Learning English Grammar Podcast
Practise your English grammar with these short programmes. Each week we explore a new piece of grammar you need to improve your English.
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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Episodes to download
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Making suggestions
Yesterday
Learn how to use 'let's', 'might I suggest', 'got to', the past continuous and more
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Film genres
Tue 20 Jan 2026
What kinds of films do you like? Neil and Beth talk about film genres and quantifiers
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First dates
Tue 13 Jan 2026
Neil's date fell asleep, and he still married her! Learn how to use phrasal verbs.
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A stolen guitar
Tue 6 Jan 2026
Learn the passive. What possession was stolen from Neil, and who stole it?
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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.
