- Hello, and welcome to this English lesson,
with me, Jack from ToFluency.com.
It is so good to have you here,
and you are going to learn
different ways that we can use get.
A great example of how to use, should have,
the phrase, leave things to the last minute,
and also, the difference between remember to do,
and remember doing.
I'm going to give you examples
from the latest conversation
that my wife and I had.
And if you haven't seen that conversation,
watch this video first, and then,
go and watch the conversation.
As you already know, the verb get,
is very common in the English language.
My wife and I used it in that conversation
over 50 times,
or variants of it.
Things like, get, got, gotten, getting, et cetera.
Now, here are the three main ways that we used it.
To get to know someone,
to get someone something,
and to get old.
Let's look at the first clip.
Who did you have to buy a present for?
- For your mother.
- Right.
- And I really enjoyed it because I feel like
I've gotten to know her so well
and she's spent time at our house.
- To get to know someone
is a process of becoming familiar with someone.
It's how you build up a relationship.
And my wife was talking about how well
she has gotten to know my mother,
which is a good thing.
They get on well,
which is another way to use get.
They have a good relationship.
They get on well.
My wife used gotten here,
but in British English you'll most likely hear,
got.
She has got to know her very well.
Here are some more examples.
We need to get to know our neighbors better.
We don't have a relationship with them right now.
We aren't very familiar with them,
so we need to get to know our neighbors better.
An example for the past,
I never got to know him.
Here is the next clip that shows you a different way
to use get.
What did you get her?
- I got her a pair of cozy slippers.
- Yeah.
In this case get means to buy somebody a present.
So my wife bought my mum a pair of cozy slippers.
She got her a pair of cozy slippers.
Now last year we did something called secret Santa.
And this is where everybody in a group
buys presents for just one person.
So you can only get something for one person.
And this makes it a lot of fun.
Here are some more examples of get.
I just don't know what to get her.
And what should I get her for Christmas?
What should I get her for Christmas?
Here is another way that we use get.
I knew Santa wasn't real, you know.
I'm getting older now.
So you know what this means right?
To get older signifies going from a young person
to an older person.
And it's the process of this happening.
But I wanted to introduce this really cool
phrase as well.
It's getting old now.
And you can say this when something is annoying,
because of repetition,
or just because you are bored of it.
It's getting old now.
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Now we are doing secret Santa
again this year.
And here is what I said about this
during our conversation.
Getting gifts again.
- Yeah and about the secret Santa draw,
because you were the one person
who hadn't put their name in.
And so I was texting you constantly,
from just different rooms in the house
while we were home together.
- Yep.
- And I was putting the baby down
or doing some laundry or something.
And then Jack, did you enter the drawing yet?
Did you enter the drawing?
- Yeah.
(laughing)
- It got a little bit too much.
- No, I.
- But it was my fault because I should have
done that earlier.
- Yeah.
- I should've done this earlier.
So we are using should have here, should have.
And this is should, in the past.
It's advice or recommendations or regrets
for something that happened in the past.
Here are two more examples of should have.
I'm so sorry.
I shouldn't have said that.
I'm so sorry.
I shouldn't have said that.
This one is a regret.
You should've brought an umbrella.
This is like advice or a past action.
The reason I didn't do it earlier
is because I like to leave things until the last minute.
I like to leave things until the last minute.
And this means,
I normally do things just before
they have to be done.
If you are at university,
or if you are at school,
I'm sure that you leave certain things until
the last minute.
I'm sure that sometimes or all the time,
you leave your homework until the last minute.
What is something that you leave
until the last minute?
Let me know in the comment section below.
What is something that you leave
until the last minute?
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In that conversation I also told the story
of how my friend found out
that Santa wasn't real.
And I said this.
One more story about Santa.
I remember being in the school playground.
Now remember being.
When we use the ger root,
it's talking about a memory that you have of the past.
I have a memory of being in the school playground.
I remember being in the school playground.
But look at these two sentences.
I remember being there.
Remember to be there.
I remember being there.
Remember to be there.
The first one is a memory.
I have a memory of being there.
The second one is a reminder.
Remember to be there.
Another example is this.
My wife and I are in the car,
and I say,
I don't remember locking the doors.
But before we leave the house
my wife normally says,
remember to lock the doors.
Remember to lock the doors.
I'm going to have a lesson on this soon.
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Okay now it is time to practice a little bit
of pronunciation.
Look at this sentence.
I got it last week.
Notice how got and it
link together.
They link together.
And when you say this it sounds like it is one word.
I got it last week.
If you have found this lesson useful
then I would be delighted if you shared it
with your friends.
And if you haven't seen that conversation,
or if you want to watch it again,
and I recommend that you do,
click over here to watch that now.
Thank you so much for being here.
It has been my pleasure teaching you today.
Bye for now.
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