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LEARN ENGLISH with Dan

Do you want to speak better English? Then ANGLOPOD is for you! Whatever your level, if you LEARN ENGLISH with Dan, you will develop your language skills and increase your confidence in English. This series of podcasts will help answer some of the most common questions students have about English. Want to learn more? Get the FREE EBOOK.

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3:54

Present with adverbs of frequency

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/08/08

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at how we use the present tense, both simple and continuous, with adverbs of frequency in English. This will help us understand English tenses better.Let’s start with an example to see what we mean. “I ALWAYS DO my homework”. The adverb of frequency here is ALWAYS and it comes before the verb DO, which is in the present simple form. So, we NORMALLY PUT adverbs of frequency before the verb in English

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3:28

Verbs that are never continuous

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/08/01

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to continue to learn about English tenses by taking a look at verbs in English that are never, or hardly ever, used in the continuous form.In the previous lesson, we learnt about the difference between the present simple and continuous tense and how the meaning can change when the form of the verb changes. However, there are some verbs that we just don’t use in the continuous form. For example, you say: “I LIKE

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3:33

Present simple and continuous

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/07/25

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn about English tenses and in particular the difference between the simple and continuous form of the present tense. When do we use present simple and when do we use present continuous? Let’s find out more…We normally use the present simple in English to talk about things that usually happen or things that are generally true, so it’s useful to talk about habits or repeated actions. For example, “I HAVE eggs

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3:18

USED TO and WOULD

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/07/18

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between USED TO and WOULD in English. You might think these two words are very different but actually we use them both to talk about past habits. Let’s learn more…So, in the last lesson, we learnt that we use USED TO to talk about past habits. “I USED TO PLAY football” or “I USED TO GO swimming”. But there is another way to talk about past habits. You could use the modal verb WOULD.For

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2:53

USED TO DO and USED TO DOING

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/07/11

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn the difference between USED TO DO and USED TO DOING in English. The first one is used for talking about past habits but the second one is quite different. We use it to talk about things we are accustomed to. Let’s learn more…Firstly, we use USED TO to talk about things we did again and again in the past but we don’t do now. So these are repeated habits. Think about things you did every day when you were a

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3:05

WOULD YOU LIKE and DO YOU LIKE

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/07/04

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn about the difference between using WOULD YOU LIKE and DO YOU LIKE. We use WOULD YOU LIKE to make offers or suggestions, but we use DO YOU LIKE to ask someone their opinion about something. Let’s find out more…Firstly, you could use WOULD YOU LIKE with a noun, so “WOULD YOU LIKE a glass of wine?” You’re making a specific offer here. You’re offering a glass of wine. However, you could also use DO YOU LIKE

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2:50

MUST BE and CAN'T BE

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/06/27

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn about the modal verb expressions MUST BE and CAN’T BE in English. We use them to discuss probability, how sure we feel about something. Let’s find out more…Imagine you are trying to solve a crime, like a detective. Think of Sherlock Holmes or even Batman! A detective needs to find clues, evidence, information to help them understand what happened. When the detective is sure what happened, they might say

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2:25

HAVE TO and DON'T HAVE TO

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/06/20

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between the modal verbs HAVE TO and DON’T HAVE TO. We use them to say if something is important or not. Let’s find out more…Here’s an example. If you arrange a party and it’s very important that people come to the party on time, you can say “You HAVE TO come on time” or “You MUST come on time”. That is very clear. It is very important, it is necessary that everyone comes to the party on

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3:24

HAVE TO and MUST

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/06/13

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between HAVE TO and MUST in English. They are both very common modal verbs that we use to express obligation. But is there a difference? And what is the difference? Let’s find out…Let’s start with a simple example. You can say “I HAVE TO do my homework” or you can say “I MUST do my homework” and it is clear that this is something that needs to be completed. There is an obligation here

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2:54

MUST HAVE BEEN and SHOULD HAVE BEEN

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/06/06

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to focus on using the modal verbs MUST, SHOULD and OUGHT TO with the present perfect. We use them together to talk about something we thought would happen but didn’t.This will be easier to understand if we look at an example together. If you’re waiting for someone, but they still haven’t arrived, you might feel worried or even angry. If they don’t have a long way to travel or they started their journey to meet you

