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Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst 

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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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6 Minute Grammar

Learn about adjective order and adjective phrases. An old, black guitar or a black, old guitar? Believe it or not, one sounds much more natural. We have some general rules about adjective order in a sentence. Learn about it with grammar guru Georgie and presenters Phil and Pippa. Find a transcript and worksheet at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260217

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Favourite things

What's more stressful? Learning to drive or learning a new language? Listen to Pippa and Phil talking about stressful things and grammar guru Georgie explaining how to make comparative and superlative sentences.

As always, get your free worksheet, quiz and transcript for this episode here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260210

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Doing stressful things

Why has Phil been doing lots of washing this week? Neil and Beth tell us what they've been up to recently, and our grammar guru Georgie teaches us about the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous tenses.

Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet:
✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/260203

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What have you been up to?

Sometimes we need people to do things for us. Beth and Neil talk about mechanics, hairdressers, doctors and opticians and grammar guru Georgie explains the causative.

TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET: Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/260127

BEATING SPEAKING ANXIETY: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/beating_speaking_anxiety

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Using services

What kinds of films do you like? Neil and Beth talk about film genres and grammar guru Georgie explains the quantifiers, 'both', 'every', 'all', 'most', 'all' and 'any'.

TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET: Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/260120

BEATING SPEAKING ANXIETY: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/beating_speaking_anxiety

FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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Film genres

Was Pippa's date with her friend a success? Neil and Beth talk about dates and teach some phrasal verbs like 'get on', 'hit it off' and 'settle down', with grammar guru Georgie.

TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET:
Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet
✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/260113

THE READING ROOM:
✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the_reading_room

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First dates

What possession was stolen from Neil, and who stole it? Neil and Pippa talk about crime, and Beth and Phil discuss the passive, e.g. 'was stolen', with our grammar guru Georgie.

TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET:
Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet
✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/260106

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A stolen guitar

Do you enjoy climbing mountains and swimming in lakes? Beth and Phil talk about being outdoors, and our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use articles like 'a', 'an' and 'the'.

Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/251230

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Learn how to use articles – 'a', 'an' and 'the'.

What's the most unusual food you've ever eaten? Or the furthest you've travelled in one day? Beth and Phil answer questions like this and our grammar guru explains how to form and use superlatives.

Test yourself with the worksheet on our website and find a full transcript.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/251223

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Highs and lows

Are you the kind of person who plans a trip last minute? Or do you prefer to build a spreadsheet months in advance? Pippa and Phil talk about what they tend to do when they're planning a trip, and our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use the phrase 'tend to' and modal verbs 'will' and 'might' to talk about usual behaviour.

Find a worksheet to test yourself and the transcript of this episode on our website.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/251216

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Holiday habits

Despite, although, while - there are lots of ways we link contrasting ideas.

Linking devices of contrast

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