Make Your Way 8, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Language booster: get get is one of the most commonly used verbs in the English language and it can be used in in a lot of different ways. 14 1 I think it’s all getting a bit silly. 2 I’m not sure I get what you’re saying. 3 Award ceremonies help get people interested in the arts. 4 Most people just want to know where all the actresses got their dresses made. 5 Anyway we’re getting away from the point here. 6 In 2006, English playwright Harold Pinter got the Nobel Prize for Literature. 7 Ebenezer is getting on a bit but he’s not dead yet. 1 Peter his bike and rode down the street. 2 Mary at six every morning. 3 Ann the washing-up every day, even when it was her turn. 4 We the train just before the bomb exploded. 5 We’ve all the coffee – can you buy some more? 6 The kids are suspiciously quiet. I wonder what they’re  . 7 The Austrian chef talked about how he gourmet cooking. 8 Do you see where I’m  ? Or is more explanation needed? get can be used a in the sense of making something happen: b in the sense of becoming/reaching a particular state or condition: c with a preposition to form a number of common phrasal verbs: d as a synonym for understand : e as a synonym for receive : f in a causative construction, similar to (but less formal than) have : g as part of an idiomatic expression: Look at the following sentences. Match the use of get in each one with one of the following definitions or explanations. • Phrasal get • Complete sentences 1–8 with a phrasal get in the correct form. get at to mean/to try to say get into to take interest in something get off to leave a form of transport get on to enter/sit on a form of transport get out of to avoid doing something get through to finish the supply of something get up to leave your bed get up to to do something you should not do 13 1 Unit 1: The craft of fiction Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv