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Hello and welcome to English with Lucy

It's been a long time since I last made a video using my whiteboard

So, today is going to be a really useful lesson

It's going to be all about the verb 'to get'.

Ooh! Very important news

I now have an instagram along with my facebook

and obviously my youtube channel which is right here

and for my Chinese followers I've created a Weibo account as well

and you can communicate with me on there

Now, I warn you I don't speak Chinese

So I'm finding it quite difficult but

I don't want you guys to feel like I don't appreciate you because I do

So what does 'get' mean?

Don't tell me that it means 'to obtain' because

Because that is only one of the many many many uses for get

Today I've got a really really useful video for you

It is all about the verb to get and the many uses that it has

So make sure you watch right till the end!

So, if you look in an English dictionary, you will probably find

that there are around 50 uses, 50 individual uses, for the verb to get

Now, I've managed to group some of these uses into 7 categories

And today we're going to talk about 6 of them

I'm going to talk to you about how the verb 'to get'

Can be used to replace

to arrive

to receive or to obtain

to become

to bring to buy and to find

And it can also be added to 'to have' or 'to have to'

I will then discuss some of the many

phrases and expressions that can be used with to get

Now I do have phrasal verbs written here

but I'm not going to talk about those today

If you don't know what a phrasal verb is

I do have a video about how phrasal verbs are made

and how we use them

Now there are a lot of phrasal verbs that use the verb to get

But there are too many to talk about today

So I promise you that I will make another video

all about phrasal verbs using get

So the first one: to travel or to arrive

Very similar

How did you get to London?

I got here by train