How to Talk about your Wishes and Desires in English

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lesson flow for today so we are going to

talk about expressing wishes and desires

in kind of two main groups one how to

talk about objects the things we want

right items and second how to talk about

actions we want other people to do

lastly just very quickly some other

expressions like some super super quick

but good questions to know uh and just a

kind of happy expression to end today

okay so let’s get started so i want to

start today

by talking about uh objects so how do

you express when i say objects here i

mean how do you express you want a thing

right how do you express that so in

today’s lesson

we are going to practice articles

articles are uh an and the

and in part two we’ll practice uh

preposition uh a little bit also okay so

let’s start uh with these uh these two

patterns

so first the first most basic pattern

for today is i want a

or i want an

plus a singular noun so a singular noun

means one of something right like a

marker so one marker so not two markers

but one you want one of something you

can use this pattern the uh

or and choice depends on the sound

of the singular noun if it’s a vowel

sound use an

if it’s not use a

for example

i want a dog i want a dog

or

i want an orange juice i want an orange

juice

so we can use this pattern i want

for the holidays for gifts of course

also just at a restaurant as well or

in daily life what do you want i want

this

super basic pattern native speakers use

this it’s very very basic too it’s

simple efficient i want a assembly so

you can send your uh example sentences

in the chat i will try to answer it live

okay so

here is our basic pattern for a singular

noun

then

sometimes you will hear this pattern i

want the

noun phrase i want the noun phrase so

this article the

remember we use the for a specific

noun right

we use it for something we know about in

the conversation or something we know

about in the world for example

this sentence

i want the

new iphone i want the new iphone okay

so this one means i want

like this year’s

new iphone so the iphone is a very very

popular product right most people know

the iphone

you might think okay so what’s the

difference between i want a new iphone

and i want the new iphone they’re both

correct but the difference is that the

new iphone means this year’s model the

latest model

i want a new iphone

doesn’t mean this year’s model

it means just a newer phone than i have

now okay so they’re both correct

i want the new iphone means this year’s

okay

all right some examples are coming in

ahmed says i want peace of mind good

lucas says i want bitcoin to reach

hundred one hundred dollars a hundred

thousand dollars okay uh others

faithline says i want to travel next

week good okay fatma says i want an

apple oh i want uh or and i want an

apple yeah okay some people lots of

people are writing they want apples okay

um

naeli says i want a million of dollars i

want a million dollars a million dollars

okay

all right let’s continue so the other

one here i want the new tesla model i

want the new tesla model so tesla is a

car a type of car you can express like

the new model of something like the new

iphone model or the new tesla model for

example yeah

you can express that with this the

pattern i want the new model okay

all right

uh let’s go to the next one so

for a plural noun so more than one of

something or a group of things how do we

express this

i want some

plural noun phrase

i want some plural noun phrase so you

can use this for like uh

like a mass nouns as well so like money

for example like i want some money of

course as someone wrote too okay so you

can use this for plural nouns and for

those masked nouns too for example i

want some new clothes

i want some new clothes or i want some

makeup i want some makeup

so you can use this pattern i want some

you may hear people drop this too like i

want new clothes or i want makeup also

but you will also hear this some pattern

used i want some something

okay

i want a and oh make sure

when i say this this slash means please

choose one please choose one so either a

or an but not both

yeah so i want a new house or i want and

something so this doesn’t mean both yeah

so choose one depending on your noun

sound

okay

uh next

uh

okay all right some people are writing

about food and stuff good okay let’s

continue to the next pattern then and

then i’ll try to check more of your

questions or more of your examples

the next one i is a different pattern so

not i want but i wish

i wish this pattern is i wish i had noun

phrase i wish i had noun phrase this is

a pattern we use

when of course we want something there

is something we want but it’s not so

likely like there’s a low chance we can

get it or it’s really difficult to get

right now

these i want i want i want

it sounds like maybe i could buy that

thing tomorrow or maybe i could get that

thing in the near future

this pattern is like it’s hard to get

right now or it’s difficult for me right

now so you’ll notice the grammar is

different too i wish i had

noun phrase for example

i wish i had more time i wish i had more

time

or i wish i had a bigger house or i

raced it sorry i wish i had a bigger

house house so it’s maybe difficult

to get a bigger house like tomorrow or

to get a bigger house

next month or next week right

it’s difficult to find more time right

right away so we use this pattern

for things that are difficult to get so

it’s not as simple it’s just let’s go to

the store let’s get more time let’s buy

time at the store it’s hard to we can’t

do that right we use this pattern to

express these kinds of concepts these

feelings so that’s a good guideline for

this part if you want something it’s

easy to get you can use one of these

patterns i want

if you’re talking about something you

want to change maybe about your life or

your living situation you can use this

pattern

okay

yeah some good examples are coming in

carla says i wish i had the ability to

fly very nice nice use of this grammar

great uh jenny says i wish i had ah i

wish i had a new job i would maybe say i

wish i had a different drop i wish i had

a different job

malki says i wish i had a smaller face

so okay okay i wish i had a visa to go

visit okay good good good all right i

wish i had a billion dollars priya i

wish i had a billion dollars or i wish i

were a billionaire okay karina says i

wish i had more time to study good

vera says i don’t want anything i’m

perfectly happy because i have

everything i need to live well

congratulations

all right

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right we finished it so this is part one

