Talking about your dreams in English using conditionals
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my name is alicia and in this week’s
lesson we are going to look at how to
talk about your dreams for the future we
are going to cover some basic
expressions that you can use to talk
about your dreams the things you want to
do we are also going to talk about using
conditional sentence structures that
means if i something something then i
something something those kinds of
patterns we’ll talk about that i’m going
to cover the differences between wish
and hope and i’m also going to talk
about a couple of other expressions that
i hope can help you to express your
wishes and dreams so for this week’s
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today’s topic as i said is about
how to express your dreams for the
future so here are today’s lesson boards
we’re going to start by talking about
basic dream and wish statements so very
simple sentences
then we’re going to talk about using
conditionals we’ll talk about an if
conditional pattern and we’ll also talk
about using once then i’m going to talk
about the differences between wish and
hope when we use them as verbs and we’ll
talk about a few other expressions too
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let’s get to part one part one uh basic
dream and wish statement so let’s start
with some basic expressions that we use
to talk about our dreams the first one
is i want to i want two something
something something when you use this
pattern you can use an infinitive verb
phrase so infinitive verb the infinitive
form of the verb is the base form the
one you find in the dictionary so
sometimes your dictionary says like two
plus verb that’s the form of the verb we
want to use here so no change to the
verb
i want to for example i want to start
a business i want to start a business or
i want to design a house i want to
design a house or i want to travel to 10
countries so
each sentence here
uses this infinitive form and we use the
i want to pattern as well
when we use this expression in everyday
speech this part i want to is reduced
down so not i want to in everyday speech
but i wanna i wanna so in native speed
these sentences would sound like i want
to start a business
i want to design a house i want to
travel to 10 countries so quite quick
yeah but you can use your own infinitive
verb phrase right here i want to start i
want to design i want to travel i want
to go
i want to experience and so on so this
is a really good way
to express a basic desire yeah a good
everyday expression okay let’s go to the
next one then so the next one is in the
future
i want to be able to plus infinitive
verb phrase so once more
in the future
i want to be able to infinitive verb
phrase for example
in the future
i want to be able to speak four
languages or in the future i want to be
able to take long vacations
one more in the future i want to be able
to work from anywhere okay so let’s
break this sentence down what’s
happening in this sentence first in the
future
in the future so this means this is my
future goal or something i’m talking
about
for my future
this is probably
far in the future not tomorrow when we
say in the future
we we usually don’t mean like next week
really but maybe in a month or the next
season or the next year or many years in
the future so
in the future i want to be able to i
want to be able to so this part means i
want to have the ability to so this is
something i cannot do now that’s what
this sentence is saying
something i cannot do now but in the
future
i want to say i can do this so
in the future i want to be able to speak
four languages for example so now i
can’t speak four languages maybe i can
speak one or two or three maybe cool but
in the future i want to be able to speak
for so that’s my future distant goal for
myself or i want to be able to take long
vacations so i can’t do that now but in
the future i want to be able to so this
is a good one to use to talk about your
skills and abilities all right
cool let’s head on to the third one here
the third one is i dream about
gerund phrase i dream about
so gerund i’ve used gerund here gerund
is the noun form of a verb we can change
a verb into a noun by using this ing
form so we don’t use this just for
progressive or continuous right like i
am talking you are listening
this is also a way
to make the verb become a noun and we
use it in this noun position yeah so
let’s look at some examples i dream
about
owning my own business i dream about
owning my own business
so this functions as a noun in the
sentence i dream about owning a business
okay so this is like a like a noun
phrase this is the topic of my dream
yeah another example i dream about
traveling
every month i dream about traveling
every month or i dream about making lots
of money
so all of these patterns use this gerund
phrase this is important
it’s different from this one yeah the
infinitive verb phrase in the other two
patterns so this one i dream about
gerund
or
i want to or i want to be able to
infinitive verb phrase so depending on
the pattern that you use you do need to
end your sentence to end your statement
with a different type of grammar yeah so
please keep these two concepts these two
ideas in mind yeah i dream about has a
different ending than i want to i want
to okay cool so this is part one for
today so our basic dream and wish
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videos so today i chose a couple of
