Using the Conditional if Learn English Grammar
night depending on where you are in the
world we’re going to wait for everyone
to join us I think YouTube is coming up
now I see some people already in the
chat we’re getting Facebook set up too
so all as you join please make sure to
hit the like button of course if you’re
watching this video after the live
stream please feel free please please
please hit the like button as well as we
get ready to go I want to talk about a
few things review a few points we
discussed last week and then we’ll begin
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
we’re getting set up right now Facebook
we’re waiting on Facebook and I think
YouTube is on I’ll take a look at that
in just a second
Oh Facebook is up great ok Facebook is
up and I don’t see chat yet for Facebook
it’s coming now I think so just a few
more minutes maybe a minute more and
then we’ll get started
oh ok good YouTube chat is up fantastic
hi as always Brazil good evening good
evening to you in Brazil
lots of people Anderson welcome back
Xavier I think from Ecuador high gear
May hello great alright I see all of our
our regular viewers from Brazil are here
HJ Kim from South Korea hi I don’t
recognize your name ok Facebook is up
good Nadine hello I see you on Facebook
fantastic ok we have everybody Facebook
and YouTube both up now Magali from Peru
hi a lesson about mixed conditionals
I would like to today I’m going to talk
about a few different types of
conditional so maybe that will lead into
some mixed conditional discussions as
well all right Pham from Vietnam hello
and welcome great let’s see on on
Facebook I still just see us for a
second there uh hey Kai would you do oh
hi oh good morning yeah great
Edoardo from Mexico hello and welcome
fantastic okay everybody’s joining so
while we wait for a few more minutes for
a few more people to join as they get
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
you’re just joining you just saw the
little like share buttons up here make
sure to do that if you’re just joining
it’s super helpful for us if people
watch and people like the video then we
can continue making them so please like
and share do don’t forget if you’re just
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
okay nice job you guys fantastic alright
then we’re about fourteen minutes in so
I want to take a quick break just to
introduce we have a new thing to share
with you this month or this week rather
so as always our fantastic crew has
prepared some good stuff for you guys so
from October from last month they’ve put
together a free gift package a free gift
set that you can find on the website so
please visit the link in the description
below the video on youtube or above the
video on Facebook and you can download
this free gift package from the website
so please just sign in with your account
if you have an account you can just sign
in and download it right away if you
don’t have an account you can make an
account it’s a free account you can make
it and pick up the free things for this
month so these are our free things from
last month that the crew put together
for you so please check that out
definitely check that out of course we
had some Halloween themed things monster
themed things but also some regular
things you can use at other times of the
year as well so definitely take a look
check out the link in the description
for the video and go download the free
gifts of the month should be good I
think okay
yes oh I see there’s a big deal at the
bottom there I didn’t see that before
fantastic okay so
please check that out again link below
the video on YouTube and above the video
on Facebook alright so with that let’s
get back to our topic if you are just
joining us
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
if you have just joined please make sure
to hit the like button it’s very helpful
because other people can find the video
and if we get good feedback we can
continue to make the live stream so
please hit the like button of course
share as well and yeah I think people
are still coming in thanks very much for
coming Donnelly on Facebook hi and I
don’t know there are so many so many
names ollie on Facebook as well hi and
Jack on YouTube I think is new too
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
think it’ll be at 9 p.m. Eastern
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
join in next time but I have to run for
today I have to go for today so thank
you again so so so much for joining me
this week thank you for your questions
and of course please send your questions
on the video even after the broadcast
because I can check them and answer them
next week so thank you so much for the
fantastic example sentences and for all
the for all the awesome ideas as always
I will see you next week
please if you haven’t already please
please make sure to LIKE the video and
share it if you if you enjoyed it as
well subscribe to us on youtube on our
youtube channel or follow us on facebook
as well you can check us out at English
class 101.com
also the link for the free gifts which
you’re going to see in just a moment if
you’re watching the video on YouTube
it’s the link is below the video and the
link is above the video on Facebook so I
think that the the free gift package is
only available for a limited time they
take they change it as I don’t know
every month or so so if you really want
to make sure you get it go grab that now
so
thanks again for watching I will see you
next week thank you so much enjoy the
rest of your day enjoy the rest of your
evening have a good week have a good
weekend and I will see you again soon
bye
you