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hello and welcome everyone this is minoo

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at anglo-link first of all i'd like to

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thank all of you who have posted

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comments and questions for me on YouTube

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Facebook and on anger links for if

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you're watching this video on YouTube

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click on the button at the bottom of

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this video today I have chosen some

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questions that you've posted for me on

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YouTube there are a couple of general

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questions and then a few specific

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questions but I will be answering many

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of you have asked how you can improve

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your listening and speaking skills I

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have chosen three questions to read out

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for you

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Ricardo says I need to understand when I

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watch a movie what can I do

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or Garza says I really want to improve

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my English I'm not confident enough to

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use it

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because I'm very embarrassed when I make

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mistakes while speaking is there any

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advice for me and Ally Ishmael says I

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live in an Arabic country and there is

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no one near me who can speak English but

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I need to practice it what can I do

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let's start with listening because I do

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believe that improving your listening

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will naturally improve your speaking as

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I have said before in order to improve

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your listening you have to do listening

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activities now there are two types of

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listening activities you can do global

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listening and detailed listening global

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listening is when you just listen for

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the gist for the main ideas I would

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recommend that you choose easy familiar

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interesting videos or YouTube clips and

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just watch them without trying to

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understand every single one if it helps

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you can watch with subtitles english

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subtitles first and then watch the same

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thing several times without subtitles

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so that's global listening and it's

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really really important now the other

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activity you can do which is also very

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useful is

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detailed listening and that is when you

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listen and write down everything that

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you hear it's a dictation or a

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transcription exercise I have done a

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video for you on improving your

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listening skills I recommend that you

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watch that fast to know what are the

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difficulties that you might encounter

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when doing transcription exercises and

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then do whatever transcription exercise

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you can find there are some videos in

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our channel that you can use now as I

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said improving your listening will

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naturally improve your speaking but if

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you want to accelerate your speaking

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abilities you need to work specifically

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on your pronunciation and on simulating

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the grammar the structures of the

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language turning to speaking now as I've

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just said improving your listening

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skills will naturally improve your

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speaking skills however if you want to

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accelerate that what you need to do is

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to work on your pronunciation and on

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assimilating the structures that you're

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learning you can assimilate structures

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by repeating phrases that include those

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structures in order to help you with

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that we have introduced a certain level

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of membership on our website it's called

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premium plus membership and that gives

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you access to the recording of all the

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exercises the questions and the answers

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so you can listen and repeat for your

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pronunciation and for simulating the

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structures right now turning to Alice

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and Holger those questions about the

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confidence to speak and the

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opportunities to speak once you have

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improved your pronunciation and your

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listening and you have assimilated

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structures it's time for you to go and

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use what you're learning and

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it's true you will be making mistakes

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but please don't be afraid of making

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mistakes making mistakes gives you

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feedback on what you need to improve

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next remember that English is not your

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mother tongue you're learning it and

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it's absolutely normal to be making

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mistakes so have confidence go out there

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and speak and you will learn now as

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Alice says sometimes you may not have

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the opportunity in your immediate

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environment to speak English in that

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case I would strongly recommend that you

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find someone online to practice with and

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from time to time occasionally have a

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lesson small group lesson or a private

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lesson with the teacher face-to-face or

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online to get feedback on how you're

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doing what's good and what needs

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improving okay then let's move on to

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some specific language questions I have

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chosen three questions about

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conditionals the first question is from

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Eleanor who says I was taught at

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University that there is actually a

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fifth type of conditional called mixed

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conditional why didn't you include that

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in your tutorial you're absolutely right

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there is M X conditional but it's not as

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common as the other form and that's why

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I didn't include it in the video on

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conditionals this conditional is when

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the past action has a consequence in the

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present for example if I had seen him

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yesterday I wouldn't be here today so

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the action is in the past but the

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consequence in the present therefore you

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have a mixture of the third conditional

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in the if clause and the second

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conditional

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in the consequence course so thank you

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for pointing that out

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the next question about the conditionals

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was about the second conditional and it

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comes from Roberts who says can we swap

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when for was unconditional number two

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obviously or would it be wrong some

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people regard it as correct and

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acceptable so can we say if I was

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instead of if I we're grammatically

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speaking where is the correct form so if

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you're taking an exam or here doing an

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interview use if I where if it where if

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you where if she where use where also

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for me if it's completely hypothetical

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like in sentences if I were you or if I

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were 20 years younger you should stick

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with where in low probability situations

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like it's not a nice day if it were

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nicer we could go out you could say if

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it was nicer we would go out that's

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the last question on conditionals comes

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from sod and it's about the third

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conditional he says sometimes I hear

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Americans use the past simple in the if

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clause in the third conditional where

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past perfect should be used for example

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if I had time last week I would have

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visited you is that correct

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grammatically it's not correct but in

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America in American English the third

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conditional is not always well-formed

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sometimes they use the past simple like

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in science example and sometimes they

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might even use would have done twice so

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would have done in the if clause and

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would have done in the consequence

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clause like if I would have had time

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last week I would have visited you

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personally I would avoid the structure

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but it's common and acceptable in

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America

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and the last question I'd like to deal

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with in today's video is about the

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futures I've had several questions about

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the futures from you because they are a

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little tricky I'm going to read a

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hellacious question for you he says in

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the sentence I will drive to work this

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time tomorrow we should use will be

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driving why is it because it's a future

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arrangement without a specific time

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please explain it I'd like to answer

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this question by reminding you of the

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usages of the three future forms that

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are often confuse with each other one is

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that going to future I'm going to do the

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other one is the future continuous I

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will be doing and the other one is the

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present continuous used for the future I

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am doing plus the future time market now

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really in most situations all three are

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correct it's only when you want to

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insist on a specific connotation that

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you need to separate them for example if

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you want to show that you have an

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arrangement with someone you should use

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I am doing so it would be something like

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I am driving drawn to work at 8 o'clock

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tomorrow that says that you have an

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appointment an arrangement with John if

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you want to say that you have made a

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decision we've made a plan then used I'm

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going to I'm going to drive to work

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tomorrow

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I'm not going to walk and finally the

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future continues I will be driving to

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work at 8 o'clock tomorrow just shows

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that as usual at a specific time in the

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future you will be doing something soap

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like yesterday at 8 o clock I was

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driving to work it is 8 o'clock today I

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am driving to work and tomorrow as usual

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I will be driving to work at 8 o clock

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so that's the real difference between

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these futures but very often the

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are interchangeable when it doesn't

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matter what the connotation is right

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then this brings me to the end of this

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video I hope you've enjoyed it don't

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forget to ask me more questions and make

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comments in the section below and I look

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forward to seeing you in our next video

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bye now