Learning to cook

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Learning English Grammar

2025-12-02

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What did you know how to cook before you learnt properly? Maybe it was a simple cake, or you could boil an egg and put bread in a toaster! Pippa and Phil talk about how they learnt to cook, and our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use adverbs like 'finally', 'previously' and 'once before' with the past perfect tense. TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET: Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/251202 THE Reading ROOM: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the_reading_room 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.
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  • Hello and welcome to Learning English Grammar.

  • I'm Beth.

  • And I'm Neil.

  • We've just heard Pippa and Phil talking about when they learned to cook.

  • They used the past perfect tense, and that's what we're going to look at today.

  • But not just that, Neil.

  • They also used adverbs like finally, previously and properly.

  • We'll learn how to use adverbs with the past perfect.

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