How to Talk About the Future in English (with WOULD)

hi everybody welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is Alisha and today we're going to talk about how to use wood to talk about the future so I've said the future here for this lesson because we're going to cover many different ways to use wood to imagine the future to imagine the present also we're going to talk about using it to make requests and offers and invitations and to express preferences finally we're also going to talk about the differences between wood and will in conditional sentences something that I often see learners struggle with we have so much to do today so we're going to start in about two minutes while we wait for other people to join though if you are in the chat now please make sure to send a message say hello to everyone in the chat and also please make sure to LIKE this video hit the like button and share the video so other people can find today's lesson first announcement this banner here shows us as we have every week free PDF cheat sheets from the 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questions that come from you and I try to answer them in just a few short minutes really so these are for like your small little questions not some big grammar questions always but if you want to participate in this if you want to send a question to this you can find the link to the official submission page at English class 101.com slash ask - Alicia all right we're working on a technical issue right now on our Facebook stream so hopefully we'll be able to get rolling in just a minute I'm not sure there's a small Facebook problem apologies but if you missed it today we're talking about how to use wood to talk about to the future so I guess for now Facebook's being a little bit tricky today yeah so mmm very mysterious so I'm gonna start off with our first point for today our first item for today's lesson is conditionals conditionals and I'm gonna talk about conditionals with questions so a conditional a conditional is a sentence that has that if something something then something something pattern or you can switch it as well so I want to start today's lesson by talking about these conditionals so first I want to talk about conditionals with statements so we'll zoom in a little bit our control desk is busy trying to fix something that's right now so conditionals with statements first of all when we make a conditional with a statement we have a pattern like if our subject were something something and then we follow it with subject would or wouldn't plus the infinitive form of the verb so for today's lesson I'm going to focus on this the second condition so maybe some of you know like first conditional second conditional third conditional and so on for today's lesson I'm going to focus on the second conditional which uses wood to make a positive statement and wouldn't to make a negative statement so when you make a second conditional type sentence you're describing an unreal situation in the present so something that is not true now and it's something that's unlikely so that means there's a low chance of that thing happening so something that's unreal and that is unlikely is a second conditional statement also another point here is if you use this conditional sentence one big question this says were if subject were something something if subject were something something yeah hi youtube i just saw the chat for the first time we're having some trouble with facebook still if subject were so when you make a second conditional sentence using would make sure you use word here lots of learners asking what's the difference between if I was and if I were the difference I've talked about a few times in ask Alicia before the difference is if I was is a simple past tense statement so we want to make it like a statement about the past so for example if I was noisy last night I apologize that means I don't know if I was noisy or not but if I was I apologize so that means there's a chance in the past that thing happened however when you use if I were or if subject were it's referring to the present situation now it's a it's a real it's an unreal situation now in the present so if I were a teacher I would teach math for example that sentence means I am NOT a teacher it is not like a possible situation now but in that situation I would teach math so those sent if I were and if I was are actually often like mixed up by native speakers but if you want to make sure to always be correct when you're making a second conditional sentence and you're using this if I were or if he were pattern make sure to use work so let's take a look at some example sentences that use this I'll keep reading because our control desk is still busy trying to fix the Facebook issue so I will read our example sentences with at this point first if I were you I would study every day if I were you I would study every day so here as I've talked about we use this were here so if I were you this is correct for a second conditional pattern if I were you so I am not you I would study every day so after our would we follow with the infinitive form of the verb if I were you I would study every day let's look at another example if he had more free time he wouldn't be so stressed out if he had more free time he wouldn't be so stressed out so this second conditional pattern uses a different verb when you're using the second conditional pattern and you're not using this were here use the past tense simple past tense form of the verb so in this case if he had so had is the simple past tense form of have if he had more free time so more meaning more than he does now if he had more free time he wouldn't so wouldn't is the reduced form of would not he wouldn't be so stressed out he wouldn't be so stressed up so this is a negative sentence here so in this case this means the he this person in the sentence does not have very much time and therefore now is stressed out so again we're imagining a present unreal situation so