Talking about your dreams in English using conditionals

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my name is alicia and in this week’s

lesson we are going to look at how to

talk about your dreams for the future we

are going to cover some basic

expressions that you can use to talk

about your dreams the things you want to

do we are also going to talk about using

conditional sentence structures that

means if i something something then i

something something those kinds of

patterns we’ll talk about that i’m going

to cover the differences between wish

and hope and i’m also going to talk

about a couple of other expressions that

i hope can help you to express your

wishes and dreams so for this week’s

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how to express your dreams for the

future so here are today’s lesson boards

we’re going to start by talking about

basic dream and wish statements so very

simple sentences

then we’re going to talk about using

conditionals we’ll talk about an if

conditional pattern and we’ll also talk

about using once then i’m going to talk

about the differences between wish and

hope when we use them as verbs and we’ll

talk about a few other expressions too

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let’s get to part one part one uh basic

dream and wish statement so let’s start

with some basic expressions that we use

to talk about our dreams the first one

is i want to i want two something

something something when you use this

pattern you can use an infinitive verb

phrase so infinitive verb the infinitive

form of the verb is the base form the

one you find in the dictionary so

sometimes your dictionary says like two

plus verb that’s the form of the verb we

want to use here so no change to the

verb

i want to for example i want to start

a business i want to start a business or

i want to design a house i want to

design a house or i want to travel to 10

countries so

each sentence here

uses this infinitive form and we use the

i want to pattern as well

when we use this expression in everyday

speech this part i want to is reduced

down so not i want to in everyday speech

but i wanna i wanna so in native speed

these sentences would sound like i want

to start a business

i want to design a house i want to

travel to 10 countries so quite quick

yeah but you can use your own infinitive

verb phrase right here i want to start i

want to design i want to travel i want

to go

i want to experience and so on so this

is a really good way

to express a basic desire yeah a good

everyday expression okay let’s go to the

next one then so the next one is in the

future

i want to be able to plus infinitive

verb phrase so once more

in the future

i want to be able to infinitive verb

phrase for example

in the future

i want to be able to speak four

languages or in the future i want to be

able to take long vacations

one more in the future i want to be able

to work from anywhere okay so let’s

break this sentence down what’s

happening in this sentence first in the

future

in the future so this means this is my

future goal or something i’m talking

about

for my future

this is probably

far in the future not tomorrow when we

say in the future

we we usually don’t mean like next week

really but maybe in a month or the next

season or the next year or many years in

the future so

in the future i want to be able to i

want to be able to so this part means i

want to have the ability to so this is

something i cannot do now that’s what

this sentence is saying

something i cannot do now but in the

future

i want to say i can do this so

in the future i want to be able to speak

four languages for example so now i

can’t speak four languages maybe i can

speak one or two or three maybe cool but

in the future i want to be able to speak

for so that’s my future distant goal for

myself or i want to be able to take long

vacations so i can’t do that now but in

the future i want to be able to so this

is a good one to use to talk about your

skills and abilities all right

cool let’s head on to the third one here

the third one is i dream about

gerund phrase i dream about

so gerund i’ve used gerund here gerund

is the noun form of a verb we can change

a verb into a noun by using this ing

form so we don’t use this just for

progressive or continuous right like i

am talking you are listening

this is also a way

to make the verb become a noun and we

use it in this noun position yeah so

let’s look at some examples i dream

about

owning my own business i dream about

owning my own business

so this functions as a noun in the

sentence i dream about owning a business

okay so this is like a like a noun

phrase this is the topic of my dream

yeah another example i dream about

traveling

every month i dream about traveling

every month or i dream about making lots

of money

so all of these patterns use this gerund

phrase this is important

it’s different from this one yeah the

infinitive verb phrase in the other two

patterns so this one i dream about

gerund

or

i want to or i want to be able to

infinitive verb phrase so depending on

the pattern that you use you do need to

end your sentence to end your statement

with a different type of grammar yeah so

please keep these two concepts these two

ideas in mind yeah i dream about has a

different ending than i want to i want

to okay cool so this is part one for

today so our basic dream and wish

statements awesome okay let’s take one

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okay part two features conditionals

conditionals so i’m not going to talk

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videos so today i chose a couple of

