Do you know how to make suggestions in English? Learn how to use 'let's', 'might I suggest', 'got to' and the past continuous to make suggestions sound more polite. Listen to Neil and Becca make suggestions for a new programme, and Phil, Pippa and grammar guru Georgie walk you through the language.Get a free worksheet and transcript to help you get more from this episode: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260224">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260224</a>Get weekly updates and tips for improving your English here: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u178220599">https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u178220599</a>And check out our new website layout! We've given the homepage an update to make it easier to navigate: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/</a>We'd love some feedback about our website, or any of our programmes. Just email us at <a href="mailto:learningenglish@bbc.co.uk">learningenglish@bbc.co.uk</a>

Do you know how to make suggestions in English? Learn how to use 'let's', 'might I suggest', 'got to' and the past continuous to make suggestions sound more polite. Listen to Neil and Becca make suggestions for a new programme, and Phil, Pippa and grammar guru Georgie walk you through the language. Get a free worksheet and transcript to help you get more from this episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260224 Get weekly updates and tips for improving your English here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u178220599 And check out our new website layout! We've given the homepage an update to make it easier to navigate: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/ We'd love some feedback about our website, or any of our programmes. Just email us at learningenglish@bbc.co.uk

Do you know how to make suggestions in English? Learn how to use 'let's', 'might I suggest', 'got to' and the past continuous to make suggestions sound more polite. Listen to Neil and Becca make suggestions for a new programme, and Phil, Pippa and grammar guru Georgie walk you through the language.Get a free worksheet and transcript to help you get more from this episode: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260224" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260224</a>Get weekly updates and tips for improving your English here: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u178220599" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u178220599</a>And check out our new website layout! We've given the homepage an update to make it easier to navigate: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/</a>We'd love some feedback about our website, or any of our programmes. Just email us at <a href="mailto:learningenglish@bbc.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer">learningenglish@bbc.co.uk</a>

Making suggestions

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: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260217">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260217</a>Want to boost your skills in English? Visit our skills page here: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/skills">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/skills</a>Get our latest programmes. Subscribe to our free email newsletter <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters</a>

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 Want to boost your skills in English? Visit our skills page here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/skills Get our latest programmes. Subscribe to our free email newsletter https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters

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: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260217" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260217</a>Want to boost your skills in English? Visit our skills page here: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/skills" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/skills</a>Get our latest programmes. Subscribe to our free email newsletter <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters</a>

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: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260210">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260210</a>Sign up to our weekly newsletter! Your favourite presenters write you an email with tips and resources to help you improve your English: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u178220599">https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u178220599</a> - also feel free to respond! We read everything, although we don't always have time to reply.Have you tried our 'Beating Speaking Anxiety' podcast? Boost your speaking confidence with these podcast and video episodes: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/beating_speaking_anxiety">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/beating_speaking_anxiety</a>

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 Sign up to our weekly newsletter! Your favourite presenters write you an email with tips and resources to help you improve your English: https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u178220599 - also feel free to respond! We read everything, although we don't always have time to reply. Have you tried our 'Beating Speaking Anxiety' podcast? Boost your speaking confidence with these podcast and video episodes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/beating_speaking_anxiety

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: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260210" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-grammar/260210</a>Sign up to our weekly newsletter! Your favourite presenters write you an email with tips and resources to help you improve your English: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u178220599" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u178220599</a> - also feel free to respond! We read everything, although we don't always have time to reply.Have you tried our 'Beating Speaking Anxiety' podcast? Boost your speaking confidence with these podcast and video episodes: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/beating_speaking_anxiety" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/beating_speaking_anxiety</a>

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:
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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:
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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 ✔️ <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/260127">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/260127</a>BEATING SPEAKING ANXIETY: ✔️ <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/beating_speaking_anxiety">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/beating_speaking_anxiety</a>FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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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 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.

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 ✔️ <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/260127" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/260127</a>BEATING SPEAKING ANXIETY: ✔️ <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/beating_speaking_anxiety" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/beating_speaking_anxiety</a>FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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Learn to talk about this you did as habits in the past.

Learn to talk about this you did as habits in the past.

Used to and would

Finn and Catherine talk about the future.

Finn and Catherine talk about the future.

Will, going to, might

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Question tags

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

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

Present perfect and past simple

Learn about verbs we don't usually use in continuous tenses.

Learn about verbs we don't usually use in continuous tenses.

State verbs

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

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

The second conditional

Learn all about the first conditional in 6 minute grammar.

Learn all about the first conditional in 6 minute grammar.

First Conditional

Learn how to make sentences using passive voice.

Learn how to make sentences using passive voice.

Passive voice

Catherine and Rob teach you how and when to use indirect questions

Catherine and Rob teach you how and when to use indirect questions

Indirect questions

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

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

Tenses

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