- Do you sound too formal in business situations in English?
Here's a hint to know how.
If you think that you should use get more often,
then yeah, you probably sound too formal sometimes,
but we'll fix that in today's lesson
with a lot of very useful business English expressions
with the word get.
Let's go, let's get started.
Hi, I'm your English coach, Christina,
and welcome to Business English with Christina,
where you become better at English and better at business.
If there's one thing that you learn from my videos,
I hope it's this, that advanced English actually sounds
pretty simple in reality.
For example, the little word get, it's a simple word,
but a lot of advanced speakers of English,
as you have probably noticed,
use it all the time, like everywhere.
It's a simple little word,
but for a lot of students, it's not so easy to grasp,
but we're gonna solve that problem today.
And to do that,
we're gonna look at some contrasting examples
of maybe a more formal sounding example
and then maybe the more advanced sounding example,
the casual version,
the, yeah, that different version with the word get.
We use get when we talk about something
that changes its state, when it becomes something different.
For example, we became excited when we heard the news.
We got excited when we heard the news.
Here, you changed the way that you felt,
from, I don't know, just normal to excited.
When you buy something new,
you can also use the word get.
I love my new computer, I just purchased it yesterday.
I love my new computer, I just got it yesterday.
And the same is true when you obtain or receive something.
Congratulations, you obtained the job.
Congratulations, you got the job.
I received your email, thanks for that.
I got your email, thanks for that.
Now, my teachers and I,
we know that a lot of students can really get stressed out
with the verb get
because there are so many expressions that use the word get.
But as a neuro-language coach,
let me give you a tip for helping you to feel less stressed
and better about your learning.
Don't try to learn everything at once.
Just choose a few expressions, get them, learn them,
and then go on to learning some more.
Do it step by step, one thing at a time,
and you'll knock out all the expressions that you want to.
Now, how can you do that easily?
Very simple.
Go over to christinarebuffet.com/worksheets,
because I have prepared a worksheet
to help you learn these expressions with get
and you don't have to learn all of them.
You can learn just one or just two this week,
then do another one next week.
It's great revision, and it's gonna help you
sound more natural and more advanced,
and to finally get, get to finally understand get.
You can also use get
to talk about when someone brings something to you
or to another person.
Hey, can you bring me that report?
Hey, can you get me that report?
And we can also use get
to talk about when you arrive at a specific place.
Yeah, I arrived at the meeting late.
Yeah, I got to the meeting late.
Now, listen to this phone conversation
and see if you can understand the expressions with get.
Hey, it's Christina.
It's good to finally be able to get ahold of you.
I've been trying to get through,
but your line's been busy for days.
Hey, yeah, sorry, I've been super busy.
I got your email the other day
and I've been meaning to get back to you.
But anyway, I was wondering if maybe we could get together
to talk about the new product before the presentation.
Hmm, I've got a ton of week with that new client
and I can't really get away until next week.
I really don't get how my schedule got so busy.
Okay.
Well, I guess just try to get through the rest of the week
and maybe I can get Kurt to do the presentation
instead of us.
So did you get that?
In other words, did you understand
all of those great expressions with get?
If so, fantastic, good for you.
And if not, well, there's a worksheet for you.
So if you enjoyed this lesson
or if you just want to go get that worksheet,
here are three things that you can do
to let me know that you enjoyed this lesson
and you want to continue learning with me.
The first thing, go ahead and give me a thumbs up on YouTube
so that I can continue
making business English lessons for you.
Go ahead and get the worksheet that goes with this lesson
so you can practice all of these expressions with get.
And the third thing you can do is watch this next lesson,
which is all about the difference,
which one should you use, have or got?
It was a really popular lesson a few weeks ago
and I'm sure you'll like it.
All right, that's it.
Thanks a lot for learning with me
and I'll see you next time.