shades. Hello, this is Jack from tofluency.com

and welcome to this English lesson where

we are going to look at the difference

between wish and hope. Wish and hope can

be quite confusing and this video is

going to give you an explanation of the

two main ways to use these two words and

i'm going to give you lots of examples.

And to help me do that I'm going to talk about

this car.

My wife got this car a long time ago.

She's had it for many years now and we

actually drove to Asheville in this car

with all the things that we had. So, when

we moved here, we packed the car full of

stuff, including, our dog, drove down to

Asheville in this car and we've been using it

nearly every day since. It's been a great

car and it has stayed in relatively

good condition throughout the years and

we hope that it stays in good condition

for many years to come.

And that's the first example of using hope.

Now, we use hope for desired outcomes,

okay, for desired outcomes. I hope this car

stays in good condition. My desired

outcome is at this car stays in good

condition.

Here are some more examples: I hope it

doesn't rain tomorrow. I hope it doesn't

rain tomorrow. He hopes a lot of people

will go to his party. He hopes a lot of

people will go to his party. So, the Sun

has just come out and I've had to put

these shades

back on, but I wish it weren't so bright

right now. I wish it weren't so bright

right now. In this example, I am using

wish because i want a change of

situation. It is bright, but I don't want it to

be, so, I wish it weren't so bright right

now. And we use this mainly for

hypothetical situations. Here are some

more examples: I wish the radio worked. I

wish the radio worked. So, the radio doesn't

work but I want that to be different. I wish

the radio

worked. I wish this car went a little

faster. So, we love this car but it is

quite slow and I wish it went a little

faster.

I've made a few videos in our yard

before but i don't think i've told you

that when we first moved into this house -

when we first moved here - there was

nothing here. We had one tree and then

the rest was mulch. There was no grass, no

plants, shrubs, only much. So, i did some

research and we ended up getting 5 apple

trees. There are a couple just over here

and there are a couple more down there

and one at the back.

However, I planted the same variety of

apple and to be honest, I wish i had got

more varieties - I wish had planted

different types of apple trees.

What you will notice about that example

is that I'm talking about an imaginary

situation in the past. I didn't plant

different varieties of apple trees but I

wish I had. So, we can also use wish when

we're talking about things that happened

in the past. But the good thing is that

the apples are delicious.

We got quite a lot of apples on this

tree, especially, last year and I hope we

get a lot again next year.

The mailman has just dropped off this

package and I'm pretty excited about it

because it's a new microphone stand. If

you have noticed during one of my latest

live lessons, then, every time I click a

button on my keypad, it makes this

strange vibrating sound through the

microphone and, to be honest, I wish I had

got this earlier because that sound has

been annoying me for a while but I don't

know why I just kept putting it off but

I hope it hasn't been too annoying for

you. As you can see, I'm currently wearing

a t-shirt which is incredible for the

middle of January. It's dry, it's warm,

the weather is beautiful, and I hope it

stays this way

for the rest of the day. I hope it

doesn't rain because we want to go on a

walk we want to stay outside and we

don't want to get wet.

I've given many examples of wish and

hope in this lesson and I just wish that

more people watched my videos. Maybe, you

can help me with that: if you have found

it useful then please share it. I really

hope you do so. Thanks again for being

here and I'll see you in the next lesson.

Bye for now!