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we're going to talk about using will and
wood for future tense and future related
expressions in today's lesson i'm going
to cover request patterns that use will
and would and i'm also going to talk
about conditional expressions that use
will and would we'll talk about the
differences uh in like conditional
expressions that use will and
conditional expressions that use would
so we'll do a lot of grammar practice
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today we're going to begin with a very
uh i think basic
introduction uh and that will be to make
requests with will and wood
good all right i have shared it so let's
get going so i want to begin today uh by
talking about making requests with will
and wood a lot of you have asked me this
actually in the ask alicia series i
mentioned before i've received a lot of
questions like what's the difference
between will and wood in like request
patterns when i want to ask someone for
help
the short answer
grammatically there's not a difference
like they both achieve the same thing so
we can use both will and would to begin
requests
the difference is that would usually
sounds more formal so if we look at an
example like this like will you please
close the door
that one sounds a little less formal
than if i said would you please close
the door that's the only difference here
so we can begin our requests with will
will in this case i'm making a direct
request i'm using you so this is a
request that's going directly to the
listener so will you the listener please
close the door of course we can change
this part we can change this you to
someone else like will he please come
over here or will he please stop that
but in those cases i feel like i would
perhaps use wood
because i'm probably asking someone else
to do something for me if that makes
sense
so
we can begin
requests with both will and with wood so
here's an example of a wood a written
example of a wood request a request that
begins with wood would you give me a
call or perhaps something like would you
give me a call when you have time
so this to me sounds a little bit more
formal than will you give me a call
so you can use you can choose which is
the best for your situation so
maybe you have like a very kind of
formal relationship with your co-workers
with the people at your office or the
people at your school
in those cases if you want to sound more
polite when you make your requests i
would suggest using would use would if
you're a little bit closer to the people
that you're with
or if it's a very small request it's not
a big deal like this is a small request
will you please close the door if it's a
small request it's easy to take care of
i would probably choose to use will in
those cases instead of would so yeah
bigger requests or more polite
situations i choose would smaller
requests people i'm closer to i probably
use will will
and feel free to send your questions in
the chat i will try to check them live i
have not seen any yet okay um i also
want to mention then this other
other patterns i have your other
i have this uh
would it be possible to infinitive verb
pattern i wanted to introduce this
pattern because it's an indirect request
pattern that sounds more polite and it
also i feel like uh just sounds more
professional like you're you really
are considering the other person's time
a little bit so for example i might say
something like would it be possible to
arrange a meeting for next week that to
me sounds much more professional than
like
would you please arrange a meeting for
next week that sounds a bit more direct
if you use this would it be possible to
would it be possible to so this is a
formal way of saying is there a
possibility to is it possible to do
something
but you're you're still creating a
request so this is one i like to use uh
in like more formal or like professional
emails
so would it be possible to plus
infinitive verb so my example sentence
was would it be possible to arrange a
meeting so arrange is my infinitive verb
there would it be possible to arrange a
meeting or would it be possible to set
up a meeting so you can use a phrasal
verb here as well
uh some other examples are coming in
someone says i would like to ask a
question okay fine i don't know if
that's a question question or an example
sentence but okay uh some other examples
uh
would you please give me free english
videos nice one uh nicola uh yes you
could find them on our youtube channel
at any time good example sentence uh
minhan on youtube says would it be
possible to go on a picnic next week
okay grammatically correct would it be
possible to go on a picnic next week
that is grammatically correct however
the content of that sentence so this is
a good example i'm gonna i'm gonna put
it on the board so uh would it be
possible to
go on a picnic
next week so let's talk about this one
so as i said this is grammatically
correct this sentence is grammatically
correct it is perfect however the reason
this sounds unnatural is because this
pattern would it be possible to is a
formal pattern so we use it for formal
situations professional situations
go on a picnic is not really at least in
my experience not a formal or a
professional activity so this part of
