Hello and welcome to today's English lesson my name is Stuart in today's
lesson we're looking at how we use three similar words arrive reach and get to in
English let's go to the intro now as I said today's lesson is looking at how we
use arrive reach and get to when we're talking about place now I've put place
up here because we can also use these verbs here for time and situation but
I'll show you how we use that at the end of the lesson but today we're looking at
a rye bread get to-four place and we're going to see how we use these three
verbs to talk about the same thing more or less but with a slight change
sometimes in meaning alright so the first one we're going to look at today
is arrived and the prepositions we use with arrive are at and in we can't use
too now it's surprising how many people are here using arrived to arrive to I
arrived to the airport at 4 o'clock no you need to say arrived at or arrived in
and there's a slight difference between how we use these two prepositions so
let's have a look at the example sentences and see that difference now
the first one we arrived at the cinema just in time to catch the start of the
movie we arrived at the cinema just in time so we were going to the cinema we
were hoping to catch the start of the movie we were running a bit late but we
arrived at the cinema just in time to catch the start of the movie so there
was no problems because as you know when you go to the cinema you want to try to
catch the beginning of the film in order to understand the plot or the you know
the main opening scene of the movie so it's important that we arrived at the
cinema on time and we did so here we're using
preposition at arrived at remember not to not arrived to arrive at the second
example we're using the preposition in she arrived in London two days before
starting her new job so she went from Australia to London she arrived in
London two days before now why don't we use at here okay why do we use at here
and not here well the reason is that when we talk about arriving to a big
place so for example a city perhaps even a country we arrive in so we arrive in
London but smaller places the cinema the supermarket school we arrive at we
arrived at school in time for class for example or we arrived in London we
arrived in the UK okay so that's the difference between those two now the
next one is reached now reach very similar to arrive it just means to
arrive at a place okay you arrive at the place but you'll see that we don't use a
preposition with reach so the example sentences there was a strong current so
it wasn't easy to reach the shore there was a strong current the water current
the movement in the water at the beach was very strong so it wasn't easy or we
had trouble to reach the shore okay now the reason that we use reach here is
because we normally use reach when there's sometimes a bit of a problem a
little bit of a difficulty to get to the place we're trying to get to so here we
arrived at the cinema really no problem but here because of the strong current
the difficulty in the water that we were swimming in we need to use reach okay
reach here so there was a strong current but we reached the shore okay it was
difficult but we got there no preposition now the second example news
of his father's illness took a long time to reach him okay
news of his father's illness because he was not easy to get in touch with he was
in a remote location didn't have a phone with him so news of his father's illness
took a long time to reach so we can see again that difficulty to get the news to
him so we're using reach now the other difference here is that we can use words
like him/her etc with reach we can't use them with arrive ok so it took a long
time to reach him okay so that's another difference between the
two and the third one here is get to which just means reach we can use get to
and reach almost interchangeably okay we don't really notice any difference
between the two so it was a long hike but we finally got to the top of the
mountain so we were walking for a long time but and we finally got to or
reached the top of the mountain now we can also use get to with him or her or
me or or you after okay so it took a long time to get to him
or to reach him as we saw we could substitute here get to quite easily we
could also put get to here we got to the cinema just in time to catch the start
of the movie or she got to London two days before starting her job quite
flexible we'd get to but the difference between arrive and reach and get to also
gives you the sensation that it wasn't easy perhaps to reach your final
destination so it was a long hike it took us a long time walking up the
mountain but we got to the summit or the top of the mountain or we reached the
top of the mountain so arrived reach and get to when we're talking about place
now I said before that you can also use these three for time and situation and
an example of this would be for example we reached the situation or we got to a
situation where we had to make a decision all right
or we got to a point in time or we got to a moment where we had to make a
decision okay got to or reach or arrived we can use those three but arrive with
at in reach arriving at a place and get to a meaning reach that's how we use
these three verbs now thank you very much for watching the lesson question or
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