hello hello hello everybody welcome to your english lesson
here we are on 30 days of english and this is lesson four all right
and today as promised we're going to be doing a continuation what we started at the end of our
last lesson talking about using wishes and using the subjunctive verb tense are you ready let's go
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after this lesson and let's go straight into it more than ever we know what it's like to live
where we live because we're spending so much time there so i have a few sentences just to get the
conversation going for example let me know if you agree or disagree apartments aren't big enough for
families well i have a lot of students who do live in part of a house for example they're living on
one floor of the house two bedrooms three bedrooms two bathrooms one bathroom and it seems to be okay
of course there are some families that are always thinking about moving out apartments are too small
for pets well i guess it depends on the size of your pet depends what kind of pet you have
houses cost too much money houses aren't as safe as apartments
well i'm not sure about that what do you think houses don't have as much privacy as apartments
let me know what you think maybe you think the opposite
so maybe you live in an apartment maybe it's a big apartment i hope or maybe you live in a house
whichever place you live i'm going to give you a word that we can use when we describe a place
where you're living where there's not so much space you could say that it is cramped cramped
the opposite of that would be to live in a place which is very spacious
so let's say that you're living in a small apartment one bedroom
then maybe you wish you lived in a place that was bigger you wish you lived in a place that
was more spacious so here you can see how we use wish it means you would like to it's your
dream it's something that you would like to do and we put the verb here in the simple past
so you wished you lived in a place that was bigger that was more spacious you could also
add in could that's used a lot with wish and you could say that also you could say i wish i could
live in a more spacious place how about you do you wish you could live in a more spacious place
this is from the experience that i see on zoom with my students many of them their kids are
studying at home at the same time so here they are trying to study online with me and at the same
time maybe their kids are watching tv or something so the mother halfway through the class has to say
can you please and we would say turn that down so when we're decreasing the volume of the the tv
for example we'd say to turn down the tv to turn down the volume and maybe one solution
for this and i i hear this as a wish from a lot of my students i wish i had a bigger apartment
or i wish i lived in a bigger place now something that can happen and it doesn't matter if you're
living in a house you're living in a townhouse or if you're living in an apartment because i hear
all these different stories about your neighbors so you could have neighbors that are nosy
or neighbors that are noisy can you hear the difference oh and oid nosy noisy
in either case you could make some wishes out of these you could say i wish my neighbors
weren't so noisy or i wish i could move so when we're talking about that your neighbors
your neighborhood as well we want to talk about your privacy because you can have a place where
you live and it's very private you have a lot of privacy or you can live in a place where you have
almost next to nothing in terms of privacy so if you're really lucky some of the select few
can live in what we call a gated community do you wish that you lived in a gated community
let me know in your comments maybe you do live in a gated community
okay everybody i hope that you enjoyed this lesson studying some vocabulary describing where you live
some adjectives as well as using wish and how we put it into the simple past
when we want it and also how we quite often will use the verb in its simple form with could
and i look forward to our next lesson you can do the quiz to practice what i've taught you
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