.sc-c-sounds-nav { position: relative; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__menu-button { display: none; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__items { max-height: 500px; visibility: visible; position: static; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__overlay { display: none; } @media screen and (max-width: 659px) { .sc-c-sounds-nav__wrapper { padding-bottom: 0px; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__wordmark-link { padding-bottom: 18px; } }

Home
Music
Podcasts
My Sounds

Learning English Grammar - The present perfect with 'for' and 'since' - BBC Sounds

Learning English Grammar

The present perfect with 'for' and 'since'The present perfect with 'for' and 'since'

Released On: 11 Feb 2025

Available for over a year

Learn how to answer questions with 'how long' using the words 'for' and 'since'.

More episodes

Programme Website

Coming Up Next

now playing
Learning English Grammar
The present perfect with 'for' and 'since'
Learn how to answer questions with 'how long' using the words 'for' and 'since'.
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
Comparatives and superlatives
Who's taller and who is the thinnest? Learn how to compare people and things in English.
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
The present perfect with ‘just’, ‘already’ and ‘yet’
Learn how to use the present perfect with just, already and yet.
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
Defining relative clauses
Do you know who married Ron Weasley in Harry Potter? Find out and learn more.
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
‘May’, ‘might’ and ‘could'
What are you having for dinner tonight? Listen to find out what Catherine might have.
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
Subject questions
Learn how to form questions when you want to ask about a subject or an object.
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
Too, very, enough
Too expensive? Using 'too', 'very' and 'enough' with adjectives to talk about degree.
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
Tenses
Neil and Catherine go on on a 'tense tour' of six very important English tenses.
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
Indirect questions
Learn different ways of asking for information and making requests.
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
Present and past passives
Learn when the passive voice is used
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
The first conditional
"If it rains, I will take my umbrella." Learn how to use the first conditional.
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
The second conditional
Give us 6 minutes and we can help you learn about the second conditional!
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
State verbs
Is it OK to say 'I'm loving your work'? Neil and Catherine take a look at state verbs
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
Present perfect and past simple
Learn when we use the present perfect and past simple tenses.
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
Question tags
You'd like to learn about question tags, wouldn't you?
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
Will, going to, might
We talk about the future, and teach you how to talk about it.
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
'Used to' and 'would'
Hear about a strange habit Finn had when he was a child. He used to sleepwalk!
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
'Can', 'could', 'be able to', 'manage to'
Learn key words and phrases to talk about ability in the present and the past.
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
Present tenses
Finn and Catherine take a look at the present simple, continuous and perfect.
6 mins
Learning English Grammar
Present perfect continuous
Neil's got paint all over his clothes. What's he been doing?
6 mins

Cymraeg
Gaeilge
Gàidhlig

BBC Sounds Help
Contacts, Privacy and Information
Help with Signing In
Newsletter