Speaker 1: As soon as I'm finished work today, I'm gonna go
for a walk in Central Park. The park looks so
nice after a snowfall this morning. When I walked by,
I saw a lot of people who were going for
a run. Not me, though, I just went for coffee.
Let's discuss Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to
you from New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.
All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael
here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.
And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven eighty. Using
go for, I'm sure you've learned the verb go. It's
a base verb that lets us move around. Jack goes
to work every morning at eight o'clock. Simple, right, Well,
go gets a lot more interesting when it teams up
with the preposition for go for. Today, we're going to
tackle nine different ways that we use go for, and
not all of them talk about moving like these first
two examples. We use go for when we talk about
traveling to a place in order to buy or get something.
There's a sense of purpose, like when you're in the
office and you really need a coffee break. You can
tell your coworker I'm gonna go for coffee. I'll be
right back. Going for coffee is a necessity like this one.
It's raining hard, but I still need to go for
bread to make the kids lunch. You can also use
go for when you talk about doing some activity. You
can go for a walk, go for a hike, or
go for a drive. Like the fall foliage is at
peak right now, Let's go for a drive through the countryside.
Sounds nice, right. My neighbor Gus goes for a run
just about every morning. That guy is so motivated exercising.
That reminds me I haven't gone for a bike ride
in a long time. All right, So far we've talked
about movement like go for coffee or go for a run.
Let's move on to some other uses of go for
that don't involve moving at all, Like we use go
for when we talk about the selling price of something
these days, a new iPhone goes for over one thousand dollars.
Can you imagine if you stop by one of those
coffee vendors in the city, a cup of joe goes
for just a dollar. And don't get me started on
talking about the price of food these days. A cardon
of Eggs goes for over five dollars. That's crazy, are
you competitive? You can use go for when you talk
about a goal or a prize that you compete for,
Like in the company golf tournament, everyone was trying to
go for the top prize of a thousand bucks. And
I mentioned my neighbor Gus before right, Well, he goes
for a run every morning because he's going for his
first marathon win next month. And in a similar way,
we use go for when we try to reach a
personal goal or objective, Like twenty five years ago, I
went for an MBA in International Business ew that was hard.
If you want to become a better English speaker, then
just go for it. Put in the effort to study
every day and you'll totally reach your goals. Go for it.
That's a common phrase we use to encourage someone to
try to reach a goal. Just go for it. And
of course, speaking of goals and achievements, before you go
for it, you need to decide what you want, right.
We use go for when we talk about choosing something
when we have a few choices, Like at the restaurant
last night, everything on the menu looked good, but I
decided to go for a steak. That was a great
choice too. Last month, when it was time for me
to finally upgrade my computer, I decided to go for
a new Macmini. I'm recording this podcast with that right now. Hey,
when you fly, do you go for an aisle seat
or do you go for a window seat? All right,
we just looked at using go for to talk about
personal achievements and choices. We also use go for to
talk about what we like our preferences, like I don't
watch a lot of TV, but when I do, I
usually go for comedies. My buddy Ed goes for women
with blonde hair and blue eyes. And we can also
use go four when we talk about what we don't like.
I know now go definitely doesn't go for celery at all.
And speaking of choices, when you want to have or
do something right now at the moment of speaking, you
can use go four with could like it's so cold today,
I could go for a cup of hot chocolate, and
I'm so hungry, I could go for a shake Shack
Burger right now. And speaking of food, as usual, around
two or three in the afternoon, I could go for
some chocolate. And lastly, on today's adventure, with go for
We can use this phrase to talk about what someone
will accept or allow or permit, Like i would love
to have a day off tomorrow, but I'm sure the
boss won't go for it. There's no way your wife
is going to go for you spending the weekend in
Las Vegas with your buddies. If you want. You can
ask your parents to let you move back in with
them for a while, but I don't think they will
go for it. Keep in mind, the best way to
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in English is to take that word or phrase, write
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