phil answer questions like this and our grammar guru explains how to form and use superlatives.

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Are you the kind of person who plans a trip last minute? Or do you prefer to build a spreadsheet months in advance? Pippa and Phil talk about what they tend to do when they're planning a trip, and our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use the phrase 'tend to' and modal verbs 'will' and 'might' to talk about usual behaviour.

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What language can you use when you're gossiping? Pippa and Phil talk about some office gossip, and our grammar guru Georgie explains language we can use when we're speculating about something which may or may not be true.

Learn about reported speech, and how to use 'may' or 'might' to speculate.

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What did you know how to cook before you learnt properly? Maybe it was a simple cake, or you could boil an egg and put bread in a toaster! Pippa and Phil talk about how they learnt to cook, and our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use adverbs like 'finally', 'previously' and 'once before' with the past perfect tense.

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What language can you use when you notice or see something suspicious? Pippa and Phil talk about surprises they've had in their life, and our grammar guru Georgie explains language we can use when we're curious about what's happening.

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

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What does it mean to be on the verge of crying? And what are some other ways we can talk about our emotions? Learn 'make someone do or feel something', 'on the verge of' and 'about to' in this episode, with Pippa, Phil and grammar guru Georgie.

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

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What's the most interesting job you've ever had? What did you have to do? Neil and Beth talk about the most interesting jobs they've had while grammar guru Georgie explains how to use whose to make relative clauses.

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Do you want a house that's a bit, sort of or a lot bigger? Neil and Pippa talk about why they chose to live where they do, while grammar guru Georgie explains how to use 'a bit', 'sort of' and 'a lot' with comparisons, as well as how to compare something to a clause.

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Do you have any social obligations? Beth and Neil talk about doing things they don't really want to do and our grammar guru Georgie explains ways to talk about social obligations. Learn to use 'have to', 'be meant to', 'be supposed to' and how to use the second conditional.

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What are your predictions about the future? Neil and Pippa talk about what they think will happen in the future, and our grammar guru Georgie explains the grammar of future predictions. Learn to use 'will', 'going to' and how to use the future perfect tense.

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Do you have any hobbies you'd like to start doing? Beth and Neil talk about things they enjoy and our grammar guru Georgie explains the grammar of -ing verbs and infinitives. Learn which verbs to use when we have two verbs together in English.

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Do you collect anything? Beth and Neil talk about what they collect and have in their house and our grammar guru Georgie explains the grammar of quantities. Learn to use language like 'absolutely loads of', 'some' and 'only a few'.

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Learn to talk about regrets using the third conditional, 'wish' and regret plus -ing. For more great language tips and programmes visit bbclearningenglish.com

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We talk about our memories all the time. Learn how to reminisce in English with Neil, Pippa and grammar guru Georgie, using used to, would and the past simple.

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Do you prefer dogs or cats? Neil and Phil talk about choices and preferences and our grammar guru Georgie explains the grammar of these choices. Learn to use prefer, would prefer and would rather.

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How long is your to-do list? Beth and Neil talk about the jobs they need to do, and our grammar guru Georgie explains the grammar of your to-do list. Learn to use 'need to', 'have to', 'got to' and 'needs doing'.

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Have you fixed anything recently? Phil fixed his garden gate and Becca fixed her bike. Listen to Pippa and Neil talking about fixing problems and grammar guru Georgie explaining how to use 'itself', 'by itself', 'in itself' and other reflexive pronouns for emphasis.

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Phil attended a party on a boat on the River Thames and Pippa had a student radio show while she was studying at university. Learn how to use different tenses to tell stories from the past.

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George thought he was witnessing a crime and Phil thought a town in India was quiet until he came across an exciting festival. Neil and Pippa, and our grammar guru, Georgie teach you to use 'seem', 'it was as if' and 'it was as though' when you see something happening and you're not sure what's going on.

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Do you know how to make suggestions in English? Learn how to use 'let's', 'might I suggest', 'got to' and the past continuous to make suggestions sound more polite. Listen to Neil and Becca make suggestions for a new programme, and Phil, Pippa and grammar guru Georgie walk you through the language.

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Learn about adjective order and adjective phrases. An old, black guitar or a black, old guitar? Believe it or not, one sounds much more natural. We have some general rules about adjective order in a sentence. Learn about it with grammar guru Georgie and presenters Phil and Pippa.

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What's more stressful? Learning to drive or learning a new language? Listen to Pippa and Phil talking about stressful things and grammar guru Georgie explaining how to make comparative and superlative sentences.

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Why has Phil been doing lots of washing this week? Neil and Beth tell us what they've been up to recently, and our grammar guru Georgie teaches us about the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous tenses.

