Hi. I'm Gill from
www.engvid.com, and today we're going to have
a look at the verb "to get", and the different uses of it, or some of
the different uses. It's used all the time and in different ways. So, there are too many
uses to look at in one lesson, so there will be another lesson on this as well. So, look
out for that one, too. Okay? So, the verb "to get", it's a very, very common English word,
used all the time in many different ways. So, let's start by looking at some very
ordinary uses of the verb "to get". So, you could "get wet". If you're out in the rain:
"Aw, I got wet in the rain." So: "got", past tense. Or you can say: "Don't get wet. It's going to
rain." So: "to get wet". "To get thirsty". If you haven't had a drink for a long
time, you get thirsty, you need a drink. "To get annoyed", you can get annoyed, angry about
something or about someone, the way somebody behaves. Okay? You can get... "Get tired". If you've been
working all day, you get really tired late at night and you need to go to bed. You can
"get drunk", which means drinking a lot of alcohol so that you're sort of reeling around,
and maybe falling on the floor. Not a good idea. So, you can "get drunk". Or you can
say to somebody who's going to a party: "Don't get drunk." Okay? "You'll feel terrible the
next day. Don't get drunk." So: "drunk", it's always to do with alcohol. You can say: "I
have drunk a class of water." That's just the past tense of "to drink", but in this
sense, it's to do with alcohol. Okay, you can "get married". Well, you can "get engaged",
"get married", "get divorced", all of those for "get". Use "get". Okay? You can "get the
flu" or "a cold", when you're sneezing and you're feeling
really ill, the flu. You can "get the sack", which means losing
your job. It's a colloquial expression that means to lose your job: "the sack". A sack
is like a... Something, a container, a sack made of cloth, usually, or plastic, you can
have a plastic sack. But the... It's just an expression for losing your job. I think
you're given a bag with all your belongings in to take away with you so that you don't
leave all your stuff in a drawer somewhere in the office where you don't work anymore,
so that may be the reason. "To get the sack". And then, having gotten the sack, you can
"get a new job", where hopefully things will go better. "To get a new job". And "to get
ready", to get ready, put some nice clothes on to go out to a party. Get ready to go to
work, get ready to do something. Okay. So, that's all very, very simple
uses of the verb "to get". Right, so now let's have a look at some imperatives,
which means telling people what to do or what not to do sometimes. They're like orders:
"Do this, do that." Okay? So, and some can be quite rude, so you have to be careful how
you use them because telling people what to do isn't always very nice. So, if you say
to someone: "Get out!" that is very strong. If you ask them: "Get out". If someone walked
in here now, I might say... Well, I wouldn't, but I could say: "Get out.
We're filming." But I would probably say: "Oh. Do you mind? We're filming
at the moment, so please, would you mind leaving the room?" But a rude person would say: "Get out! We're
filming." So: "Get out!" "Get in", maybe your friend is... Has arrived
with the car, ready to go on a trip, and she's waiting for you to get into the car as well,
and she's in a hurry, so she might say: "Get in, get in, we're ready to go.
We don't want to be late. Get in!" "Get off", so again, in the car: "We need
to get off now." We can go, we can get off. Or if someone is standing on a chair, and
you... They're spoiling the chair with their dirty shoes, you can say: "Get off the chair.
Get off the chair. You're making it dirty." Okay? "Get up", if you're in bed in the morning,
you have to get up, get dressed, get washed, all of those things. Get ready to go out.
"Get up". If you're on some very nice grass that you're not supposed to be on, somebody
might shout: "Get off the grass!" because you could be spoiling it, and
turning it into muddy tracks. And this one is quite a nice one, because
this... These words appear on a card. You can buy a greetings card from a shop that says:
"Get well soon!" If you're ill, if somebody is ill either at home or in hospital, and
you feel sorry for them, you want them to get better, you can send a card
that says: "Get well soon." Okay? Right, then finally then, just a few other
expressions using "get". "To get the credit" for something. If somebody has done something
really good, hopefully they get the credit for doing it. People recognize that they have
done something good. Sometimes somebody else gets the credit for what you've done, and
that is not very nice. They... Or they take the credit. But "to get the credit" means you
are recognized as the person who has done something, usually
something good. "To get"... If something "gets on my nerves", the
nerves of your nervous system, your feelings, your sensations, your nerves, you know, how you
feel, how you react. If I said... If there was some music playing next door very loud and
it had been going on for an hour, I would say: "That music is really getting on my nerves.
It's really annoying me. It's irritating me. I don't like it. It's upsetting me."
So: "to get on your nerves". Okay? "To get through the day", sometimes the day
that you're living is rather difficult, but you keep going and you say: "I've got to get
through the day." If I can just get through the day, I'll be okay. Then I can go home,
relax, watch some television, whatever. Just get through the day. It's a sort of endurance
test sometimes to get through. Right. "To get over a bad experience". If you've
had a bad experience, you have to recover from it, and it might take a bit of time.
So that's called "getting over something", "to get over a bad experience". Just an ordinary one, really: "to get the car
going". Sometimes a car won't start very easily. You turn the key in the ignition
and the engine won't start, so: "Oh, no, we're going on holiday. We've got to get
the car going, otherwise we won't be able to go." So that's usually something you
have to do, "to get it going". "To get something done", to do a job. "Get
something done". "To get up", to get up in the morning from bed or to stand up from a
chair, maybe. Oh: "to get out of bed", right. This is an interesting one: "to get into conversation
with somebody". If you're learning English, it's a good idea to... And there are English-speaking
people around, it's a good idea to get into conversation with an English-speaking person
to give you some practice. And even if you don't know them, you can just start chatting,
and that's called "getting into conversation", to start a conversation. Okay? And then finally: "to get out of something"
is when there's something you don't really want to do. Maybe you've been invited to a
friend's party, and you know you don't enjoy the parties, unfortunately, at your friend's
house, you don't like the other people who come, so you have to think of a
reason why you can't go and say: "Oh, sorry, I'm doing something else that
night." You get out of it, you find an excuse, a reason why you can't go. Okay, so that's just a few. There are lots more,
but that's just a few uses of the verb "to get". So, if you'd like to test yourself on these,
there's a quiz on the website, www.engvid.com. And if you'd like to subscribe to my
YouTube channel, that would be great. And see you again soon. Bye.
