2nd class

Hi,

at this class, we saw the future in the past. How to talk about an expectation you had? It's close to our 'futuro do pretérito' I think, like:

Eu faria, Eu iria fazer

The book says it is possible to say 'They said they were going to arrive before noon.' instead of 'They said they would arrive before noon.'

But, you can't say: 'She would be a nurse'. It's better to say: 'She was going to be a nurse'.

As the future in the past is 'often used for plans that changed or weren't achieved' there are a list of excuses you can use to express why you couldn't achieve your goals.

You can say:

1. I wanted to be a astronaut but my taste/s changed;
2. I was going to be a musician but it's hard to make a living as a musician;
3. I thought I would be an archtect but I didn't pass the exam;
4. I wanted to become a politician but my wife talked me out of it;
5. I was going to  live abroad but I just changed my mind.

So there are many ways to describe why you decided to do something else. :D