Learn English - how to use 'to get' | EnglishWithLucy

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Hello and welcome to English with Lucy
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It's been a long time since I last made a video using my whiteboard
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So, today is going to be a really useful lesson
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It's going to be all about the verb 'to get'.
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Ooh! Very important news
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I now have an instagram along with my facebook
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and obviously my youtube channel which is right here
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and for my Chinese followers I've created a Weibo account as well
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and you can communicate with me on there
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Now, I warn you I don't speak Chinese
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So I'm finding it quite difficult but
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I don't want you guys to feel like I don't appreciate you because I do
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So what does 'get' mean?
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Don't tell me that it means 'to obtain' because
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Because that is only one of the many many many uses for get
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Today I've got a really really useful video for you
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It is all about the verb to get and the many uses that it has
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So make sure you watch right till the end!
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So, if you look in an English dictionary, you will probably find
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that there are around 50 uses, 50 individual uses, for the verb to get
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Now, I've managed to group some of these uses into 7 categories
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And today we're going to talk about 6 of them
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I'm going to talk to you about how the verb 'to get'
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Can be used to replace
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to arrive
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to receive or to obtain
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to become
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to bring to buy and to find
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And it can also be added to 'to have' or 'to have to'
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I will then discuss some of the many
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phrases and expressions that can be used with to get
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Now I do have phrasal verbs written here
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but I'm not going to talk about those today
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If you don't know what a phrasal verb is
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I do have a video about how phrasal verbs are made
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and how we use them
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Now there are a lot of phrasal verbs that use the verb to get
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But there are too many to talk about today
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So I promise you that I will make another video
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all about phrasal verbs using get
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So the first one: to travel or to arrive
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Very similar
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How did you get to London?
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I got here by train
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