Name: English Boost Level Up Your Skills | English Podcast Conversation | Episode 30
Uploaded: 2025-02-15T05:53:48.000Z
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Hello, English learners, welcome back to another great lesson here at EnglishPod.

So, Marco, today we've got a little bit of an unusual lesson because we're talking about hypothetical situations.

We're talking about a unreal situation or something that may happen or may not happen.

So, you're going to hear all about this in today's dialogue.

We're going to hear it a couple of times.

When we come back, we'll be breaking it down for you so you know all about these great phrases and how to talk about not real situations with your friends.

If Eric asked you out on a date, what would you say?

What would you do if you won the lottery?

If I won the lottery, I would buy two tickets for trips around the world.

If you buy me a ticket, I'll go with you for sure.

My dad would freak out if I even mentioned a trip like that.

What would your mom say if you told her that you're going to get married?

If I told her that, she would faint and have me committed.

So I think that was clear and well, a very common situation.

Two teenage girls talking to each other about, you know, boys and what would you do and da da da.

No, but it's actually a very popular game in the car to play.

And that's exactly the topic that we want to talk about today is the structure what-if, which is actually called a conditional.

So conditional because the result, the thing that happens depends on something else.

So let's actually take a look at the words in today's language takeaway before we talk about all this grammar stuff.

So we'll start out with some basic words.

Well, you know, they were talking about guys and she said, if Eric asked you out, right?

So this might be a little bit strange because you think, okay, to ask is to ask a question, but to ask out, it's a fixed phrase.

That means I want to invite someone on a date.

So yeah, I want to ask him out to dinner or he asked me out to the movies.

Now if I didn't want to ask somebody out on a romantic date, what verb would you use?

I'd say you could invite someone out, but then again, it's always a little bit, well, you can say invite for someone if you're going to ask them on a date too.

So I say to ask out is always romantic and to invite can be romantic or just friends.

So to ask somebody out now, uh, they were talking about other situations and maybe they would go on a trip or something.

This is something that I used a lot when I was a teenager.

So the verb to freak out means to be really angry or upset or, you know, it could be a good thing or a bad thing, but usually when we're talking about our parents, it's a bad thing.

And, uh, the last word that we have in language takeaway today is, uh, committed.

So this is actually being done to someone.

Now we did look at this word before, but basically for, for marriage, right?

But to have someone committed means that you're going to send them away to maybe a mental institution.

So this means they have psychological problems and someone else sends them to the hospital because they can't send themselves.

So it's always used to have someone committed, right?

My mom's going to have me committed if I keep working 20 hours a day.

And so now you have another way of using this verb, but now I think we should listen to this dialogue again.

We're going to slow it down a little bit and then we'll come back and look at this grammar focus that we want to talk about.

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