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State verbs

If you’re unsure about the difference between state verbs and action verbs, listen on.

• 6 mins

Present Perfect and Past Simple

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

• 6 mins

Question Tags

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

• 6 mins

Will, going to, might

Finn and Catherine talk about the future.

• 6 mins

Used to and would

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

• 6 mins

Subject questions

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

• 6 mins

Too, very, enough

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

• 6 mins

Verb tenses

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

• 6 mins

Indirect questions

Learn different ways of asking for information and making requests.

• 6 mins

Present and past passives

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

• 6 mins

The first conditional

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

• 6 mins

The second conditional

We talk about unreal or imaginary situations using the second conditional.

• 6 mins

State verbs

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

• 6 mins

Present perfect and past simple

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

• 6 mins

Question tags

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

• 6 mins

Will, going to, might

Finn and Catherine talk about the future.

• 6 mins

'Can', 'could', 'be able to', 'manage to'

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

• 6 mins

Present tenses

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

• 6 mins

Present perfect continuous

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

• 6 mins

Quantifiers

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

• 6 mins

Phrasals

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

• 6 mins

First and zero conditional

Learn how to use two types of conditional sentences

• 6 mins

Modals of deduction and speculation

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

• 6 mins

The past perfect

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

• 5 mins

Adjectives and adverbs

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

• 6 mins

The third conditional

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

• 6 mins

Linking devices: cause and effect

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

• 6 mins

Reported speech

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

• 6 mins

Active and passive voice

Learn about using the active and passive voices in this episode of 6 Minute Grammar.

• 6 mins

Comparatives and superlatives

Catherine and Finn discuss comparatives and superlatives… and commuting!

• 6 mins