everybody welcome back to our weekly
live stream my name is alicia and today
we're going to talk about how to talk
about your plans and i'm going to focus
on using may
might and probably to do this today's
lesson will be a good one for i think
beginners
and of course it will be good grammar
review at the end of today's lesson i'm
also going to cover some other
expressions you can use to talk about
your plan so i hope that everyone can
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as i said
today's lesson is going to be about
using may
might and probably to express your plans
i'm going to talk about the differences
between these words so of course as
always in today's lesson please send
your example sentences in the chat i
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share today's lesson and then i'm going
to begin our topic for today all right
so as always uh i have
a couple of different things i have like
three basic uh groups that i want to
split today's lesson into so the first
group the first topic i want to talk
about today is using may and might may
and might
so
to for today's lesson yes i want to note
that we use may to ask permission to do
something yes like may i use the
restroom or may i borrow your pen yes we
have this use of may but today i'm not
going to focus on that grammar point i'm
not going to talk about using may to ask
permission today i'm going to focus on
using may and might the meaning that
they share the meaning that is similar
so with that in mind
i want to first talk about the
differences between the positive and the
negative uses of may and might so when
we make a positive sentence when we make
a positive statement with may or with
might
it expresses about a 50 or 60 percent
chance of something so it's a pretty
good chance of something but we're not
sure we're not 100
sure about our plan so maybe 50 to 60
this is not a perfect rule just a guide
when you make a negative statement
however so that means may not
or might not something
it expresses a low chance so like 20
percent or 30 chance of something a low
chance of the following activity so
positive negative
also
uh i want to point out
lots of people ask like how do i know
should i choose may or should i choose
might what should i do
might is more common in american english
in american english we usually say i
might do this i might not do that we use
might much more often than we use may in
american english may is of course
correct but to american english speakers
it sometimes sounds a little bit more
formal so if we want to sound more
polite
we might use mei we might use mei but
generally speaking generally american
english speakers i'm an american english
speaker
we use might might so how do we make a
statement how do we make a statement
with may or might
to do this
we have our subject so subject that
means i or you or he she we they our
subject
plus
either may or might today i'm going to
practice might a lot but you can use may
here so subject might
to make it negative add not here so
subject might not i might not he might
not she may not so this is
optional to make the negative form put
you're not here
then finally we use the infinitive verb
so i might not go or he may come
and then we'll add some extra
information after the verb according to
the verb you choose so let's take a look
at some examples
first one
i might go hiking this weekend
i might go hiking this weekend so
positive sentence i subject might so 50
to 60 chance of something
go is my infinitive verb and the
information after hiking this weekend so
i might go hiking is also grammatically
correct but we want to talk about our
specific plan yeah so we include this
weekend for the time period i might go
hiking this weekend
okay
second example we may see a movie
tomorrow night we may see a movie
tomorrow night so again this probably
this might sound a little bit more
formal in american english it's correct
it's totally correct it sounds a little
more polite though so we may see here's
my subject we
may so 50 to 60 chance or so
c is my verb in the infinitive form so
remember infinitive form means just the
basic dictionary form when you check the
dictionary the infinitive form is the
the form that's in the dictionary so we
may see a movie tomorrow night the
difference here between see a movie and
watch a movie when you use c it sounds
like you're going to the movie theater
if you say we may watch a movie tonight
it sounds like you're going to stay at
home and watch the movie that's the
difference
okay
uh let's look at some negative examples
and then of course as i'm teaching this
part uh your question for the chat live
and not live is what's something you
might do this weekend so send me your
examples and i'll try to check them in a
minute let's look at some negatives
though
she might not
come
to the beach with us tomorrow she might
not come to the beach with us tomorrow
so this one
again a negative my subject is she
i'm using might not might not so that
means there's a very low chance
of
this action there's a very low chance of
this activity she might not come
to the beach
with us so that means there was some
plan that we had i want to express one
person's plan
to
not come so there's a very low chance
this person will come she might not come
to the beach with us tomorrow one more
negative example
uh
i may not
be able to attend
your party
after all so i included this example
sentence for a couple reasons first
i may not be able to i may not be able
to attend so this is an important and
small it sounds like a small point but
this is a very helpful expression i
