NEED vs WANT Using English Verbs Correctly

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used the grammar point that we talked

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okay um as I said I tried to share

something from my life every week last

week the grammar point we talked about

was the if conditional I talked about a

few patterns that we can use with the if

structure so if something then something

else so actually I did use it in my life

I didn’t even realize it until yesterday

when I was looking through like Twitter

and Instagram to find an example but I

used it in a tweets I used the if

conditional here I was talking about an

event I said if you’ll be in Tokyo on

December 3rd reserve a ticket so here I

used the command form so my if

conditional my if clause was if you’ll

be in Tokyo December 3rd and then I made

a command reserve a ticket reserve a

ticket so this was how I used the if

conditional in my life over the last

week since we talked about it so this

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wants and your needs

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is 4 minutes past the hour here so I

want to start in on today’s topic which

I said is expressing once and needs so

there are a lot of different ways that

we can express these sorts of things but

we have to choose an expression that’s

appropriate for the situation so if

you’re too casual

or you’re too formal you might sound a

little bit strange so I want to start

today with a very very simple example I

want to start by talking about how to

express you want an object some kind of

object that you want so I mentioned at

the end of last week’s lesson that this

is kind of a useful useful grammar point

or useful expression or a way of talking

about something you want for like your

birthday or maybe for Christmas or a

different holiday you celebrate in your

country so typical questions that we ask

in these situations are like what do you

want for your birthday or what do you

want for Christmas

what do you want for a specific holiday

so I want to begin with this with this

question just a simple question about

your next birthday

so for your answer for this first

question please use an object an object

we’re going to talk about actions or

activities later so for this first

example please use an object so this

should probably be a noun phrase you’re

going to use so our first question for

today is what do you want for your next

birthday what do you want for your next

birthday so your answer should be

something like I want object for my next

birthday I want some object for my next

birthday so again we’ll talk about

activities and actions later for this

one let’s just warm up with an object an

object so this should maybe I would

imagine in most cases this would be a

singular singular noun or perhaps a

countable noun but what do you want for

your next birthday what do you want for

your next birthday so for example I want

a new wallet for my next birthday or I

want a new bag for my next birthday or I

want a lot of money or something like

that what do you want for your next

birthday

Oh Facebook your first month as his

cruise I want a new smartphone very nice

I want a new smartphone for my next

birthday good

your first nice one I haven’t seen it on

YouTube yet what do you want for your

next birthday is our question an object

an object some items some object that

you want here what do you want for you

next birthday here’s our question Eric

your first on YouTube nice I want a bike

for my next birthday good Tanveer says i

want a gift for my birthday okay that

works that works on facebook fab says I

want a new iPad for my next birthday

great very nice

Leandra on YouTube nice I want to go to

London for my next birthday yes so we’re

going to talk about activities here

later I’m good

Adamo I want a trip to Japan from a next

birthday good I want a new phone for my

next birthday I want a car for my next

birthday I want a new house for my next

birthday a new guitar from an ex

birthday a new soccer ball from a next

birthday a lot of people want cars okay

on Facebook I want a pair of earphones

for my next birthday I want a new laptop

for my next birthday great at something

else I don’t know I want a new car a lot

of people want a new car it seems I

don’t even have a car on YouTube I want

a new lipstick for my next birthday good

I want a PlayStation 4 whoo that sounds

fun I want youth for my next birthday

yeah wouldn’t that mean nice good

I want a gaming computer I want a car I

want a new iPhone fantastic these are

great a good morning emmy in from

Azerbaijan I want a Christmas tree on my

birthday do you have a December birthday

and sounds like you might alright so

this is the kind of the first the

simplest expression we’re going to talk

about today you guys have done fantastic

this was easy for you I think how to

express you want an object before your

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let’s go on to the other important topic