conditional patterns that are very
helpful for expressing your wants
desires and dreams for the future so
let’s take a look
first one is
if i a i’ll be able to
be
if i a i’ll be able to b so we have two
kind of actions or conditions here we
have a
and b
so this means that
when a is true
i will be able to be
again we have this i’ll be able to note
this here future tense i will i have it
reduced here i will becomes i’ll so i
will be able to be
okay let’s look at some examples how do
we use this then so
if i pass this test
i’ll be able to graduate from university
if i pass this test i’ll be able to
graduate from university so
here’s my a if i pass this test if i
pass this test this day okay so if this
is true
if this is true i’ll be able to graduate
from university so b is graduate from
university so this means if i pass the
test it will be possible for me
to graduate from university a must be
true
and then b is possible so we need to use
this i will sometimes i hear learners
forget this will here and remember you
cannot use this in your if clause like
sometimes i hear people use if i will
pass the test not correct you cannot use
will in your if clause there
you need to use it here so the other
mistake i sometimes hear is uh if i pass
the test i be able to not correct i will
be able to i will be able to okay so
your future tense uh verb needs to be in
your main clause okay let’s look at
another example
if i get a loan
i’ll be able to start my own business
if i get a loan i’ll be able to start my
own business so a loan
is money
you receive from the bank yeah so you
have to give the money back to the bank
plus extra plus interest but you get
some money in the beginning
for a business or for an idea so this is
called a loan so if i get a loan i’ll be
able to start my own business so again
here’s a if i get a loan so if a is true
then b will be possible i’ll be able to
start my own business
okay cool one more example of them so if
i give a good presentation
i’ll be able to ask for a promotion
if i give a good presentation i’ll be
able to ask for a promotion what’s a
promotion promotion means going up a
level your job title goes up increases
usually you get more money to after a
promotion so promotion is a good thing
for many people sometimes more
responsibility okay so again here’s a if
i a give a good presentation
i’ll be able to b
ask for a promotion okay
so in these situations after a is true
b becomes possible okay cool so this is
one pattern you can use to talk about
your dream for the future or some kind
of plan that you have for the future
now i want to look at a different
pattern this once conditional once so we
use once again to mean after this thing
is true this other thing is true so
very very simply it looks like this once
a
b so this is the very flexible pattern
yeah this means after a is true
b
so just like up here but this can be
very very flexible this one i gave you
all the words you need yeah in this one
we can be more flexible so
for example
once
i have my own car
once i have my own car
i’ll be able to go anywhere i want
once i have my own car i’ll be able to
go anywhere i want so here’s a once i
have my own car so after
this is true
i will be able to go anywhere i want
this is b yeah so after i have my own
car in the future again i will
be able to go anywhere i want so this is
similar to this pattern yeah okay let’s
look at some other examples that don’t
use this be able to pattern so here’s
another one once i finish school
i’ll start looking for a job
once once i finish school i’ll start
looking for a job okay so here once i
finish school so this is my condition it
needs to be true finishing school then i
will start looking for a job so in this
sentence we’re looking at a sequence of
actions yeah i’ll finish school
after that i will start looking for a
job once i finish school i’ll start
looking for a job we’re showing a
sequence okay last one here
once i buy a house
i’ll host big parties every summer
once i buy a house i’ll host big parties
every summer okay so this means after i
buy my house or after buying a house is
true as a reality for me
i’ll host i’ll so to host something
means to be the host of the situation so
people come to your house for the party
i’ll host big parties every summer
so you might think well can i just
replace this with an if i pattern like
can i just say if i buy a big house i’ll
host big parties every summer well yeah
you could say that but it does change
the meaning a little bit so what’s the
difference here
if i buy a big house sounds like i don’t
really have a plan to buy a big house
right now or was it big house just a
house okay sorry so if i buy a house
sounds like maybe there’s not a plan to
buy a house right now if you use once i
buy a house it sounds like you’re
planning to do that thing like there’s
some maybe course or some path in your
mind it’s part of your plan or a project
you have so using once sounds more like
sure like you’ve decided to do this
thing yeah so once i buy a house i’ll
host big parties every summer you sound
confident and sure of your plan
if you use if
it sounds like maybe there’s a chance
that’s not going to happen like if i buy
a house i’ll host big parties every
summer sounds like it’s not really going
to happen maybe
let’s look at another example if i
finish school i’ll start looking for a
job like there’s a chance i might not
finish school that’s the feeling up here
