Reflection Expressions in English
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is alicia and in this week’s lesson we
are going to talk about
reflection expressions we are going to
talk
about ways to look back on your actions
we’re going to talk about some grammar
patterns and some vocabulary that you
can use
to express like the things that you wish
you had done or the things that you
enjoyed or the things that you didn’t
enjoy from the year from your life in
general
from your day from any point in time
that you want to
look back on so ooh so
this is what we are going to cover today
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how to use remember with gerunds ooh
some grammar today yes we’re going to
talk about remember
and remember when in some basic patterns
we’re going to talk about using the word
regret
this is another key vocabulary word for
today regret
and finally we’re going to practice some
perfect tense i wish i had or i wish i
hadn’t
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remember so the first uh remember
reflection expression i want to talk
about
is uh using the word remember remember
so a couple patterns to practice today
first pattern is this one remember plus
a noun phrase or a gerund so you might
think what’s a gerund
a gerund is a verb
we create a noun from
so we do this by putting ing
at the end of the verb yeah that’s
called the gerund
when we make a gerund we can use a verb
in the place of a noun so this is very
very convenient
let me shift my screen quickly okay so
we can use a noun phrase or a gerund
after
remember for example remember
that song from last year
that song from last year is a noun
phrase
remember that song from last year or
remember going to crowded concerts
here is a gerund going remember going to
crowded concerts
that’s a gerund so we can uh
use gerunds in this pattern but we
cannot use the infinitive form here we
can’t say remember to go
to crowded concerts that’s that doesn’t
work we cannot use that pattern
you can use this to talk about people as
well
so for example remember that funny
guy in our english class here
that funny guy in our english class is
my
noun phrase so this is a question
remember instead you can say do you
remember
something oh people are saying that the
video is lagging let me see what i can
do
um i will try some things
just a moment i hope i can fix it for
you
it will improve let me see okay
maybe now it’s a little bit better
thanks for your comments
okay hopefully that’s better now okay so
continuing
uh my point here you can use a full
sentence here you can’t say
do you remember blah blah blah that’s
fine but
in in casual conversation we often
say just remember now phrase
remember going to crowded concerts this
is a more casual way
to express that okay then
i want to talk about this other pattern
remember when
subject and past tense verb this
is a pattern you can use to talk about
uh your uh past
actions your past actions something that
you did
in the past or something your friend did
in the past
and you want if you want to express that
specific
action you can use this pattern with
when
or maybe you know the pattern remember
the time
you might know that too remember the
time blah blah blah you can use that
pattern
as well okay so
let’s look at some examples of this
remember when you ate that really spicy
pepper
remember when you ate that really spicy
pepper or
remember when we could travel
or remember when the dog ran away
so these when sentences refer
to like one action or like one
condition in the past without
when it’s a noun phrase that’s the
difference
in grammar and in meaning here okay
um conway says remember when we watched
game of thrones together good example
hello everyone on facebook everyone on
facebook is saying hello
okay so these are the two patterns i
want to talk about
for remember now i want to just review
quickly some basic past tense
comments uh so i chose these because
these are very very
common like reactions uh to
these kinds of uh expressions so
first that was that was so
point here this that
some of you ask like should i use it or
should i use that
when you’re talking about like uh when
you’re responding
to someone’s comment like remember that
song from last year
you can say oh yeah that was good that
was a good song
oh yeah i really liked that song you can
use
that that to do it where that means
that thing you’re talking about or that
person you’re talking about
so some very common adjectives
you can use that was fun that was funny
that was great that was awful
that was bad that was so good
or that was exhausting
so uh these are very common and just
quick expressions that you can use uh
to respond to
like opinions like these
anthony has a good one remember when we
watched alicia’s dreams from the studio
yes i remember that too of course
okay uh other i don’t see other
questions
uh some of you are saying someone asked
when do i have to use a past tense verb
when do i use
remember and remembered so for these
these are questions
today we’re i’m starting with a question
pattern
you want to ask someone else do you
remember
so in that case we do not change this
verb to past
tense you can say
i remembered i remembered
something after you recalled the
information
for example you’re on your computer ah
what’s my password with my password i
remembered
it i remembered it so it’s finished yeah
that’s when you use past tense okay so
uh oh last point here uh
some other past tense verbs that you can
use
to respond to these kinds of comments
are i loved that
loved is the pronunciation here hated
i hated that i hated that i enjoyed
that i couldn’t stand
that or maybe i ate way too much of that
so ate way too much of something
for example like hey remember that cake
we had last night
it was good wasn’t it like oh yeah i
ate way too much way too much means
like much too much too much
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okay john says what is the difference
between
remember and remind ooh to remind
someone means to cause someone else
to remember so like uh
we would say please remind me
about the live stream please remind me
meaning please
like help me to remember about the live
stream
so to remember means to recall
information by yourself so to remind
someone means to do that for someone
else to remind someone
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okay let’s go to regret how do we use
