How to Talk about your Wishes and Desires in English
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lesson flow for today so we are going to
talk about expressing wishes and desires
in kind of two main groups one how to
talk about objects the things we want
right items and second how to talk about
actions we want other people to do
lastly just very quickly some other
expressions like some super super quick
but good questions to know uh and just a
kind of happy expression to end today
okay so let’s get started so i want to
start today
by talking about uh objects so how do
you express when i say objects here i
mean how do you express you want a thing
right how do you express that so in
today’s lesson
we are going to practice articles
articles are uh an and the
and in part two we’ll practice uh
preposition uh a little bit also okay so
let’s start uh with these uh these two
patterns
so first the first most basic pattern
for today is i want a
or i want an
plus a singular noun so a singular noun
means one of something right like a
marker so one marker so not two markers
but one you want one of something you
can use this pattern the uh
or and choice depends on the sound
of the singular noun if it’s a vowel
sound use an
if it’s not use a
for example
i want a dog i want a dog
or
i want an orange juice i want an orange
juice
so we can use this pattern i want
for the holidays for gifts of course
also just at a restaurant as well or
in daily life what do you want i want
this
super basic pattern native speakers use
this it’s very very basic too it’s
simple efficient i want a assembly so
you can send your uh example sentences
in the chat i will try to answer it live
okay so
here is our basic pattern for a singular
noun
then
sometimes you will hear this pattern i
want the
noun phrase i want the noun phrase so
this article the
remember we use the for a specific
noun right
we use it for something we know about in
the conversation or something we know
about in the world for example
this sentence
i want the
new iphone i want the new iphone okay
so this one means i want
like this year’s
new iphone so the iphone is a very very
popular product right most people know
the iphone
you might think okay so what’s the
difference between i want a new iphone
and i want the new iphone they’re both
correct but the difference is that the
new iphone means this year’s model the
latest model
i want a new iphone
doesn’t mean this year’s model
it means just a newer phone than i have
now okay so they’re both correct
i want the new iphone means this year’s
okay
all right some examples are coming in
ahmed says i want peace of mind good
lucas says i want bitcoin to reach
hundred one hundred dollars a hundred
thousand dollars okay uh others
faithline says i want to travel next
week good okay fatma says i want an
apple oh i want uh or and i want an
apple yeah okay some people lots of
people are writing they want apples okay
um
naeli says i want a million of dollars i
want a million dollars a million dollars
okay
all right let’s continue so the other
one here i want the new tesla model i
want the new tesla model so tesla is a
car a type of car you can express like
the new model of something like the new
iphone model or the new tesla model for
example yeah
you can express that with this the
pattern i want the new model okay
all right
uh let’s go to the next one so
for a plural noun so more than one of
something or a group of things how do we
express this
i want some
plural noun phrase
i want some plural noun phrase so you
can use this for like uh
like a mass nouns as well so like money
for example like i want some money of
course as someone wrote too okay so you
can use this for plural nouns and for
those masked nouns too for example i
want some new clothes
i want some new clothes or i want some
makeup i want some makeup
so you can use this pattern i want some
you may hear people drop this too like i
want new clothes or i want makeup also
but you will also hear this some pattern
used i want some something
okay
i want a and oh make sure
when i say this this slash means please
choose one please choose one so either a
or an but not both
yeah so i want a new house or i want and
something so this doesn’t mean both yeah
so choose one depending on your noun
sound
okay
uh next
uh
okay all right some people are writing
about food and stuff good okay let’s
continue to the next pattern then and
then i’ll try to check more of your
questions or more of your examples
the next one i is a different pattern so
not i want but i wish
i wish this pattern is i wish i had noun
phrase i wish i had noun phrase this is
a pattern we use
when of course we want something there
is something we want but it’s not so
likely like there’s a low chance we can
get it or it’s really difficult to get
right now
these i want i want i want
it sounds like maybe i could buy that
thing tomorrow or maybe i could get that
thing in the near future
this pattern is like it’s hard to get
right now or it’s difficult for me right
now so you’ll notice the grammar is
different too i wish i had