about objects objects so how do we

express that we want things that we need

things okay so let’s take a super quick

break and then we’ll go to part two

talking about actions how do we express

the actions we want from other people

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yeah

okay good lots of people are sending

really creative example sentences this

week that’s really cool

um

i wish i had more time to go to the moon

is that the only problem you don’t have

time

that’s the only thing keeping you from

the moon

that’d be really super cool edwin says i

wish i had a lamborghini yeah that’d be

super cool i would love to drive a

lamborghini someday okay great let’s go

to part two everybody’s very creative

today

all right

uh so let’s go to part two about actions

so how do we request an action from

somebody so

let’s look i want to focus on two

uh well we’ll look at three patterns but

these two let’s start

the i want and i wish patterns

first

let’s look at this so i want person to

infinitive verb this is our basic

pattern excuse me to express

this feeling of i want that person to do

something maybe for me or with me how do

we do this so this pattern here is i

want person so this person word you

choose use the object pronoun so that

means like you or her or him or them

yeah so not uh she right or he so please

be careful we’re going to practice two

different uh pronouns in today’s lesson

so let’s practice this first pattern

here

okay so i want you

to help me i want you to help me so i

want you so the other person in this

case this person to

help me so help is my infinitive verb i

want you to help me i want you to help

me okay so this is like a request it’s a

different way to make a request it’s not

a question

it’s a statement i want you to help me

okay

second example i want her

to lead the project

i want her

to lead so lead means be the leader

right to lead the project so infinitive

verb here is lead i want her to lead the

project

okay

so again this part right here this

pronoun this person

not she she is incorrect he is also

incorrect here i want her i want him

to lead the project

okay

all right

okay so you can send your example

sentences i’ll try to check them live so

this is the first pattern we can use i

want

object pronoun here okay then

let’s compare this to this wish pattern

this wish pattern so again we practiced

in part one right the difference between

this i want and i wish

thing right the feeling when we say i

want you to help me it’s like it’s it’s

possible like you can help me right now

so i’m asking you please help me right

but this one i wish person would

infinitive verb

this is like

this is difficult i can’t control this

so i can’t force maybe the other person

to do this action

so it’s difficult

to do this but i want it this is what i

want so we express that with this

pattern

i wish person

would infinitive verb

so

here we use we don’t use this object

pronoun i said in this pattern we use

her and him and them

in this pattern we use he and she and

they so this is a different grammar

structure i wish

she would talk to us

i wish she would talk to us so you’ll

notice we have this wood here maybe

you’ve studied wood how we use it for

unreal situations things that are not

true they have not happened or maybe we

don’t know if they’re going to happen

here we use this

the speaker is saying i want this so i

wish

she would talk to us which means she’s

not talking to us now this is a problem

for me i wish she would

but it’s difficult i cannot force this

person i cannot make this person talk to

us so we use this grammar structure to

express that

okay

uh much sin ayanna it is i wish her

wrong that’s correct yeah her is

incorrect so this

uh person this person word and this

person word the pronouns we use are

different in these patterns so i wish

her is incorrect or i wish him is

incorrect i wish she i wish he would

talk to us it’s a different grammar

structure

so i wish she would talk to us or i wish

he would apologize i wish he would

apologize but yeah we can’t we can’t

make a change easily to the situation so

we tend to use this wish pattern

isaac says what’s the difference between

hope and wish

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a

a wish as i’m talking about here is

something that it’s hard to it’s hard to

achieve as we’ve talked about in part

one it’s like

i i want this thing but it’s hard to

achieve and maybe uh there’s a low

