Using the Conditional if Learn English Grammar

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our topic for this week which is if

conditionals today we’re going to talk

about if conditional sentences and I’m

going to introduce a few patterns that

we can use with if conditionals too so

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I would like to today I’m going to talk

about a few different types of

conditional so maybe that will lead into

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while we wait for a few more minutes for

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the notification I want to review last

week’s topics last week if you joined it

was our Halloween episode or Halloween

themed livestream we didn’t really talk

about Halloween but some vocabulary

words and we talked about the kinds of

costumes we wanted to wear or the kinds

of things we were interested in doing

around Halloween so I always like to

share an example from my life so here’s

my I said I would post it I said I would

share it so here’s my actual costume

that I wore for Halloween very cheap

costume I wore a Princess Leia costume

so last week I talked about three words

for things that are scary I talked about

creepy I talked about eerie and I talked

about gory and so we talked about some

costumes that could be creepy or eerie

or gory we talked about monsters and

movies but these costumes really aren’t

necessarily creepier eerie or glory I

went with a fun costume so I want to use

this while we wait for everybody to join

today I want to use this as sort of our

warm-up question for this week last week

I said I was going to use this costume

question as our as kind of a lead-in as

a warm-up to the grammar for this week

so last week I asked you I add if you

were here last week maybe you remember

this question I said if you were going

to Apothic aa stoom party what costume

would you wear and why so that was a

future potential sentence this week

however as a warm-up I want to ask a

follow-up question about this so

different question while we wait for

everybody to join is if you went to a

costume party please share what you wore

if you went to a costume party please

share what you wore so in my case I can

say I wore past tense I wore a Princess

Leia costume because it was fun and

easy so again past tense I wore a

Princess Leia costume because it was fun

and easy so if you went to a costume

party here’s our first if conditional

for today if you went to a costume party

please share what you wore so for those

of you who went to a costume party last

week or for Halloween for example did

anyone go I’m I’m seeing a few people so

hello a lot of people are coming in

still did anybody to go to a costume

party some people of course yeah man sir

on YouTube we don’t celebrate it right

that’s true that’s true so depending on

the country maybe you celebrate or you

don’t celebrate um wow did nobody go to

a costume party there are like lots of

people watching and nobody went hmm just

me okay well anyway past tense our

producers are saying I did I produced

she went to a costume party she had an

amazing costume so our producer she wore

an Addams Family costume

past tense she wore an Addams Family

costumes it was awesome

ah Freddie on YouTube says I wore a

skeleton face painting Oh interesting so

I wore a skeleton costume for example

Carl on YouTube says I wore a scooby-doo

costume cool YouTube says I wore make

sure to use past tense past tense where

becomes war I wore a Jedi mantle maybe

the Jedi costume okay great so this is

our first if conditional simple if

conditional for today to begin today’s

lesson Natalia says I wore Alice’s

fantasy from Alice in Wonderland

what is Alice’s fantasy I don’t know

Anderson says I wore a Yoda costume

great great okay mag no I’m great how

are you

I wore a Rick’s costume Reuben what is

Rick I don’t know um on Facebook great

some replies on Facebook I wore a

spider-man costume very nice dilip okay

great I think a lot of people are here

now so I want to move on to sort of the

next the main points for two days lesson

so as I said this kind of introduces

today’s topic if you went to a costume

party is our if point

here and I’ve given sort of a command or

a request a little bit right here okay

so let’s continue on so today I want to

practice three more patterns we can use

three more kind of grammar points we can

use with if conditional sentences so

let’s continue first the first thing I

want to do is introduce sort of the the

basic form of if conditional so again

whiteboard today we make if conditionals

with two points I guess two if you’re if

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joining anyway our basic form for today

