Stop Using 'Should' Like This!

If you want to be a brain surgeon, you should do your training. Okay let's get started,

then. Is this the brain? Okay great, so we're going to cut the brain and do some surgery,

um, I didn't do the training for this, is that a problem?

I know I should have done the training, I should have, but I it seemed really boring and I didn't

want to do it so I didn't do the training but it'll be fine, it'll be fine. Scalpel?

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my name is Laura and I work as an English teacher and recently in my lessons I keep seeing the

same mistake and this mistake is knowing the difference between 'should' and 'have to'. Now,

Poor have to over here, he's not being used as much as he needs to be, a lot of my students are

using should too often, they are using should a lot and it's not always correct, so let me talk

you through when we use should and when we use have to. Okay so let's talk about should, when

do we use should? What does it mean? So should is an extremely common modal verb and we use it a lot

and we use should to talk about something that is the correct thing to do, the proper thing to do,

the expected thing to do, or the right thing to do and we also use it to talk about what someone

ought to do, what is suggested. It's like giving advice, you want to make sure that this person

is going to do the right thing so when you think of should I want you to think about

your grandmother or your grandfather telling you what you should do, it's their suggestion,

it's their advice of what is the right thing for you to do. However with should it always feels

like there's an option, it feels like you have the choice of saying no, so you could say to someone

'you should do your homework', that's my advice, that's my suggestion but you could say, 'no,

I'm not going to,' so there's always that choice, even though you might know it's

the best thing to do, it's the right thing to do, you can always say no, and a lot of the

time when native speakers use should we are kind of implying that we're not going to do

something so if I said to you, 'oh, I should clean the house today... but I'm not gonna.'

So if you think back to the example at the beginning of this video, if you want to be a

brain surgeon you should do your training, I don't think, I hope anyway, I hope if you want to be a

brain surgeon I hope that the training is not optional. I hope you don't go to the university

and say, 'I want to be a brain surgeon' and they say to you, 'do you want to do the training?Yes?

No? Okay go ahead.' It's not a choice, you don't have the option of saying no, it's not like,

'yeah it would be good if you did this, you should do this, but do what you want.' No no no, in this

case we need to use, 'have to'. Okay? Have to is so so important because there are so many things

in life where there's no choice, you have to do it. Okay so in this sentence: if you want to be

a brain surgeon you have to do the training, you just have to, it's not legal for you to operate

on someone's brain if you don't know what you're doing, you have to do it, so if there's no choice,

if there's no option of saying no you have to use have to. I just did it then! You 'have to' do it,

you can't not do it, otherwise you'll be wrong. I was teaching somebody the other day and they said,

'I have a new job in England, in London, it's an English-speaking company, everyone speaks English,