for today the word need so we talked

about how to use want in our first

example sentence but I want to talk

about need so there’s a key difference

between want and need with need we use

it for something that there’s maybe like

some responsibilities or there’s

something that’s necessary about that

like we an object is necessary for our

life or for our work for a study

something like that so of course we can

want objects and and need them we can we

can have both but sometimes we don’t

always need the things we want so for

example like I want and need water

everybody does but if it’s like

chocolate cake I’m talking about then

you know I may want chocolate cake but I

don’t actually need

cake so it’s important to make it like

to distinguish to tell the difference

between the two I want to make one point

though you will hear native speakers

sometimes substitute the word want for

need so like they’ll say oh my gosh I

need chocolate cake right now

but in those cases when it’s a

non-essential object people will use the

word need to express a very very strong

desire for something so you see this a

lot in like social media like Twitter

Instagram that kind of thing you’ll see

that people will use need in place of

want for example all right but I want to

actually try to use the word need in in

today’s practice so our next question is

going to be about something you need in

your life so the question is what do you

need in order to do your job or your

studies successfully you’ll see the

question here in just a second what do

you need in order to do your job or your

studies successfully oh that question

coming I think our question is coming

but think about that so again what do

you need in order to do your job or your

studies successfully successfully so for

example like to edit something I need a

style guide to edit correctly so the

answer to this question should be I need

plus noun phrase to do my job or I need

plus a noun phrase to do something to

study for example so let’s think about

it for your job or for your studies what

do you need what do you need so I’ll

make a sample pattern here so to answer

this question you’ll use I need plus a

noun phrase plus two whatever so I need

plus a noun phrase to study to work so

for example we need a team of people to

make these live streams so here in this

case I changed my subject we need plus a

team of people is my noun phrase and

then to do these live streams so I need

or we need and so on so what do you need

to do your job or your studies

successfully what do you need Andrei’s

on Facebook says I need a lot of money a

good

Razia says I need to improve my English

ah okay good point

Manasa says I need more time to study

great hmm

Anderson on YouTube hi you say I need

more room and silence more slick a big

space maybe I need a large space and

silence that’s good um Wesley says I

need a notebook good I need to learn

English yeah many of you are saying I

need to practice English I need to learn

English more for sure to do your job or

to do your studies Eduardo says I need

to add more professional experience to

like progress in my job or to develop my

job good someone says I need wine really

to do your job or your studies Daniel

says I need more hours per day to finish

my homework good someone says I need to

speak I need to speak English and

Japanese fluently okay I need silence to

study good I need more hours to finish

my tasks to finish my tasks great I need

music to do my homework okay good I need

peace to do my job right okay I need to

find a job yes some of you have written

like I need to find a job and need to

find a job many of you are students I

think I need your lessons to study

English I hope it’s helpful I hope it’s

helpful um

other things I need to talk with a

native speaker a native English speaker

to improve my English great very nice I

need to sleep I need sleep to wake up

early tomorrow okay all right um

other things I need someone to help me

with my English great yeah lots of you

are saying that ah pan meal Romero on

Facebook has a great question what about

don’t need to and when and how do we use

needn’t Oh need it is really not used

much in American English so this

person’s question great question they’ve

asked about the negative don’t need to

so in the negative form don’t need to

means it’s not necessary to it’s not

necessary to so when we make a negative

with need

we would put don’t between the subject

and the verb so I don’t need bla bla bla

to study so like I don’t need wine to do

my job or I don’t need I don’t know I

don’t need a dog to do my job for

example so this means it’s not necessary

it is not necessary but this person

asked about this word very interesting

