6 Minute Grammar (BBC Learning English)

About this course

Improve your English grammar in short, friendly six-minute lessons from BBC Learning English, each on one point with clear examples. Who it's for: learners of English at any level who want to fix common grammar mistakes, a few minutes a day. These are the free, official videos of the "6 Minute Grammar" playlist from the BBC Learning English YouTube channel (youtube.com/@bbclearningenglish). All videos belong to the BBC; Sikhami is not affiliated with the BBC and simply arranges the public playlist into a course, so you can learn one lesson at a time and keep track of your progress.

What you will learn

• Present tenses, past simple and past continuous • Verb patterns and other everyday grammar • Articles, including 'the' with abstract nouns • Where to put adverbs in a sentence • Many more common grammar points, one short lesson at a time

Course content

1 section · 50 lectures · 5h 6m

1. 1. 6 Minute Grammar - Improve your knowledge in just 6 minutes

   • How to use present tenses - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Past simple and past continuous - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Verb patterns - 6 Minute Grammar5m
   • Indirect Questions - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Present Simple and Present Continuous - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Using 'can', 'could', 'be able to' and 'manage to' - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Present perfect and past simple - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • How to use reported speech - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Talking about the future - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Defining relative clauses - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • The past simple tense - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • How to talk about the future - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • State verbs - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • The present perfect with 'just', 'already' and 'yet' - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • 'May', 'might' and 'could' - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • The first conditional - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • 'Have To' and 'must' - 6 Minute Grammar5m
   • How to use phrasal verbs type 1, 2, 3 & 4 - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • The second conditional - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • How to use the third conditional - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • 'Too', 'very' and 'enough' - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • How to use the present perfect continuous tense - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Present perfect with 'ever' and 'never' - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Using the future continuous and ‘be’ with the infinitive - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • How to use comparatives and superlatives - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Present and past passives - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Comparatives and superlatives - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Present perfect with 'for' and 'since' - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Articles - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Used to - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • How to talk about cause and effect - 6 Minute English6m
   • Subject Questions - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • The past perfect tense - 6 Minute Grammar5m
   • Used To & Would - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Take a 'tenses tour' - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Asking Questions - 6 Minute Grammar5m
   • How to use the zero and first conditional - 6 Minute Grammar5m
   • Present continuous and going to - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • The past perfect continuous tense - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Adjectives and adverbs - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • How to use the active and passive voice - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Putting adverbs in the right place - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • How to use modals of deduction and speculation - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • How to use phrasals - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • How to use quantifiers - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Question tags - 6 Minute Grammar6m
   • Adverbs of Frequency - 6 Minute Grammar5m
   • How to use LIKE for preference and description - 6 Minute Grammar5m
   • GRAMMAR: How to use the definite article with abstract uncountable nouns6m
   • GRAMMAR: Putting adverbs in the correct place6m