Understanding Grammar - Narrative Tenses

This week, Jack reflects on 10 years of the Premier Skills English podcast, looking back at the highlights of the last 800 episodes and leaves you with a football English quiz. 

This Week explores some of the biggest stories from the Premier League and the world of football and focuses on the most interesting vocabulary.In this episode, Jack talks about websites and podcasts that football fans can use to build their vocabulary and improve their English.Y ...  Show more

This podcast is about narrative tenses (past simple, past continous, past perfect - see details below). We use these tenses to sequence stories about the past. To master the use of these tenses you have to deal with their form, their use and their pronunciation - both for listeni ...  Show more

In this episode of Everyday English with E2, Louisa will teach you two ways to use the past continuous verb tense - one for how to tell stories about the past and one for how to answer the question: What were you doing? This is an important podcast that explains a challenging ver ...  Show more

I see a lot of writing mistakes with learners struggling with parallel structures, or parallelism. This is where features in a sentence have to follow the same grammatical patterns to sound natural.It may sound a bit confusing, but honestly, it's fairly simple once you understand ...  Show more

In episode 6 Scott and Una talk about the use of tenses. Tenses are an important part of the OET letter writing process and a lot of students struggle with them. In this podcast, we talk about how you can use the main verb tenses like: Present simple Past simple Present perfect P ...  Show more