How to Talk About the Future in English with WOULD

hi everybody welcome back to our weekly

live stream my name is Alisha and today

we’re going to talk about how to use

wood to talk about the future so I’ve

said the future here for this lesson

because we’re going to cover many

different ways to use wood to imagine

the future to imagine the present also

we’re going to talk about using it to

make requests and offers and invitations

and to express preferences

finally we’re also going to talk about

the differences between wood and will in

conditional sentences something that I

often see learners struggle with we have

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off with our first point for today our

first item for today’s lesson is

conditionals conditionals and I’m gonna

talk about conditionals with questions

so a conditional a conditional is a

sentence that has that if something

something then something something

pattern or you can switch it as well so

I want to start today’s lesson by

talking about these conditionals so

first I want to talk about conditionals

with statements so we’ll zoom in a

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so conditionals with statements first of

all when we make a conditional with a

statement we have a pattern like if our

subject were something something and

then we follow it with subject would or

wouldn’t plus the infinitive form of the

verb so for today’s lesson I’m going to

focus on this the second condition

so maybe some of you know like first

conditional second conditional third

conditional and so on for today’s lesson

I’m going to focus on the second

conditional which uses wood to make a

positive statement and wouldn’t to make

a negative statement so when you make a

second conditional type sentence you’re

describing an unreal situation in the

present so something that is not true

now and it’s something that’s unlikely

so that means there’s a low chance of

that thing happening so something that’s

unreal and that is unlikely is a second

conditional statement also another point

here is if you use this conditional

sentence one big question this says were

if subject were something something if

subject were something something yeah hi

youtube i just saw the chat for the

first time we’re having some trouble

with facebook still if subject were so

when you make a second conditional

sentence using would make sure you use

word here

lots of learners asking what’s the

difference between if I was and if I

were the difference I’ve talked about a

few times in ask Alicia before the

difference is if I was is a simple past

tense statement so we want to make it

like a statement about the past so for

example if I was noisy last night I

apologize that means I don’t know if I

was noisy or not but if I was I

apologize so that means there’s a chance

in the past that thing happened however

when you use if I were or if subject

were it’s referring to the present

situation now it’s a it’s a real it’s an

unreal situation now in the present so

if I were a teacher I would teach math

for example that sentence means I am NOT

a teacher it is not like a possible

situation now but in that situation I

would teach math so those sent

if I were and if I was are actually

often like mixed up by native speakers

but if you want to make sure to always

be correct when you’re making a second

conditional sentence and you’re using

this if I were or if he were pattern

make sure to use work so let’s take a

look at some example sentences that use

this I’ll keep reading because our

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example sentences with at this point