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Sometimes we need people to do things for us. Beth and Neil talk about mechanics, hairdressers, doctors and opticians and grammar guru Georgie explains the causative.

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What kinds of films do you like? Neil and Beth talk about film genres and grammar guru Georgie explains the quantifiers, 'both', 'every', 'all', 'most', 'all' and 'any'.

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Was Pippa's date with her friend a success? Neil and Beth talk about dates and teach some phrasal verbs like 'get on', 'hit it off' and 'settle down', with grammar guru Georgie.

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What possession was stolen from Neil, and who stole it? Neil and Pippa talk about crime, and Beth and Phil discuss the passive, e.g. 'was stolen', with our grammar guru Georgie.

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Do you enjoy climbing mountains and swimming in lakes? Beth and Phil talk about being outdoors, and our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use articles like 'a', 'an' and 'the'.

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What's the most unusual food you've ever eaten? Or the furthest you've travelled in one day? Beth and Phil answer questions like this and our grammar guru explains how to form and use superlatives.

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Are you the kind of person who plans a trip last minute? Or do you prefer to build a spreadsheet months in advance? Pippa and Phil talk about what they tend to do when they're planning a trip, and our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use the phrase 'tend to' and modal verbs 'will' and 'might' to talk about usual behaviour.

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What language can you use when you're gossiping? Pippa and Phil talk about some office gossip, and our grammar guru Georgie explains language we can use when we're speculating about something which may or may not be true. Learn about reported speech, and how to use 'may' or 'might' to speculate.

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What did you know how to cook before you learnt properly? Maybe it was a simple cake, or you could boil an egg and put bread in a toaster! Pippa and Phil talk about how they learnt to cook, and our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use adverbs like 'finally', 'previously' and 'once before' with the past perfect tense.

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What language can you use when you notice or see something suspicious? Pippa and Phil talk about surprises they've had in their life, and our grammar guru Georgie explains language we can use when we're curious about what's happening.

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What's the best advice you've been given? Learn some grammar for giving advice and making suggestions.

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What does it mean to be on the verge of crying? And what are some other ways we can talk about our emotions? Learn 'make someone do or feel something', 'on the verge of' and 'about to' in this episode, with Pippa, Phil and grammar guru Georgie.

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

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What's the most interesting job you've ever had? What did you have to do? Neil and Beth talk about the most interesting jobs they've had while grammar guru Georgie explains how to use whose to make relative clauses.

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Do you want a house that's a bit, sort of or a lot bigger? Neil and Pippa talk about why they chose to live where they do, while grammar guru Georgie explains how to use 'a bit', 'sort of' and 'a lot' with comparisons, as well as how to compare something to a clause.

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Do you have any social obligations? Beth and Neil talk about doing things they don't really want to do and our grammar guru Georgie explains ways to talk about social obligations. Learn to use 'have to', 'be meant to', 'be supposed to' and how to use the second conditional.

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What are your predictions about the future? Neil and Pippa talk about what they think will happen in the future, and our grammar guru Georgie explains the grammar of future predictions. Learn to use 'will', 'going to' and how to use the future perfect tense.

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Do you have any hobbies you'd like to start doing? Beth and Neil talk about things they enjoy and our grammar guru Georgie explains the grammar of -ing verbs and infinitives. Learn which verbs to use when we have two verbs together in English.

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

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

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We talk about our memories all the time. Learn how to reminisce in English with Neil, Pippa and grammar guru Georgie, using used to, would and the past simple.

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Do you prefer dogs or cats? Neil and Phil talk about choices and preferences and our grammar guru Georgie explains the grammar of these choices. Learn to use prefer, would prefer and would rather.

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How long is your to-do list? Beth and Neil talk about the jobs they need to do, and our grammar guru Georgie explains the grammar of your to-do list. Learn to use 'need to', 'have to', 'got to' and 'needs doing'.

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Learn how to use the third conditional to talk about things in the past you didn't do.

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We discover that chocolate biscuits are a helpful learning tool when talking about this.

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Where had John already gone when Mary rang his doorbell? We give you the answer.

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Learn what to say when you're making a guess about a past or present situation.

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Learn how to use two types of conditional sentences

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To separate or not to separate? We look into phrasal and prepositional verbs.

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Learn how to use 'both', 'every', 'all', 'each', 'either' and 'neither'.

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Neil's got paint all over his clothes. What's he been doing?

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

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

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

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We talk about the future, and teach you how to talk about it.

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You'd like to learn about question tags, wouldn't you?

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

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

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Give us 6 minutes and we can help you learn about the second conditional!

