When you use the PAST TENSE to talk about THE FUTURE | Unreal past [Weird English]
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- We talk about the unreal past with WISH, IF ONLY, SUPPOSE, WHAT IF, CONDITIONALS, HAD BETTER and soup...mostly mulligatawny soup. We use the past tense to talk about the present and future. Yes, English is sometimes weird.
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Although I'm a native speaker, I've never regretted watching these videos.
I've never regretted reading your comments.
I hope I can speak english fluently this year.
You are a genius! The best teacher, indeed! I wish I had the opportunity and the pleasure to meet you sometime. Cheers!
some day with pleasure.
agree
To be perfectly honest, I've never watched a video much clearer about "wish" and by giving perfect examples, thank you so much for your effort sir. Have a great weekend
Glad it was helpful!
How come that thanni becomes tawny
Th as in mouth
n as in pen with double articulation
I as in city
What has the pronunciation toni to do with that?
Eastern mispeincuatiins are the result of misteaching.and sometimes bad teaching.
Those examples make it so much easier to remember! Thank you~
Glad they helped
I wish I had known more about this earlier in my life! There are so many expressive hues and details that one might not take into account but do add to the communication. Excellent video, Gideon!✌️😃
But you've got them now and that's the main thing.
@@LetThemTalkTV sure, but they are hard to remember.
It takes ample practise to know them all by heart.
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TEACHING is more than imparting knowledge ; it is inspiring change.
LEARNING is more than absorbing facts ; IT IS ACQUIRING UNDERSTANDING !!!!!! STAY INSPIRED & STAY BLESSED !!!!!!!!
Thanks those are inspiring words.
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Great video!!! As a Uruguayan, it was so cool to hear you talk about my country. Greetings!
I wish I had more teachers like you. ❤
this point of grammar is very very interesting..thanks
I wish I hadn't forgotten to watch your videos for quite sometime even though I've been a long-term subscriber of your RUclips posts.
Hi Gideon! Great lesson! I can’t believe in the use of “were” for all persons!! Didn’t know that!! Thanks goodness there’s the informal english... all the best for you 😀😘
Gideon you explain so well and teach useful grammar like no other
Glad you think so!
@@LetThemTalkTV indeed
It's always time to enjoy Gideon's lessons 🙂
Any time.
You’re a crack-up!! I didn’t even have the sound on and you made me laugh. 😆
You are among the best teachers of British English.
This lesson is a life saver for everyone. You are brilliant yet simple dear Prof. I thank you immensely😘
I wish if you get there, if you agree we would go for some good asadito at the Mercadito del Puerto to Ciudad Vieja,
I do. Oh..excellent lesson Professor, I am so grateful about, thank you very much, I learn always new things with your videos!!
Cheeri ò!
This video is a blessing for all language learners . Thank you so much ! Please make more videos addressing grammar rules .
I love u so much mate, I’ve seen lots of this lesson but those are not as effeciently as your lesson. Appreciate so much again, keep goin it!
Gorgeous!
Excellent exmple how a teacher should teach grammar.
My sincere congratulations,
Miodrag
That's helped alot.
Thank you indeed ❤
My pleasure. Thanks for your comment
This is hilarious and so clear. Relatively new English teacher here, I must admit that I've learnt a lot from this video. Thank you.
Thanks a lot. Fun to hear " Uruguay". Regards from Montevideo.
I wish I knew about these rules earlier!
Splendid lesson on the conditionals. I wish I joined you earlier.
I wish I had joined you earlier.*
@@ef232 yeah thanks for correcting me.
@@somebodyelse1968 "You learn quickly!" :)
Always welcome
@@LetThemTalkTV Thanks Sir .May I ask you something? The other day I came across a comment which goes like this. .'your grammar needs mercy '.Could you shed light on it please?
I really love your way of teaching. Thank you so much.
Even though the content is really useful, I find it extremely difficult to apply while talking. For native speakers like you, things would come intuitively. But being a non-native speaker, it takes too much effort to apply these rules in daily conversations making you almost paralytic. Even while watching the video, I can't form the right sentences. I can't imagine what a task it would be to think about these grammar rules before forming a sentence in my head while talking. Of course, I have the liberty of time while writing but while talking, it's a different ball game for us.
