2019-12-07 Question tags – 6 Minute Grammar
Question tags Catherine’s chocolate has gone missing! She thinks Finn ate it, so she asks him this: ‘Finn, you didn’t…
2019-11-30 Present perfect and past simple – 6 Minute Grammar
Present perfect and past simple Have you ever eaten insects? Catherine and Neil talk about unusual food and give you…
2019-11-23 State verbs – 6 Minute Grammar
State verbs Is it ever ok to say ‘I’m loving your work’? If you’re still unsure about the difference between…
2019-11-16 The second conditional – 6 Minute Grammar
If you need more explanation about the second conditional, just give us six minutes of your time and we can…
2019-11-09 First conditional – 6 Minute Grammar
If it rains, what will you do? Well, if it rains, I’ll take my umbrella with me. It’s not as…
2019-11-02 Present and past passives – 6 Minute Grammar
Present and past passives This unit was produced by BBC Learning English for you – and we hope you’re learning…
2019-10-26 Indirect Questions – 6 Minute Grammar
Indirect questions Could you tell us what you have learnt from Unit 21 so far? Have you any idea how…
2019-10-19 Take a ‘tenses tour’ – 6 Minute Grammar
Tenses Neil and Catherine go on on a ‘tense tour’ of six very important English tenses. Listen to their examples…
2019-10-12 ‘Too’, ‘very’ and ‘enough’ – 6 Minute Grammar
Too, very, enough This session has been all about expressing degree in English. Too, very, and enough are three key…
2019-10-05 Subject Questions – 6 Minute Grammar
Subject questions In everyday English, the words who, what, which and whose are very common in questions. But how do…
2019-09-28 ‘Used to’ – 6 Minute Grammar
In 6 Minute Grammar, Neil, Catherine and Rob share their pasts with you and give lots of examples of used…
2019-09-21 ‘May’, ‘might’ and ‘could’ – 6 Minute Grammar
Decisions, decisions! Catherine doesn’t know what to have for dinner tonight. She might have a curry or she may have…
2019-09-14 Relative Clauses – 6 Minute Grammar
Defining relative clauses This is a Unit which focuses a lot on relative clauses. By now you are people who…
2019-09-07 The present perfect with ‘just’, ‘already’ and ‘yet’ – 6 Minute Grammar
Just, already and yet with the present perfect tense Finn and Alice present this edition of 6 Minute Grammar, but…
2019-08-31 Comparatives and superlatives – 6 Minute Grammar
More about comparatives and superlatives Meet our presenters Rob and Sophie. Who’s the tallest and who’s the thinnest? These are…
2019-08-24 Present perfect with ‘for’ and ‘since’ – 6 Minute Grammar
Present perfect with ‘for’ and ‘since’ So since we started this session, we’ve talked about using the present perfect with…
2019-08-17 Present perfect with ‘ever’ and ‘never’ – 6 Minute Grammar
Finn Hello. Welcome to 6 Minute Grammar with me, Finn. AliceAnd me, Alice. Hello. FinnAnd today we’re talking about the…
2019-08-10 Verb patterns – 6 Minute Grammar
Do you know all four? When is a verb followed by a gerund, and when is it followed by an…
2019-08-03 Present continuous and ‘going to’ – 6 Minute Grammar
Present continuous and ‘going to’ In this session we’ve looked at the wedding plans of three different couples, and learned…
2019-07-27 Articles – 6 Minute Grammar
Articles and elephants What can you learn in 6 minutes? Quite a lot if you listen to 6 Minute Grammar…