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Look at the word map and tick the expressions with get that you know. Can you add any more expressions to the map? buy travel/go/artive: Can you tell me how to get the joumey? to the airport? What time did you get here? fetch/collect: Get He's gone to get Janice from the station. Can you get a chair from the bedroom? become: {often used with the Present Continuous for describing changes): '™m getting hungry. It's getting dark. My English is getting worse, ‘Complete the sentences below with the words/ phrases in the box. hungry is getting back train getting goton tickets get lost some stamps 4 Is the post office still open? | must get for these letters. What's the time? It's__dark already. Mario has goneto___ the children from school. 4 I'mgetting __. Shall we have some lunch? Did you manage to get_ for the match? 6 I don’t have enough time to study, so my English. worse! 7 think we should buy a map. | don’t want to get_. 8 I'mafraid | will have to leave early. | am gettinga___ to Leeds this evening, 9 Ineverreally ___with Jeremy's sister. 10 Will you call me when you get_from Rome? He went to get a newspaper, Shall we get some drinks for get + past participle: She only got married/divorced last week! | need to get dressed. | don’t know how we got lost. receive/obtain: ‘She got a letter from the bank this morning. Did you get the email | sent you? | got a distinction in my exams and | got the job! phrasal ver | got on the wrong bus. It call he: as soon as | get back. We get on really well (with each other). @ Workin groups. Write a story using the phrases from the box, and other get phrases you know. port late get lost get on (with) get directions get cold getwet gettothehotel get back get ll gel bored gethome get someone a drink get divorced get a taxi b Write your story for other students to read. Leave spaces where there is an expression with get. Can the other students guess which word/ phrase is missing? Jim was planning io get but on the way to the church. Don't always write new vocabulary ina list. Use maps like the one above. Put related words together. This will help you to remember them.

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