today we're going to be looking at conditional sentences we're going to
look at the first second the third and also some tricky mixed conditionals but
more specifically we're going to look at how native speakers use these
conditionals in natural everyday conversation we're not going to be
talking too much about the structure of these sentences so if you want to remind
yourself of the different forms of these conditionals then have a quick look in
the description box before you begin the video let's go welcome
so our first debate today our first conditioner or hypothetical question of
the day is what would you do charlie if you knew that in one week the earth was
going to get hit by a comet
I guess I would I would try to Skype Elon Musk get him get him on skype and
see what he could do for me it's a sort of jump ship and jump on a spaceship
maybe Elon Musk I thought should I know who that is?
I think most people do but you don't have to know who and he's he's a guy who created
Tesla he's most well known for his Tesla cars but he is also part of space X and
the mission to Mars so yeah I would get him on skype and try to woo him and
maybe say I'd do anything I'd do anything for a ticket to Mars anything
in the world the world is about to end we are going to die so I think I would
do anything that's a bit worrying um okay and so you would do anything to get
your place on this spaceship is it a one-way spaceship to Mars and then I
guess you're gonna build a colony there and just stay there right yeah I mean I
do want to say that I wouldn't choose this if the comet wasn't coming I
wouldn't go on this mission to Mars but yeah I think if if it came down to it
and the world was going to end yeah I'd do anything to get on this spaceship oh
just another question if Elon Musk's ask to you upon like asking him for a
place in the spaceship and he said I'll give you a place Charlie
as long as for the next week so you know the rest of your time on earth or the
rest of all of our time on Earth you have to pretend to be my boyfriend so
you have to walk around with me hand-in-hand need to take me to the
pictures you need to take me out for meals and show me public displays of
affection for the next week and then Charlie you can have your place on the spaceship
you will have earned it you would have earnt it I I like how in this
hypothetical seven-day Doomsday disaster he's still going to the cinema and
dining out well he doesn't care he's got a place he's got a place he's going to
Mars he's just having a good time yeah why not yeah why not rub it in the hole
seven billion other people's faces cinema tonight what are you doing
worrying about next week shame shame but I don't think if I knew that the world
was gonna blow up and I knew that I couldn't get a place on the spaceship I
don't think I'd spend the whole week just crying about my my imminent death I
think I'd be partying you know going to the cinema with Elon Musk you wish no I
do the things that I love doing so I would maybe travelling is one thing I
love so I'd go to a place I've always wanted to go to with people that I love
so I'd maybe go to Colombia for a couple of days hang on so you've told me quite
a few times that you love what you do as a teacher and you know making YouTube
videos so with you on the last seven days of Earth making video yeah yeah
spend it like working around the clock editing a video no way no chance
I'd maybe do a live lesson are you saying that you would accept the
inevitable death you wouldn't worry about trying to find a solution to your
problem we're just going to take a quick break
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you just accept it and get drunk for seven days I think I think I would I
just know unless there was like a known way out that you know was actually that
was feasible you know if if there were going to be enough spaces on
some kind of spaceship I would be I'd be very open to taking that route but what
wouldn't want to do is spend my last week desperately trying to live and then
getting to the end of that seven days and being nowhere being on the edge of
death and just just thinking of wasting my last week I haven't spent it with any
people I love and I'm gonna be obliterated into the stratosphere with
nothing to show for it when you forget a pronoun when you forget a pronoun yeah so
you would accept your fate and and this comet is it definitely going to destroy
the whole of the planet or is it potentially just gonna you know send us
into an ice age or
or just hit Australia somewhere that yeah it's just gonna it Australia
what are we debating about? well it's a comet that's big enough to take
out the whole world that's what I was thinking okay so it was just the
whole thing there and then the whole yeah ..the size it's the size of the earth
it's bigger it's like three times the size it's not just like the size of Bedford
because if it was I'd just I just leave Bedford I'd just ...