this word needn’t needn’t I mean need

not need not so like you need not bla

bla bla meaning you don’t have to you

don’t need to do something however in

American English needn’t is really not

used is really not used I’m not sure

about British English I’m not a British

English speaker and I don’t know off the

top of my head but needn’t is not an

expression we use in American English

like to say you needn’t worry about

something it sounds extremely

old-fashioned in American English if I

say you needn’t drink any wine before

you come to work today it sounds very

very strange extremely formal extremely

old-fashioned so instead instead of

using needed please use I don’t need to

or you don’t need to do something I

don’t recommend you use needn’t in this

case alright great though lots of things

and lots of you saying you need to do

some some English studies so I hope we

can practice together

alright sounds great to me let’s move on

to a couple of other points though so

we’ve talked about want for objects and

need for objects things you need to do

but I want to go on to talk about some

of things that are like that our

situation based situation based so in

these cases with I want and I need there

may be closer situations you’re talking

to your family members or to your

co-workers but let’s talk about when

you’re in a service situation let’s say

for example you go to a restaurant or a

bar a hotel a shopping mall something

like that if you use the phrase I want

in these service situations you will

sound in my opinion you’ll sound a

little too casual you

sound impolite I feel because we usually

use the expression I want with close

friends or with family members we talk

about something we hope to receive in

those cases so using I want in a service

situation sounds too direct to me

however there are other phrases we can

use so in service situations I think

you’ll see it saying in service

situations we can begin our expressions

of what we want or what we’d like to

receive with these instead so for

example I’d like so please keep in mind

I’d like this is the contracted form of

I would like I would like much more

polite than I want same thing here

I’ll have I will have this is the

contracted form of I will have becomes

I’ll have I’ll have and one more I think

this is maybe a nice one I like to use

this one this is phrased as a question

can I have blah blah blah so for example

to use these if I’m at a restaurant for

example I could say I’d like a salad

please or I’ll have a beer or can I have

the dessert menu please

so these three patterns are much much

better in service situations I don’t

really recommend using I want in a

service situation it just to me it

sounds very direct and a little - a

little too informal

so in service situation please try to

use I’d like or I’ll have or can I have

to talk about something you want okay

then let’s change to a different

situation so when you are at work then -

at work is a bit different from a

service situation or from like when

you’re talking with your family or your

friends so when you’re at work I do not

recommend using I want to make requests

of your co-workers or your boss it

sounds rather informal and you can sound

kind of pushy so pushy means aggressive

so it’s generally not a good idea to

sound pushy with your co-workers with

your boss so instead like I talked about

in the sir

of a situation try to make it a request

meaning make it into a question form yes

you can see this video later to those of

you who are asking so when you’re at

work um there are a few patterns here we

can use so when you’re at work you can

use can you could you or the very formal

would it be possible for you to these

three are much much nicer than saying I

want you to I want you to blah blah blah

I want you to blah blah blah sounds too

direct too aggressive I do not recommend

using it with your co-workers or with

your bosses it just sounds too strong to

me

so instead please use something like

this like for example when you have a

chance I could say to the crew like can

you help me with the microphone for

example or when you have a chance could

you send me the file making it a request

or I use this one in emails actually -

would it be possible for you to let me

know when you’re free for example this

is a very formal a more formal

expression here so at work try to use a

request to explain the things that you

want this is gonna sound much more

polite and much I think more fluent it

then I want so please use these at work

and the aisle have I’d like and can I

have in service situation so again this

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our topic for today I have one more