too there’s a chance this will not
happen if i pass this test i’ll be able
to graduate from university so there’s a
chance this might not happen right if
you use this once pattern it’s going to
sound more confident like once i pass
this test i’ll be able to graduate from
university so it sounds like there’s a
plan and you’re more confident there
okay cool so these are some conditionals
that you can use to talk about your
plans your dreams and your level of
confidence about them okay awesome so
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and then we’ll go to part three wishing
and hoping and some other expressions
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part three how to talk about dreams for
the future with
wish and hope so this is a very common
question what is the difference between
wish and hope in this part i’m going to
talk about using these words as verbs
okay
so what is a wish
a wish
or rather what does two wish means are
as a verb not as a noun so as a verb it
means to desire or to want something or
to want a condition we do not have now
and in red here usually it’s not
possible or it’s very difficult
so let’s look at some examples
i wish i had more free time
i wish i had more free time so we use
wish here because we are talking about
something we want
we don’t have now
and it’s difficult to get or it’s not
possible for us to get right now i wish
i had more free time
or
i wish i could speak french i wish i
could speak french so again i cannot
speak french now
i want to be able to speak french but
it’s not possible right now like i can’t
just immediately learn a language right
i wish i could speak french so we use
wish to talk about these desires
but that are difficult or not possible
to get for us at this point in time
then let’s compare this to
hope to hope means to want something
oops sorry to want something
to happen or to be true
to want something to happen or to be
true for example i hope i can finish
work on time i hope i can finish work on
time or i hope we see each other again
soon yeah so let’s talk about this then
could we change these could we use
different verbs could we swap the verbs
no for example i wish i can finish work
on time
if you have a job
where you usually work until very very
late maybe you could say that but you
need to change the grammar of your
sentence when you use this because we’re
talking about something that’s not true
or not possible so if you want to talk
about wishing uh to finish work on time
you would need to change the grammar of
the sentence like i wish i could finish
work on time you could use a sentence
like that but you cannot just switch uh
hope and wish around
here i hope we see each other again soon
this one this sounds nice because it
sounds possible that that’s the feeling
with hope i hope i can finish work on
time today it sounds like something is
possible you want that to happen and it
sounds like something you can do or
you’re able to do i hope we can finish
work on time
so
something else i sometimes hear is that
learners use hope in these patterns i
hope i could speak french
or i hope i have more free time maybe
you could maybe use it with free time
like i hope i have more free time next
week maybe for something that is
possible yes
but when talking about abilities we
don’t use it in this way like i hope i
could speak french or i hope i could
cook
better or something like that we use
wish to talk about those things that we
cannot change right away yeah hope is
used for things we want to happen or
conditions that we want to be true and
that are actually possible in a short
period of time so this is a quick
introduction to the differences between
wish and hope
finally i want to end with a couple of
very positive expressions i hope the
first one is i can’t wait until i can’t
wait until this is an expression of
excitement so saying i can’t wait sounds
negative right but i can’t wait until
this thing this is another way to say
i’m really looking forward to that thing
it’s like saying i’m so excited
it’s hard for me to wait it’s not
possible for me to wait for example i
can’t wait until i finish school i can’t
wait to look for school or i can’t wait
until my vacation next week i can’t wait
until my vacation next week or i can’t
wait until i see my family again okay it
means i’m really really excited about
this thing and i’m so excited i don’t
want to wait
finally the last thing when you achieve
your goal or when you finally get that
thing you dreamed about you can say
something like this
i’ve dreamed about this for a very long
time
so you can use very if you like you
don’t have to i’ve i have yeah i’ve
dreamed about this for a very
long time yeah or i dreamed i’ve dreamed
about this for a long time as well too
so these are some positive expressions
to describe things you are looking
forward to and what you can say when you
do achieve your goal yeah cool all right
so that is the last part of today’s
lesson i hope that you found something
that you can use to express your own
dreams for the future your your own
wishes and hopes and all that kind of
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want to and in the future i want to be
able to we talked about some conditional
statements and we also talked about the
differences between wish and hope and
some other expressions you can use to
refer to your dreams and your wishes so
i hope that it was helpful for you
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