Describing Feelings about the Future in English 🔮🚀👨‍🚀

So I'm really excited about

the future, the immediate future.

As many of you know, I'm a

high school teacher here in Canada.

And in about a week or two, maybe three, actually,

it will be summer, and I am excited about summer.

In the summer, I don't have to go to work.

So it's something that I'm really excited about.

So I thought today I should make an English lesson

for you about how to talk about the future.

Sometimes you're excited about the future, sometimes

you're not excited about the future.

And in this English lesson, I'll teach

you about ten English phrases that you

can use to express those feelings.

The first two phrases are, it's just around

the corner or it's right around the corner.

We use this when we're talking about

something that's going to be happening soon,

something that we're usually excited about.

For me, as you can see, I'm wearing a jacket.

It's kind of the end of spring, but

summer is just around the corner.

Summer is right around the corner and I'm pretty

excited about it for reasons I explained earlier.

I don't know why, but it's a lot

cooler than it normally is right now.

But when the sun comes out, it really

feels like summer is just around the corner.

Or summer is right around the corner.

The next phrase is the phrase.

It's so close that I can taste it.

Now, usually we use the word taste when we're talking

about food, but sometimes something that you're going to do

is so close that you can taste it.

Maybe you're going to a concert this coming

weekend and someone on a Tuesday or Wednesday

says, are you excited for the concert?

You can say, oh, it's so close, I can taste it.

So, yeah, you don't actually taste it, right?

Like, it's not like there's a flavor that you

are able to taste when something exciting is coming

up, but it's definitely a phrase that we use.

Hey, are you excited for the concert?

Oh, I'm so excited.

It's so close I can taste it.

The next phrase is the phrase.

I can see the finish line.

This is a phrase we use when we're about to finish

something that was maybe really hard and took a long time.

You could use this when you're almost done school,

maybe you're almost done high school, or you're almost

done university and it's about a week to go.

You could say to someone, oh,

I can see the finish line.

You talk about it as if it's a race

maybe you're working on a huge project at work.

Maybe it took months to finish the project.

And you know in a few days you're going to be done.

You could say to your boss, oh,

I can see the finish line.

So it's a way to express the

happiness you feel when you're almost done

something that was really hard and

maybe took a really long time.

I can see the finish line.

The next phrase is the phrase I'm counting the days.

Sometimes there's something really exciting that's going to happen in

a week or two, and you're starting to count how

many days it is before that thing happens.

Maybe you're getting married.

Maybe you're getting married in ten days and you say

to someone, I'm so excited, I'm counting the days.

So sometimes there's something in the future and you're so

excited you want to know exactly how many days there

are between now and when that event happens.

And you would use the phrase I'm counting the days.

The next two phrases are the phrases I

can't wait or I can hardly wait.

And these are phrases you use when you're

excited about something that's going to happen.

When Jen and I were expecting our first

child, that's what I would say to people.

I would say, I can't wait or I can hardly wait.

I was so excited for the arrival of our

first child that that's how I described it.

It was really hard to wait.

So I would say, I can't wait or

I can hardly wait to express that excitement.

So we have a few phrases that we use

when we want to tell people to enjoy today,

even though they're excited about something in the future.

One of those phrases is, it will

be here before you know it.

Sometimes people talk about retirement, and people who

are already retired, who are sad because they

aren't working anymore, might say, hey, enjoy today.

It will be here before you know it.

Retirement will be here before you know it.

So take the time now to enjoy what you're doing.

So it's not a phrase we use

when we're excited about the future.

It's more of a phrase we use to

tell people, hey, don't get too anxious or

excited about something that's going to happen soon.

Instead, enjoy what's happening now.

It will be here before you know it.

And sometimes we'll just say

to people, enjoy the moment.

We'll tell them directly that they should be enjoying

what's happening right now instead of always thinking about

something that's going to happen in the future.

Sometimes you can kind of lose yourself in thinking

about something that's going to happen in the future.

You forget to enjoy the moment.

You forget to enjoy the day you're currently in.

So someone might say something like this to

you, hey, I know you've been thinking about

your graduation, but enjoy the moment right now.

Enjoy time with friends, enjoy your time in class,

because once graduation comes and you get a job,

life might be a little bit harder.

So enjoy the moment right now.

So in English, we like to use the phrase soon enough.

sometimes when we talk about a future event. We might

say something like this, that day will come soon enough.

I keep talking about summer vacation, but

that day will come soon enough.

It's important for me to do my job well right now.

In fact, if I kept talking to Jen

about how excited I am about summer vacation,

she might eventually say that to me.

She might say, hey, that will come

soon enough, let's get this work done.

Or, that will come soon enough. Let's talk

about something else.

I do tend to talk about

summer vacation a lot right now.

As you can see by watching this video, I

think this is the third time I've mentioned it,

but that day will come soon enough.

Right now, I just need to

focus on finishing this English lesson.

So for this next phrase, I'm going to teach you

the positive and negative versions of the phrase right away.

You can say, I'm looking forward to it,

or I'm not looking forward to it.

We use this to talk about an event

that we're excited about and an event in

the future that we're not excited about.

I'm looking forward to harvesting these sunflowers.

There's a beautiful row of sunflowers here.

They're going to bloom in a few days.

I'm looking forward to harvesting them.

I'm excited about harvesting them.

I'm not looking forward to

cleaning out the chicken coop.

The chickens have been living in this chicken tractor.

A chicken tractor is something you

can move, by the way.

A coop stays in one spot, but

they're kind of the same thing.

I'm not looking forward to cleaning this out

because chicken manure kind of smells, but they've

been in there for about three weeks.

It's time to clean it out.

So I'm looking forward to harvesting these sunflowers.

They're gonna be beautiful.

I'm not looking forward to

cleaning out the chicken coop.

The next phrase is the phrase,

I hope that day never comes.

We use this phrase to talk about

something that we don't want to experience.

Jen and I sometimes talk about the fact that someday

it might be hard for me to make YouTube videos.

I hope that day never comes.

Eventually I'm going to be old and it might be hard

for me to think clearly enough to make videos for you.

Jen loves growing flowers, but

it's very physically demanding.

In 20 or 30 years, it might be hard for her

to grow flowers, but I hope that day never comes.

I hope Jen and I can keep

doing the things we like doing forever.

I know that's not possible, but when you talk

about something in the future that you don't want

to have happen, we often use that phrase.

I hope that day never comes.

Well, hey, thank you so much for watching this

English lesson where I hope you were able to

learn some phrases you can use to talk about

future events that you're excited about or future events

that you're not excited about.

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