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3:15

Modal verbs

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/05/30

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn how to use modal verbs with the bare infinitive in English. This means we’re going to focus on how we use modal verbs followed by another verb in a sentence.Firstly, what is a modal verb? Well, it is a type of auxiliary verb, a helping verb, which expresses some form of modality, such as ability, permission or possibility. For example, we can use the modal verb CAN to express ability: “I CAN play the

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3:21

HAVE something DONE

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/05/23

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to focus on the expression HAVE something DONE in English. This is a very common expression but it is often confusing for English students. It has a passive meaning and it means that someone does something for us, either because we can’t do it or we don’t know how to do it. Let’s find out more…Let’s start with a simple example to see what I mean. If I have a new haircut, my students often say to me: “You cut your

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3:53

Active and passive

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/05/16

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at active and passive voice in English. This is a very important grammatical structure in English. We use it for different reasons, such as changing the focus of the sentence. Let’s look at some examples…Here’s a simple example: “The cat ATE the mouse”, active, “The mouse WAS EATEN by the cat”, passive. The passive form is really useful if we want to change the focus of the sentence. In this case, we want

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3:13

Linking verbs

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/05/09

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn about linking verbs and how we use them in a sentence. These verbs do not describe an action. They are used to describe a state, a feeling or a result. Let’s look at some examples…The most common example of a linking verb is BE. For example, I AM a teacher, you ARE a student. In these examples, the verb BE is used to describe a state, not an action, and it is followed in both examples with a noun, not an

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2:56

Reflexive verbs

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/05/02

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at reflexive verbs in English. What is a reflexive verb? This is a verb where the action has an effect on the person doing it. Let’s see some examples together…One of the most common reflexive verbs is ENJOY. You can ENJOY SOMETHING, for example, you can ENJOY A PARTY or ENJOY A MOVIE, but you can also ENJOY YOURSELF, which makes it a reflexive verb. The verb ENJOY describes the effect on you. You can

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3:07

I CAN'T AFFORD it

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/04/25

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to talk about the verb AFFORD and how we should use it. We normally use this verb to talk about money and how much money we have, although it can be used to refer to other things as well, such as time.The reason we’re going to focus on AFFORD is because it has a particular verb pattern so we can use it correctly. Let’s look at an example to see what we mean. You could say: I CAN’T AFFORD to go out tonight, I CAN’T

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4:51

I WISH I KNEW and I WISH I HAD KNOWN

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/04/18

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and in the last lesson we talked about using the verb WISH to talk about unreal situations in the present. Things that we would like to change now, but we can’t. In this lesson, we’re going to look at the difference between a wish in the present and a wish in the past. What’s the difference? How does the sentence change?Let’s use the example I WISH I KNEW from the verb TO KNOW. So as you remember from the last lesson, to make a wish

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5:51

I WISH I WAS or I WISH I WERE?

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/04/11

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to focus on the verb WISH to talk about things we would like to be different but we cannot change. Why can we not change them? Well, either we don’t have the power to change them or they happened in the past, so it’s too late to change them!Let’s start with a simple example: I WISH I WERE taller. I WISH I WERE taller. Let’s look at this phrase carefully to understand it. I WISH I WERE taller. What does it mean

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3:04

I’m THINKING OF doING it

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/04/04

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to talk about your plans using the verb THINK. How do you describe the things you might do in the future?Well, a very simple way to talk about your future is to say: I’M THINKING OF, I’M THINKING OF. So, use the verb THINK in the continuous form, which is BE plus the verb with ING followed by the preposition OF. I’M THINKING OF. So you haven’t decided yet, you’re still making your plan. We say: I’M THINKING

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4:31

LIKE DOING or LIKE TO DO?

LEARN ENGLISH with Dan ·

2022/03/29

Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between LIKE DOING and LIKE TO DO. This often causes students lots of problems because the meaning changes between the two, but it’s not always obvious what the difference is. Don’t worry, in this lesson I’ll make it very clear for you. Let’s look at some examples to help us understand better.Firstly, you could say: I LIKE PLAYING football, I LIKE WATCHING movies. I LIKE EATING pizza, I

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