Grammar Fun in London with Anya Teaches English

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