Unit 12 language focus

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WOMEN
IN THE
SOCIETY

Language Focus
Distinguish between AS/AS IF
2
Phrasal verbs with GET
31

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
GET
partic le
partic le
particle
particle
particle
particle

GET
aroundthrough
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 toaway

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
1. Phi looks really
awful. He looks…
2. Everything went
off …
3. He behaves …
4. It sounds …
5. That poor dog
looks …
6. From what Emma
said, it sounds …
a. the situation will
get worse.
b. it never gets fed.
c. it was planned.
d. he were my boss.
e. he’d been up all
night.

f. she and Mathew
are going to get
married

Key
as
as if
as though
1. Phi looks really
awful. He looks…
2. Everything went
off …
3. He behaves …
4. It sounds …
5. That poor dog
looks …
6. From what Emma
said, it sounds …
a. the situation will
get worse.
b. it never gets fed.
c. it was planned.
d. he were my boss.
e. he’d been up all
night.
f. 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
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
He had not been
there himself
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
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