first if I were you I would study every

day if I were you I would study every

day so here as I’ve talked about we use

this were here so if I were you this is

correct for a second conditional pattern

if I were you so I am not you I would

study every day so after our would we

follow with the infinitive form of the

verb if I were you I would study every

day let’s look at another example if he

had more free time he wouldn’t be so

stressed out if he had more free time he

wouldn’t be so stressed out so this

second conditional pattern uses a

different verb when you’re using the

second conditional pattern and you’re

not using this were here use the past

tense simple past tense form of the verb

so in this case if he had so had is the

simple past tense form of have if he had

more free time so more meaning more than

he does now if he had more free time he

wouldn’t so wouldn’t is the reduced form

of would not he wouldn’t be so stressed

out he wouldn’t be so stressed up so

this is a negative sentence here so in

this case this means the he this person

in the sentence does not have very much

time and therefore now

is stressed out so again we’re imagining

a present unreal situation so if you had

more free time he wouldn’t be so

stressed out okay one more example here

if we won the lottery we would buy a

house if we won the lottery we would buy

a house so lottery is a game of chance

you can buy a ticket in the USA and

there will be numbers that are announced

for that ticket if your tickets numbers

match the winning numbers you can win

money or other prizes so here one is my

verb I use the simple past tense form so

if subject if subject here is we if we

won the lottery so past tense if we won

the lottery in this unlikely present

situation we would buy a house so this

part expresses the planned action if

this is true this is what we want to do

we would buy a house so this is second

conditional statements second

conditional statement so there are some

examples coming in on YouTube if I had a

Lamborghini I would be very happy very

nice duska very nice it’s a good one

good one uh other ones I don’t see yet

any other one some one repeated if he

had more time he wouldn’t be so stressed

out yeah nice one pasta says if I won

the lottery I would donate that amount

to the street wow that’s super nice

that’s cool great great great

ok so let’s continue on to the next

point this is another pattern for a

statements that uses would and wouldn’t

and that might be a little bit

challenging to understand so this is a

subject with would or wouldn’t be so we

include the verb be here and then an

adjective an adjective so remember an

adjective is a word that describes a

noun so like beautiful or expensive or

fun or exciting these are adjectives so

let’s look at a couple of examples to

explain this point so let’s imagine a

conversation but

to people so person a says why don’t we

go to Hawaii next month why don’t we go

to Hawaii next month and person B says

that would be expensive that would be

expensive so here in Part B person B’s

statement that thing this idea like

going to Hawaii is what that refers to

that idea would be expensive so it’s

like saying if we did that it would be

expensive you can imagine this is like a

response to the suggestion so this

pattern is something we often use to

respond to ideas to suggestions to

advice and so on okay so the next

example here is do you want to go

window-shopping from person a do you

want to go window-shopping and again

person B responds with that would idea

so that would be fun that would be fun

so again that refers to the previous

sentence in this case a suggestion do

you want to go window-shopping and

invitation so that would that activity

would be and then my adjective is fun

that would be fun okay so this is how we

use it for this pattern I’ll finish up

here quickly with questions when we make

questions with second conditional we use

that if pattern if pattern so if then

pattern I talked about before so here if

we use a wh question so that means who

what where when and so on plus would

then our subject your extra information

and then we have some kind of if

statement so the basic pattern we’ve

talked about this a few times before is

when you’re making these kinds of

sentences and these kinds of questions

we use an if Clause plus a main clause

so your if Clause is the part of the

sentence that includes the word if so we

practice this up here if I were you if

he had more free time if we won the

lottery

these parts are if clauses there are the

parts of the sentence that use if and

then there’s the main clause so the main

Clause has this information in it the

result there’s some kind of result in

the main clause so we can use both if

clause and main clause in either

position you can change the position

just depends on the focus of your

sentence also please keep in mind one

point many learners miss this make sure

your wood is in the main clause we do

not use this in the if clause so this is

one key point here do not use wood don’t

use modal verbs in general in the if

clause please be careful of that okay so

let’s take a look at a couple of

examples and then we’ll take a quick

break quick break so if you won the

lottery what would you buy if you won

the lottery what would you buy so here’s

my if clause if you won the lottery my

if Clause is here in this case so I’ve

started back here what would you buy so

what is my WH question word would

follows it my subject is you and then my

verb here what would you buy what would

you buy one more where would you live if

you could live anywhere

so here I’ve swapped it again my WH

question is first where would you live

if you could live anywhere if you could

live anywhere so this could means if it

were possible to live anywhere if it

were possible to live in so another one

more small point here for those of you

who like to focus on your punctuation at

this point it’s very hard to see right

now but there’s a comma after this if

clause here so when your sentence begins

with an if clause follow the if clause

with a comma so it’s nice to include a

comma after an if clause so an if clause

can be what’s called an introductory

clause the if clause is introducing some

kind of information that we need to

understand the main clause

so if Clause comma main clause however

if you use this pattern main Clause

first plus if clause as a gun down here

you don’t need to put a comma after the

main clauses so only if your if clause

is at the beginning of the sentence so

at another point for those of you

interested in the punctuation

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grammar first is talking online on the

back of this are some expressions you

can use for conversation online so on

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example some of you write these sorts of

comments these are a few expressions you

can use online or in emails with your

co-workers or with friends family and so

on so these might be some good

vocabulary words or good situations to

practice today’s grammar is another one

is planning your time so today’s grammar

point is great for making schedules

really good for making schedules so this

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today’s lesson so part two for today’s

lesson I’ll continue on to invitations

offers and requests and preferences is

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let’s go to this party I want to start