conditional patterns that are very

helpful for expressing your wants

desires and dreams for the future so

let’s take a look

first one is

if i a i’ll be able to

be

if i a i’ll be able to b so we have two

kind of actions or conditions here we

have a

and b

so this means that

when a is true

i will be able to be

again we have this i’ll be able to note

this here future tense i will i have it

reduced here i will becomes i’ll so i

will be able to be

okay let’s look at some examples how do

we use this then so

if i pass this test

i’ll be able to graduate from university

if i pass this test i’ll be able to

graduate from university so

here’s my a if i pass this test if i

pass this test this day okay so if this

is true

if this is true i’ll be able to graduate

from university so b is graduate from

university so this means if i pass the

test it will be possible for me

to graduate from university a must be

true

and then b is possible so we need to use

this i will sometimes i hear learners

forget this will here and remember you

cannot use this in your if clause like

sometimes i hear people use if i will

pass the test not correct you cannot use

will in your if clause there

you need to use it here so the other

mistake i sometimes hear is uh if i pass

the test i be able to not correct i will

be able to i will be able to okay so

your future tense uh verb needs to be in

your main clause okay let’s look at

another example

if i get a loan

i’ll be able to start my own business

if i get a loan i’ll be able to start my

own business so a loan

is money

you receive from the bank yeah so you

have to give the money back to the bank

plus extra plus interest but you get

some money in the beginning

for a business or for an idea so this is

called a loan so if i get a loan i’ll be

able to start my own business so again

here’s a if i get a loan so if a is true

then b will be possible i’ll be able to

start my own business

okay cool one more example of them so if

i give a good presentation

i’ll be able to ask for a promotion

if i give a good presentation i’ll be

able to ask for a promotion what’s a

promotion promotion means going up a

level your job title goes up increases

usually you get more money to after a

promotion so promotion is a good thing

for many people sometimes more

responsibility okay so again here’s a if

i a give a good presentation

i’ll be able to b

ask for a promotion okay

so in these situations after a is true

b becomes possible okay cool so this is

one pattern you can use to talk about

your dream for the future or some kind

of plan that you have for the future

now i want to look at a different

pattern this once conditional once so we

use once again to mean after this thing

is true this other thing is true so

very very simply it looks like this once

a

b so this is the very flexible pattern

yeah this means after a is true

b

so just like up here but this can be

very very flexible this one i gave you

all the words you need yeah in this one

we can be more flexible so

for example

once

i have my own car

once i have my own car

i’ll be able to go anywhere i want

once i have my own car i’ll be able to

go anywhere i want so here’s a once i

have my own car so after

this is true

i will be able to go anywhere i want

this is b yeah so after i have my own

car in the future again i will

be able to go anywhere i want so this is

similar to this pattern yeah okay let’s

look at some other examples that don’t

use this be able to pattern so here’s

another one once i finish school

i’ll start looking for a job

once once i finish school i’ll start

looking for a job okay so here once i

finish school so this is my condition it

needs to be true finishing school then i

will start looking for a job so in this

sentence we’re looking at a sequence of

actions yeah i’ll finish school

after that i will start looking for a

job once i finish school i’ll start

looking for a job we’re showing a

sequence okay last one here

once i buy a house

i’ll host big parties every summer

once i buy a house i’ll host big parties

every summer okay so this means after i

buy my house or after buying a house is

true as a reality for me

i’ll host i’ll so to host something

means to be the host of the situation so

people come to your house for the party

i’ll host big parties every summer

so you might think well can i just

replace this with an if i pattern like

can i just say if i buy a big house i’ll

host big parties every summer well yeah

you could say that but it does change

the meaning a little bit so what’s the

difference here

if i buy a big house sounds like i don’t

really have a plan to buy a big house

right now or was it big house just a

house okay sorry so if i buy a house

sounds like maybe there’s not a plan to

buy a house right now if you use once i

buy a house it sounds like you’re

planning to do that thing like there’s

some maybe course or some path in your

mind it’s part of your plan or a project

you have so using once sounds more like

sure like you’ve decided to do this

thing yeah so once i buy a house i’ll

host big parties every summer you sound

confident and sure of your plan

if you use if

it sounds like maybe there’s a chance

that’s not going to happen like if i buy

a house i’ll host big parties every

summer sounds like it’s not really going

to happen maybe

let’s look at another example if i

finish school i’ll start looking for a

job like there’s a chance i might not

finish school that’s the feeling up here

too there’s a chance this will not

happen if i pass this test i’ll be able

to graduate from university so there’s a

chance this might not happen right if

you use this once pattern it’s going to

sound more confident like once i pass

this test i’ll be able to graduate from

university so it sounds like there’s a

plan and you’re more confident there

okay cool so these are some conditionals

that you can use to talk about your

plans your dreams and your level of

confidence about them okay awesome so

we’ll take one more super quick break

and then we’ll go to part three wishing

and hoping and some other expressions

too okay awesome if you missed it super

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part three how to talk about dreams for

