How to Talk about Your Future Basic English Phrases

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back to our weekly live stream my name

is Alisha and today we’re going to talk

about how to imagine your future that

means like how to make predictions about

the future so we’re going to use for

example we’ll and going to and we’re

going to talk about a sentence pattern

that uses wood a lot a lot of you have

asked questions about how to use the

word wood so I’m going to focus on a

statement pattern you can use so that

means not a question a statement pattern

that you can use and I’m going to

introduce a question pattern that I hope

you can use to make your own questions

to ask about potential futures so lots

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so again the topic for today how to

imagine the future how to imagine the

future so I’ll introduce a couple of

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right so then let’s begin with today’s

topic let’s start today’s topic as I

said how to talk about the future

fantastic dope today’s lesson as always

I have three parts for today’s lesson

today the first thing I’m going to talk

about this part right here this kind of

basic pattern like and I think you’ll

see in just a second as well like the my

tweet is here at the moment but I want

to focus a little bit on the board now

this is going to be the first part for

today oh actually it’s already up here

that’s okay that’s okay this is our

first part for today so the first thing

I want to talk about today is using this

this expression this kind of sentence

pattern to make a a statement about an

unreal situation an unreal situation

means a statement that is not real right

now that’s what it means so this is

where we’re going to start after that

we’ll talk about how to make questions

with wood and then in the last part of

today’s lesson we’ll review how to use

will and

going to so let us begin great tie

YouTube rich in Sandro and Edward and

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alright let’s begin then let’s begin an

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today so let’s begin then with the first

point for today so I said the first

thing for today would be this basic

pattern here um I know it’s sometimes

difficult to see the board so this above

me above my head this is the same thing

and an example sentence so I’ll talk

about this in just a moment yeah so some

people are saying how to use would and

could in the future today we’re going to

talk about one way to use wood to make

guesses okay so the first thing I want

to talk about is this sentence on top

here this sentence if i plus past tense

verb phrase something something I would

so this is a common expression a common

pattern that we use when we want to

express an unreal situation something

that is not true now so this is an

example of an unreal situation here is

my if clause in this case if I had a lot

of money I would buy my parents a house

if I had a lot of money I would buy my

parents a house so here had a lot of

money this is my past tense verb phrase

right here had a lot of money and then I

finish with like a main statement I

would buy my parents a house so we use

wood in these cases because we’re

talking about something that’s not real

it’s not a real situation now this part

here reflects right now at this point in

time I don’t have a lot of money but if

I did if I did this would be my plan so

I don’t use will here I don’t use will

here because this is not true right now

so please be careful this is an unreal

situation so when you make this sentence

you can see like I mentioned use a past

tense verb

phrase here however if your verb is is

is like I just said in my sentence

pattern if I but if I want to use the

verb is and I want to use past tense

there’s an exception for the verb is we

use word like if I were rich for example

so please be careful when you use the

word is when you want to conjugate that

for this verb pattern use were I’m not

going to talk about the use of was today

that’s a kind of a different point and

it’ll take time I think so today we’ll

use word this is a key exception this is

something different we’re not going to

talk about in detail for today but

please use word if you’re using the verb

is so if you like oh great a lot of you

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good example sentences like if I won the

lottery I would invite you to bora-bora

if I had wings I would fly to everywhere

a nice one junior hey junior cut skeet

see if I could speak English fluently I

would travel all over the world very

nice very nice so these are great

example sentences nice one on Facebook I

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send an example sentence please feel