chance of the of this happening in this

case

hope is kind of more positive it’s a

more positive idea about the future like

i and we use a different grammar

structure like i hope she talks to us

sounds like there’s a chance she’s going

to talk to us i hope she talks to us or

i hope he apologizes that sounds more

positive like we think there’s a chance

it’s possible

that’s a quick answer

oh i can’t see

uh

uh

i can’t see what i’m doing i’m sorry

okay all right so let’s go to the next

uh the next pattern here so the next one

that i want to go to is a question

pattern a request pattern okay

so

let’s go to can and could so i get a lot

of questions about this can and could

difference people say like

what’s the difference should i use can

should i use could is are they incorrect

and the answer is you can use both can

and could to make requests both of them

are fine to use

could sounds a little bit more formal

really but we use both of them in

everyday speech very very often so it’s

up to you the feeling okay so

you can use this question pattern

to make a direct request right these are

statements yeah but if you want to make

a direct request you can use this can or

could pattern okay

so for example

can you close the door please

can you close the door please so this is

a direct request as a question

so you could say this close the door

please

so it’s a command right close the door

please but this becomes more polite can

you

close the door please or i want you to

close the door also you could say that i

want you to close the door

the sentence i wish you would close the

door

it sounds like it’s impossible and you

might hear someone use that to sound

really really frustrated like i wish you

would stop doing that

we use this sometimes to sound very

frustrated like it’s hard for you to do

that thing but i’m getting off track so

can you close the door is a good just

direct request to use

okay another one could you help me move

the sofa could you help me move the sofa

so again we have this nice polite could

you could you

yeah and in speech keep in mind these

can you and could you sounds become

reduced so not

can you close the door please but can

you close the door please can you close

the door please so can you

it reduces quite a lot can you close the

door please and this sound could you

this becomes could ya

could ya or could you help me move the

sofa could you help me move the sofa

helga says could you pass me a cake wow

what situation is that a cake where you

need a cake pass to you i love it okay

um good

i wish he would pay me says oscar good i

wish he would pay me nice example okay

can you help with the minute please

sunny maybe can you help

for

a minute so that means can you help me

for a short period of time maybe that’s

what the sentence is okay

uh can wish and you go together uh like

this one like i wish you would blah blah

yes absolutely like in my example i

mentioned quickly earlier i wish you

would stop doing that

i wish you would stop smoking for

example that’s a really good example of

how we might use wish okay all right

last one then a super quick one can you

take a look at my computer

can you take a look at my computer this

expression take a look at this thing we

often use it to mean look at this thing

that is broken and please fix it for me

so instead of can you fix my computer it

means can you please it’s a like a

polite soft way to say i think this is

broken will you please look and fix it

maybe

so we often use this take a look at my

machine like take a look at my phone or

take a look at my computer

my

ipad i don’t know some kind of machine

or device okay

or we i also hear that uh request for

text like can you please take a look at

this paragraph or can you please take a

look at my essay we can use take a look

at to mean please check and fix this

thing

okay

uh what is the difference between can

you close the door please and can you

please close the door please the second

one has too many pleases so we only need

one please can you close the door please

one please is good if you say like can

you please close the door please you

don’t need two pleases in your request

it sounds strange like please can you

please close the door please like if you

want to sound silly if you want to make

a joke you can put lots of please in

your sentence one please

please use one please per sentence okay

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let’s finish up today with a couple