if you had more free time he wouldn't be so stressed out okay one more example here if we won the lottery we would buy a house if we won the lottery we would buy a house so lottery is a game of chance you can buy a ticket in the USA and there will be numbers that are announced for that ticket if your tickets numbers match the winning numbers you can win money or other prizes so here one is my verb I use the simple past tense form so if subject if subject here is we if we won the lottery so past tense if we won the lottery in this unlikely present situation we would buy a house so this part expresses the planned action if this is true this is what we want to do we would buy a house so this is second conditional statements second conditional statement so there are some examples coming in on YouTube if I had a Lamborghini I would be very happy very nice duska very nice it's a good one good one uh other ones I don't see yet any other one some one repeated if he had more time he wouldn't be so stressed out yeah nice one pasta says if I won the lottery I would donate that amount to the street wow that's super nice that's cool great great great ok so let's continue on to the next point this is another pattern for a statements that uses would and wouldn't and that might be a little bit challenging to understand so this is a subject with would or wouldn't be so we include the verb be here and then an adjective an adjective so remember an adjective is a word that describes a noun so like beautiful or expensive or fun or exciting these are adjectives so let's look at a couple of examples to explain this point so let's imagine a conversation but to people so person a says why don't we go to Hawaii next month why don't we go to Hawaii next month and person B says that would be expensive that would be expensive so here in Part B person B's statement that thing this idea like going to Hawaii is what that refers to that idea would be expensive so it's like saying if we did that it would be expensive you can imagine this is like a response to the suggestion so this pattern is something we often use to respond to ideas to suggestions to advice and so on okay so the next example here is do you want to go window-shopping from person a do you want to go window-shopping and again person B responds with that would idea so that would be fun that would be fun so again that refers to the previous sentence in this case a suggestion do you want to go window-shopping and invitation so that would that activity would be and then my adjective is fun that would be fun okay so this is how we use it for this pattern I'll finish up here quickly with questions when we make questions with second conditional we use that if pattern if pattern so if then pattern I talked about before so here if we use a wh question so that means who what where when and so on plus would then our subject your extra information and then we have some kind of if statement so the basic pattern we've talked about this a few times before is when you're making these kinds of sentences and these kinds of questions we use an if Clause plus a main clause so your if Clause is the part of the sentence that includes the word if so we practice this up here if I were you if he had more free time if we won the lottery these parts are if clauses there are the parts of the sentence that use if and then there's the main clause so the main Clause has this information in it the result there's some kind of result in the main clause so we can use both if clause and main clause in either position you can change the position just depends on the focus of your sentence also please keep in mind one point many learners miss this make sure your wood is in the main clause we do not use this in the if clause so this is one key point here do not use wood don't use modal verbs in general in the if clause please be careful of that okay so let's take a look at a couple of examples and then we'll take a quick break quick break so if you won the lottery what would you buy if you won the lottery what would you buy so here's my if clause if you won the lottery my if Clause is here in this case so I've started back here what would you buy so what is my WH question word would follows it my subject is you and then my verb here what would you buy what would you buy one more where would you live if you could live anywhere so here I've swapped it again my WH question is first where would you live if you could live anywhere if you could live anywhere so this could means if it were possible to live anywhere if it were possible to live in so another one more small point here for those of you who like to focus on your punctuation at this point it's very hard to see right now but there's a comma after this if clause here so when your sentence begins with an if clause follow the if clause with a comma so it's nice to include a comma after an if clause so an if clause can be what's called an introductory clause the if clause is introducing some kind of information that we need to understand the main clause so if Clause comma main clause however if you use this pattern main Clause first plus if clause as a gun down here you don't need to put a comma after the main clauses so only if your if clause is at the beginning of the sentence so at another point for those of you interested in the punctuation okie-dokie so that is part one for today's lesson and I think we're still having a little bit of Facebook trouble but I think YouTube is okay which is good and Instagram is okay - hi there so I will take one quick break I think I will be able to show on the second camera okay so if you have not already please make sure to check out the link below the video on YouTube and I guess there's no Facebook for today Instagram if you're watching please check the link on our YouTube channel on this live lesson um so I have I have I've chosen a couple of PDFs I don't usually show this one sorry that's not the one I wanted to show and I've shown I picked out a few I thought would