might not be able to do something
this is different it sounds different
and nuanced than uh sorry hard to do i
might not attend i might not attend your
party after all if i say i might not
attend your party after all it sounds
like that's my decision i decide i'm not
going to attend
if however you say i i'm sorry i may not
i may not be able to attend your party
this be able to sounds like there's some
other outside responsibility like you
have work a certain work project or your
family or some other situation you need
to deal with so that means you can't do
it you're not able to do it it's not
possible so this makes the sentence much
much softer i might not be able to
attend your party
another thing i want to talk about with
this one is this after all
after all
after all so this does not mean
uh like it's not a literal expression it
doesn't mean like after
all what yeah this means in the end in
the end so this means like uh at the end
of the situation so we use this uh in
cases where we've discussed something so
in this situation for example maybe i
talked to someone about attending a
party we made a plan together
and then a week later i'm like oh wait
i don't know if i can come i might not
be able to attend
after
all of our discussion after all of the
things we talked about after all of
those details shared in the end
i don't think i'm able to attend so
after all
shows like you recognize the stuff all
of the things all of the details from
before
so uh it was not possible after all you
can use this expression in positive
sentences too like oh it was okay after
all like the situation was okay after
all i was able to catch a taxi after all
so you can use this in positive and
negative expressions we usually use it
to talk about like um
kind of the opposite of the plans like
we were really worried about something
but it was okay after all or i had a
plan to do something but i couldn't do
it after all so that's kind of the
feeling with this one so uh also last
point for section one today
um use the negative to talk about plans
the other person
already knows about so like if i say to
you like what's something you're going
to do this weekend or what's something
you might do this weekend and you say i
might not go to your party or like i
might not do something else
i didn't know about that plan so it
sounds strange that you tell me
something you're not going to do so
we usually use the negative to talk
about plans the other person knows about
all right so this is part one i'm going
to check your examples now
uh
adriana on youtube says i might not be
able to watch your kids good example
perfect uh nyla says i might go to the
park this coming weekend excellent uh
kanwalit says i might not go for an
internship after exams because my
brother is coming next week from abroad
nice okay henry says she might go to the
supermarket this sunday perfect nice
grammar everybody on facebook i don't
see examples right now on facebook
uh let me see i've got some lag maybe i
don't know no examples on facebook okay
uh maybe i missed some too
jubi on youtube says i may not be able
to finish this video because i'm about
to leave for work oh great example great
example and also you can watch this
later it is being recorded lucas says i
might not go to the beach with my
friends this weekend perfect
uh nikola says he might not go to
college tomorrow nice one nice one elton
says i might run 10k this weekend ooh
nice what might i do i think i might go
surfing this weekend i'm actually i'm
probably i'll save that for for next one
i'll save that for my next one that's my
probable plan
okay great very nice examples everybody
oh some on facebook now nice facebook uh
cell says i might not be able to go to
work tomorrow because of the snow oh is
it snowy where you are uh adeyemi says i
might go to a party tonight good uh
phil says i'm sorry
philly says i might not go to work
tomorrow so remember this verb i might
not infinitive form so no ing form here
i might not go to work tomorrow
good very nice everybody okay let's take
a break and then we'll go to part two
for today's lesson uh
all right i will share
over here i chose a couple
i chose a couple of
pdfs i don't usually show you i think uh
these are the leisure time activities
pdf leisure time means free time your
free time activities
this has on the back
some things that we do in our free time
so this is a great one i think to
practice today's grammar point with like
i might stay home this weekend or i
might go to a concert this weekend so
this one has some vocabulary words for
uh your free time the things you may or
might not do in your free time you can
check this one out i also
chose this one this is the sports sports
sports
and exercise
pdf on the back of this
of course sorry at the bottom here there
are some sports you can talk about
some common sports but on the back again
uh you can find a list
of physical activity related phrases
some of you were talking about running
10k or going to the gym that kind of
thing so uh this is good for maybe like
uh physical physical activities and so
on so check this out check out the other
one i showed you too
there's a whole bunch more i'll try to
show you a couple more later but check
this out you can find this from the link
below the video if you're watching on
youtube or above the video if you're
watching on facebook so check them out
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you have asked how to do that so check
that out and
improve your vocabulary okay
uh
great so let's go on to part two for
today's lesson then if you're just