the sentence in this part of this
sentence it's they they don't match in
terms of formality levels so this part
is quite formal this part is rather
informal so this sentence although
grammatically correct sounds really
strange to a native speaker so if you
want to invite someone on a picnic use
will like
will you go on a picnic with me next
week choose a will
uh or sorry choose will to begin your
request because this is a rather
informal activity so think of that too
not just uh like the place where you're
asking something but also like what kind
of thing are you inviting someone to do
so think about the context
uh some other examples are coming in
would you please give me some coffees
says easy and fun english good
uh
kibrayab says would you please learn
about tenses be careful of your verb
choice there so if you're asking me that
question
i'm not the person who is going to learn
i'm the opposite yeah i'm so your
question should be would you please
teach about tenses would you please
teach about tenses so the person who is
learning is the person receiving the
information
someone has said would it be possible to
give me your passport
good uh good uh grammatically correct
questionable questionable uh request
there though good examples uh
azul says would you write me your email
please would you write me maybe choose
send would you send me your email
address your email address would you
send me your email address please
uh another example would you travel to
my country okay so maybe would you
travel to my country please so try to
think about
the the making a clear request here make
your request very clear like what is the
action you want the other person to do
or what is like the desired result so
try to be more specific
when you make these requests
uh
okay
would it be possible to confirm the
project tonight nice example nice
example would it be possible to confirm
the project tonight good very nice very
nice very nice uh what's the time sorry
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part three we're going to get a little
more detailed in terms of uh grammar so
let's get into it if you're just joining
today's lesson is about using will and
would to talk about the future so i'm
not talking about uh like regrets like
regret related patterns that use would
we're talking about future future
related expressions so let us continue
into part two
i want to in part two now look at uh
conditional sentences conditional
expressions that use will
and the negative won't as well uh for
today i'm going to focus on positive
statements so
i'm not going to look a lot at won't but
please feel free to send some example
sentences that use the negative form so
when we make conditional sentences with
will they follow this pattern we use if
plus the present tense form of a verb
and then we have some extra information
our details we follow it with will
so if you've watched any of my lessons
about conditional sentences you know
there's an if clause so part of the
sentence that uses if which is here this
part
is my if clause
so
the key here is it has the if in the
sentence and then the second part of a
conditional is this part right here this
part is called the main clause main
clause
so there are these two parts to the
sentence these two clauses
uh important to note and a very common
mistake that i see in learners is many
people use will in the if clause you
cannot use will in the if clause you
cannot use will you cannot use won't in
your if clause please use it in your
main clause only
so what do we use this pattern for we
use
this uh conditionals with will or with
won't when there's a chance of the
action happening there's actually a
chance of something happening that means
like it's not impossible we want to talk
about something that may happen
something that might happen in the
future so let's take a look at a couple
examples of this first
if i lose my job
i'll find a new one if i lose my job
i'll find a new one so let's take a look
at the grammar here first
here's my if clause that i talked about
here
if i and then lose
loses in the present tense form here i'm
using present tense verb so if i lose my
job this is my condition so that means
if this is true if i lose my job
this is the result i'll find a new one
here's my main clause
in this sentence
i'm using the reduced form of i will so
i will here becomes i'll yeah i'll find
a new one i'll find a new one so this is
expressing if this is true
this is the result if i lose my job i'll
find a new one so with this grammar it's
expressing there's a chance
this situation could happen so maybe
like the speaker's company is
experiencing trouble or the speaker's
company is having trouble and the
speaker wants to talk about this
possible situation if i lose my job i'll
find a new one
okay let's try again with another
example sentence let's change the
subject though so if she arrives early
if she arrives early again here's my if
clause my subject here is she so i need
to change my verb to match the subject
so arrive becomes arrives when my
subject is he she or it so
present tense verb if she arrives early
we'll get a coffee if she arrives early
we'll get a coffee here's my main clause
and again i'm using the reduced form of
we will we will reduces to wheel wheel
