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Speaker 1: Let me ask you something. Have you ever noticed how

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often people say get in English? I mean, seriously, we

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get tired, we get pizza, we get better, we get going,

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we get caught in the rain, and we get used

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to the cold well some of us. Get is one

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of the most flexible and common verbs in English, and

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native speakers use it all the time in conversation. So

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today let's get into it and take a look at

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five of the most useful ways we use get in

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natural every day English.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City, and here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: Alright, thank you John In. Thanks everyone, It's Michael here

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from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode nine fifteen, how

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to use get in five different ways in English. Thanks

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for tuning in and welcome back today. I've got something

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really practical for you. The verb get might be small,

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but it's got big energy. We're gonna look at five

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everyday meanings of get and I'll show you how to

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use them just like a native speaker. Let's jump in.

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First of all, get means receive or obtain. This is

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probably the most basic meaning when you get something, you

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receive it it comes to you. Like last week, I

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ordered a new phone online and I was so happy

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when it finally arrived, and then I said, hey, I

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got a new phone. Or if someone texts you and

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says did you get my message, they're asking did you

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receive it? Here's another one. The other day at work,

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Tony said, I got an email from the boss this morning.

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And you can even say things like let's get a

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coffee after work, which means let's go buy or pick

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up coffee. So yeah, anytime something is given to you

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or you go and grab something, get works perfectly. Now

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this next one is huge. Get means become. We use

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get all the time when we're talking about a change

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in state, when something becomes different. Like yesterday afternoon, I

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was working on a project and around three o'clock I said, ugh,

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I'm getting tired. Not I be care tired. No one

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says that. We say get like it's getting cold out

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or don't get upset. It's just a joke. I heard

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one of my students say last week, I think I'm

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getting better at listening, and I thought, exactly, that's a

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great way to show progress. And remember the grammar. We

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use get followed by an adjective when something is becoming

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that way, like get sick, get hungry, get old, get excited,

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get nervous. The list goes on. That's why we don't

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use get followed by a noun to mean become, so

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you can say I became a teacher, but not I

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got a teacher. Get only means become when it's followed

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by an adjective. Next up, we use get to mean

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begin or leave. Let's say it's Sunday afternoon and someone says,

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all right, time to get going. Get going means it's

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time to leave. Or when you're at work and your

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manager says, let's get started on the next task, it

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means let's begin. I said this the other day to

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my friend, Hey, we should get going if we want

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to catch that movie. And last weekend, when I was

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kind of being lazy at home, I looked at the

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laundry and said, okay, time to get started on this pile.

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So these expressions with get are super common and a

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really friendly way to talk about starting or leaving. All right,

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let's get going. To the next usage of get, we

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often use get instead of be in passive sentences, especially

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when something hap that happens to us. So instead of

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saying I was invited to a party, you can say

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I got invited to a party, same meaning, but get

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adds a little bit of emotion. It feels closer, more personal,

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like ugh, I got stuck in traffic for over an hour,

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or he got promoted last week and my friend Jenny

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said this the other day. Can you believe it? I

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got chosen to lead the presentation, and I told her nice,

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I hope I get chosen next time. This pattern is everywhere.

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Get caught, get lost, get fired, get picked, get hit,

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get accepted. All of these yes get followed by the

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past participle, and they're super useful in conversation. All right, Finally,

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we can't talk about get without looking at some phrasal verbs,

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and there are a lot of them, literally too many

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to talk about them all here, but we can look

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at some common ones, like get over. You can use

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get over when you recover from something like it took

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me a few days to get over that cold, or

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Jack said he's finally getting over that breakup with that

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girl he was dating. Next is get used to? Get

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used to? Is all about becoming comfortable or familiar with

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something new. I had a student who just moved to

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the US, and she said, it's hard to get used

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to driving on the right side of the road. And

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I told her, yeah, but you'll get used to it

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in no time. It took me a few weeks to

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get used to driving on the left here. And how

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about get along? If you and someone else have a

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good relationship, you can say we get along really well,

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like my roommate and I didn't get along at first,

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but now we're like best friends. Or it's not easy

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to get along with everyone in the workplace, but you

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do what you can, all right. And one more, get

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by that means to survive or manage, especially when you

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don't have much. Back in college, I didn't have much money,

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but I worked part time and I got buy. These

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are just a few of the most useful frasal verbs

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with get and since get shows up in dozens of

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frasal verbs, the more you learn them, the more fluent

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you'll sound. Okay, let's recap. Get means receive or obtain,

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like I got a package from Amazon. Get followed by

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an adjective means become. I'm getting sleepy, get going means

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leave and get started means begin, like let's get going.

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The concert is gonna get started at eight. Get followed

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by a past participle shows what happens to us, like

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last week in the office, Nick got promoted, but then Kim,

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well she got fired, and get shows up in tons

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of phrasal verbs get over, get used to, get along,

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get by. Trust me, once you get into these, you're

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gonna sound more and more natural. So here's your challenge.

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Try using two or three of these meanings of get

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this week, talk about something that you got, something you're

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getting used to, or how you got started with English.

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