noun phrase for example
i wish i had more time i wish i had more
time
or i wish i had a bigger house or i
raced it sorry i wish i had a bigger
house house so it’s maybe difficult
to get a bigger house like tomorrow or
to get a bigger house
next month or next week right
it’s difficult to find more time right
right away so we use this pattern
for things that are difficult to get so
it’s not as simple it’s just let’s go to
the store let’s get more time let’s buy
time at the store it’s hard to we can’t
do that right we use this pattern to
express these kinds of concepts these
feelings so that’s a good guideline for
this part if you want something it’s
easy to get you can use one of these
patterns i want
if you’re talking about something you
want to change maybe about your life or
your living situation you can use this
pattern
okay
yeah some good examples are coming in
carla says i wish i had the ability to
fly very nice nice use of this grammar
great uh jenny says i wish i had ah i
wish i had a new job i would maybe say i
wish i had a different drop i wish i had
a different job
malki says i wish i had a smaller face
so okay okay i wish i had a visa to go
visit okay good good good all right i
wish i had a billion dollars priya i
wish i had a billion dollars or i wish i
were a billionaire okay karina says i
wish i had more time to study good
vera says i don’t want anything i’m
perfectly happy because i have
everything i need to live well
congratulations
all right
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right we finished it so this is part one
about objects objects so how do we
express that we want things that we need
things okay so let’s take a super quick
break and then we’ll go to part two
talking about actions how do we express
the actions we want from other people
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yeah
okay good lots of people are sending
really creative example sentences this
week that’s really cool
um
i wish i had more time to go to the moon
is that the only problem you don’t have
time
that’s the only thing keeping you from
the moon
that’d be really super cool edwin says i
wish i had a lamborghini yeah that’d be
super cool i would love to drive a
lamborghini someday okay great let’s go
to part two everybody’s very creative
today
all right
uh so let’s go to part two about actions
so how do we request an action from
somebody so
let’s look i want to focus on two
uh well we’ll look at three patterns but
these two let’s start
the i want and i wish patterns
first
let’s look at this so i want person to
infinitive verb this is our basic
pattern excuse me to express
this feeling of i want that person to do
something maybe for me or with me how do
we do this so this pattern here is i
want person so this person word you
choose use the object pronoun so that
means like you or her or him or them
yeah so not uh she right or he so please
be careful we’re going to practice two
different uh pronouns in today’s lesson
so let’s practice this first pattern
here
okay so i want you
to help me i want you to help me so i
want you so the other person in this
case this person to
help me so help is my infinitive verb i
want you to help me i want you to help
me okay so this is like a request it’s a
different way to make a request it’s not
a question
it’s a statement i want you to help me
okay
second example i want her
to lead the project
i want her
to lead so lead means be the leader
right to lead the project so infinitive
verb here is lead i want her to lead the
project
okay
so again this part right here this
pronoun this person
not she she is incorrect he is also
incorrect here i want her i want him
to lead the project
okay
all right
okay so you can send your example
sentences i’ll try to check them live so
this is the first pattern we can use i
want
object pronoun here okay then
let’s compare this to this wish pattern
this wish pattern so again we practiced
in part one right the difference between
this i want and i wish
thing right the feeling when we say i
want you to help me it’s like it’s it’s
possible like you can help me right now
so i’m asking you please help me right
but this one i wish person would
infinitive verb
this is like
this is difficult i can’t control this
so i can’t force maybe the other person
to do this action
so it’s difficult
to do this but i want it this is what i
want so we express that with this
pattern
i wish person
would infinitive verb
so
here we use we don’t use this object
pronoun i said in this pattern we use
her and him and them
in this pattern we use he and she and
they so this is a different grammar
structure i wish
she would talk to us
i wish she would talk to us so you’ll
notice we have this wood here maybe
you’ve studied wood how we use it for
unreal situations things that are not
true they have not happened or maybe we
don’t know if they’re going to happen
here we use this
the speaker is saying i want this so i
wish
she would talk to us which means she’s
not talking to us now this is a problem
for me i wish she would
but it’s difficult i cannot force this
person i cannot make this person talk to