part two today by talking about

invitations offers and requests I’m

going to cover patterns you can use to

make each of these kinds of sentences so

the first pattern is would you would you

so would you

begins all of these types of all of

these types of sentence so let’s take a

look first let’s look at some request

patterns so a request it’s when you want

someone to do something for you or you

want an object you want an item or you

want a service or something so for

example would you come over here please

would you come over here please so

that’s a request for someone to join you

may be from another part of the room

would you come over here please

yes many of you asked what’s the

difference between like could and would

in this situation they have the same

meaning really like they accomplish the

same goal could you come over here

please and would you come over here

please they have the same goal really so

the same level of politeness as well

could expresses possibility whereas wood

is more like a gentle way like to push

someone to do something could is more

like just is it possible for you to come

over here for this for requests like

this you can choose which

for you prefer would you come over here

please as a request another request

would you please close the window would

you please close the window so here

you’ll notice please can take different

positions and your requests so would you

come over here please is great please at

the end of the question or would you

please close the window here please

comes before the verb both are totally

fine you can choose whichever you prefer

so like would you please come over here

great it’s up to you to choose the

sentence you like so they mean the same

thing they have the same nuance it’s

just a personal preference thing okay

then this next one is an offer an offer

would you like dessert would you like

dessert so this is a very common pattern

this would you like pattern is common

for making offer so would you like

something to eat would you like some

dessert would you like a new iPad so

whatever if you want to make an offer of

some kind you can use this would you

like with the noun phrase that you’re

offering would you like this thing so

this is a very easy to remember offer

pattern please note this would you like

begins the offer similarly then when we

make invitations we also begin this with

would you like would you like however we

make the invitations by including a verb

in the infinitive form here would you

like to come to the exhibition so this

is a very polite invitation to do

something would you like to come to the

exhibition it’s like a very gentle and

very friendly way to invite someone to

something would you like to come to the

exhibition so again making an offer here

we’re using would you like noun phrase

would you like this thing when we’re

making this invitation we’re saying

would you like infinitive verb would you

like to come would you like to go would

you like to eat would you like to watch

and so on so offers an infant

Asians have similar similar patterns but

they have slightly different

applications so so young John sorry if I

said that incorrectly on the YouTube

chat says would you like movie so would

you like up movie that means you are

offering someone a movie like maybe you

have a DVD like would you like this

movie so you’re offering someone a movie

in that case if you want to invite

someone to do something with you would

you like to watch a movie so that’s an

invitation to do something so keep in

mind would you like a movie you’re

giving someone something would you like

to watch a movie is an invitation to do

something so please be careful now or

infinitive verb makes a difference here

ok onward let’s go to expressing

preferences Part B for this point

Part B expressing preferences I have two

patterns I want to talk about here with

wood they are subject and would like

subject would like so yes please keep in

mind this pattern uses wood like as we

practiced here but in these sentences in

these questions rather they begin so

would like I’m sorry would you begins

the sentence would you like begins the

sentence here when you’re expressing

your preferences like the thing you like

or the thing you don’t like we have

subject first and then would like so for

example I would like a salad please this

is a very like useful expression for a

restaurant or a cafe

I would like noun phrase please I would

like a salad please I would like a beer

please

I would like a steak please so this is

something you can use to express what

you want your preference I want this

thing also with a different subject she

would like you to prepare a presentation

she would like you to prepare a

presentation this sentence means the

in this situation this woman she wants

in other words she wants you she would

like you to prepare a presentation so

this is like a very polite indirect way

to say please prepare a presentation she

wants you to prepare a presentation so

this is a pattern you can use to express

a preference something you desire

something you want finally here is this

pattern subject would rather subject

would rather so we use this when we want

to kind of compare two options let’s

look at an example first in a suggests

why don’t we go to a French place for

dinner why don’t we go to a French place

for dinner a person B says I would

rather go to an Italian place I would

rather go to an Italian place means I

prefer an Italian place instead of the

French place that you recommended man I

would rather go to an Italian place so

this would rather means instead of this

more than the thing you suggested so

would rather is used to reply to

suggestions I would rather do something

else I would rather eat something else

so would rather is like a comparison a

way to compare two options okey-dokey

then

time is almost running oh man we’re

almost out of time so I’ll go quickly to

the last point for today’s lesson last

point for today’s lesson number three is

about using wood and will I covered

second conditional the second

conditional in the beginning of today’s

lesson so I want to talk about the

differences between these two so key

here is these two example sentences

these example sentences are both correct

totally correct

and totally fine to use but they have

different meanings let’s discuss

sentence one here is if I lose my job

I’ll find a new one if I lose my job

I’ll find a

NUMA sentence - if I lost my job I would

find a new one if I lost my job I would

find a new one so sentence two here uses

the second conditional that we’ve

started today’s lesson by talking about

yeah this is the second conditional so

remember the second conditional

expresses an unreal situation in the

present something that is not true now

and there’s a low chance of it happening

here however number one if I lose my job

I’ll find a new one this sentence means

it’s an actual present situation this is

a real possible situation so in sentence

number one maybe the speaker has a job

review or there was a problem at the

company or the company has to cut money

has to cut budgets or something the

speaker says if I lose my job I’ll find

a new one so this sounds like it’s

something that’s real it’s something

that’s possible there’s a chance the

speaker will lose their job so they’re

talking about their plans sentence two

however is an unreal present situation

so there’s no danger of the speaker

losing their job now they just want to

imagine the situation so if I if I lost

my job I would find a new one so I have

no danger of losing my job so again both

of these sentences are totally 100%

correct but the use of this sentence

really matters so this first sentence

expresses there’s a chance of that

happening right now so this is something

to practice a good grammar reminder I

think to practice for this point so if

you want to practice this you can send a

comment live or if you’re watching this

later with what would you do if you

found a wallet full of money on the

street what would you do if you found a

wallet full of money on the street so

you can use the earlier pattern from

part one today to make this sentence so

for example if I found a wallet full of

money on the street I will

take the wallet to the police so you can

use a wood pattern with if an if wood

pattern to express your plan for this

situation and in this case using a wood

pattern is best because it’s not a real

present situation now there’s probably a

low chance we’re going to find a wallet

on the street so that’s a good one to

practice with but Hector says what about

using wood to express something we used

to do in the past yes we have a live

stream about that actually today we’re

talking about wood floor in the future

so yes we do have a live stream about

using wood and used to for the past you

can check that on the English class 101

youtube channel if you want mary says if

I found a wallet I would turn it over

turn it over means give it to someone

give someone something that does not

belong to you I would turn it over to

the police

maybe alrighty we are out of time so

I’ll wrap up today’s lesson I hope that

this was helpful I knows a lot of

grammar and there was a lot to cover

here but I hope that it helps you use

wood to talk about the future and to

make offers and requests and things so

we’ll end there but we will be back next

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give details with relative clauses I’m

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