Thanks for the content anyways.
@Don Francis that's how I often feel too.
I massively relate to this. What I've been trying to do is to subconsciously think in English, when talking in the language, as opposed to thinking in my native language, then translate it to English. It's a hard task, indeed! But I'm challenged when I do things that are hard!
Thanks a lot for this video, it helped me to understand this rule
I want you to make a video about IF and its alternatives
He's got a great observation skill on foreign students' common mistakes.
Great video lesson. I wish I had an imaginary friend like yours who could explain all these topics so clearly as yours does
I wish I had a professor like you ...Anyway we have you on YT! So cool your t-shirt!!!
Basic. Reported speech can use was. Not so bad .In fact , I took notes. TY . U deserve positive feedback for this . I'm a devoted grammarian 👍🏻
"I wish I was a little bit taller,
I wish I was a baller,
I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her."
Couldn't stop thinking of that song during the skit. Great video!
I love love love the unreal past.My fav tense.
It's an amazing lesson. Thank you so much.
Ah! Look what the cat dragged in! I just couldn't be so delighted to have you here Gideon! If I had a tail I would've wagged it! 🐕 I thank you kindly for this clarified lesson. You couldn't have made it any better. I shall salute you by taking my hat to you sir. You bloody deserve it. Next time I fly to Paris, i will ensure to drag you out for an afternoon Matcha latte by Eiffel Tower. I will pick up a place whereas you pick up the bill 😉 Greeting from Casablanca.
Greetings. I look forward to it.
I suggest the next videos are about I recommend + infinitive ,subjunctive, and inversion.
That Uruguay joke took me a full minute to understand 😀or am I reading in between the lines?!
I didn't get it🤔
Thank you!! Your videos help me a lot :)
Your comments help me a lot
Here a fan from Montevideo, Uruguay! 🖐️
Best explanation by far
Incredible!
You've got the best channel mate. Really good work. You're teaching me before I teach. Don't know what I'd have done if I hadn't found you.
Thanks from Montevideo Capital of Uruguay.A very good lesson !!!
It drives me crazy to hear someone say something like, "I wished I didn't eat 12 donuts." My brain comes to a screeching halt.
this guy is genius! God bless you Sir
I wish I could have some mulligatawny....
Thank you so much Gideon for enjoyable sketch. An effective grammar lesson indeed! I wish you and your fellowmate could taste my special " minestrone" recipe.Have a great evening! 🍵🥄😍
I look forward to trying it.
Really perfect lesson! Thx greatly!
Hi, i really love your videos, they're extreamly helpfull, So thank you.
I struggle with "whose", " whom" and "wich" so i would appreciate it if you would do a video about them. Thank you again.
“I hope I will/can see her tonight,” but “I (had) hoped I would/could see her tonight,” as it implicitly didn’t come to pass, but yet “I (had) hoped I would/could see her tonight… and I did!”
I wish I had a brilliant teacher like you in the high school
If you did then you wouldn't need these lessons.
Oh, this was so good! Thank you!
You are good too.
Gideon you are amazing!!!!!!
So are you
The way you used one character with the beard and the other without is absolutely brilliant! I suppose you recorded all the scenes with the beard, then shaved, then recorded the scenes without beard.
To do it the other way would have taken up too much time.
Awesome video! It was out of this world. Unreal! Mental!
Glad you liked it.
Gideon I hope you're are well.non seulement vous êtes un grand professeur qui connaît ses oignons, mais aussi un comédien intelligent qui sait comment nous faire rire. You couldn't tell us if we could use WOULD instead of could so we can be even more polite could you, by any chance? example: You wouldn't let me a fiver by any chance until i get my giro, would you? Not only shall i be ridiculously grateful to you but also a friend for life! 😀. in advance I thank you immensely from my sincerely heart. yours very respectfully. Perkins 😉
In your examples you could use could or would. Merci beaucoup
I don't even know why I'm here. I'm don't even know the basic English. Whatsoever it was a great lesson. And I hope that someday I back here and could understand more. By now is enough can get the meaning of the words and the way of the conversation without subtitles.
Thanks!
I wish I could give a million likes. It's just brilliant!
So funny🤣 what a brilliant teacher!