the future with

wish and hope so this is a very common

question what is the difference between

wish and hope in this part i’m going to

talk about using these words as verbs

okay

so what is a wish

a wish

or rather what does two wish means are

as a verb not as a noun so as a verb it

means to desire or to want something or

to want a condition we do not have now

and in red here usually it’s not

possible or it’s very difficult

so let’s look at some examples

i wish i had more free time

i wish i had more free time so we use

wish here because we are talking about

something we want

we don’t have now

and it’s difficult to get or it’s not

possible for us to get right now i wish

i had more free time

or

i wish i could speak french i wish i

could speak french so again i cannot

speak french now

i want to be able to speak french but

it’s not possible right now like i can’t

just immediately learn a language right

i wish i could speak french so we use

wish to talk about these desires

but that are difficult or not possible

to get for us at this point in time

then let’s compare this to

hope to hope means to want something

oops sorry to want something

to happen or to be true

to want something to happen or to be

true for example i hope i can finish

work on time i hope i can finish work on

time or i hope we see each other again

soon yeah so let’s talk about this then

could we change these could we use

different verbs could we swap the verbs

no for example i wish i can finish work

on time

if you have a job

where you usually work until very very

late maybe you could say that but you

need to change the grammar of your

sentence when you use this because we’re

talking about something that’s not true

or not possible so if you want to talk

about wishing uh to finish work on time

you would need to change the grammar of

the sentence like i wish i could finish

work on time you could use a sentence

like that but you cannot just switch uh

hope and wish around

here i hope we see each other again soon

this one this sounds nice because it

sounds possible that that’s the feeling

with hope i hope i can finish work on

time today it sounds like something is

possible you want that to happen and it

sounds like something you can do or

you’re able to do i hope we can finish

work on time

so

something else i sometimes hear is that

learners use hope in these patterns i

hope i could speak french

or i hope i have more free time maybe

you could maybe use it with free time

like i hope i have more free time next

week maybe for something that is

possible yes

but when talking about abilities we

don’t use it in this way like i hope i

could speak french or i hope i could

cook

better or something like that we use

wish to talk about those things that we

cannot change right away yeah hope is

used for things we want to happen or

conditions that we want to be true and

that are actually possible in a short

period of time so this is a quick

introduction to the differences between

wish and hope

finally i want to end with a couple of

very positive expressions i hope the

first one is i can’t wait until i can’t

wait until this is an expression of

excitement so saying i can’t wait sounds

negative right but i can’t wait until

this thing this is another way to say

i’m really looking forward to that thing

it’s like saying i’m so excited

it’s hard for me to wait it’s not

possible for me to wait for example i

can’t wait until i finish school i can’t

wait to look for school or i can’t wait

until my vacation next week i can’t wait

until my vacation next week or i can’t

wait until i see my family again okay it

means i’m really really excited about

this thing and i’m so excited i don’t

want to wait

finally the last thing when you achieve

your goal or when you finally get that

thing you dreamed about you can say

something like this

i’ve dreamed about this for a very long

time

so you can use very if you like you

don’t have to i’ve i have yeah i’ve

dreamed about this for a very

long time yeah or i dreamed i’ve dreamed

about this for a long time as well too

so these are some positive expressions

to describe things you are looking

forward to and what you can say when you

do achieve your goal yeah cool all right

so that is the last part of today’s

lesson i hope that you found something

that you can use to express your own

dreams for the future your your own

wishes and hopes and all that kind of

good stuff so i’ll finish there for

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basic dream and wish statements like i

want to and in the future i want to be

able to we talked about some conditional

statements and we also talked about the

differences between wish and hope and

some other expressions you can use to

refer to your dreams and your wishes so

i hope that it was helpful for you

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