the word regret first
what does regret mean if you don’t know
the word regret means a sad
feeling or an unhappy feeling
about the past so some action in the
past
or some condition in the past you feel
sad
or unhappy about that we call that
feeling the noun regret
and we can use this as a verb so
we are going to practice using regret as
a verb
in part two here
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okay let’s go so first i regret
gerund phrase remember gerund we
practiced in part one
gerunds are the noun plus i n
g i’m sorry the verb plus ing
going eating sleeping so
i regret something something ing
use this pattern when you are sad or
you’re
unhappy about a past
action for example i
regret eating so much ice cream
i regret eating so much ice cream this
means i ate too much ice cream
and now i feel bad about it so maybe you
feel sick
i regret eating this is the gerund form
this is the gerund eating so not i
regret eat
not i regret to eat i regret eating so
much ice cream
okay another example i regret
staying up so late last night
i regret staying up so late last night
so again gerund form staying
up when you have a phrasal verb like
this one
stay up to stay up uh
you don’t need to change the preposition
to this ing form use the
ing form with the root verb here yeah i
regret
staying up so late last night i stayed
up too late now i’m tired
i regret that okay uh taro says do you
ever say i regret having eaten so much
ice cream yes
you can use that having pattern um it
will
make your sentence sound a little more
formal
or a little bit more polite we typically
wouldn’t use that in like an everyday
conversation with friends but
grammatically it’s correct
yeah okay good some examples are coming
in fantastic
some people babna says i regret not
buying that dress ooh
nice one we’re going to talk about that
knot pattern later
good job uh i regret it
i regretted missing your lesson nanda
try to use the gerund form yeah i
regretted
or maybe i regret missing your lesson
or maybe i regret it no sorry we use
regret in past tense is regret regret i
regret something something
okay let’s go uh to the next one
i regret buying this expensive bag
i regret buying this expensive bag okay
so i bought this expensive bag oh i
spent too much money i regret it
i regret it okay then
a negative form i don’t
regret i don’t regret
plus gerund phrase so here this makes a
negative
we use this to express you do not feel
bad
about a past action but some
people might some people might so this
one is an interesting pattern
some people might feel unhappy about a
situation or
might be worried about a situation but
you
do not feel bad about it for example
i don’t regret taking a long vacation
i don’t regret taking a long vacation
again gerund here not to take i don’t
regret to take is incorrect
i don’t regret taking a long vacation
okay
uh yeah some people are writing with the
infinitive form like first idea i regret
uh to broom maybe you mean sweep to
sweep
is the verb i regret sweeping the floor
maybe my house is messy now so okay
um dlf what is the difference between
regret and regretfully they are
different parts of speech
they are different parts of speech we
cannot use them in the same parts of the
sentence
someone says i don’t regret watching
this video cool
good good example sentence diallo says i
regret
maybe spending or sending too much money
good examples
okay uh nohora says i regret not
speaking not speaking german fluently
good example
um i regret jermaine i regret not
making business deals make sure to use
this
ing form here yeah okay
um onward i don’t regret
spending money on books and education
i don’t regret spending money on books
and education
so yes i’m spending money but it’s for
books and education
so i don’t regret it i don’t feel bad
about it
okay good uh oh see us flores says i do
not regret sleeping all day okay
good or anthony says i don’t regret
buying a new computer
nice good good good uh first idea again
i don’t regret
sweeping sweeping not to broom
to broom is not a verb that’s not a verb
i don’t regret sweeping
okay i don’t regret sleeping late today
that’s another very common one i don’t
regret sleeping late today
so you do not feel bad about something
but some people
might feel bad about it okay let’s go to
the last pattern the last one is
i regret not something something so
keep in mind this has not this pattern i
do not regret and i regret
not they are different though these have
different meanings so please be careful
i regret not something something ing
means you feel bad
about an action you did not
do something you did not do and now you
feel
bad about it for example i regret
not exercising this year i regret
not exercising this year so i did not
exercise or i exercised just a little
now i feel bad so i regret not
exercising this year okay
uh i regret not talking to you
sooner i regret not talking to you
sooner
this comparative form sooner means
sooner than i did or
earlier than i did so uh in other words
i took a long time to talk to you and i
feel
bad like i wish i had spoken to you
soon we’re going to talk about that
grammar in a moment
all right uh some other ones
uh alan jackon sorry says is it okay to
say i have regret
not studying marketing close i
regret oh sorry i regret
not studying marketing
i regret not studying marketing okay
isaac says i regret not taking this
class good
uh chuachui one of our members hi i
don’t regret
losing i don’t regret losing bad things
or i don’t regret
losing bad things or i don’t regret
violence i don’t
regret losing bad things so
choose this pattern i don’t regret plus
you’re gerund the ing formula
i hope that helps you okay uh did i say
all of these
no okay i regret not
saving money when i was younger i regret
not saving money when i was younger so i
did not save money
when i was younger and now i regret it
we can express that with this pattern i
regret
not saving money so this is how we use
the word regret as a
verb as a verb so all of these patterns
use regret as a verb that means i feel
bad
about something that happened or that
did not happen
or i don’t feel bad about it so
as i said we can use regret as a noun so
uh you can someone might say like uh he
expressed
regret which means he expressed that he
felt
bad about something but it’s very common
to use it as a verb someone asked the