"I wish I would have more time" sounds perfectly right to me when the wish is an extremely deep one. Whereas "I wish I had more time" is less emotional though grammatically correct and more rational than the first sentence. Am I right? "I wish I was" is indirect/reported speech whereas "I wish I were" is subjunctive ...true?
it is so funny and so enriching for grammar point of course, but for vocabulary too. I note down :"bloddy tight fisted bastard"
More I like " you re a guy " sounds Urugay
Diachronically speaking, the "unreal past" is of course just the old subjunctive mood. Fairly easy, for once, for German native speakers: in "I wish I had", had means hätte, not hatte. It almost comes naturally.
I wish i could have soup.i wish i had ordered coffee last night.thanks teacher Giedeon.
thanks
any other verbs like "wish" that require the unreal past? After "imagine"? For example: "I imagine we WOKE up on an island"
I am also wondering that.
I wish I hadn't missed your vedioes but I hope to watch them soon....Thank you
Great job as always! Come see our school if you're ever in Switzerland 🇨🇭
Awesome actor!, awesome video. I learnt (Ed?) a lot from it. Pretty interesting. Thanks.
You are awesome. Thanks
I wish I'd had an English teacher like you when I studied in school.
Thank you professor!
Thank you student
Très bonne vidéo pleine d'humour et instructive ! I wish I had a transcript of your video lessons ;)
Omg, I laughed way too much over the Uruguay joke!!
Our lovely grammarian!
yes you are.
You are great sir.
Crazy grammar! When it's explained by you I understand better and I wish I remembered it.
Greatest teacher
Thank you! those examples make it so much clearer!
your an amazing teacher.
It is amazing!!! Thank you so much
I hope to get my shirt, I wish to have soon, Important tips today, I really enjoyed it, the grammar is the turn, it is essential ... Nice video, you always do a good job with your characters ..👏👏
I hope so. Many thanks for your comment.
‘I wish you would hurry up’ when you want someone to change but they won’t do it. This one is quite hard for us Spaniards, because we use the subjunctive here. If we translate that sentence literally it sounds wrong and awful. But this is English :)
Thanks!!
Great lesson
Really really useful!! Excellent
Thank you sir 👍
This is one of the most useful videos of Gideon I have watched.
So I bookmarked it.
I think even for an advanced learner of English with all those subtle nuances this can get pretty intricate and is full of traps.
As an aside, I am curious how you produce and cut your videos staging a talk between a bearded and a shaven Gideon?
I think this requires a director's foresight and planning of scenes.
Pretty happy to find your channel..the best teacher you are!
Thank you so much for that interesting video... greetings from Perú...
😀😀😀
Yes. The difference between hope n wish. I knew it . Hope is possible Wish is unreal , not going to happen
Wow.. That was interesting and helpful Sir.
I wish I could find and subscribe your channel well before so that I could learn such things earlier.
You're here now and that's the main thing
Simply the best
What a masterpeace!
I thought I knew about grammar. Now I know I hadn't known it well enough.
Fantastic
Yay! Superb lesson, I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks much 😃 ..... So for the unreal past the verb form is the past subjunctive, right? ..... or not 🤔
Yes, it's a subjunctive.
Thank you.
you're welcome
I thought it was the subjunctive mood.
Oh, mate! You should've gone into acting!
Then again, we would've lost a great teacher!
Acting and teaching have a lot in common.
@@LetThemTalkTV I know. I am an active teacher myself, and I get that from my students a lot, "You should have studied acting." So they say. I can't stand sitting behind a desk, or putting on a grave, stern face. Not me!
@@LetThemTalkTV Yes, indeed. I dreamt to be an actress but I've become an ordinary English teacher and have been playing this role for almost thirty years! 🤷
I am watching the HBO TV series Chernobyl. There is one episode with a Russian/Ukrainian soldier played by an actor who looks just like this guy.
@@leohj1961 that makes a good or rather excellent teacher.
Enjoyed watching this video of yours a lot. Made me burst into laughter. Funnily educative! 🤣😂🤣 Many thanks, Mr. Gideon.👍👍👍
bravo!
Can you make a video about not getting coerced or rather not feeling intimidated when talking to someone who is rather articulate.
P.s love your videos, sir. I've learnt a lot from watching your videos.
Interesting idea for a video. Thanks for your comment.