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i've got a very long awaited
video for you a video that many of you
have waited
a very long time for around four years
ago i promised that if
enough of you requested this video i'd
make it
let me just check exactly when i said
that
oh god i've just had to watch an advert
on my own video i hope that's not
illegal
the 16th of june 2016.
so four and a bit years later here i am
with get phrasal verbs phrasal verbs are
so annoying to learn
they're really quite difficult for many
students but i think that the absolute
best way to learn them is through
context
so i'm going to teach them to you
through
a true story a story
about me i will be talking to you about
my experience learning another language
spanish and how i went from being a
student
doing the bare minimum and that means
the least
possible amount of work that i could do
to what i consider to be fluent in my
second language
so hopefully you might find this
motivating and at the very least you'll
learn
lots of get phrasal verbs in context
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right let's get started with the story
and the lesson
so it's going to work like this i'm
going to read out a little section of my
story
then we'll pick out the get phrasal verb
and we'll look at the definition for a
long time i got away with doing
the bare minimum at school and my
spanish
really suffered i lived in a tiny
village with
no public transport i wanted to get away
and explore another culture okay let's
look at this first phrasal verb
i've actually used it twice but it means
different things depending on the
context it is to get away
so in the first instance i say that i
got away with
doing something the bare minimum
the bare minimum is very very little the
least amount possible
now in this context get away means to
succeed in avoiding
punishment for something or similarly
to do something successfully even though
it's not the best way to do it
so i would say in this context it means
the latter so this means
that i was still passing at school but i
was working
very very little i was doing the
absolute
minimum in the second sentence i wanted
to get away
and explore to get away in this case
means
to leave or to escape and this is true
i grew up in a tiny weeny village and we
didn't have any public transport and
obviously i couldn't drive i was 16
in the time of this story and i felt
that learning another language
was my ticket out of that village it was
a way to leave and go somewhere else
i knew that if i wanted to get ahead i
had to do more than just attend my
school classes i explained my
predicament to my parents
and they got behind me they told me that
if i wanted to go abroad
i had to get out and find a job
okay so we've got three phrasal verbs
with get there let's look at the first
one
to get ahead to get ahead
this means to become successful in one's
life
or career i wasn't going to get ahead
by doing the bare minimum so i knew i
had to do something more
then we have to get behind and although
this sounds
negative because it's behind it's
actually really positive
to get behind something or to get behind
someone is to support
something or someone so my parents
really supported me
we often use to get behind an idea or
something or a project
i think they'll get behind that project
i think they'll really support it
then we have the final one to get out
which means to leave and in this case
the house my parents wanted me to leave
the house
and find a job so that i could fund my
own travels
that's a decision that my parents made
that i have always thought was really
good
whenever we wanted something we had to
find a way ourselves
they could probably have afforded to pay
for me to go to spain
but they told me that i had to find a
job and do it myself and i think that's
great okay next part of the story
i got onto it straight away and found a
job
in the local pub i spoke about this in a
previous video
my job at the pub in that video i
explained
lots of different ways to say said link
down below
once i'd saved enough money i called a
language academy
in seville spain i got through to the
manager
and i booked a week-long residential
language course when i arrived in
seville
i met all of my classmates and we got on
really well i found that i could get by
with the little spanish i knew
okay so let's start with to get onto
something
in this context it means to start to do
or to start to deal with something so if
you have a problem or a task ahead of
you you can say
right i'll get on to it i'll start to
deal with it
next we have to get through which means
to make a successful
telephone call if you called somebody
but they didn't pick up you could say
oh i couldn't get through to him now if
i can remember correctly
at this time i was 16 to 17
and i think i lied to get onto an adult
course
i don't recommend doing that but i
remember thinking i don't want to be
treated
like a child i just want to do the adult
course i feel like an adult i'm
16 17. and the next one
to get on with you might also hear to
get along with
i would probably be more inclined to say
to get on with
because to get along with requires
slightly more effort and the last one
to get by to get by this means to manage
with difficulty to live or to accomplish
something
so in this situation i was managing to
communicate with difficulty but i
accomplished it
you might hear people talking about
money with get by
i don't earn much but i get by i manage
to live
okay next part of the story as i got
older
i found that getting a couple of drinks
down me made me more confident when
speaking
i made lots of spanish friends and i
couldn't get over
how much i improved by speaking to them
on whatsapp each day
it felt good when i was able to get my
thoughts and feelings across
so that first one to get down this means
to swallow
so to get a couple of drinks down you is
to swallow a couple of drinks
yes i'm in no way promoting drinking
alcohol as a method of learning spanish
or english or any other language but
that is definitely something i noticed
when i was old enough to drink
suddenly i felt fluent then we have
to get over and this has various
meanings like
most of these phrasal verbs in this
instance it means to accept
or to come to terms with so we often use
it to talk about
a past relationship it took me two years
to get over him
to kind of recover from the pain or to
accept and to come to terms with the
breakup
in this case i'm saying i was shocked or
surprised i
couldn't get over it i couldn't recover
from my shock
i was so surprised at how much i
improved by talking to them on whatsapp
and this was true
having a couple of friends that i could
send messages to each day was amazing
especially when voice messages became
popular
and the last one you might not have
noticed the preposition or the particle
here
because it's at the end of the sentence
to get my thoughts and feelings
across this phrasal verb is separable
some of them are
inseparable like to take off you can't
take
a plane off it's always the plane takes
off
but this one can be separated
and to get across or to get something
across
is to make somebody understand
something i'm not sure if i've got that
across
i'm not sure if i've made you understand
that
final part of the story i really got
into spanish tv shows
and this helped a lot i started working
as much as i could
and every time i got off work i counted
my money to see if i could afford
another trip to spain i managed to go
twice more
and each time i got back i tried to plan
another trip i actually had a spanish
boyfriend but we broke up
and got back together a few times
seville has an extremely special place
in my heart
i always try to go back there and i get
together
with all of my old friends and we
reminisce
let's look at these last few then i said
i got into tv shows
if you get into something it means you
become interested in it
when i was younger i got into heavy
metal i became
very interested in heavy metal i got
into watching spanish tv shows but they
were not high quality ones they were
reality tv shows
probably not fantastic for language
learning but
i learned a lot from them mujeres
hombres then we have
to get off obviously in some cases this
can mean
to a light so to get off a train
to get off a plane remember if you have
to crouch down
and make your body small for example a
car or a taxi
you get out of a car you get out of a
taxi
in out car taxi on off
train bus plane in this case it means to
finish
work to leave work i get off in five
minutes
i leave work in five minutes we also
have to get back but this has two
meanings the first one to get back from
a trip
to return to arrive home from a trip
and the second one to get back with
someone or to get
back together this means to restart
a previously ended relationship so we
break up
we get back together did she get back
with him has she started their
relationship again
and this is true it's another thing that
really really helped my spanish
getting a spanish boyfriend again not
something i
i recommend as a language learning tool
but i think it just shows how powerful
it can be
to meet and mingle with people who speak
that language we have the last one
to get together which means to meet
socially
you can now have a get together as a
noun
which is a social meeting i'm having a
little get-together at mine tonight
um or shall we get together this weekend
shall we meet up
socially this weekend get together
sounds much better
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