Learning English Grammar Learning to cook
Dec 2, 2025
Ever wondered what culinary skills you had before actually learning to cook? Hosts dive into their personal cooking memories and share amusing anecdotes. They explore the past perfect tense, showing how it relates to past cooking experiences. Our grammar expert clarifies how to use adverbs like 'previously' and 'properly' with the past perfect. The conversation wraps up with a fun practice session correcting sentences, making grammar engaging and tasty!
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Learning To Cook At Home
- Phil learned to cook as a teenager and had previously helped make apple pie and cakes.
- His mum then made all the kids cook one night a week to learn proper meals.
Prepared For University Food
- Pippa learned to cook around age 12 and had cooked spaghetti bolognese once before learning more dishes.
- She wanted to avoid buying ready meals when she went to university and asked her mum for help.
Past Perfect Is The Past Of The Past
- The past perfect expresses an earlier past event relative to another past event.
- Use had + past participle for the event that happened first and past simple for the later event.