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

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Learn when the passive voice is used.

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Learn different ways of asking for information and making requests.

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

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Too expensive? Using 'too', 'very' and 'enough' with adjectives to talk about degree. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Verb + infinitive with 'to'? Verb + gerund? Learn about verb patterns.

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Learn how to use these intensifiers in English.

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We explain all about present and past participle clauses.

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Learn about a tense that helps you to make predictions about the future.

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Despite, although, while - there are lots of ways we link contrasting ideas.

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Finn and Callum look at all kinds of 'if' clauses.

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We explain and demonstrate the different way these verbs, which look similar, are used.

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Learn two ways of talking about the future.

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Callum and Catherine discuss four different types of phrasal verb.

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What tenses do we use to tell stories in English?

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We discuss where we use adverbs with adjectives and other adverbs. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️6 Minute English ✔️6 Minute Vocabulary ✔️The English We Speak They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

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Learn how to use defining and non-defining relative clauses.

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

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Learn all about the word 'the' and how to use it with abstract uncountable nouns.

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We talk about the three positions where adverbs usually go when used with verbs.

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Catherine and Finn discuss comparatives and superlatives… and commuting!

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Learn about using the active and passive voices in this episode of 6 Minute Grammar. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus

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What to do with pronouns, tenses and word order when you report what someone else says.

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Learn words and phrases like 'therefore' and 'because of'.

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Learn how to use the third conditional to talk about things in the past you didn't do.

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We discover that chocolate biscuits are a helpful learning tool when talking about this. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ 6 Minute English ✔️ 6 Minute Vocabulary ✔️ The English We Speak They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

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Where had John already gone when Mary rang his doorbell? We give you the answer.

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Learn what to say when you're making a guess about a past or present situation.

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Learn how to use two types of conditional sentences

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To separate or not to separate? We look into phrasal and prepositional verbs.

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Learn how to use 'both', 'every', 'all', 'each', 'either' and 'neither'.

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Learn how to use the present perfect continuous tense.

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Find out how to use the present simple, present continuous and present perfect tenses.

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

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Finn and Catherine talk about the future.

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

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

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Catherine and Neil explain the right way to use these verbs.

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Give us 6 minutes and we can help you learn about the second conditional!

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Learn all about the first conditional in 6 minute grammar.

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

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Learn different ways of asking for information and making requests.

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

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Too expensive? Using 'too', 'very' and 'enough' with adjectives to talk about degree.

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

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Learn to talk about this you did as habits in the past.

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Despite, although, while - there are lots of ways we link contrasting ideas.

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Finn and Catherine talk about the future.

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

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Finn and Catherine talk about the future.

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

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Verb + infinitive with 'to'? Verb + gerund? Learn about verb patterns.

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Despite, although, while - there are lots of ways we link contrasting ideas.

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

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Learn different ways of asking for information and making requests.

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

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Catherine might cook curry for dinner. Learn how to use 'might', 'may' and 'could'.

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Catherine might cook curry for dinner. Learn how to use 'might', 'may' and 'could'.

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How to use defining relative clauses. They give information about a noun in a sentence.

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

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

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

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When is a verb followed by a gerund, and when is it followed by an infinitive?

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

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

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

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Learn how to use 'always', 'often', 'never' and 'sometimes'.

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

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'What have you been doing?' Learn how to use the present perfect continuous tense.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"If my team won, I'd be so happy!" Learn how to use the second conditional.

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

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

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Rob and Catherine tell you what they are, how to make them and when to use them.

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

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Too expensive? Using 'too', 'very' and 'enough' with adjectives to talk about degree.

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

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Using the phrase 'used to' to talk about the past: "I used to meet my friends every day."

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How to use defining relative clauses. They give information about a noun in a sentence.

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'I've just been to the London eye!' Learn how to talk about your activities.

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

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

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

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When is a verb followed by a gerund, and when is it followed by an infinitive?

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We talk about making plans and... what is Finn doing tonight?

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Rob and Emma talk about articles and Finn talks about elephants in Cambodia...

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

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

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

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

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

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There's nothing like the present! Learn about the present simple and present continuous.

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

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How to describe the continuous nature of a future activity and how long it will last.

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Verb + infinitive with 'to'? Verb + gerund? Learn about verb patterns.

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"There was such a long queue for coffee!" Learn how to use intensifiers.

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Catherine and Callum explain all about present and past participle clauses.

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Learn about a tense that helps you to make predictions about the future.

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Learn about the words and phrases we can use to link contrasting ideas together.

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Join us for this programme as we review four different types of conditionals.

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Learn to talk about actions that happened regularly in the past.