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Speaker 1: As soon as I'm finished work today, I'm gonna go

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for a walk in Central Park. The park looks so

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nice after a snowfall this morning. When I walked by,

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I saw a lot of people who were going for

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a run. Not me, though, I just went for coffee.

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Let's discuss Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to

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you from New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven eighty. Using

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go for, I'm sure you've learned the verb go. It's

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a base verb that lets us move around. Jack goes

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to work every morning at eight o'clock. Simple, right, Well,

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go gets a lot more interesting when it teams up

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with the preposition for go for. Today, we're going to

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tackle nine different ways that we use go for, and

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not all of them talk about moving like these first

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two examples. We use go for when we talk about

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traveling to a place in order to buy or get something.

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There's a sense of purpose, like when you're in the

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office and you really need a coffee break. You can

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tell your coworker I'm gonna go for coffee. I'll be

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right back. Going for coffee is a necessity like this one.

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It's raining hard, but I still need to go for

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bread to make the kids lunch. You can also use

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go for when you talk about doing some activity. You

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can go for a walk, go for a hike, or

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go for a drive. Like the fall foliage is at

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peak right now, Let's go for a drive through the countryside.

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Sounds nice, right. My neighbor Gus goes for a run

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just about every morning. That guy is so motivated exercising.

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That reminds me I haven't gone for a bike ride

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in a long time. All right, So far we've talked

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about movement like go for coffee or go for a run.

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Let's move on to some other uses of go for

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that don't involve moving at all, Like we use go

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for when we talk about the selling price of something

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these days, a new iPhone goes for over one thousand dollars.

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Can you imagine if you stop by one of those

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coffee vendors in the city, a cup of joe goes

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for just a dollar. And don't get me started on

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talking about the price of food these days. A cardon

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of Eggs goes for over five dollars. That's crazy, are

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you competitive? You can use go for when you talk

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about a goal or a prize that you compete for,

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Like in the company golf tournament, everyone was trying to

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go for the top prize of a thousand bucks. And

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I mentioned my neighbor Gus before right, Well, he goes

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for a run every morning because he's going for his

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first marathon win next month. And in a similar way,

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we use go for when we try to reach a

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personal goal or objective, Like twenty five years ago, I

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went for an MBA in International Business ew that was hard.

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If you want to become a better English speaker, then

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just go for it. Put in the effort to study

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every day and you'll totally reach your goals. Go for it.

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That's a common phrase we use to encourage someone to

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try to reach a goal. Just go for it. And

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of course, speaking of goals and achievements, before you go

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for it, you need to decide what you want, right.

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We use go for when we talk about choosing something

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when we have a few choices, Like at the restaurant

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last night, everything on the menu looked good, but I

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decided to go for a steak. That was a great

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choice too. Last month, when it was time for me

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to finally upgrade my computer, I decided to go for

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a new Macmini. I'm recording this podcast with that right now. Hey,

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when you fly, do you go for an aisle seat

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or do you go for a window seat? All right,

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we just looked at using go for to talk about

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personal achievements and choices. We also use go for to

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talk about what we like our preferences, like I don't

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watch a lot of TV, but when I do, I

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usually go for comedies. My buddy Ed goes for women

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with blonde hair and blue eyes. And we can also

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use go four when we talk about what we don't like.

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I know now go definitely doesn't go for celery at all.

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And speaking of choices, when you want to have or

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do something right now at the moment of speaking, you

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can use go four with could like it's so cold today,

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I could go for a cup of hot chocolate, and

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I'm so hungry, I could go for a shake Shack

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Burger right now. And speaking of food, as usual, around

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two or three in the afternoon, I could go for

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some chocolate. And lastly, on today's adventure, with go for

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We can use this phrase to talk about what someone

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will accept or allow or permit, Like i would love

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to have a day off tomorrow, but I'm sure the

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boss won't go for it. There's no way your wife

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is going to go for you spending the weekend in

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Las Vegas with your buddies. If you want. You can

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ask your parents to let you move back in with

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them for a while, but I don't think they will

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go for it. Keep in mind, the best way to

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remember vocabulary like this and any other word or phrase

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in English is to take that word or phrase, write

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it in a sentence that's true for you or true

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in your world, and then memorize your sentences. By the way,

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