be useful for today's grammar first is talking online on the back of this are some expressions you can use for conversation online so on the our site in the comment section for example some of you write these sorts of comments these are a few expressions you can use online or in emails with your co-workers or with friends family and so on so these might be some good vocabulary words or good situations to practice today's grammar is another one is planning your time so today's grammar point is great for making schedules really good for making schedules so this is some vocabulary for like days weeks months of the year and so on so you can have a look at these and of course other stuff as well there's a lot more stuff from the link below the video if you're watching on YouTube okay cool so I think we'll continue on in today's lesson so I think Facebook is not going to be able to join us this week alone oh please like our Facebook friends ok we'll continue on though to part two for today's lesson so part two for today's lesson I'll continue on to invitations offers and requests and preferences is so much talked about here so if you have not already please do make sure to like and share the video so that other learners can find today's lesson ok so let's go to this party I want to start part two today by talking about invitations offers and requests I'm going to cover patterns you can use to make each of these kinds of sentences so the first pattern is would you would you so would you begins all of these types of all of these types of sentence so let's take a look first let's look at some request patterns so a request it's when you want someone to do something for you or you want an object you want an item or you want a service or something so for example would you come over here please would you come over here please so that's a request for someone to join you may be from another part of the room would you come over here please yes many of you asked what's the difference between like could and would in this situation they have the same meaning really like they accomplish the same goal could you come over here please and would you come over here please they have the same goal really so the same level of politeness as well could expresses possibility whereas wood is more like a gentle way like to push someone to do something could is more like just is it possible for you to come over here for this for requests like this you can choose which for you prefer would you come over here please as a request another request would you please close the window would you please close the window so here you'll notice please can take different positions and your requests so would you come over here please is great please at the end of the question or would you please close the window here please comes before the verb both are totally fine you can choose whichever you prefer so like would you please come over here great it's up to you to choose the sentence you like so they mean the same thing they have the same nuance it's just a personal preference thing okay then this next one is an offer an offer would you like dessert would you like dessert so this is a very common pattern this would you like pattern is common for making offer so would you like something to eat would you like some dessert would you like a new iPad so whatever if you want to make an offer of some kind you can use this would you like with the noun phrase that you're offering would you like this thing so this is a very easy to remember offer pattern please note this would you like begins the offer similarly then when we make invitations we also begin this with would you like would you like however we make the invitations by including a verb in the infinitive form here would you like to come to the exhibition so this is a very polite invitation to do something would you like to come to the exhibition it's like a very gentle and very friendly way to invite someone to something would you like to come to the exhibition so again making an offer here we're using would you like noun phrase would you like this thing when we're making this invitation we're saying would you like infinitive verb would you like to come would you like to go would you like to eat would you like to watch and so on so offers an infant Asians have similar similar patterns but they have slightly different applications so so young John sorry if I said that incorrectly on the YouTube chat says would you like movie so would you like up movie that means you are offering someone a movie like maybe you have a DVD like would you like this movie so you're offering someone a movie in that case if you want to invite someone to do something with you would you like to watch a movie so that's an invitation to do something so keep in mind would you like a movie you're giving someone something would you like to watch a movie is an invitation to do something so please be careful now or infinitive verb makes a difference here ok onward let's go to expressing preferences Part B for this point Part B expressing preferences I have two patterns I want to talk about here with wood they are subject and would like subject would like so yes please keep in mind this pattern uses wood like as we practiced here but in these sentences in these questions rather they begin so would like I'm sorry would you begins the sentence would you like begins the sentence here when you're expressing your preferences like the thing you like or the thing you don't like we have subject first and then would like so for example I would like a salad please this is a very like useful expression for a restaurant or a cafe I would like noun phrase please I would like a salad please I would like a beer please I would like a steak please so this is something you can use to express what you want your preference I want this thing also with a different subject she would like you to prepare a presentation she would like you to prepare a presentation this sentence means the in this situation