hi again welcome to inkvid.com i'm adam
today's lesson is about phrasal verbs
using the verb get
now before i dive into this lesson i
just want to explain a few things i've
gotten many comments on inkvid.com and
many people tell me that phrasal verbs
are very difficult
and i understand that i appreciate that
but i want you to start thinking of
phrasal verbs as vocabulary it's just
extra words you have to study
it's not fun i understand that but it's
not that difficult either you just have
to remember and use and practice
practice practice like any other
vocabulary you're learning
so today's
verb is get let's look at some of these
prepositions we have
get up get down get away get over get
off get on get in get through get
between get along or get along with
so we're gonna go one by one i'll
explain basically what they mean
sometimes they have more than one
sometimes two sometimes three different
meanings
and if necessary i'll give examples
sorry about that
okay let's start with get up
get up two general meetings you're gonna
need to know one is get up
if you're sitting down if you're lying
down and someone says get up it means
stand up stand
get off the floor get off the chair
whatever
get up also means to get dressed in a
certain way
if you're going to a club you want to
get up all fancy and put a nice dress or
a nice suit for the guys if it's
halloween you're going to get up in a
nice costume
we can also use get up
as a noun
get up means what you're wearing nice
get up means i like your clothes nice
suit nice costume nice
whatever it is you're wearing
get down
opposite of get up if you're standing
get down or sit down for example so get
down
if uh
if a baseball is flying your way get
down
duck get underneath it
get down in a slang way means get down
like enjoy the music enjoy the party you
know like
get down dance do whatever
gets you down
we'll get to get off in a second you'll
understand
get away
get away means leave
but in a more colloquial way colloquial
means like everyday street english not
necessarily slang but common english
getaway means go on vacation
and
when you go on vacation you choose a
nice getaway
a getaway is a vacation like a planned
vacation or a nice vacation destination
the place you're going to so hawaii is a
great getaway in winter in canada
because it's cold hawaii beautiful
get over
one there's a one meaning get over
something physical like there's a wall
and you need to get to the other side so
you get over the wall
okay
but that wall could also be a problem or
an obstacle it doesn't have to be a
physical thing right so you have a
problem get over it
move on as they say so you and your
girlfriend had a fight
okay get over it
move on continue on like nothing
happened make up
kiss whatever you do
next day everything is good get over it
okay that's the most common
meanings of get over
get off a few meetings you're sitting on
the chair or you're sitting on the table
excuse me in my classroom we don't allow
that get off the table means
get off the table
remove yourself from the table
get off
in terms of criminals so let's say
somebody killed
200 people a mass murderer
and he is sent to jail for one month
okay so he got off
very lightly so get off means avoid
punishment
okay even though he got one month in
jail for what he did that's almost no
punishment so he got off very lightly
get off into in slang means to get
really excited by something
it could be sexual if you get off
you know whatever you do your boyfriend
girlfriend whatever you do to each other
to get each other off go for it it's all
good but sometimes it could be anything
anything that gets you excited okay so
some people get off on jazz music they
listen to jazz and they they really
start to get down you know they really
enjoy themselves they get off it's
almost like being high like on a drug
okay that's the slang
get on get on is very basic it means
get on on something on top of something
usually we use it for
like a train get on the train get on the
bus get on the ship
but we get in a car
we get in a boat so anything that is
like a container or that is closed we
usually say get in anything that is big
and has a big floor you can walk on like
a train or a plane or a ship
you would get on
okay
get in well we'll leave that actually
for now get in
get through means finish
or complete all the things that need to
be completed so for example i'm a
teacher i give you this much homework
when you get through this homework i
will give you more because practice
makes perfect i want you to be good
english speakers yes so when you get
through this assignment i'll give you
another
okay
get between get between usually means
like physically you
put yourself between two things so get
between the door and the wall if that's
if that's what you do but get between
can also be more like an idea so don't
if you're married for example don't let
your mother-in-law
get between you and your wife or you and
your husband never a good idea okay so
get between means create a problem
between two people or two things or
whatever the situation
now we also have get along
get along by itself and get along with
mean the same thing it means to be
friendly with or to cooperate with okay
so if i get along with all my friends
means that we when we are together we
have fun we enjoy each other nobody
argues
and me and my friends get along
so it depends where it is in the
sentence you can use get along or get
along with
okay
another one
sometimes you can use get on with
this is a bit more of a british meaning
get on with and get along with mean the
same thing get along with is more
american get on with is more british
english but they mean the same thing
now another expression one last one
if somebody wants you to get on board
sometimes they'll say come on board but
get on board means they want you to join
they want you to agree with what's going
on and be part of the team
so
for example
if a
president of some country wants other
countries to support him he wants them
to get on board with his plan
will it happen did it happen who knows
but that's what it means
okay so let me get actually go back to
get in
another way we can use get in so we said
we can get into a car we can get into a
boat means enter a contain thing we can
also use get in with
this is a bit more of a slang
you get in with a crowd get in with a
group okay so for example if i get in
with the popular kids
at the school
then i mean i'm part of that group okay
so it's a little bit more of a slang
oh sorry
get in with okay now we have it okay if
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