Learning English Grammar Podcast
Learn English grammar with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new piece of grammar you need to improve your English.
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Episodes to download
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Learning to cook
Tue 2 Dec 2025
Our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use adverbs with the past perfect tense
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Emotions
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Learn 'make someone do or feel something', 'on the verge of' and 'about to'.
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Describing a job
Tue 28 Oct 2025
What's the most interesting job you've ever had? Neil and Beth talk about this
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Choosing a home
Tue 21 Oct 2025
Our grammar guru explains how to use 'a bit' 'sort of' and 'a lot' with comparisons.
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Things you have to do
Tue 14 Oct 2025
Our grammar guru Georgie explains ways to talk about social obligations.
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Hobbies we enjoy doing
Tue 30 Sep 2025
When do we use infinitives and when do we use the -ing form. Georgie explains it all
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Regrets
Tue 16 Sep 2025
Learn to talk about regrets using the third conditional, 'wish' and regret plus -ing
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Reminiscing
Tue 9 Sep 2025
We talk about our memories all the time. Learn how to reminisce in English
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Preferences
Tue 2 Sep 2025
Do you prefer dogs or cats? Neil and Phil and Georgie talk about choices and preferences
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NEW SERIES: To-do lists
Tue 26 Aug 2025
Learn to use 'need to', 'have to', 'got to' and 'needs doing' with Beth, Neil and Georgie
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Linking devices: cause and effect
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Learn words and phrases like 'therefore' and 'because of'.
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The third conditional
Tue 12 Aug 2025
Learn how to use the third conditional to talk about things in the past you didn't do.
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Adjectives and adverbs
Tue 5 Aug 2025
We discover that chocolate biscuits are a helpful learning tool when talking about this.
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The past perfect
Tue 29 Jul 2025
Where had John already gone when Mary rang his doorbell? We give you the answer.
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Modals of deduction and speculation
Tue 22 Jul 2025
Learn what to say when you're making a guess about a past or present situation.
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Phrasals
Tue 8 Jul 2025
To separate or not to separate? We look into phrasal and prepositional verbs.
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Present perfect continuous
Tue 24 Jun 2025
Neil's got paint all over his clothes. What's he been doing?
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Present tenses
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Finn and Catherine take a look at the present simple, continuous and perfect.