free to do so okay so I want to move on

then like in my example sentence I’ve

introduced if I if I like here I have if

I and in this pattern up here I have if

i if i did something however we can

change this this does not have to be I I

we could say if he if you if they if we

whatever you can change this here I’ll

mark it in a different color because we

have the technology if I we can change

this and we can change this so you can

talk about your behavior you can talk

about your reaction to someone’s

behavior you can change these to make

some other examples so

let’s go I have one more example which

we will see appear in just a moment yeah

that one great thank you so here is a

different one so I’ve updated this part

curt part this part if person or object

so I replace this I we can change this I

with a person or an object here so past

tense verb phrase this part is the same

and the last part the main part is the

same to I would so here’s an example if

the CEO if the CEO so a different person

not me if the CEO were discovered to be

a criminal I would quit the company so

what does this mean the sentence means

now the CEO is not a criminal I hope but

I mean the CEO of this fictional company

the CEO is not a criminal but if he or

she were discovered to be a criminal

this is my plan I would I would quit the

company so again this part shows us this

is not a real situation this is not a

real situation but if it were this is

what I would do so we can change this

part of the sentence if the CEO were

discovered to be a criminal I would quit

the company so in this case these are

two different people CEO and me they can

be whatever your situation needs so

please feel free to be flexible with

this ok so I want to practice this I

made a small quiz with this part with

you guys so I want to look at this

example if we look at this example

though where we have I in this position

and we need a past tense verb phrase

right here what do we use we talked

about it earlier send it in the chat

what do you think the answer if I blah

blah blah

I would so let’s imagine we’re going to

use the verb is is here if I want to use

the verb is video froze oh no someone

said the video for us anyway the correct

answer for here if I were

if we want to use an adjective we need

to use work if we’re going to use the

verb is otherwise we just use any other

past tense verbs so this is a key point

for today I noticed many people use

present tense here but don’t do that

please

use past tense and as we talked about

the exception is if you’re using the

verb is please use word instead all

righty

let’s look at another one so let’s again

the same issue same past tense sort of

issue here if he so again my stuff yeah

my subject here if he have or had he

would blah blah blah something else over

here so again we have a choice between

present tense and past tense here many

students choose this one it’s actually

past tense we need to use past tense if

he had gotten up earlier he would have

been on time for work for example so

please use past tense same thing here

but I’ve changed it to we at the

beginning so if we go or went we would

something something so again past tense

so we need to use a past tense verb with

this expression so this is one like key

key point for today please use past

tense I know it seems strange like

you’re talking about an unreal future

situation but we use this grammar to

make that statement so please use this

one please use past tense verbs in this

if clause and this F clause here so this

starts with if we call this the if

clause I’ll talk more about this point

later okay

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welcome if you’re just joining if you’re