question about
the word uh regretfully we might use
that at the beginning of a sentence
uh to mean i’m very very sorry about
this
but bad news so regretfully you might
also see
someone says i don’t regret having kids
good one hamdi
okay um others
you don’t regret awakening in the
mornings okay yeah hopefully
hopefully good uh diana says i
regret to talk with my ex maybe
i regret talking so we cannot use
two plus a verb there i regret talking
to my ex okay i hope that helps you all
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this live
you’re watching it now okay all right
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regret talking about regret and last
today’s last point we are going to talk
about
uh these two patterns i wish i had i
should have
i wish i hadn’t and i shouldn’t have
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i have two patterns for each group here
they are i saw someone asked earlier
about how to use
had here’s an example i wish i had
plus past participle verb or i
should have past participle verb i’m not
going to talk about
past participle verb today please use
your google skills
to find this verb form i want to talk
about
these two the both of these
express regret that sad feeling
about something that did not
happen so something that did not happen
i wish i had or i should have
something something what’s the
difference between the two
we use i wish i had typically to
when we’re talking about a past action
uh like that’s like
how should i say there are two past
actions together
for example i wish i had studied a
language when i was a kid
i wish i had studied a language when i
was a kid that means i did not study a
language
when i was a kid i wish i wish i had
so what do i mean two past actions
together
see this part when i was a kid when i
was a kid
so there’s like this past point in time
past point in time
uh we are we want to mention this could
be
yesterday it could be in childhood it
could be in school
we tend to use i wish i had
when we have this past point in time we
tend to use them
together so i wish i had studied a
language
when i was a kid another point a
pronunciation point
we reduce these sounds i wish
i had studied this i
had reduces to i’d
a native speaker would say this sentence
as
i wish i’d studied a language when i was
a kid i wish i’d studied a language
so i wish i’d studied is what it sounds
like
let’s look at another example this one
uses the should have
should have pattern with this
we don’t always use a when i was
something something in the past it’s
usually clear
imagine with this i should have
you’re giving your past self advice
like you’re you in the past you’re
getting advice
so i should have exercised more
this year i should have exercised more
this year
like past advice for yourself
okay then i wish i had quit
my old job earlier i wish i had quit my
old
job earlier this one uses a comparative
form
i wish i had quit my old job earlier
than
i did earlier than i did that’s what
this sentence is saying so i quit my job
here
i wish i had quit my job earlier
than that that’s what this sentence
expresses
so expresses regret about something that
did not happen
this did not happen let’s look at the
opposite then
i wish i hadn’t so i wish i had not
and i shouldn’t have i should not have
these negative forms i wish i hadn’t
and i shouldn’t uh is what this sounds
like
these express regret about something
that
actually happened this is something that
happened and we feel
bad about it we wish we could change it
so some examples i wish i
hadn’t spent so much money
last month so that means i spent a lot
of money last month
it was not good so i wish i
hadn’t spent so much money last month
again a pronunciation point i wish i
hadn’t
sounds like wish i hadn’t spent so much
money last month i wish i hadn’t spent
so much money last month
this h softens a lot yeah
i wish i hadn’t spent so much money okay
let’s look at a shouldn’t have i
shouldn’t
have eaten so much junk food this year
i shouldn’t have eaten so much junk food
this year
native speed this sounds like i
shouldn’t eaten so much junk food this
year
this shouldn’t have reduces to
shouldn’t shouldn’t i shouldn’t eat so
much junk food this year
finally i shouldn’t have taken so
long to reply to your message
i shouldn’t have taken so long to your
message
sometimes like right here i see a very
common mistake learners sometimes use
two here i shouldn’t have taken too long
can’t use that i shouldn’t have taken so
long
to reply to your message so that means i
took a long time
i shouldn’t have taken that long time
that’s what
so expresses here two is incorrect
cannot use two
okay it shouldn’t have taken so long to
reply to your message i’m sorry
so you can use these to express regret
something that happened you feel bad
about
something that did not happen that you
feel bad about
this is how you do it with these two
okay
i’m looking at your comments now a free
youtuber says i wish i had studied
english when i was a kid
perfect great example uh conway says i
shouldn’t have bought
these clothes we use these clothes
clothes so we use this for like one
object this
sweater one thing clothes is like a
category
uh shima says i should have learning
german is it correct
no very close though i should have
learned german so past participle verb
learn becomes learned i should have
learned german
oh my gosh your comments are coming very
quickly i saw
uh i wish uh i hadn’t
rushed when i was taking my exam i wish
i hadn’t rushed so
make sure to use the past participle
form of your verbs yeah
everybody um
i shouldn’t have studied history and
maybe instead of geography
than being koski i shouldn’t have
studied
so many many many of you i think a good
study point
for this lesson please review your past
participle verb
forms yeah i shouldn’t have studied
i should have learned so please review
your past
participle verbs yeah i see that in the
comments a lot that’s where many
mistakes
are coming okay uh someone says hi what
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about in today’s lesson
how to reflect back on your year to
reflect on things
in english i hope that you learned
something i think
uh regret is a key word for today uh
remember
is another key word and also a good
steady point for many people
is to practice the past participle verb
form
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