Unit 12 language focus

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WOMEN

IN THE SOCIETY

PHRASAL VERBS WITH GET

get up

every morning

PHRASAL VERBS WITH GET

get on

the bus

PHRASAL VERBS WITH GET

get along with

getting along well

with each other.

PHRASAL VERBS WITH GET

Get off

It’s leaving the ground.

GET can be combined with many different

particles to create different MEANINGS.

GET

particle

particle

particle

around through

down to away

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

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.

Ex: She walks as

though she was a

model

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

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

You have this feeling

You are floating

on air

Kim went to the party with Phi

You predicted that.

I feel as if I’m floating on air.

Kim went to the party with Phi as I predicted.

We promised that

We shall deliver

the goods on the

twenty-seventh.

Minh talked about Hawaii

We shall deliver the goods on the twenty- seventh as we promised.

Minh talked about Hawaii as if he had been there himself.

Imagine you’re telling your friend all these things

Use AS / AS IF to join the two ideas together