just joining today’s topic is how to

imagine the future how to imagine the

future so in the first part of today’s

lesson we talked about using would this

if I were I would type pattern with past

tense verb phrases this was the first

part we talked about how to make a

statement with this grammar so now I

want to move on how to make a question

I’ve noticed if you can get this part

I’ve noticed sometimes students are okay

with this part but they can’t make a

question using this grammar so I really

want to practice this one next let’s

continue alrighty

so I talked in this part about this if

Clause yeah

maybe you can see it on the screen this

if part if Clause it starts with the

word if that’s a great hint that it’s

the if clause so um when you make a

question then you need to have this if

clause in your question and your main

Clause which is this part this I would

part for this for this grammar for this

point so to make your if Clause a simple

pattern you can use like we said if

let’s start with if that’s pretty good

we’ll start with if and then choose your

person so in this case when we were

making sentences statements we used I or

we used he or we or or the CEO in the

other example we talked about so choose

the person or maybe a situation the

object so choose the thing you want to

discuss what are you talking about so if

person then same thing in your question

your past tense verb phrase your past

tense verb phrase past tense verb phrase

past tense past tense don’t forget to

change your verb to past tense please so

this is your if clause this is part one

he’s one of your questions so part one

part two then is your question clause so

this is where you ask the question this

part part two is the part where you put

the question so how do you make the

question this part is maybe the most

difficult part to do that here I’m gonna

write a wh question so WH question means

like your who what when where why how

how long how often that question word so

that means that’s WH question I’m not

going to write everything here so add

your question phrase what is your

question so what’s the question you want

to ask then include would would shows

this is not a real situation this is a

reminder like this is not true now but

just let’s just discuss the possibility

so what would and then

again another person or something else

related to this situation it does not

have to match this first one you don’t

need to match this one here these do not

have to be the same you can change it

then we’ll finish with some verb

expression perhaps something else at the

end so this is a very very open sort of

pattern that you can use so I know it’s

quite difficult to imagine like what

what is this how should I use this so I

prepared some examples I have three

examples where should we put those

bottom of the frame is good mmm or we

can show them one at a time if that’s

too much yeah we have three examples

coming in just a second so let’s take a

look at like how to actually how to

actually put these into a real sentence

so yeah okay that looks good to me I’ll

stand up oh that’s nice too perfect okay

sorry we’re arranging the text on the

screen right now so you can see perfect

okay so here’s one example these are all

questions not statements but these are

questions so first one if you were

remember we talked about this were is

the exception when you use the verb is

you need to change it to were not was so

if you were a teacher what subject would

you teach so this question follows this

pattern I introduced right here so if

you here’s my person past tense verb

phrase were a teacher we’re a teacher

and then my question phrase like I

talked about here question phrase what

subject that’s my question what subjects

what subject and then unreal it’s unreal

so I use would and then here is my

person again I’m talking about you my

question is about you in this case what

would you teach so here’s one example

I’ve just plugged in each of these parts

of the sentence here let’s look at one

more it’s kind of hard to see around my

shirt isn’t it sorry I guess laughs okay

I won’t move

I get in trouble when I move I fall down

if this were your house where would you

put the furniture so here this is a

great example where I’ve changed so this

part I said person but this can be an

object so in this case house so if this

if this were your house where would you

put the furniture hmm another example

here and then one more if they built a

pool if they built a pool how often

would you go swimming in it all right I

want to focus on one point in this

example sentence how often how often

would you go swimming in it please make

sure you’re how often and you’re how

long fit together sometimes students

separate them like how would you go

swimming often or something I don’t know

but don’t separate those keep how long

and how often together keep those

question phrases together then yes good

some of you are answering this someone

on YouTube wrote what would you do if

you were Donald Trump I don’t know okay

great so these are a few examples of

questions we can make building our using

this pattern we’ve built these these

questions using this pattern right here

so this is a great way if you’re not

sure how to start making questions you

can use this pattern good good good

all right so let’s have a quiz let’s

have a quiz so um let’s see again we

need to use past tense here so a quick

review for your if Clause if he made or

he make remember we need to use a past

tense verb in the if clause so so we

need to use made if he made so in your

if Clause you need to use that past

tense verb for sure okay but now let’s

ask a question a quick review question

about the main clause so if you had so

here’s our if clause we have something

in our if

but in your main clause

how would you often or how often would

you which one is correct well you can

send it in the chat but we don’t have

time so how often would you this bottom

one is correct so I know that the

question how is here but how often is

the question phrase we need to keep

those two words together don’t split

your how offense or your how long’s keep

those two together please hmm all right

good whew we’re running out of time so

I’ll finish there for that point great

nice job with your with your example

sentence this guy guys Brian on YouTube

says Alicia can I use could instead of

would not necessarily know I can’t talk

about good in this lesson there’s not

enough time but no could and would while

sometimes they can be used to make

grammatically correct sentences they

change the meaning using could changes

the meaning and there is some different

some different ways to use could I can’t

talk about it now we don’t have time but

I think actually I made a whiteboard

video about that point so you can check

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guess we’ll take a quick break because I

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go on to the last point for today so we

talked about this kind of if Clause main

Clause some review and remember you can

switch that to you can’t you don’t have

to use if clause first main clause

second you can swap them that’s why

we’re gonna talk about will and going to

at the end of today’s lesson some review

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a review point about two expressions or

two grammar points that are for making

predictions about the future they are

will and going to will end going to so

I’m not this is not a review about your

future plans but this is a review for

your guesses your your ideas about the

future when should we use these so we

tend to use will for like prediction

here’s a key word prediction prediction

means guess prediction to make a

prediction like some idea about the

future oh yes here it is this is what

I’m writing on the board predictions far

in the future far in the future so

things we can’t see things we can’t see

or we’re not so sure so and this is my

example sentence with will in the future

we’ll have flying cars here I have the

reduced form wheel as we will in the

future we will have flying cars we will

here’s a negative then we won’t have

clean water if we don’t protect the

environment so these two sentences use

will and won’t to make a prediction to

make a guess about the future so we use

these as I said far in the future far in

the future means a long long time in the

future and we use these for things maybe

it’s hard to guess we’re not sure maybe

we don’t have all the information or a

lot of information so you can use will

and the negative won’t will not in these

cases however going to is a little bit

different also going to we use these for

like easy predictions so things we can

see things we can see so like for

example if you’re watching like a soccer

game or something and you can see the

player moving towards the ball and you

can guess what he’s going to do or she’s

going to do you can say oh he’s going to

shoot a goal or something I don’t like

you can use going to four things that

are easy to see easy to predict we can

guess that like based on the information

we have we can make a strong guess about

that like weather also it’s gonna rain I

think it’s gonna rain yeah so we use

going to it’s like really really strong

a close future maybe or we’re very

confident about the prediction so

examples here

the company is gonna so this is going to

in the reduced form the company is gonna

grow a lot next year so maybe I have a

lot of confidence about this idea like

how the company is gonna grow a lot next

year maybe I have a lot of information I

can make this prediction with confidence

another one the president is going to

make a huge mistake the president is

going to make a huge mistake so here I’m

very confident here I’m going to make a

huge mistake so I can see based on the

information I have and I can make a

strong prediction yeah nice good work

you guys so you’re sending some

predictions

in the chat I’ll be having lunch around

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oh that’s maybe not a prediction that’s

just a statement of fact so if you have

some predictions you can send a

prediction for the month of June if you

like yeah what are you going to do in

June what do you think might happen in

June that’s a question but anyway that’s

a good point

to finish on today’s lesson so we’ll and

going to we can use to make a prediction

to make a guess about the future one is

strong one not so strong to put it quite

simply all right but it is thirty

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