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about your plans with may might and
probably i just talked about may and
might so now i'm going to talk about
probably uh
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okie dokie let's go to part two then
part two is about probably using
probably uh to describe your plans so
i'm off the screen
let's go let's go over here so let's use
probably now so probably is used uh to
describe a very high chance of something
in a positive sentence
in negative in negative expressions then
it describes a very low chance of
something so in this lesson i'm going to
talk about using probably together
with future tense with simple future
tense expressions so this is some review
maybe the difference between will and
going to we can use probably with will
and going to
to make our plans a little bit more like
specific to make to express our plans
more clearly yeah
so
to make positive expressions with
probably we can say
i'll probably i'll probably so i'll this
is the reduced form the short form of i
will i will probably we don't say i will
probably i'll probably i'll probably
and we can also use going to going to so
if your subject is i you can say i'm
probably going to i'm probably going to
and also note this going to
in speech we usually say gonna gonna
also another point about
probably in very fast speech we don't
really say probably we don't say
probably really clearly it sounds like
don't write this don't write this when
you're writing messages but it sounds
like
prolly
so for example when i say i'm probably
going to in everyday speech i say i'm
probably gonna i'm probably gonna i'm
probably gonna go surfing this weekend
that's how it sounds
in everyday speech i do not say i'm
probably going to go surfing so keep in
mind we reduce this expression a lot i'm
probably gonna something
so we use these to make positive
expressions
for negatives then there are some things
to consider some things to think about
first when you use will
you need to make the negative so you you
use will not the reduced form is won't
won't i probably won't so please note in
the positive it's i'll probably yeah so
i will probably we don't say i won't
probably we say i probably won't i
probably won't do this thing i probably
won't go there
and when we use going to
i'm probably
not going to so here the negative comes
before going to i'm probably not going
to so at native speed these sound like i
probably won't do that or i'm probably
not going to do that i'm probably not
going to do that
so
what is the difference between will and
going to very quickly a quick reminder
we use will for today's lesson we use
will to talk about uh
decisions we make in the conversation so
if i decide something now
like at a restaurant like
i'm probably gonna i don't know i'll
probably get the salad so i just decided
that at the restaurant if you want to
talk about something you decided before
the conversation it sounds a bit more
natural to say i'm probably going to
of course we can use going to to express
strong decisions we make in the moment
of speaking
but this is uh kind of an easy way to
divide the two for today
so let's look at some example sentences
that use this first
i'm probably gonna get dinner with a
friend i'm probably gonna get dinner i
can use eat eat is fine i'm probably
gonna get dinner with a friend so again
at native speed this sentence sounds
like i'm probably gonna get dinner with
a friend tonight i'm probably gonna get
dinner with a friend tonight quite fast
so we're reducing probably and gonna uh
even more i'm probably gonna i'm
probably gonna get dinner with a friend
another positive example this one with
isle i'll probably finish work around
six i'll probably finish work around six
at native speed that sounds like i'll
probably finish work around six i'll
probably finish work around six so we
use this expression like when you're
texting someone like you're texting your
friend or like your girlfriend or
boyfriend or your family member and you
want to give them an update about your
time like your schedule you can say i'll
probably finish work i'll probably
finish work so work means your job you
could say school too i'll probably
finish school around six so you can use
this expression
to share your schedule update it's very
useful
okay
on to a couple of negative ones and
please do remember we can change the
subject here so i focused on using i as
the subject but we can use he he
he'll probably she'll probably will
probably or uh he's probably going to
remember your verb needs to change with
if your subject is he she or it here he
she or it is probably going to so some
examples
he probably won't have time for a
meeting today he probably won't have
time for a meeting today you're talking
about someone else's schedule here maybe
like your boss or your co-worker he
probably won't he probably won't so this
shows i'm deciding now his schedule is
pretty full there's a very low chance
of a meeting today there's a very low
chance of time for a meeting today one
more we're probably not going to go to
the company party we're probably not
going to go to the company party at
native speed this sounds like we're
probably not going to go to the company
party so very very quick we reduce those
sounds quite a lot and if you like uh
we're probably not going
we can remove this part
to the company party we're probably not
going to the company party it's okay to
use this going when you're using go when
the verb is going to or sorry when
you're using going to and you're using
go after that you can just remove that
to go we're probably not going to the
company party that's okay
