Sound more natural and advanced with these simple expressions.

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Business English with Christina


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- Do you sound too formal in business situations in English?
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Here's a hint to know how.
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If you think that you should use get more often,
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then yeah, you probably sound too formal sometimes,
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but we'll fix that in today's lesson
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with a lot of very useful business English expressions
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with the word get.
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Let's go, let's get started.
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Hi, I'm your English coach, Christina,
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and welcome to Business English with Christina,
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where you become better at English and better at business.
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If there's one thing that you learn from my videos,
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I hope it's this, that advanced English actually sounds
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pretty simple in reality.
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For example, the little word get, it's a simple word,
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but a lot of advanced speakers of English,
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as you have probably noticed,
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use it all the time, like everywhere.
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It's a simple little word,
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but for a lot of students, it's not so easy to grasp,
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but we're gonna solve that problem today.
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And to do that,
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we're gonna look at some contrasting examples
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of maybe a more formal sounding example
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and then maybe the more advanced sounding example,
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the casual version,
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the, yeah, that different version with the word get.
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We use get when we talk about something
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that changes its state, when it becomes something different.
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For example, we became excited when we heard the news.
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We got excited when we heard the news.
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Here, you changed the way that you felt,
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from, I don't know, just normal to excited.
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When you buy something new,
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you can also use the word get.
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I love my new computer, I just purchased it yesterday.
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I love my new computer, I just got it yesterday.
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And the same is true when you obtain or receive something.
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Congratulations, you obtained the job.
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Congratulations, you got the job.
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I received your email, thanks for that.
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I got your email, thanks for that.
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Now, my teachers and I,
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we know that a lot of students can really get stressed out
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with the verb get
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because there are so many expressions that use the word get.
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But as a neuro-language coach,
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let me give you a tip for helping you to feel less stressed
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and better about your learning.
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Don't try to learn everything at once.
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Just choose a few expressions, get them, learn them,
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and then go on to learning some more.
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Do it step by step, one thing at a time,
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and you'll knock out all the expressions that you want to.
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Now, how can you do that easily?
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Very simple.
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Go over to christinarebuffet.com/worksheets,
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because I have prepared a worksheet
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to help you learn these expressions with get
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and you don't have to learn all of them.
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You can learn just one or just two this week,
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then do another one next week.
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It's great revision, and it's gonna help you
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sound more natural and more advanced,
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and to finally get, get to finally understand get.
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You can also use get
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to talk about when someone brings something to you
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or to another person.
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Hey, can you bring me that report?
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Hey, can you get me that report?
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And we can also use get
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to talk about when you arrive at a specific place.
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Yeah, I arrived at the meeting late.
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Yeah, I got to the meeting late.
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Now, listen to this phone conversation
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and see if you can understand the expressions with get.
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Hey, it's Christina.
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It's good to finally be able to get ahold of you.
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I've been trying to get through,
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but your line's been busy for days.
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Hey, yeah, sorry, I've been super busy.
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I got your email the other day
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and I've been meaning to get back to you.
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But anyway, I was wondering if maybe we could get together
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to talk about the new product before the presentation.
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Hmm, I've got a ton of week with that new client
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and I can't really get away until next week.
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I really don't get how my schedule got so busy.
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Okay.
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Well, I guess just try to get through the rest of the week
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and maybe I can get Kurt to do the presentation
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instead of us.
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So did you get that?
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In other words, did you understand
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all of those great expressions with get?
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If so, fantastic, good for you.
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And if not, well, there's a worksheet for you.
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So if you enjoyed this lesson
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or if you just want to go get that worksheet,
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here are three things that you can do
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to let me know that you enjoyed this lesson
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and you want to continue learning with me.
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The first thing, go ahead and give me a thumbs up on YouTube
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so that I can continue
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making business English lessons for you.
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Go ahead and get the worksheet that goes with this lesson
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so you can practice all of these expressions with get.
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And the third thing you can do is watch this next lesson,
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which is all about the difference,
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which one should you use, have or got?
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It was a really popular lesson a few weeks ago
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and I'm sure you'll like it.
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All right, that's it.
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Thanks a lot for learning with me
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and I'll see you next time.
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