If you want to be a brain surgeon, you should do your training. Okay let's get started,
then. Is this the brain? Okay great, so we're going to cut the brain and do some surgery,
um, I didn't do the training for this, is that a problem?
I know I should have done the training, I should have, but I it seemed really boring and I didn't
want to do it so I didn't do the training but it'll be fine, it'll be fine. Scalpel?
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my name is Laura and I work as an English teacher and recently in my lessons I keep seeing the
same mistake and this mistake is knowing the difference between 'should' and 'have to'. Now,
Poor have to over here, he's not being used as much as he needs to be, a lot of my students are
using should too often, they are using should a lot and it's not always correct, so let me talk
you through when we use should and when we use have to. Okay so let's talk about should, when
do we use should? What does it mean? So should is an extremely common modal verb and we use it a lot
and we use should to talk about something that is the correct thing to do, the proper thing to do,
the expected thing to do, or the right thing to do and we also use it to talk about what someone
ought to do, what is suggested. It's like giving advice, you want to make sure that this person
is going to do the right thing so when you think of should I want you to think about
your grandmother or your grandfather telling you what you should do, it's their suggestion,
it's their advice of what is the right thing for you to do. However with should it always feels
like there's an option, it feels like you have the choice of saying no, so you could say to someone
'you should do your homework', that's my advice, that's my suggestion but you could say, 'no,
I'm not going to,' so there's always that choice, even though you might know it's
the best thing to do, it's the right thing to do, you can always say no, and a lot of the
time when native speakers use should we are kind of implying that we're not going to do
something so if I said to you, 'oh, I should clean the house today... but I'm not gonna.'
So if you think back to the example at the beginning of this video, if you want to be a
brain surgeon you should do your training, I don't think, I hope anyway, I hope if you want to be a
brain surgeon I hope that the training is not optional. I hope you don't go to the university
and say, 'I want to be a brain surgeon' and they say to you, 'do you want to do the training?Yes?
No? Okay go ahead.' It's not a choice, you don't have the option of saying no, it's not like,
'yeah it would be good if you did this, you should do this, but do what you want.' No no no, in this
case we need to use, 'have to'. Okay? Have to is so so important because there are so many things
in life where there's no choice, you have to do it. Okay so in this sentence: if you want to be
a brain surgeon you have to do the training, you just have to, it's not legal for you to operate
on someone's brain if you don't know what you're doing, you have to do it, so if there's no choice,
if there's no option of saying no you have to use have to. I just did it then! You 'have to' do it,
you can't not do it, otherwise you'll be wrong. I was teaching somebody the other day and they said,
'I have a new job in England, in London, it's an English-speaking company, everyone speaks English,
so if I get this job, I should speak English.' But there's not really a choice, because if you are
in a completely English-speaking company and you walk in and you speak Swedish,
you can't, you can't have the job, you can't do the job because no one will understand you. So
there's not really a choice. So if I get this job, I have to speak English, I have to. When
you listen to a native speaker you will hear 'have to' so much more than should because even
in situations where actually you do have a bit of a choice, we like to emphasize how important it
is that you do something by saying 'have to' instead of 'should'. So if you are a mother
talking to your child and you say, 'you have to brush your teeth in the morning, you have to',
they don't have to, you know? Technically there is a choice, that child can not brush his teeth, he
can do that, but we want to make sure that child knows how important it ism so we say 'have to', so
we really are only using should when it's advice, when it's suggested, but we know that there's a
very good possibility that it won't happen. Okay so we are going to have a little quiz, alright? So
my beautiful partner Bez, who is also an English teacher is going to give you a quiz on 'should'
or 'have to', I'll see you after the quiz! - Good evening, welcome to the quiz! You should have been
studying, have you? Now a quick disclaimer, in this quiz the answer can be both but I am looking
for the answer that is most suitable for this situation, both kind of makes sense but only one
will make the most sense! Question number one: You __ pay for your food at the restaurant... Hmm...
Have a think... you should, you have to? What's the answer? The correct answer is... you have to!
You have to pay for your food at the restaurant unless you're a thief... you're not a thief,
are you? Question number two: She __ meet Tim, I think they'd make a lovely couple. What do
you think? She should or she has to? Well, the right answer is... she should! And the reason
for that is because that is my advice, I think it would be better for them if they met, it would be
very very nice, so they should. They don't have to, nothing bad will happen if they don't, but
it would be very very nice. Question number three: I __ give an important presentation in
10 minutes... I should give the presentation or I have to? Now this one, like others in this quiz,
works grammatically if we use both, I should give the presentation in 10 minutes, I have to give a
presentation in 10 minutes. But common sense tells us that in this situation, we have to give the
presentation, unless you're the kind of person who thinks, 'hmm I'm just gonna run out of this
place and I'm gonna move to Antarctica,' By saying I should give a presentation, it sounds as though
you are not going to do it, like you know your responsibility, you know that it should happen but
you're not going to do it. Question number four: You __ pay to park here. You should pay? You have
to pay? The correct answer is... you have to pay to park here! You should sounds like the parking
people are just happy for any donation, you should, it would be nice if you do. You have to:
they're the rules, if you don't pay you're going to get a fine, so there's not really much of a
choice unless you like getting fines and you're okay with that. Question number five: you __ wear
a hat when it's sunny. The answer is... you should wear a hat when it's sunny, there are no
hat police walking around on a sunny day checking everybody is wearing a hat but we recommend that
you do wear a hat, especially me! Question number six: they __ move to London, I think
they'd be happy there... The answer is should, they should move to London, it would be nice if
they moved to London, that's my advice, I think it would be nice for them if they moved to London
therefore they should move there. They don't have to, I'm not going to kill them or anything!
And the final question: You ___ wear clothes in this restaurant, Sir! You should wear clothes or
you have to wear clothes? The answer is... you have to wear clothes! Put it this way, have you
ever been to a restaurant where you don't have to wear clothes? People are just sat around naked?
Oh... you have? Can you let me know in the comments below? And there you have it, if
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