us so we use this grammar structure to
express that
okay
uh much sin ayanna it is i wish her
wrong that’s correct yeah her is
incorrect so this
uh person this person word and this
person word the pronouns we use are
different in these patterns so i wish
her is incorrect or i wish him is
incorrect i wish she i wish he would
talk to us it’s a different grammar
structure
so i wish she would talk to us or i wish
he would apologize i wish he would
apologize but yeah we can’t we can’t
make a change easily to the situation so
we tend to use this wish pattern
isaac says what’s the difference between
hope and wish
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a
a wish as i’m talking about here is
something that it’s hard to it’s hard to
achieve as we’ve talked about in part
one it’s like
i i want this thing but it’s hard to
achieve and maybe uh there’s a low
chance of the of this happening in this
case
hope is kind of more positive it’s a
more positive idea about the future like
i and we use a different grammar
structure like i hope she talks to us
sounds like there’s a chance she’s going
to talk to us i hope she talks to us or
i hope he apologizes that sounds more
positive like we think there’s a chance
it’s possible
that’s a quick answer
oh i can’t see
uh
uh
i can’t see what i’m doing i’m sorry
okay all right so let’s go to the next
uh the next pattern here so the next one
that i want to go to is a question
pattern a request pattern okay
so
let’s go to can and could so i get a lot
of questions about this can and could
difference people say like
what’s the difference should i use can
should i use could is are they incorrect
and the answer is you can use both can
and could to make requests both of them
are fine to use
could sounds a little bit more formal
really but we use both of them in
everyday speech very very often so it’s
up to you the feeling okay so
you can use this question pattern
to make a direct request right these are
statements yeah but if you want to make
a direct request you can use this can or
could pattern okay
so for example
can you close the door please
can you close the door please so this is
a direct request as a question
so you could say this close the door
please
so it’s a command right close the door
please but this becomes more polite can
you
close the door please or i want you to
close the door also you could say that i
want you to close the door
the sentence i wish you would close the
door
it sounds like it’s impossible and you
might hear someone use that to sound
really really frustrated like i wish you
would stop doing that
we use this sometimes to sound very
frustrated like it’s hard for you to do
that thing but i’m getting off track so
can you close the door is a good just
direct request to use
okay another one could you help me move
the sofa could you help me move the sofa
so again we have this nice polite could
you could you
yeah and in speech keep in mind these
can you and could you sounds become
reduced so not
can you close the door please but can
you close the door please can you close
the door please so can you
it reduces quite a lot can you close the
door please and this sound could you
this becomes could ya
could ya or could you help me move the
sofa could you help me move the sofa
helga says could you pass me a cake wow
what situation is that a cake where you
need a cake pass to you i love it okay
um good
i wish he would pay me says oscar good i
wish he would pay me nice example okay
can you help with the minute please
sunny maybe can you help
for
a minute so that means can you help me
for a short period of time maybe that’s
what the sentence is okay
uh can wish and you go together uh like
this one like i wish you would blah blah
yes absolutely like in my example i
mentioned quickly earlier i wish you
would stop doing that
i wish you would stop smoking for
example that’s a really good example of
how we might use wish okay all right
last one then a super quick one can you
take a look at my computer
can you take a look at my computer this
expression take a look at this thing we
often use it to mean look at this thing
that is broken and please fix it for me
so instead of can you fix my computer it
means can you please it’s a like a
polite soft way to say i think this is
broken will you please look and fix it
maybe
so we often use this take a look at my
machine like take a look at my phone or
take a look at my computer
my
ipad i don’t know some kind of machine
or device okay
or we i also hear that uh request for
text like can you please take a look at
this paragraph or can you please take a
look at my essay we can use take a look
at to mean please check and fix this
thing
okay
uh what is the difference between can
you close the door please and can you
please close the door please the second
one has too many pleases so we only need
one please can you close the door please
one please is good if you say like can
you please close the door please you
don’t need two pleases in your request
it sounds strange like please can you
please close the door please like if you