I'd opt into doing that before the comment yeah well I reckon I'd
go to Northampton it's not it's not not too far and so I wouldn't have to
spend too much on the bus and I'd be out of harm's way
or Slough.. Wolverhampton.. that's a
good one okay so you'd move to East Anglian
and I would be Elon Musk's boyfriend
hello Harry can you hear me yes I can don't patronize me okay good I'm I'm
just aware that I am on Mars and you're on the planet Earth still where are you
I'm in Slough I've been here for well three years now and I haven't left it
because the world is in a sorry state as is the rest of the South of England and
East Anglia so yep things aren't great here to be honest how you doing on Mars
oh sorry to hear that yeah Mars is looking out looking
pretty good we've got quite a nice front garden in the in the crater that we made
when we landed we've kind of grown our own little vegetable patch in this Eden
Project-like atmosphere that we've created thank God for Elon hey whatever
it seems like I I made a good decision but what about you if you had known what
would happen given your circumstance would you have made the same choice if I
had known that mister what's your boyfriend's name? tusks mister Elon Musk
alright so if I if I had known that mr. Elon tusk musk had the potential to
build such an ecosystem and create a hospitable environment in space and if I
had known how how horrible it would turn out here on earth I probably would have
gone with you I probably would have probably would've fought you to to win the
affection of Elon Musk .. I think there are
a lot more opportunities over there on Mars by the sounds of it it's here is
really a sorry state of affairs we are in dire straits you know there's there's
really we're all out of natural resources there's there's no women all
women have died out no women there's no women ..did you
all decide okay we've got we've run out of petrol let's let's murder the women I
don't know I don't really know where they went but there doesn't seem to be
seem to be any of them around there's not many people to be honest I was one
of the few that was able to find a good cave to to kind of shelter in I can't
really find any woman I don't know if they know I exist.. it's like at the end (in a nightclub)
of a night.. "where did all those women fuck off to?" exactly.. "I was surrounded by women earlier, where have they all gone?" Have you gone beyond the walls of Slough?
I'm trying not to I've heard there's some kind of intergalactic species that that
has made it to earth and is apparently kind of walking around the M1 at the
moment we get occasional news bulletins updating us on on the things that are
going on there's a bloke in Bedford who who's doing news updates of what's
happening in the South of England and it's not looking good so I'm just kind
of staying staying put really okay you're keeping out of harm's reach
I am yeah I'm keeping out of harm's reach yeah all right so this
intergalactic creature is just walking up and down the m1 you say yeah yeah and
it has found its way to some A roads
I don't know why I'm laughing because it is absolutely petrifying I don't know what
Are you like on a dual carriageway or are you in a cul-de-sac?
neighborhood I actually found a little caravan
which I'm sharing with a bloke called Phil who I met running away from
a tiger he's a really nice guy
I'm not laughing at Phil I'm laughing that there was a tiger let loose in Slough
when the comet destructed oh it destroyed earth.. I shouldn't be laughing at your
misery so and if you had known what would happen and you were going to end
up living with Phil escaping a tiger would you have made a different choice
absolutely absolutely I think if I had made different choice and if I had gone
to to Mars I think right now I'd probably be happily happily married I mean
are their marriages out there all that all that is that kind of thing happening?
oh yeah over there sure yeah we've we've gone beyond the norm of what we would
say as a left-winger we we now are allowing any kind of marriage under the
Sun or in the shadows because you're able to marry a plant you're able to
marry a rock anything you like really so yeah there's marriages everywhere I'm
married to Elon still that relationship sort of it grew throughout the
tension of the comet coming and now we're happily married yeah yeah coz I
guess if I if I had gone there I I would probably be married to him now wouldn't
I? do you think he would have stayed with me all this time if I'd been
the one kind of pining for his affection? well It depends if
you can fill my boots or not do you think you could? I would fill your boots
and some cos your boots are tiny so in conclusion then I admit I do kind
of regret my actions and I wish I'd I wish I done things a bit differently but
yeah what can I say me and Phil are all right we're here for each other
one day we'll find a couple of women hopefully and we can you know start
reproducing and you know revitalize humanity because that's what that's what
we need over here but it's hard can we Skype again soon because I'm I'm I'm
really lonely yeah yeah we could we do a YouTube channel or something keep you
busy yeah stop thinking of the tiger and stop worrying that you're sharing a bed
with a middle aged man called Phil in the middle of nowhere we're not sharing
a bed we're not showing we're just sharing caravan we've got we sleep on
the floor near each other Oh on the floor okay
no one wants to use the spring out bed we we haven't got one should have
chosen Mars.. mother f****er! bye charlie Ta ra! well let's all wish Harry the
best of luck back on earth and Charlie all the best in his endeavours on the
planet Mars now it's your turn to participate and put these lovely
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