Meaning of GET A MOVE ON - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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Bob's Short English Lessons


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So in English when we say "get a move on" it means
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get it done faster or hurry up.
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Today in my classroom I was teaching and there was only 10 minutes left in class, and my
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students weren't done their work so I said to them, "You guys better get a move on, because
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there's only 10 minutes left!"
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When I came outside today to shoot this video I noticed that it is going to start raining
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soon, so I thought, "I better get a move on and get this video done quickly before it
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starts to rain."
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So when we say, "get a move on", it means exactly the same thing as "hurry up".
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Some of you maybe aren't learning English very quickly and maybe you need to get a move
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on and learn a little more English every day so that you are fluent in no time!
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So, get a move on!
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