want to sound silly if you want to make
a joke you can put lots of please in
your sentence one please
please use one please per sentence okay
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let’s finish up today with a couple
questions and one very nice expression
to use for
gift giving
okay so other expressions other
expressions so today in part one and
part two we practiced statements right
expressing the things we want or the
actions we want i want to finish by
asking the question right so here is the
question you can use to ask your friends
or your family members these things
so first one this is an object question
what object do you want so the question
is what do you want for
holiday
what do you want for holiday for example
what do you want for christmas what do
you want for christmas or what do you
want for your birthday
what do you want for your birthday so at
native speed these questions sound like
what do you want for christmas what do
you want for your birthday what do you
want so this part what do you want is
very very reduced what do you want
becomes what do you want what do you
want for christmas what do you want for
your birthday
this is an object question so you can go
back to the patterns we practiced in
part one like i want and dog or i want
to the new iphone right for christmas
your preposition is four here so not two
not two what do you want for christmas
we use this one okay
all right then if you have an action if
you want to ask a question about a
desired action use this pattern
what do you want to do this right here
is the key difference with this what do
you want to do for holiday what do you
want to do
for new year’s what do you want to do
for winter vacation
or what do you want to do for christmas
what do you want to do for your birthday
so at native speed we have this what do
you want again very short and then to do
to do
at native speed this question sounds
like what do you want to do for new
year’s what do you want to do for
christmas what do you want to do for
your birthday this year
what do you want to do
so this is what do you want to do what
do you want to do
so use this to ask about a desired
action so you can answer this with the
actions we talked about earlier
oh i want you to plan me a party
i want you to host a big
uh
event whatever so what do you want to do
is about a desired action do you want to
have a party and so on
good examples are coming in alberta says
what do you want to do for this weekend
good
uh natalie says can i say what do you
want to do in your birthday uh no we
don’t use the preposition in here we
would say what do you want to do
for
your birthday for your birthday you
might also hear what do you want to do
on your birthday so on your birthday
sounds like on that day exactly yeah for
your birthday sounds like around that
day what celebration do you want to do
so you may hear for and on but we don’t
use in here
uh isaac says can we change the verb to
do for another one like what do you want
to eat for christmas oh yeah yeah yeah
you can change this verb to something
more specific yeah so like what do you
want to drink for new year’s yeah or uh
in your example what do you want to eat
for christmas dinner
okay
um all right good so uh time is out so
let’s go to the very last point i wanted
to include this just as a fun thing a
nice thing uh for giving gifts when you
give someone something uh or before
rather i should say before you give
someone a gift when you feel really
excited like you think i got this person
such a good gift i picked the perfect
present when you’re excited you can say
i can’t wait until you see what i got
you so i can’t wait means i’m so excited
i don’t want to wait i can’t wait until
the moment until the moment you see
what i got you i can’t wait until you
see what i got you this means i’m really
really excited to see your reaction to
my gift but we don’t say that sentence
we say this i can’t wait until you see
what i got you i can’t wait until you
see what i got at native speed i can’t
wait until you see what i got you
okay
mary my model says can you say what
could you do for winter season
i probably i would say no i mean if your
brainstorming you’re thinking of
suggestions you might say what could we
do for our winter vacation this year or
what should we do for winter vacation
this year
you might use a sentence like that if
you are talking about suggestions for
more about that check uh last week’s
live stream i talked about um could and
should i think last week or maybe two
weeks ago yeah so check that out for
more of those patterns
okay cool so this is uh the last point
for today’s lesson that was fun so i
will show you today’s lesson boards you
can take a screenshot if you would like
to so get ready and here it is
all right so today we talked about how
to express uh objects you want how to
express actions you want and some
questions and another nice expression to
use for asking about other people’s
desires and wishes and also how to
express suspense about a gift okay so i
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