How to talk about the future in English with ‘WILL’

Hello, my name is Emma, and I have a very special video for you today. Today, we are

going to play a game with my sister Audra, but before we play our game, I wanted to teach

you something. I'm going to teach you about the word "will". We use "will" a lot in English.

We use "will" when we want to make a prediction about something. So, what's a predication?

Well, a prediction is when we talk about what we think is going to happen in the future.

So, for example, what will happen in 2050? That's an example of a question with a prediction

in it. So, today, we're going to play a game with this word "will".

Let me tell you now how we use "will" in a sentence. We always have the word "will" followed

by a verb, and the verb is in the base form, okay? So, I'll give you an example. I have

here a very famous sentence: I will be back, or I'll be back, if you've ever seen Terminator,

this is an example of a sentence with the word "will". Notice we have the subject "I",

we have our word "will", which is our prediction word or our word that tells us it's about

the future, and we have our verb "to be". I will be back. So, this is an example of

how we use "will" in a sentence. Now, one problem a lot of English language learners

have is with these things called contractions. So, a contraction is when we take two words

and we make them into one word, and we lose a letter and add an apostrophe. So, "I will",

in the contraction form becomes "I'll". So, this is what, for example, Arnold Schwarzenegger

says: "I'll be back". He says that instead of "I will be back", but they mean the same

thing.

So, we also have "you will" can become "you'll", "he will" becomes "he'll", "she will" becomes

"she'll", "it will" becomes, can you guess, "it'll", "we will" can become "we'll", so

"we'll be back", and "they will" becomes "they'll". So, we will be using these when we talk about

the future with my sister Audra. There's one other thing I wanted to teach you before we

get to our game, and that is the negative form of "will". So, when we want to say something

is not going to happen in the future, we can say "It will not happen.", or we can use the

contraction, which is "won't". So, for example, "I won't be back.". He won't be back. She

won't be back. It won't be back. Okay? So, "won't" is the negative form of "will", and

again, "won't" is followed by a verb. Alright, so, now the grammar is finished. Now, it is

time to play our fun game with my sister Audra.

So, this is my sister Audra. You may have seen her in a video before.

- Audra, do you remember this game from when we were children?

- - I do; it was one of my favorites. I loved

it. -

- So, this game, MASH, is actually a common game kids in Canada play. I'm going to explain

the rules to Audra and to you and then we will get to practice our verbs for today,

will and won't. Okay, so we have here a box, and we have some letters at the top of this

box. M stands for mansion. A mansion is a very big house that rich people live in. Think

about the White House, that's an example of a mansion. A stands for apartment. S can stand

for shack. A shack is a really poor house that is falling apart - that is, you know,

a terrible house. Nobody wants to live in a shack. And H stands for house, okay? So,

this game is a game of prediction. We are going to predict Audra's future. We're going

to find out, is Audra going to live in a mansion, an apartment, a shack, or a house. Audra,

what are you hoping for? -

- Fingers crossed, mansion. I think that's a - a goal would be mansion.

- - Okay, so fingers crossed, we hope Audra

will live in a mansion in the future. Now, I have here some names. We have Ryan Gosling,

he's a Canadian actor. -

- Ooooh! -

- Okay, so we know Audra's opinion on Ryan Gosling. Ryan Reynolds...

- - Also good!

- - Okay, so Ryan Reynolds is another Canadian

actor. We have Will Smith. Will Smith was Audra's childhood crush...

- - Fresh Prince of Bel Air!

- - So, the guy she liked when she was younger,

and Chris Pratt. Chris Pratt is your current crush.

- - That's correct.

- - The celebrity Audra has a crush on today,

or really likes today. So, these are Audra's possible future husbands. So, she's going

to have one husband at the end of this game, and we will see which husband she will have.

Okay, now we have some numbers. We have zero, ten, three, and five. Audra, do you remember

what these numbers stand for? -

- I do. So, these numbers actually stand for how many children you will have. I have to

be honest, I do not want ten children. I am not hoping for that number. I think my goal

would be three children. That sounds good to me.

- - Okay! So, we'll find out how many children

Audra will have in the future. And last, we have four places. We have Hawaii, the Galapagos

Islands, Antarctica, and Japan. So, these are four places Audra - one of these places

Audra will live in the future based on the prediction of this game, okay. So, are you

ready to play, Audra? -

- I think I'm ready! -

- Okay, so Audra, close your eyes and tell me when to stop.

- - Stop!

- - Okay. So, I have one, two, three, four,

five, six. So, we're going to go around here counting six and anything I land on, Audra

won't have in her future, okay? So, one, two, three, four, five, six. No! So Audra won't

marry Ryan Reynolds. I'm sorry. -

- I think he might be already married, so it's probably for the best.

- - Okay, well that's good. One, two, three,

four, five, six. So, Audra will have children in the future. One, two, three, four, five,

six. Audra won't live in an apartment in the future. One, two, three, four, five, six.

Okay. -

- Uh-oh, that ten is still there. Makes me a bit nervous.

- - So, Audra might have ten children in the

future. One, two, three, four, five, six. Well, here's some good news! Audra, you won't

live in a shack. -

- That is very good news. I don't think I would like living in a shack.

- - Okay, especially with ten children! That

would be very difficult. Alright, so one, two, three, four, five, six. So now we know

how many children Audra will have. Audra, how many children will you have?

- - I'll have three children, which is perfect

for me. -

- And notice Audra used the contraction of "will". She didn't say "I will", she said

"I'll", which is possible. You can also say "I will", but "I'll" is more common in conversation.

Alright. One, two, three, four, five, six! Wow! So Audra, where are you going to live?

Where will you live? -

- I'll live in a mansion! -

- Very good! -

- Can we have a high five for that? -

- Okay, high five! Great! Okay, so this prediction is looking very good. Alright, let's see what

else we're going to find out. One, two, three, four, five, six. No Galapagos Islands. Audra

won't live in the Galapagos Islands. One, two, three, four, five, six

- - Whew!

- - Audra won't live in Antarctica.

- - I don't think I'd like Antarctica.

- - Audra gets cold very easily, so this is

really good. She's not going to live in Antarctica. One, two, three, four, five, six. Okay. So,

for any of our audience who live in Japan, I have

some good news for you. According to the future, Audra will live in Japan.

- - That's amazing. I love sushi, vegetarian

sushi, but it would be very convenient if I lived in Japan.

- - So, Audra, you're very excited about this?

- - Yes, I would love to live in Japan.

- - Perfect! So, so far, we have three things

that Audra is really happy about. Now, let's find out with the husband - who will she marry?

- - What's my love life going to be?

- - Alright. One, two, three, four, five, six.

No Chris Pratt. -

- Can we just... can we just take a moment, if I end up living in a mansion with Will

Smith, that is literally the summary of "Fresh Prince of Bel Air!" It would be very convenient!

- - Okay! Well, let's see if you get that future.

One, two, three, four, five, six. So, you will marry Ryan Gosling.

- - I would be very happy with that. I think

Ryan and I would be very happy in our mansion with our three kids living in Japan.

- - Okay, and so I'm just going to summarize

Audra's future, sorry, and I'm going to use the contraction "She'll". Remember, "She'll"

is "She will". So, she'll live in a mansion. She'll be married to Ryan Gosling. She'll

have three kids and she'll live - or they'll, because she's with her husband and three kids

- they will, or they'll live in Japan. So, thank you Audra for coming today. I hope this

prediction comes true. Audra's been really lucky, so...

- - I'm very glad it is three kids and not ten.

I think that is definitely a great future for me.

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