so how about you what are you probably
going to do this weekend send in the
chat what are you probably going to do
this weekend
oh there are many people watching oh my
gosh okay um
lots of people out there hi everybody uh
ernesto on youtube says i'm probably i'm
probably gonna pass the english reading
text
test next week so when you use this one
i'm probably going to make sure going to
comes after probably so not i'm gonna
probably but i'm probably gonna i'm
probably gonna i'm probably gonna okay
uh dekra says i'm probably going to buy
this book nice uh jessie hello on
youtube says i'll probably stay home to
study english on youtube with alicia's
lessons woo thank you okay
uh
on facebook uh
aliasgar hello i'm i'll probably go to
bed around 12. okay so make sure don't
mix so in that example you have i'll
probably and going to choose one i'll
probably go to bed or i'm probably going
to go to bed only one or the other so
don't mix aisle and going to there
elton says i'm probably going to the
moon this weekend
i don't believe you okay
uh
let's see kareem says he probably won't
go with us on a picnic because he has
hay fever bummer bummer bummer means too
bad bummer is
i don't know do people say bummer
yeah okay bummer means too bad i don't
know if that's the coolest word right
now but that's what i say
uh
julian says says i'm probably gonna
something on vacation don't forget your
verb i'm probably going to
you need a verb at the end
we're making a verb phrase here i'll
probably verb i'll probably i'm probably
going to verb don't forget your verb
there
uh
on youtube says is it correct to say i
might or might not to show uh the
actions in a short way like maybe or
maybe not ah you mean like i might or i
might not
uh yeah but it's you're you're not
making any decision there really so
you're not really communicating very
much it just shows that you haven't
decided something in that situation if i
understand your question correctly i
would probably just say i don't know yet
i haven't decided yet i might i might
not i don't know we'll see so i
that i probably would just say i don't
know
all right uh on facebook i'm probably
going to listen to your lesson says
muhammad woohoo thanks uh richard says
hello i'm playing final fantasy vii okay
that is cool
are you going to do that this weekend
um
other ones i'm probably gonna take a
vacation take a vacation uh sounds a
little more natural in american english
we tend to say take a vacation uh with
that verb take there
uh i'm probably going to go fishing this
weekend going to go fishing so don't
forget your verb here yeah i'll probably
go i'm probably going to go
all right
let's
take one more extremely short break and
then i'll introduce
no more grammar really a little bit of
grammar and then we'll go to a few extra
expressions that you can use to express
your plans as well so what did i show
you earlier i showed you sports and i
showed you free time activities let's
look at these
pretty quickly
i chose a couple more of these couple
more of these um free pdfs over here to
share with you i thought these would be
good for today's lesson the first one
here this one is if you travel a lot i
know a lot of you are studying english
uh to improve your communication skills
for work and for business so if you are
a business traveler
this is the hotel uh the hotel one on
the back here
are questions like what time is checkout
uh is breakfast included and stuff like
that so you can use uh similar phrases
with today's grammar like i might have
breakfast or i'll probably check out at
something something or i probably won't
uh go to the i don't know conference or
something like that in the conference
hall i don't know so this i thought this
would be maybe a nice one to refer to of
course there's other hotel vocabulary
here and one more this one is the dining
one so it says dining like a champ champ
is short for champion
but this one
has expressions on the back for talking
about the food
and then there's also on the front
expressions to use when you order as
well so i just i mentioned one of my
example sentences was like i'll probably
have or i'm probably gonna get something
something something when you order at a
restaurant so this might be another nice
one for you to check to review so check
this out all of this stuff and lots more
that i did not and will not show you in
depth today you can find all of these
from the link below the video if you're
watching on youtube or above the video
if you're watching on facebook there's a
link uh log in with your account if you
do not have an account you can make a
free account and get this stuff if
you're watching on instagram sorry i
can't see your comments live get the
link on youtube or facebook alrighty
then let's go to the last point for
today's lesson if you're just joining at
the end today's topic is talking about
your plans with may might and probably
the last part of today's lesson we'll
just introduce a few other expressions
that are related to today's topic
of course
if you have not yet do make sure to like
and share today's video so other people
can find it all right let's go then to
the last group part three other
expressions
uh this one first one there's a chance
i'll
there's a chance aisle for example
there's a chance i'll see him this
weekend or there's a chance
we'll get coffee tomorrow so this the
key here is there is a chance aisle so
we're talking about something
that is not sure we are not at all sure
uh but we just want to express something
is possible there's a chance we're not
saying
it's
high likelihood we're not saying it's
