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.

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Emotions
Learn 'make someone do or feel something', 'on the verge of' and 'about to'.
11 Nov 2025,8 mins
Asking strangers
How can you ask questions politely? Find out with our grammar guru
05 Nov 2025,8 mins
Describing a job
What's the most interesting job you've ever had? Neil and Beth talk about this
28 Oct 2025,8 mins
Choosing a home
Our grammar guru explains how to use 'a bit' 'sort of' and 'a lot' with comparisons.
21 Oct 2025,8 mins
Things you have to do
Our grammar guru Georgie explains ways to talk about social obligations.
14 Oct 2025,9 mins
Predicting the future
Georgie explains the grammar of future predictions.
07 Oct 2025,8 mins
Hobbies we enjoy doing
When do we use infinitives and when do we use the -ing form. Georgie explains it all
30 Sep 2025,9 mins
Things we collect
What's the difference between 'loads of' and 'lots of'?
23 Sep 2025,8 mins
Regrets
Learn to talk about regrets using the third conditional, 'wish' and regret plus -ing
16 Sep 2025,8 mins
Reminiscing
We talk about our memories all the time. Learn how to reminisce in English
09 Sep 2025,8 mins
Preferences
Do you prefer dogs or cats? Neil and Phil and Georgie talk about choices and preferences
02 Sep 2025,8 mins
NEW SERIES: To-do lists
Learn to use 'need to', 'have to', 'got to' and 'needs doing' with Beth, Neil and Georgie
26 Aug 2025,6 mins
Linking devices: cause and effect
Learn words and phrases like 'therefore' and 'because of'.
19 Aug 2025,6 mins
The third conditional
Learn how to use the third conditional to talk about things in the past you didn't do.
12 Aug 2025,6 mins
Adjectives and adverbs
We discover that chocolate biscuits are a helpful learning tool when talking about this.
05 Aug 2025,6 mins
The past perfect
Where had John already gone when Mary rang his doorbell? We give you the answer.
29 Jul 2025,5 mins
Modals of deduction and speculation
Learn what to say when you're making a guess about a past or present situation.
22 Jul 2025,6 mins
First and zero conditional
Learn how to use two types of conditional sentences
15 Jul 2025,6 mins
Phrasals
To separate or not to separate? We look into phrasal and prepositional verbs.
08 Jul 2025,6 mins
Quantifiers
Learn how to use 'both', 'every', 'all', 'each', 'either' and 'neither'.
01 Jul 2025,6 mins
Present perfect continuous
Neil's got paint all over his clothes. What's he been doing?
24 Jun 2025,6 mins
Present tenses
Finn and Catherine take a look at the present simple, continuous and perfect.
17 Jun 2025,6 mins
'Can', 'could', 'be able to', 'manage to'
Learn key words and phrases to talk about ability in the present and the past.
10 Jun 2025,6 mins
'Used to' and 'would'
Hear about a strange habit Finn had when he was a child. He used to sleepwalk!
03 Jun 2025,6 mins
Will, going to, might
We talk about the future, and teach you how to talk about it.
27 May 2025,6 mins
Question tags
You'd like to learn about question tags, wouldn't you?
20 May 2025,6 mins
Present perfect and past simple
Learn when we use the present perfect and past simple tenses.
13 May 2025,6 mins
State verbs
Is it OK to say 'I'm loving your work'? Neil and Catherine take a look at state verbs
06 May 2025,6 mins
The second conditional
Give us 6 minutes and we can help you learn about the second conditional!
29 Apr 2025,6 mins
The first conditional
"If it rains, I will take my umbrella." Learn how to use the first conditional.
22 Apr 2025,6 mins