First day of Class. Part Three: bucket lists

Bucket Lists


                                                    Embarrassing photo, number 1


In English, the idiomatic expression "to kick the bucket" means "to die". That is, before I kick the bucket, I'd like to live a long and happy life.

 However, the expression "to have a bucket list" is much more optimistic. This one means to have a list of things you would like to achieve before you "kick the bucket".

 For example, visiting Iceland is top of my bucket list, but there are many other items waiting in line too.

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bucket list
noun
informal
  1. a number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime.
    "making this trip is the first thing on my bucket list"



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This is one person's bucket list for Scotland. Can you remember all 10 items? I'll quiz you at the end.

 Here's a written version of the video.

 My version of a Bucket List to complete in Scotland would be very different:

 1. Swim in the North sea
2. Swim in the Atlantic
3. Visit a west coast island, other than Skye.
4. Go horse riding... anywhere
5. Take a boat out to the Isle of May and admire the puffins, cormorant, gullimots and other seabirds
6. Walk a Munro (one of the 282 mountains over 3000ft in Scotland)
7. Go sailing...
8. Go skiing
9. Go rock climbing
10. Go parachuting

 Your version would, no doubt, be different again... but that's the fun of bucket lists: you get to create your own.

 Guess what I would like you to do now? Yep, make a "bucket list"

 Grammar points:
"Would like" is best used, in this case, with "an infinitive" (I would like to go/see/eat/meet...)
  Would like 
Will or Would 

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