high possibility we're not saying low
it's i guess if i had to choose i would
say maybe 50
there's a chance i'll there's a chance
i'll and verb uh probably
infinitive form uh
there's a chance i'll see him there's a
chance i'll go uh there's a chance i'll
do something so don't forget this will
reduced here and of course heal or
shield so you can express a simply a
chance when you want to express
possibility you can do that
next one when you want to be really
formal i've used this in emails from
time to time recently maybe now this
sounds more on the formal side
there's
a slight
possibility
i'm gonna have to okay so i've combined
a few things here the key for this
sentence really is slight possibility
slight possibility slight means small
there's a slight
possibility possibility think of
possibility as a more formal or a more
polite expression for chance so
this is like the uh this part there's a
slight possibility something something
something is like a formal way of saying
there's a chance
of something so there's a slight
possibility and then here just for your
reference i'm introducing i'm gonna have
to
i'm going to have to so this is
expressing
a future responsibility
so this is a little different from
i have to do something if i want to talk
about a future like maybe uh
after a few things maybe after a few
days i'm going to have to so i'm talking
about a responsibility maybe next week
so this is different from i have to
teach a live stream and maybe oh i'm
going to have to go to the bank tomorrow
oh like we use this after like some
situation or some decision
has been made that changes our future
plans a bit so there's a slight
possibility i'm gonna have to another
way to say this is there's a chance that
in the future i will have this
responsibility
for example there's a slight possibility
i'm gonna have to cancel my reservation
or there's a slight possibility i'm
gonna have to skip the meeting
so
some usually there's some change that
changes your future responsibility
okay that was long so let's go to next
i'm thinking about verb in the ing form
i'm thinking about so thinking about
means you have not decided yet but you
just want to express your idea to
someone this one is useful when you're
making plans
i'm thinking about taking a vacation
this weekend or i'm thinking about going
to that new restaurant or i'm thinking
about uh checking out that movie do you
want to come so you're expressing just
an idea here i'm thinking about verb in
verb in the ing form your progressive or
your continuous form here
alfonso says probably i'm so i'm
probably gonna go i'm probably gonna go
as the order so you're probably should
go after i'm i'm probably gonna go
uh andrew says there's a slight
possibility i'll speak at the conference
okay good nice one uh
other ones other ones i don't see other
ones
on facebook says there's a chance i'll
go meet up with the teacher meet up with
meet up with someone there's a chance
i'll go meet up with the teacher
um okay on to this one
i'm debating i'm debating between
continuous verb and continuous verb
debating debating so a debate is a
discussion between two people like a
formal discussion
opinion a and opinion be discuss
so when you say i'm debating it means in
your head in your mind you have two
ideas and you're trying to decide
between the two of them i'm debating
between watching a movie at the theater
and staying home and cooking i'm
debating between going to cambodia and
going to thailand so when you're trying
to decide between two things i'm
debating between continuous expression
continuous expression
okay i'm extremely late so the last one
is maybe i'll maybe i'll be careful with
this sometimes i hear students use maybe
when they just don't know how to answer
something so maybe aisle is used when
you're not sure about something and you
just want to share an idea
like maybe
when i said uh what are you going to do
this weekend or what's something you
might do this weekend like i don't know
maybe i'll watch a movie or maybe i'll
do something something so maybe i'll is
really like i don't know this is just an
idea it's lower chance than might i
might watch a movie or maybe i'll maybe
i'll is a little lower chance than
positive might watch a movie i might
watch a movie or maybe i'll watch a
movie it's like this person really
doesn't know yet they just want to share
an idea
all right i am six minutes late so let's
stop okay i'll end there uh there are a
couple good examples coming in mahmoud
says i'm debating between going to the
gym and working out at home so make sure
the second expression is also using a
verb in the continuous form i'm debating
between going to the gym and working out
at home then it's perfect then it's
perfect i'm debating between going to
the movies and playing video games says
roadie perfect nice job
uh charles says i'm debating between
improving my english or my french ah
that's one case if your verb
is shared if you're using the same verb
in both a and b you can drop the second
verb so i'm debating between improving
my english or my french because
improving is the same verb there all
right too much and i'm very late so i
have to stop thank you as always for
joining us live this week we'll be back
again next week next week's topic
is how to use will and wood i always
forget lately i always forget next week
i am planning to talk about the
differences between will and wood and i
think this lesson is uh about using them
for the future so we'll talk a little
bit about this will point that i
described in part two of today's lesson
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