we saw in the warm-up question actually

to when we make if conditional sentences

will use an if clause so if Clause it

begins with the word if like in my

warm-up question for you I said if you

went to a costume party

what what did you or please share what

you wore so it begins with if that’s our

if Clause so that’s the the part of the

sentence with if in the sentence it

begins with an if-then we have a main

clause so the main clause oops the main

clause can change a lot we can make a

question we can talk about future

probability we can talk about hot things

of that have a high chance of happening

so today we’re going to practice three

more patterns we can use with this by

the way you can do the reverse

so if conditionals are not always the if

Clause followed by the main Clause we

can do main clause and if clause and the

reverse order that is also okay so with

this let’s keep in mind with an if

Clause we must have we must have a main

clause we can’t just use an if clause on

its own so please be careful okay so

let’s go on to the first or the

and I suppose the second one I want to

talk about today so keeping in mind we

can use if conditionals to make plans to

ask about past activities to talk about

future possible situations and we can

use it to give advice and

recommendations and ask for advice and

recommendations as well so let’s move on

to the first or the next sentence I want

to practice with you today

let’s use this grammar to talk about

your weekend your weekend so in past

livestreams

we’ve talked about using going to not

going to will and won’t to talk about

your plans for the weekend

but let’s sort of level that up let’s

use an if clause to talk about your

weekend if clause talk about your

weekend so let’s use a sentence if you

have time this weekend what will you do

so here you’ll see I’ve I’ve contracted

what will - what’ll well this is a great

pronunciation point if you have time

this weekend what’ll you do what will

becomes what’ll little and then your

response should be if I have time this

weekend

I’ll blah blah blah so please share an

activity if I have time this weekend

I’ll cook something if I have time this

weekend I’ll go see the new Blade Runner

oh if I have time this weekend I’ll

clean my house I guess if I have time

this weekend I’ll watch TV for example

if you have time this weekend what will

you do what will you do so this is a

future a future possibility construction

with the if conditional so let’s take a

look what are you going to do this

weekend if you have time our producer

says I’ll finish stranger things to you

our producers watching a stranger things

I’m not watching that all right yes the

lesson is going on the lesson is live

right now great Jordi you’re the first

one on YouTube if I have time don’t

forget this part if I have time this

weekend I’ll go to the cinema very nice

good if I have time this weekend I’ll go

to the cinema my

see on YouTube I’ll sleep all night if

you have time okay uh xaviar on you our

Facebook sorry if I have time this

weekend I’ll make something

haha Stepan what’s that is that a is

that that’s a dish

I don’t know that dish I’ll google it

later mark Michele says if I have time

this weekend I’ll ride my motorcycle

good Sofia if I have time this weekend

I’ll go to the gym nice Dileep if I have

time this weekend I’ll meet my friends

perfect

on YouTube Nelson if I have time this

weekend I’ll play soccer

Alvaro says if you send me greetings

I’ll love you forever that’s funny

that’s funny

rindra if I have time this weekend

they’ll go to the swimming pool if I

have time this weekend they’ll practice

drawing from gear may Pamela says I’ll

go to Machu Picchu if I have time nice

so Pamela used the opposite version she

had the main clause first an if clause

second perfect Levi if I have time this

weekend I’ll watch more videos on this

channel on this channel nice

Yesenia five time this weekend I’ll buy

new shoes good so here if I have time

I’ll visit the zoo good nice ones Kevin

on Facebook if I have time this weekend

I’ll play soccer with my friends very

nice wow there’s a lot Scarlett I missed

it oh my gosh um Eduardo I’m if I have

time this weekend I’ll ride my horse no

going to here is our future tense I’ll

going to is not correct we have future

tents I will we use will because we’re

making the decision now in this

conversation so if I have time I’ll do

something no going to there okay uh host

send on Facebook if I have time this

weekend I’ll talk to my family very nice

what else melih if I have time this

weekend I’ll visit my friend good Wow

there are a lot if I have time this

weekend I’m gonna go to or iíll go to

rather a place a few of you are doing

that Samuel says if I have time this

weekend I’ll watch more of your videos

thank you thank you thank you much

appreciated um what else

Masaya on Facebook if I have time after

work I’ll hang out with my colleagues

very nice Marianne if I

time this week I’ll file finish my

homework I all finished my homework

mm-hmm okay lots of them I’ll go to the

beach if I have time this weekend great

great so again some people put the main

clause first and if clause second

perfect no problem sounds good alright

so that’s the first one I want to

practice don’t forget that this little

aisle is your future tense statement

your future tense decision so no going

to here also be careful sometimes people

put will in the if clause don’t do that

don’t do that your future tense

grammar your future tense choice should

be here not here

your main class and not your if clause

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today’s topic is if conditionals we’re

talking about a few different patterns

with if conditionals we’re talking about

a few different expressions we can use

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alright so let’s continue to the next

