Eat Sleep Dreamers welcome to a very special
English lesson because today it's my first
ever collaboration and I'm very happy to
welcome
Anya Teaches English.
Hi Anya, how are you doing? Very well thank you. Super.
Thank you for having me. You are welcome. Anya is another English YouTuber
and also she's on Instagram on Facebook
fantastic check her out she's the Queen
of tongue twisters. So if you were to do
pronunciation particularly, then she is
your teacher.
Ok, so we are going to do a special lesson today where we're
going to ask each other second
conditional questions whoa whoa whoa whoa
hold on Tom wait. A lot of you are asking
right now what is a second conditional
sentence? Good question, okay let's find
out. A second conditional sentence is
it's a structure a grammar structure we
use to talk about unreal or imaginary
situations. The best idea is to look at
an example here it is. 'If I won the
lottery I would buy a house in Hawaii.'
'If I won the lottery,
I would buy a house in Hawaii ah-oh that would be nice
Ah Hawaii! okay let's break that down. So first
of all you have to ask yourself the
question how possible is this to happen
is it possible that it could happen? Okay
it is possible but the chances of me
winning the lottery are pretty pretty
small so it's it's not very likely to
happen and so we would consider it to be
an imaginary situation. I'm not going to
win the lottery let's be honest okay
let's look at the structure how do we
how do we create this sentence? So we
have if plus past verb okay so if I won
so if plus the past verb and then you
have would plus the infinitive so I
would
buy our house. So Anya and I are going to
ask you to other questions using this
second conditional sentence and they are
all imaginary questions so they're not
real they're fun, playful, imaginary
questions. So let's see what we ask each
other. Okay I've got my first question
Okay I was going to ask you the same question.
I think I would have to choose let's say Marilyn Monroe
okay I'd like to meet Marilyn Monroe
because I think she is from what I've
read about her she seems like an interesting character
with an interesting life
story so I'd like to speak to her. Because I think she had
a troubled life but obviously
very famous, very beautiful and yeah I would like to speak to her.
I think she would also have some amazing
stories to tell right like she met some
of the most famous people at the time
yeah she was you know she knew JFK. And Einstein
as well I think. Oh really? Yeah I think so.
Wow! Great, yeah I think I'll go with Marilyn Monroe as well
Can I say world peace? Yeah yeah you can say world peace but
you can't say more wishes okay. I don't yeah i
World peace without a doubt, okay I also
wish that I personally could
travel either forward or back in time I
think that would be kind of cool.
Yeah I just wish that all the people I know
are going to live healthy happy lives. I'm
going to go with that. Ah that's nice. And all you Eat Sleep Dreamers as well.
Healthy happy lives.
Oh that's a good one. I think I would be Jasmine from Aladdin because
she lives in an exotic country I can't remember where
but it seems exotic.
And she gets to fly on the magic
carpet with Aladdin which is very cool.
And she has a pet tiger. okay!
Okay what would I do? I would well I
would go and investigate.
Wouldn't you be scared? Maybe but it
depends what the noise was.
Okay. This has happened before.
It actually happened in my garden and then and so I
did I heard it and I was like right I'm
going to, I'm going to defend my house
and I'm gonna go find out what it was. So
I sort of, a bit scared timidly looked
out and then I opened the door and went
outside and it was nothing. So I'd
like to think I would investigate but I might also
hide under my duvet. Yeah that's what I would do.
I would wake up I think
on a beach somewhere. Somewhere
I don't even really mind where. Just
a really beautiful
hot exotic beach with palm trees and
crystal blue waters and maybe 40-degree.
That's where I would wake up. Totally agree. Especially with the grey
sky here in London. The idea of a sunny
beach is a nice one.
Alright so my favourite song is a song
by Ben E King called 'Stand by me'. Oh I love that song.
Yeah it's a really romantic song, so maybe maybe
that one.
Alright guys, so we've asked each other lots of second conditional
sentences. I want you guys to write a
second conditional question for me in
the comments below.
'Tom if you could be an animal, what
animal would you be?' Whatever it is. And I
promise I will comment
I'm sure Anya will comment as well as
if you have a question for her too. Thank you so much
for hanging out with guys see you next
time. Bye