| LESSON OVERVIEW
This lesson plan is built around phrases with the verb get. It is prepared for stronger students (B2) and consists of various tasks that will make your students learn and remember some phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions with get.
WARM-UP
The worksheet starts with a short exercise which should be considered a warm-up task to introduce students to the world of the verb get. Therefore, students get five sentences with gaps. Their task is to fill in the gaps with correct prepositions and adverbs to create some basic phrases with the verb get.
PHRASAL VERBS
Next, students move to two exercises on phrasal verbs with get. First, they need to study the sentences given and complete definitions of phrasal verbs with correct words. The list of phrasal verbs includes: get over, get on, get ahead, get away with, get across. What they do next is see how these phrases have been used by some famous people out there. Students get 5 quotes which include the phrasal verbs they’ve just learned and then they need to discuss them in pairs.
IDIOMATIC PHRASES WITH GET
In the next section, students move to idiomatic phrases with get. They will study expressions such as get sth off the ground, get wind of sth, etc. First, they have to read short dialogues and complete them with words provided in the box. After that, they go to the next task and match phrases from the previous exercise with their meanings.
PAIRWORK: Guessing GAME
Students work in pairs and get cards which contain phrases from the whole worksheet. The cards also include 3 words or phrases that students cannot use when describing the phrases with get to their partners. Students need to take turns and describe the phrase they see on the card they selected. You can set some time limit or use an hourglass and organize a competition – who is the fastest to get them all! You can also use this game as a warm-up/revision on your next classes. It’s all up to you!
WORKSHEETS
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Please correct exercise 2 a)
I know from personal ….. get over AN awful loss ….
After reading the sentence again, we decided to change it to include your suggestion and make it clearer. The updated versions uploaded! Thanks!
Can one cheat with their taxes?
In my opinion, you can say both ‘cheat on taxes’ and ‘cheat with taxes’. However, the phrase ‘cheat on taxes’ is more common.
Ok, thank you. I looked it up online and I didn’t find any occurrences with “with”, only in situations like: “They cheated on me with someone”.
Great lesson by the way. I am using it again this week. =)
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Excellent material to get ESL students to learn and use the verb ‘get’ in both phrasal verbs and idioms; it is really effective and get students to think more about the key importance of verb + preposition structure. Thank you.
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nice worksheet, although I would say “edgeways” and “get up on the wrong side of bed” (without THE)
Hi! Thanks! Yeah, actually, both versions are correct: edgewise and edgeways. Re ‘getting up on the wrong side of the bed’, there is also an option without ‘the’: ‘get out of bed on the wrong side. Thanks for sharing!