example I would like to talk about so

the next grammar pattern is for a is

something we use for situations

situations which are not real so a

situation that is not real but we want

to talk about a possible outcome we want

to talk about a possible result of that

situation so when we make this kind of

grammar when we make this kind of

sentence we need to think about the

grammar that we use in the if clause so

for this pattern to make this one in our

if Clause we’re going to use simple past

tense in the if clause for this one and

then in our main Clause we can use at

least for this one in the main clause

we’re going to use a modal verb so I

think many of you have studied modal

verb so that’s like our would could

should and so on may might so for this

one for this pattern we’re going to use

simple past tense in the if clause and a

modal verb in the main clause so we’re

going to talk about a situation that is

not real or maybe maybe this situation

is real for some of you and talk about a

future possible outcome so let’s look at

our second or third at this point

sentence our practice sentence for today

which is if you had a lot of money what

would you buy if you had a lot of money

what would you buy so here hat is in our

past tense if you had a lot of money

what would our modal verb what would you

buy your response should be if I had a

lot of money

past tense again if I had a lot of money

I would buy bla bla bla so if I had a

lot of money I would buy a boat for my

parents or if I had a lot of money I

would buy a nice cookware yeah

absolutely pots pans things like that if

I had a lot of money I would buy a nice

camera mmm for sure to take nice

pictures of alright so the question now

is if you had a lot of money

don’t forget this past tense if I had

had a lot of money I would buy what our

VIN on Facebook first one if I had a lot

of money I would buy a car perfect okay

I tell love if I had had had had don’t

forget had not have had had a lot of

money I would buy a new phone good good

good good uh Rahab if I had a lot of

money I would buy a new flat nice nice

flat by the way it’s like British

English for apartment I would buy a new

flat very nice

Guerra yes it is live right now it is

live Facebook whoa you’re fast if I had

a lot of money I would travel around the

world Alex very nice a little change

here I would travel so Alex changed the

verb from buy to travel nice

Xavier if I had a lot of money I would

invite you to a special dinner oh my

okay

Ivo on Facebook if I had a lot of money

I would buy many looks good

Vladimir Putin your back this week what

an interesting person to join our chat

if I had a lot of money I would buy a

new dog good Nelson if I had a lot of

money I would buy a telescope mount sir

if I had a lot of money I would buy

English books gear man if I had a lot of

money I would buy the Batmobile I would

buy a plane I would buy it’s going very

fast I would buy a new notebook says

Scarlett um

Pierre if I had a lot of money I would

buy an Xbox one and Xbox one and Xbox

one be careful of

bowel sounds before your noun phrase

yeah Raj area on Facebook if I had a lot

of money I would buy a house good

Edoardo if I had a lot of money I would

travel to the USA good YouTube is coming

too fast for me to read if I had a lot

of money I would buy many things okay if

I had a lot of money I would get a

Ferrari great if I had a lot of money I

would buy the Real Madrid team Real

Madrid right yeah I think okay if I had

a lot of money I would buy a big house

as Farish cool if I had a lot of money I

would buy a little monkey okay what do

you do as a monkey uh Gil on Facebook

says if I had a lot of money I would buy

the new iPhone 8 nice okay lots of

people saying new houses new

technologies new cars and so on great

great okay

ah nice sentences lots of things coming

in here all right sounds good

then time is going quickly as always so

this is this is one way we can talk

about an unreal situation I don’t know

maybe some of you have lots of money I

don’t have lots of money but if you had

so don’t forget this past tense here we

use this to express an unreal situation

something that is not true now okay

let’s go though to our third point for

today so this last one and actually no

it’s not the last one this one uses some

kind of challenging grammar so let’s

think carefully about this one so we use

this next grammar

oh my producer says my text is too long

okay well let’s cut the last sentence is

that okay alright thank you so the next

grammar is rather challenging but we use

this for an unreal situation so in the

last one we talked about the if clause

with an unreal situation so this is an

unreal situation and this time the main

Clause is going to express an unreal

past outcome so we use this to talk

about situations in the past which might

have been different or could have been

different or should have been different

this

for past outcomes so the nuance of this

grammar is it’s the opposite of what

actually happened so let’s take a look

at a couple examples first I want to

introduce a couple examples sorry my

examples were very very long so our

producer it’s fixing them for us right

now so let’s take a look at the first

one if it’s okay is it okay alright

great so for example we have here if I

had studied I would have passed the test

is one example or if you had left the

house earlier you would have been on

time for the movie okay so here our if

clause changes we’re not using the

simple past tense in the if clause here

here we’re using the past perfect tense

in the if clause the past perfect tense

so please be careful here past perfect

tense and our main clause here is using

a perfect conditional a perfect

conditional so this is a challenging

grammar point but we can use it to talk

about a kind of complex idea past

potential or past situations that are

unreal okay so I want to mention though

there’s there are there’s a huge

pronunciation point in this grammar here

I want to talk quickly about that so

first let’s look at the if clause this

if I had studied limit if I had studied

here to make your pronunciation more

natural don’t use if I had studied

native speakers contract this part so

native speakers will make for example in

the case of sentences that begin with I

or if I had done something we contract

this to Ida if I have studied if I have

studied sounds much more natural than if

I had so please use if Ida if Ida sounds

much better for American English if I

just if Ida studied hmm or if I’m sorry

if I’d studied if I’d studied no other

if I’d studied sorry so safe

if I’d studied I would have passed the

test so you can hear the same thing here

