LXT-Unit 12: Language focus

WOMEN IN THE SOCIETY
Language Focus
PHRASAL VERBS WITH GET

get up

Ex: I get up at 7 o’clock
every morning

PHRASAL VERBS WITH GET


get on
Ex: They are getting on
the bus
PHRASAL VERBS WITH GET

get along with
Ex: They are
getting along well
with each other.
PHRASAL VERBS WITH GET

Get off
Ex: The plane is getting off.
It’s leaving the ground.
GET can be combined with many different particles to create different MEANINGS.
GET
around
through
away with
by
ahead
in
More phrasal verbs with GET
finish
Make
progress
Enter a vehicle
Manage to do st
Do without being
caught or punished
Evade, avoid
GET
down to
away
over
by with
at
round
escape
Begin to deal with st, esp. st difficult
recover
Manage with a minimum of effort
persuade
Intending to say st
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
Choose the most suitable answer

1. I hate getting ........ early in the winter when it`s still dark

a. on
b. off
c. up
Choose the most suitable answer

2. It took her a long time to get ...... the illness

a. over
b. by
c. in
Choose the most suitable answer

3. The thieves got ...... with several thousand pounds

a. off
b. on
c. away
Choose the most suitable answer

4. I didn`t mean to get you ....... trouble
a. on
b. into
c. onto
Choose the most suitable answer
5. I don’t understand what you mean. What are you getting ……?

a. by
b. across
c. at
Key
1. c
2. a
3. c
4. b
5. c
AS IF / AS THOUGH
AS IF / AS THOUGH is used to describe an assumption about sb/sth. This assumption may be either true or false, likely or not likely, possible or impossible.
If the assumption may be true, or likely, or possible, we often use the present tenses or future tenses to express it.
Ex: She looks as if
she is going to faint.

AS IF / AS THOUGH
If the assumption does not correspond to the fact, or it is not logical or not likely, we often express it by using the structure of “unreal”.
Ex: She walks as though she was a model

AS
We use AS to express the fact that something happens in a particular way, a way that you already had something in your mind about it.
Ex: - Why don’t you do as I told you?




- He came late, just as I predicted.
Match half of the sentence in the left column with the other half in the right column, using
AS / AS IF / ASTHOUGH
as
as if
as though
Key
as
as if
as though

Phi looks really awful. He looks…
Everything went
off …
He behaves …
It sounds …
That poor dog
looks …
From what Emma said, it sounds …

the situation will get worse.
it never gets fed.
it was planned.
he were my boss.
he’d been up all night.
she and Mathew
are going to get married
1e – 2c – 3d – 4a – 5b – 6f
Imagine you’re telling your friend all these things.
Use AS / AS IF to join the two ideas together
Imagine you’re telling your friend all these things.
Use AS / AS IF to join the two ideas together