point I want to talk about at the

beginning of today’s stream I mentioned

we were going to talk about how to

explain an action you want to do an

activity you want to do so this is

useful when you’re making plans for the

weekend or a vacation so as I talked

about before it’s important to explain

your plan to explain what you want to do

but you don’t want to sound pushy

so again pushy means aggressive so so

that you don’t sound pushy when you

explain what you want to do you can use

an expression like this weekend

I wanna so keep in mind when we are

using a phrase like want to or have to

or need to

it’s very natural to contract these

words it’s a very informal manner of

speaking I suppose but keep in mind when

you express this want to should become

wanna in your pronunciation I wanna I

don’t wanna and so on so please keep

this point in mind and some of you have

been typing wanna that’s fine just keep

in mind though in this like chat

situation that’s fine to use wanna but

don’t use this in like a business email

I don’t recommend that in formal

situations like if you’re writing an

essay for example or preparing something

I don’t know a formal like letter of

recommendation I don’t recommend the

contracted form please use the full form

but for today Oana is great and in your

conversations with your conversation

partners or when you’re practicing using

wanna is much better so let’s use this

to talk about what you want to do this

weekend so this weekend we can say I

wanna blah blah blah and we’re going to

use an action in this case some activity

you’d like to do you can also say I

kinda wanna I kinda wanna I’ll talk

about in a moment or an expression I’ve

been wanting to so let’s take a look at

our patterns our last ones so finally

what’s something you want to do this

weekend what’s something you want to do

this weekend so as I mentioned we’ve got

I wanna for example I wanna go home and

sleep or like I I kinda wanna so I

talked about this word kinda kinda is

the contracted form of kind of kind of

which is like a little for sort of maybe

you know that word too so I’ve included

in my exam I example answer I kind of I

kinda wanna I kinda wanna kinda is a

softener for wanna I sort of one a

little wanting to do something so I kind

of want to cook something new this

weekend for example we also have this

pattern I’ve been wanting to I’ve been

wanting so here if you’ve been watching

our live streams hopefully you know this

grammar by now you recognize this

grammar I’ve been wanting to blah blah

blah meaning this I have been and the

progressive form means from the past

beginning in the past and continuing to

now I’ve wanted to so continuously

wanting to do something so for example

I’ve been wanting to see the new Blade

Runner movie that is so true I really

want to see that or I have been wanting

to get a coffee with my friend for

example so for something you have been

wanting to do for a

now you can use this pattern for

something maybe just an idea you have

for this weekend you can use I wanna so

what’s something you want to do this

weekend hear me on YouTube I want to

watch Thor this weekend yeah that sounds

good too Ragnarok oh right I want to see

Blade Runner really bad I have to make

time uh on Facebook I want to go to the

beach and take some rest I want to go to

the beach in like relax relax sounds a

bit better there okay other things Tapia

says I want to go on a short trip with

my family good Alex yes it is really

live it will be recorded soon though

we’re recording now you can watch it

later but it is really live ah suck guy

hey welcome back this weekend I want to

play basketball with my friends at PSU

nice great okay Gus this weekend I want

to go to I want to go dancing with my

friends very nice very nice

Rosario I want to drink beer with my

friends on the weekend yeah that sounds

really fun okay um

Rosana nice try I have wanted to learn

English how about like I have been

wanting to learn English that sounds

much better very very nice okay yeah on

Facebook I’ve been wanting to see Thor

perfect perfect okay um let’s see I’ve

been wanting to go to the park Ruben yes

perfect I’ve been wanting to go to the

park good read Brandi says I want to

watch jigsaw good I’ve been wanting to

watch English dramas great I want to

sleep all weekend good I want to hang

out with my family I’ve been wanting to

see my Tiger you have a tiger that

sounds very interesting please send us

photos I’ve been wanting to take an

English class from Nestor and on

Facebook good butter I want to be happy

what’s your advice oh that’s difficult

everybody’s a little different I think

Bob on Facebook I want to grab some

beers and have some fun with my buddies

on the weekend great he used the word

buddies have fun with my buddies buddies

is a word for friend your friends your

close friends good on YouTube Farish

says I want to go to my country good

very nice Fatimah says I’ve been wanting

to watch Korean dramas

oh yeah Korean dramas are very popular

these days I think great excellent

excellent so

keep these two expressions in mind to

talk about activities you want to do of

course in this example we’re talking

about things this weekend something you

would like to do this weekend but of

course you can change this for any

period of time so what’s something you

want to do this winter or what’s

something you want to do for your next

holiday or what’s something you want to

do later tonight for example so you can

change this depending on the situation

nice though so this pattern question

pattern and this answer pattern you can

definitely use those okay but I have 15

seconds to end this broadcast so I’m

going to stop there for today we have to

wrap up I have to wrap up the lesson

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