this woman she wants in other words she wants you she would like you to prepare a presentation so this is like a very polite indirect way to say please prepare a presentation she wants you to prepare a presentation so this is a pattern you can use to express a preference something you desire something you want finally here is this pattern subject would rather subject would rather so we use this when we want to kind of compare two options let's look at an example first in a suggests why don't we go to a French place for dinner why don't we go to a French place for dinner a person B says I would rather go to an Italian place I would rather go to an Italian place means I prefer an Italian place instead of the French place that you recommended man I would rather go to an Italian place so this would rather means instead of this more than the thing you suggested so would rather is used to reply to suggestions I would rather do something else I would rather eat something else so would rather is like a comparison a way to compare two options okey-dokey then time is almost running oh man we're almost out of time so I'll go quickly to the last point for today's lesson last point for today's lesson number three is about using wood and will I covered second conditional the second conditional in the beginning of today's lesson so I want to talk about the differences between these two so key here is these two example sentences these example sentences are both correct totally correct and totally fine to use but they have different meanings let's discuss sentence one here is if I lose my job I'll find a new one if I lose my job I'll find a NUMA sentence - if I lost my job I would find a new one if I lost my job I would find a new one so sentence two here uses the second conditional that we've started today's lesson by talking about yeah this is the second conditional so remember the second conditional expresses an unreal situation in the present something that is not true now and there's a low chance of it happening here however number one if I lose my job I'll find a new one this sentence means it's an actual present situation this is a real possible situation so in sentence number one maybe the speaker has a job review or there was a problem at the company or the company has to cut money has to cut budgets or something the speaker says if I lose my job I'll find a new one so this sounds like it's something that's real it's something that's possible there's a chance the speaker will lose their job so they're talking about their plans sentence two however is an unreal present situation so there's no danger of the speaker losing their job now they just want to imagine the situation so if I if I lost my job I would find a new one so I have no danger of losing my job so again both of these sentences are totally 100% correct but the use of this sentence really matters so this first sentence expresses there's a chance of that happening right now so this is something to practice a good grammar reminder I think to practice for this point so if you want to practice this you can send a comment live or if you're watching this later with what would you do if you found a wallet full of money on the street what would you do if you found a wallet full of money on the street so you can use the earlier pattern from part one today to make this sentence so for example if I found a wallet full of money on the street I will take the wallet to the police so you can use a wood pattern with if an if wood pattern to express your plan for this situation and in this case using a wood pattern is best because it's not a real present situation now there's probably a low chance we're going to find a wallet on the street so that's a good one to practice with but Hector says what about using wood to express something we used to do in the past yes we have a live stream about that actually today we're talking about wood floor in the future so yes we do have a live stream about using wood and used to for the past you can check that on the English class 101 youtube channel if you want mary says if I found a wallet I would turn it over turn it over means give it to someone give someone something that does not belong to you I would turn it over to the police maybe alrighty we are out of time so I'll wrap up today's lesson I hope that this was helpful I knows a lot of grammar and there was a lot to cover here but I hope that it helps you use wood to talk about the future and to make offers and requests and things so we'll end there but we will be back next week next week November 14th Wow this year's going so quickly also there's been a time change due to daylight saving so now it is 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time every Wednesday evening or other times depending on your time in the world our topic for next week will be how to describe people how to describe people if you watched our live stream two or three weeks ago I talked about relative clauses how to give details with relative clauses I'm going to review this grammar point in next week's lesson how to describe people we're going to talk about relative clauses again so if you want to review for next week's live stream so you're ready in the chat please check out the how to explain in detail I had to give details with relative clauses live stream from I believe two weeks ago so check that out join us next week it will be good and fun and we'll have lots of opportunities I will step aside for a brief moment so you can take a screenshot boom there you go for today's lesson enjoy the rest of your week please don't forget to download all of the free PDFs that are on our website you can find all of these things from the link below the video on youtube if this ever goes up on face book there will be a link on facebook if you're watching on instagram please check out the link on youtube to 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Length: 31min 36sec (1896 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 06 2019