Listen and read - grammar

Learn grammar through listening and reading

In this section, I have listed all the grammar listenings on this site. Reading about grammar is fine, but if you can listen too, you will be able to hear the pronunciation of the compound verbs, adjectives, adverbs, nouns and tenses so that using correct grammar in spoken English becomes easier. You can listen with or without the audio script. I recommend you listen first and take notes on what you understand. You could then check what you understood in the written audio script. Alternatively, you could listen with the audio script in front of you but look to one side and take notes. Only look at the screen if you get lost and don't understand something important. New grammar listenings are added every week.

Listening to grammar

B1 level grammar

Listening 110 - B1 Use of definite article 'the'.: Article 'the' and generality. NEW

Listening 112 - B1 so and such.: The meanings and uses of 'so' and 'such'. NEW

Listening 121 - B1 Future Forms.: 'Will', 'going to' and present continuous for future. NEW

Listening 92 - B1 IELTS 4.5 Used to.: Used to - structure and examples.

Listening 86 - B1 IELTS 4.5 The infinitives: The full infinitive and infinitive with 'ing' or gerund.

Listening 73 - B1 IELTS 4.5 Intensifiers (quite, fairly, really, extremely etc.): Intensifiers or modifiers: not exactly, fairly, quite, pretty, really, extremely.

Listening 65 - B1 IELTS 4.5 Some and any: Some and any and how we use them and the rather confusing cases of when they're used in negatives, questions or affirmative statements.

Listening 56 - B1 IELTS 5 Introduction to the past perfect: Past perfect (she had already left). I explain its structure and why we use past perfect and compare it to past simple.

Listening 53 - B1 IELTS 4.5 Introduction to the third conditional: Structure and use of the conditionals in English. This is the third conditional.

Listening 52 - B1 IELTS 4.5 Introduction to the second conditional: The second conditional - If I were a rich man...

Listening 22 - B1 IELTS 4.5 Zero and first conditionals: Zero and first conditionals, the structure, how to use them.

Listening 9 - B1 IELTS 4.5 - past continuous: Past continuous and unfinished actions in the past. An introduction or revision for B1 students.

B1 to B2 level grammar

Listening 123 - B1/B2 Use of the adverb 'long'.: The different uses and meaning of this word. NEW

Listening 67 - B1 B2 IELTS 6 Imperatives: Talking about the imperatives and lots of examples.

Listening 40 - B1 B2 IELTS 5 Introduction to the passive: An introduction to the passive voice, the structure, changing from active to passive, and why we use the passive.

Listening 38 - B1 B2 IELTS 4.5 Going to for predictions: Going to, which is to talk about predictions in the future.

Listening 37 - B1 B2 IELTS 5.5 Have something done: 'Have something done'. When you ask somebody else to do it something for you.

Listening 35 - B1 B2 IELTS 5 or 6 subject and object questions: Subject and object questions. Questions with and without inversion and auxiliaries: do, does or did.

Listening 19 - B1/B2 IELTS 5 - Indirect questions: Direct and indirect questions and why and when we use them with lots of examples.

Listening 8 - B1/B2 IELTS 5 - Reported speech and direct speech: Using questions, adverbs and imperatives with reported speech.

Listening 5 - B1/B2 IELTS 5.5 ability in the present and past: Can - when we want to use this modal auxiliary as an infinitive, or as a past participle.

B2 level grammar

Listening 120 - B2 'wish' and 'if only'.: Revision of structures with 'wish' and 'if only'. NEW

Listening 91 - B2 IELTS 6.5 Uses of the passive and active: The use of the passive in more detail.

Listening 89 - B1 IELTS 4.5 Will and Going to.: The use of 'will' and 'going to' for predictions and their ambiguities.

Listening 83 - B2 IELTS 6.5 Prepositions: The importance of prepositions (prepositions after adjectives and verbs).

Listening 55 - B2 IELTS 6.5 Mixed conditionals: Mixed conditionals. This happens when we make references to both past and present in the same sentence.

Listening 50 - B2 IELTS 6.5 Comparatives and their modifiers: Modifiers we use with comparatives: so, such, slightly, a good deal etc.

Listening 25 - B2 IELTS 6 - future continuous and future perfect: Future continuous and future perfect.

Listening 16 - B2 IELTS 6.5 - Extreme adjectives: Extreme adjectives, and the adverbs that qualify them or that go with them.

Listening 11 - B2 IELTS 6 Hypothesizing: Hypothesizing in English, using words like 'wish' and 'if only'.