How to Talk about Your Future HIGHER QUALITY Basic English Phrases

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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 will

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 to do lots to

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again the topic for today how to imagine

the future how to imagine the future so

I’ll introduce a couple of things that

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all 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 so 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 it’s already up here whoo

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

fun entertainment and Ali hi everybody

good everybody’s here

alright let’s begin then let’s begin an

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there are so many cameras in the room

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 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 wood 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 pad

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 are sending

example sentences fantastic if you’re

watching in YouTube or Facebook check

the chat there are some 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

don’t see any yet but yes if you want to

send an example sentence please feel

free to do so

okay so um 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

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

Kurt part this part if person or object

so I replaced 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 two

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 okay 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 the correct answer for here if I

were

if we want to use an adjective we need

to use word 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 allow 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 good so that’s the first part

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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 we’ll 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 use he or we or or the CEO in the

other example we talked about so she is

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

phase one of your question 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 the

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 subject

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 good luck 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 your how

often and your 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 in

youtuber 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 clause blah blah blah 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 often sir 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 Elisha 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 good so I can’t talk about it now we

don’t have time but I think actually I

made a whiteboard video about that point

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because I would like to take a break so

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okie dokie let’s 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

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okay so let’s finish today with 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 guests prediction to make a

prediction like some idea about the

future oh yes

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 four 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 so going to we use these

four 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 know like

you can use going to for 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 whether also it’s gonna rain I

think it’s gonna rain yeah so we used

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 going to 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

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oh that’s maybe not a prediction that’s

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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

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