so another another yeah tip i always
mention this but if you can try to use
that reduced form so not i will or he
will or she will use isle or heal or
shield so use that reduce the shortened
form to sound more natural
so if she arrives early we'll get a
coffee we'll get a coffee so again using
this grammar expresses this situation
this if part there's a chance of that it
is possible there's a a pretty good
likelihood
so please consider this this is a key
difference from part three in today's
lesson so that means this these patterns
express something that has a chance of
happening all right then i also want to
talk about uh this pattern for today we
often or well it's fairly common to use
uh something like this
plus
have to in the main clause so we combine
will
or won't of course with a have to in the
main clause so for example
just like with this one
i can use it to make a slightly
different sentence here if i lose my job
i'll have to find a new one if i lose my
job i'll have to find a new one so
including this have to
expresses
responsibility
so that means i will have responsibility
in the future and i want to express that
so i want to express future and
responsibility at the same time
with this condition i can do all three
things in the same sentence by including
have to and of course you can include
like need to
as well here i'll have to or i'll need
to find a new job
so again
actual chance of something
then future tense and then future
responsibility also expressed here so
this is slightly different
from this one this original sentence if
i lose my job i'll find a new one it
sounds like a simple statement like
something i'm i plan to do in that case
this one expresses a little more
responsibility so you can choose
whichever you prefer whichever is best
for your situation if i lose my job i'll
find a new one or if i lose my job i'll
have to find a new one
okay i will look for your example
sentences now
uh
if i lose my phone i will get a new one
good okay um some other ones if
i
wait what if i pursue my studies i'll
study programming as my major okay i
would say maybe the verb choice if i
continue my studies i'll study
programming as my major maybe that's a
more slightly more natural choice
and
khalsang on facebook says if maybe if
you don't accept my friend request i'll
find a new friend so don't forget your
subject here yes in this pattern i
haven't included it like i haven't
explicitly i haven't uh specifically
included the subject here now make sure
you have a subject here so who is the
person or what what are you referring to
in your if clause other examples if you
wake up late you'll miss the bus nice
one alexander if you wake up late you'll
miss the bus perfect good ones others
there are lots if i lose my cell phone
i'll buy another one okay i've seen that
a couple times good good good good uh
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least one hour a day you'll improve your
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let's go to part three conditionals with
wood conditionals with wood so uh this
is it looks a lot
like part two today conditionals with
will however
there are some key grammatical
differences so that means there are some
very important differences in grammar
and these changes in grammar communicate
different ideas too so first let's look
at how we make a conditional
with wood just as with part two
we use if
to begin our if clause and then
we'll
we'll use a subject so i didn't i didn't
specify here but we'll use a subject so
if i if you if he if she and so on
however
we change the tense of the verb that
follows if in this clause
when we use a conditional with would we
use
past tense verbs in the if clause
then
we have our extra information whatever
that is and we follow it in the main
clause with would
or with wooden so to break it down again
here's my if clause
and here's my main clause
so what is the difference between this
one and this one these two that i've
just shown you when we use a conditional
with wood or with wooden
we're using it to express an unreal
situation unreal means not real it is
not true
and there's a very low chance of that
situation or that action happening so we
use this we just want to like imagine
something we're talking just about like
a possible situation but it there's not
really a chance so we use this a lot
just like to dream kind of uh so
this is a key difference between point
two or something that's extremely
different from point two uh so
let's take a look at an example of this
this is just like the one that i
introduced here the sentence is
if i lost my job i would find a new one
this is just like this one if i lose my
job i'll find a new one so
again to break this down here's my if
clause here's my main clause if i lost
my job i would find a new one the
difference
lose becomes lost in this case so past
tense of lose is lost yeah if i lost my
job then i would find a new one my verb
is different in the if clause i'm using
would instead of will here this
communicates that this has a very very
low chance of happening
but i just want to imagine that
situation and i want to describe my plan
in that situation if this situation were
true
this is my plan so there's a low chance
here this sentence however if i lose my