questions and one very nice expression

to use for

gift giving

okay so other expressions other

expressions so today in part one and

part two we practiced statements right

expressing the things we want or the

actions we want i want to finish by

asking the question right so here is the

question you can use to ask your friends

or your family members these things

so first one this is an object question

what object do you want so the question

is what do you want for

holiday

what do you want for holiday for example

what do you want for christmas what do

you want for christmas or what do you

want for your birthday

what do you want for your birthday so at

native speed these questions sound like

what do you want for christmas what do

you want for your birthday what do you

want so this part what do you want is

very very reduced what do you want

becomes what do you want what do you

want for christmas what do you want for

your birthday

this is an object question so you can go

back to the patterns we practiced in

part one like i want and dog or i want

to the new iphone right for christmas

your preposition is four here so not two

not two what do you want for christmas

we use this one okay

all right then if you have an action if

you want to ask a question about a

desired action use this pattern

what do you want to do this right here

is the key difference with this what do

you want to do for holiday what do you

want to do

for new year’s what do you want to do

for winter vacation

or what do you want to do for christmas

what do you want to do for your birthday

so at native speed we have this what do

you want again very short and then to do

to do

at native speed this question sounds

like what do you want to do for new

year’s what do you want to do for

christmas what do you want to do for

your birthday this year

what do you want to do

so this is what do you want to do what

do you want to do

so use this to ask about a desired

action so you can answer this with the

actions we talked about earlier

oh i want you to plan me a party

i want you to host a big

uh

event whatever so what do you want to do

is about a desired action do you want to

have a party and so on

good examples are coming in alberta says

what do you want to do for this weekend

good

uh natalie says can i say what do you

want to do in your birthday uh no we

don’t use the preposition in here we

would say what do you want to do

for

your birthday for your birthday you

might also hear what do you want to do

on your birthday so on your birthday

sounds like on that day exactly yeah for

your birthday sounds like around that

day what celebration do you want to do

so you may hear for and on but we don’t

use in here

uh isaac says can we change the verb to

do for another one like what do you want

to eat for christmas oh yeah yeah yeah

you can change this verb to something

more specific yeah so like what do you

want to drink for new year’s yeah or uh

in your example what do you want to eat

for christmas dinner

okay

um all right good so uh time is out so

let’s go to the very last point i wanted

to include this just as a fun thing a

nice thing uh for giving gifts when you

give someone something uh or before

rather i should say before you give

someone a gift when you feel really

excited like you think i got this person

such a good gift i picked the perfect

present when you’re excited you can say

i can’t wait until you see what i got

you so i can’t wait means i’m so excited

i don’t want to wait i can’t wait until

the moment until the moment you see

what i got you i can’t wait until you

see what i got you this means i’m really

really excited to see your reaction to

my gift but we don’t say that sentence

we say this i can’t wait until you see

what i got you i can’t wait until you

see what i got at native speed i can’t

wait until you see what i got you

okay

mary my model says can you say what

could you do for winter season

i probably i would say no i mean if your

brainstorming you’re thinking of

suggestions you might say what could we

do for our winter vacation this year or

what should we do for winter vacation

this year

you might use a sentence like that if

you are talking about suggestions for

more about that check uh last week’s

live stream i talked about um could and

should i think last week or maybe two

weeks ago yeah so check that out for

more of those patterns

okay cool so this is uh the last point

for today’s lesson that was fun so i

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can take a screenshot if you would like

to so get ready and here it is

all right so today we talked about how

to express uh objects you want how to

express actions you want and some

questions and another nice expression to

use for asking about other people’s

desires and wishes and also how to

express suspense about a gift okay so i

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