with the main clause would’ve would’ve

so we use the contracted form just sound

more natural if I had studied I would

have passed the test if I’d studied I

would have passed the test so we do the

same thing here with different with this

different pattern so if you had left the

house earlier you would have been on

time for the movie so again

contracted form if you’d left the house

so again you’d gets contracted if you’d

left the house earlier if you had

becomes you’d pronunciation wise if

you’d left the house earlier

you would’ve again would have been on

time for the movie so please be careful

of this pronunciation point and try to

practice this this is a really really

good one also native speakers will use

this the contracted form we won’t really

pronounce the would have very clearly so

let’s try to use this to make a sentence

about your life so last week we talked

about Halloween and maybe some of you

did Halloween things some of you most of

you did not I think but let’s look at a

past situation a past unreal situation

and an unreal outcome so this will be

our last thing to practice for today

let’s look at our last question our last

question for today uses this grammar

point uses this grammar here and this

pronunciation the question is if you had

had this is correct if you had had more

time last weekend what might you have

done if you had had more time last

weekend what might you have done so more

time last weekend more time than you

actually had if you had had in the past

this shows us in the past potentially if

you had had more time last weekend what

might you have done so past potential

sentence some examples if I’d see the

contract

good form here yeah if I’d had more time

last weekend I might’ve I’ve used

contracted form here too I might’ve blah

blah blah so in my case if I’d had more

time last weekend I might’ve gone

shopping if I’d had more time last

weekend I might have watched a movie if

I’d had more time last weekend I might

have had dinner with my friends so if

you had had more time last weekend what

might you have done this is a tough one

that’s a tough one so do your best okay

causing a very very close on YouTube

first one if I had studied if I’d

studied programming I would have created

a robot for example don’t forget your

have in the main clause I might have or

I would have with your modal verb there

okay any ideas oh okay

Roman on Facebook so if I don’t forget

this one so our past perfect tense I

know it’s a challenge in grammar past

perfect here in your if clause if I had

prepared for the exam better I would

have had great I would have had a higher

score higher score so we can change this

in my example I’ve used the I’ve used

might of course you can change this to

would or could or whatever is best for

you but don’t forget your hat if I had

had if I’d had okay great the answers

are coming in now on YouTube if I’d had

more time last weekend I might have done

the laundry I what I might have washed

my blankets nice rindra if I had had

more time last weekend I might have

visited my parents good scarless if I’d

had more time last weekend I might have

played online games with my friends nice

Levi if I’d had more time last weekend I

might have studied more English good

Samuel if I had if I had learned music I

would be playing guitar after watching

your class

okay so slightly different grammar from

this one but correct sentence sherry if

I had had more time last weekend I might

have worked overtime to earn more money

nice HJ Kim if I’d had more time last

weekend I might have taken a walk with

my family good gear mate if I’d had more

time last weekend I might

trained my English more I might have

studied more English nice Juan Francisco

if I had chosen what I’d like to do in

uni I wouldn’t have wasted a lot of time

okay so those slight changes I wouldn’t

have wasted so much time on Facebook if

I had had be careful too if I’d had if I

had had more time last weekend maybe so

I would have studied more so instead of

using maybe here let’s use might’ve

because might expresses that maybe that

uncertainty much more naturally than

maybe does in the main clause there so I

recommend maybe other things

mark Michele if I had had more time last

weekend I might have had more time for

homework I might have had more time for

homework

good back on YouTube if I’d had more

time last weekend I might have called my

boyfriend I might have called my

boyfriend other things Allah if I had

had more time last weekend I might have

prepared my presentation fantastic on

Facebook ISM Russin if I’d had more time

last weekend I might have cleaned my

house perfect Sakai if I had more time

last weekend I might have watched

watched a basketball game watched a

basketball game

good morning on Facebook you’re just

joining at the end at the end so this is

a rather complex grammar point and it

expresses a past unreal situation and a

past unreal outcome so we talked about

we often use this to express regret yeah

so like if I had studied more for the

test I might have passed it for example

we can use it to express regret a lot so

this is challenging yes for sure but it

we can we use it quite often as well and

of course as some of you have done

changing the modal verb here can can

make some interesting and complex

sentences as well but it is 1131 here

now so I have to wrap up I have to wrap

up today’s lesson so thank you very much

for the excellent sentences we talked

about a lot of things of course grammar

yes but also remember these

pronunciation points these contracted

forms of pronunciation points alright

but I have to go in his time from

to go because I have run out of time

again so I’m going to wrap up the lesson

next week our lesson will be our live

stream lesson will be on Wednesday

November 8th but I think due to daylight

savings time I think daylight savings

time is starting next week in the US I

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Standard Time that’s New York City time

by the way many of you have asked about

that so I think it’s gonna be 9 usually

it’s 10 but I think daylight savings

time is starting next week so it’ll be 9

p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday

November 8th so that’s Wednesday evening

for most of you Wednesday evening for

most of you so next week I’m going to

talk about how to express your wants

needs desires some natural ways to do

that like for example when you’re

shopping or when you need help from a

co-worker those sorts of things also may

be perfect timing for asking about

Christmas presents I hope that that’s a

useful lesson for everybody so please

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