job i'll find a new one this sentence
communicates an actual possibility
something this is possible there may be
a chance this one however has a very
very low chance of happening
this is a key difference between these
two
so sometimes i hear like or sometimes i
see actually too uh learners right like
if i lost my job i will find a new one
which is incorrect so you cannot use
will in this sentence you cannot combine
the two you need to make sure your verb
here matches the modal verb you're using
in the main clause so please please
please be careful of this and again we
cannot use would or wouldn't in this if
clause so please make sure of this this
is a really good one to practice i think
uh some other examples are coming if i
had wings i would be able to fly good
good good let's look at one more i want
to include one more example sentence for
this i didn't write it on the board
before i started so i'll write it now
one more point is something like this if
i were rich
i would
buy
a house
okay
this one is and kind of like an
irregular example the reason that i want
to talk about this is because of this
point right here this if i were rich so
lots of people are like should i use if
i was or if i were what's the deal so if
i were is correct here this is kind of
uh
a tricky point but we use if i were
in this case uh we use it we use kind of
think of this as like a set pattern if i
were we use it to refer to an unreal
situation we use if i was to talk about
a past situation for example if i was
noisy last night i apologize like you're
talking to a neighbor after a big party
or something and you want to say like ah
if i was noisy last night i apologize so
that means i don't know
if i was noisy i don't know if like my
house party was noisy if i was noisy i
apologize that means there's a chance i
was noisy last night
in this situation though if i were
something we're talking about an unreal
situation so when you want to express a
condition like this use the if i were
use the if i were pattern you can do the
same thing with he and she if he were if
she were and so on
so if i were rich i would buy a house
so please make sure to use we're here
and also by the way native speakers make
mistakes with that all the time but in
most cases it doesn't cause a
communication issue you hear it a lot in
uh music actually like what's that song
i've talked about it and ask alicia i
wish i was a little bit taller i wish it
okay
anyway we won't get into that
in this in this extremely okay anyway uh
so please use were uh when you want to
express an unreal situation here if i
were rich i would buy a house
alrighty um
some examples
that's super meta is it really
okay um someone says example i will can
run is it incorrect why yes i will can
run is uh is incorrect you can say i i
will be able to run like i'm not sure i
need some more information to determine
if that sentence is correct or not
someone knows what the song i was
singing samuel on facebook know that
song i meant anyway uh let's go to uh
the last point for today's lesson with
have to so again i want to talk about
using uh these wood conditionals with
have to again we're carrying we're
carrying that means uh we're continuing
this um
unreal
his unreal situation uh but we're also
talking about a responsibility
in the unreal situation so again if i
lost my job this part's the same if i
lost my job i would have to find a new
one if i lost my job i would have to
find a new one
so again including have to here in the
main clause
expresses responsibility so not just i
would find a new one but i would have to
find a new one so you'll hear
native speakers using these together as
well
all right
uh i will look for your examples uh
someone said i missed it on facebook if
i bought a car i would make a garage for
it i saw that somewhere uh
yeah nash said if i bought a car if i
bought a car a car so don't forget your
article if i bought a car i would make a
garage for it so yeah careful
don't forget your articles there
others others if i had a little money i
would be
something i would be more rich maybe uh
hayate okay
if i were rich i would buy a new big
house please be careful of your spelling
of rich so r-e-a-c-h is reach
rich is spelled r-i-c-h okay
all right i'm
being told it's late all right if i
travel to japan i would eat ramen that
is a very good choice i approve of this
decision okay
okay i have to end uh i am out of time
for today so i hope that this was
helpful for you uh in comparing these
two conditionals especially i made a
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probably won't be out for like two years
so i hope that this is helpful but if
you have any questions
about these grammar points please send
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achievements how to talk about your
achievements so
i wanted to finish the year it will be
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positive things ways to kind of talk
about uh the things you achieved your
successes essentially in the next year
uh monday said if today was your last
day you would have to be with your
family so i would say if today were your
last day were so don't forget this were
today were your last day okay so join us
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