6 Minute Grammar

Neil's got paint all over his clothes. What's he been doing? Subscribe to our newsletter ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters Video series about tenses ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/tenses_with_georgieFIND 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: ✔️ Learning Easy English ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English Stories They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Finn and Catherine take a look at the present simple, continuous and perfect. Subscribe to our newsletter ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersVideo series about tenses ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/tenses_with_georgieFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning Easy English ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

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

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

We talk about the future, and teach you how to talk about it.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusLIKE 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.

You'd like to learn about question tags, wouldn't you? Subscribe to our newsletter ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters 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: ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English Stories They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Learn when we use the present perfect and past simple tenses. Subscribe to our newsletter ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersFIND 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: ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English Stories They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Is it OK to say 'I'm loving your work'? Neil and Catherine take a look at state verbsSubscribe to our newsletter ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ Learning English for Work ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Give us 6 minutes and we can help you learn about the second conditional!FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusLIKE 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.

"If it rains, I will take my umbrella." Learn how to use the first conditional. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus The Pronunciation Lounge ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the_pronunciation_lounge Subscribe to our newsletter ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️Learning English Conversations ✔️Learning English Vocabulary They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Learn when the passive voice is used.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus The Pronunciation Lounge ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the_pronunciation_lounge Subscribe to our newsletter ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️Learning English Conversations ✔️Learning English Vocabulary They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Learn different ways of asking for information and making requests.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusThe Pronunciation Lounge ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the_pronunciation_loungeSubscribe to our newsletter ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️Learning English Conversations ✔️Learning English VocabularyThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Neil and Catherine go on on a 'tense tour' of six very important English tenses.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus The Pronunciation Lounge ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the_pronunciation_lounge Subscribe to our newsletter ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️Learning English Conversations ✔️Learning English Vocabulary They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Too expensive? Using 'too', 'very' and 'enough' with adjectives to talk about degree. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglishFollow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusThe Pronunciation Lounge ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the_pronunciation_loungeSubscribe to our newsletter ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS?Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️Learning English Conversations ✔️6 Minute VocabularyThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Learn how to form questions when you want to ask about a subject or an object.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglishFollow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusThe Pronunciation Lounge ✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the_pronunciation_loungeSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS?Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️Learning English Conversations ✔️6 Minute VocabularyThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

What are you having for dinner tonight? Listen to find out what Catherine might have. 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: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️Learning English Conversations ✔️6 Minute Vocabulary They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Do you know who married Ron Weasley in Harry Potter? Find out and learn more.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️Learning English Conversations ✔️6 Minute VocabularyThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Learn how to use the present perfect with just, already and yet.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️Learning English Conversations ✔️6 Minute VocabularyThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Who's taller and who is the thinnest? Learn how to compare people and things in English.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️Learning English Conversations ✔️6 Minute VocabularyThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Learn how to answer questions with 'how long' using the words 'for' and 'since'. 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: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️Learning English Conversations ✔️6 Minute Vocabulary They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Have you ever ridden a camel? Use the present perfect to talk about life experiences. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️Learning English Conversations ✔️6 Minute VocabularyThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Verb + infinitive with 'to'? Verb + gerund? Learn about verb patterns. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️Learning English Conversations ✔️6 Minute VocabularyThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Learn how to use these intensifiers in English.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️6 Minute Vocabulary ✔️Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

We explain all about present and past participle clauses.LEARN ABOUT TENSES: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/tenses_with_georgieFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️6 Minute Vocabulary ✔️Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Learn about a tense that helps you to make predictions about the future.MORE ABOUT TENSES: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/tenses_with_georgieFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️6 Minute Vocabulary ✔️Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Despite, although, while - there are lots of ways we link contrasting ideas.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: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️6 Minute Vocabulary ✔️Learning English Stories They're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Finn and Callum look at all kinds of 'if' clauses.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️6 Minute Vocabulary ✔️Learning English StoriesThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

We explain and demonstrate the different way these verbs, which look similar, are used.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️Learning English for Work ✔️6 Minute Vocabulary ✔️The English We SpeakThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Learn two ways of talking about the future. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️6 Minute English ✔️6 Minute Vocabulary ✔️The English We SpeakThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

Callum and Catherine discuss four different types of phrasal verb.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️6 Minute English ✔️6 Minute Vocabulary ✔️The English We SpeakThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

What tenses do we use to tell stories in English?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 SpeakThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

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.

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

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

Learn all about the word 'the' and how to use it with abstract uncountable nouns.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newslettersLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️6 Minute English ✔️6 Minute Vocabulary ✔️The English We SpeakThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

We talk about the three positions where adverbs usually go when used with verbs.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusSUBSCRIBE 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.

Catherine and Finn discuss comparatives and superlatives… and commuting! 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.

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 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.

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

Learn words and phrases like 'therefore' and 'because of'.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followusLIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ 6 Minute English ✔️ 6 Minute Vocabulary ✔️ The English We SpeakThey're all available by searching in your podcast app.

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

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.