English expressions these are very
commonly used in day-to-day English and
they’re very very commonly misunderstood
so it’s important that you learn them
and the best way to learn them is by you
creating examples your own examples of
these expressions write them on a piece
of paper or put them in the comments and
I’ll see them
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okay for many many years people have
told me oh my god you haven’t read Harry
Potter but you’ve seen the movies
don’t you know there are so much in the
books it’s not in the movies you really
have to read the books yeah I know
I’m just rubbish one day I’ll read them
and for years I have had the intention
of reading Harry Potter finally today
I’m happy to announce I bought the first
book I know I know so when you have the
intention of doing something and then
you finally do it we have an expression
for that for me in my case I had the
intention for a very long time to read
Harry Potter now I finally do it I will
say I’m finally getting around or
getting around to reading Harry Potter
notice the grammar reading so that verb
whatever you do must have the ing form
just remember that is this always in
present continuous no do you need the
finally know let me give you examples
just a standard past tense sentence I
got around to reading Harry Potter you
know what I had some time last weekend
and I got round to reading Harry Potter
okay how about a negative sentence if
you’re like me I buy a book and then
four months but don’t read it it just
sits on my shelf so maybe after a few
months someone asks me oh my god have
you finished the Harry Potter books yet
the bit where the thing happens and the
guy comes in and then deliver the water
whoa whoa whoa no no I haven’t got
around to starting it yet
no spoilers no so we can see in a
negative sentence I haven’t got round or
around both are fine to starting
remember to put the in with the verb and
you’re good also a study tip when you’re
making your own examples of these
freshens it really helps with
memorization if your example is funny
scary or emotional in some way so make
your example more memorable when your
friend comes to you and they’re crying
oh my god I just broke up with my
boyfriend everything is terrible as a
good friend you might ask this question
oh my god how come these two words seem
very unrelated but together what do you
think they mean look at the context
that’s the best way of course it means
why did that happen or how did that
happen another example could be it’s
Friday night it’s about 10:30 you’re out
with your friends and you’re thinking
this is so boring
I really want to go home so you tell
your friends I’m going home
oh my god it’s 10:30 how come you’re
leaving because I’m sleepy and drinks
are expensive this is me every time I go
out so just remember that
howcome means how or why did this happen
or how or why is this happening so you
can change the tense when we talk about
going somewhere it is super common for
us to say it in this way as a verb to
head now we add a preposition after this
so let’s have a look at different
examples this guy is leaving when we
leave a place we say I’m heading off to
head off means to leave or go home
usually this guy is simply leaving the
house so he will say I’m heading out
where are you going to the shop to the
cinema it doesn’t matter
outside your house you’re heading out we
can expand this to be more specific I’m
heading out to see a friend very common
expression
this guy he wants to enter the cool Club
how can we say enter guess the
preposition you probably know it let’s
head in that preposition in with head
means to enter a place so just remember
it’s the verb head with a preposition in
the preposition determines whether
you’re entering a place leaving your
house or you’re just going home or
you’re leaving in general when you have
an opportunity to do something or when
you are finally able to do something
then we have an expression for that for
example it’s been a difficult week
you’ve worked a lot this week you’ve
been super busy
you got no sleep you’re very tired but
this weekend I have the opportunity to
sleep I can sleep I’m finally able to
sleep how can he say that this weekend I
get to sleep Lots I have no
responsibilities my work is finished so
this expression get to do something you
have that opportunity to do the thing
grammatically get to plus infinitive so
that verb that won’t change let’s look
at another example of this she’s saying
last year I went to Spain with my class
that’s fine that’s a good sentence but
she wants to add emphasis to this
special event that she had the
opportunity for last year I got to go to
Spain with my class she’s adding
emphasis saying that this is not the
usual case I had a special opportunity I
was able to go to Spain with my class it
was special you can talk about special
opportunities that you have or that you
had in your life so for example for
example for me
in London I get to meet lots of
different people from lots of different
places in other cities that’s not
possible so again it’s this contrasting
idea of what usually happens with this
special opportunity how does this
expression work as a question or in a
negative sentence let’s have a look for
example your friend is talking about a
trip that they had oh my god last year I
went to London just for two days though
whoa did you get to see Camden get to
she’s asking did you have the
opportunity to see Camden and his reply
is a negative sentence no I didn’t get
to see anything fun
I didn’t have the opportunity I didn’t
have time for example managed to is our
last expression and in some cases it has
a very similar feeling to get to in some
context it means the same thing however
it is different to be more specific it
means something is very difficult but
you’re successful in doing it for
example that smells so good
I bought this today I’m a very slow
reader it takes me a long time to finish
a book because my attention span is a
squirrel so for example if I finish this
in one day that’s very unusual and for
me kind of difficult so how would I say
that I managed to finish the book in one
day look at the verb here we’ve got
infinitive again it’s quite common after
two to have an infinitive verb so that
just remember that won’t change and
again it just means it was difficult or
unusual to happen but I did it I was
successful how do we use this in a
negative let’s imagine that this guy he
really wants to see Beyonce in Kong
so he tries to buy tickets but of course
beyoncé tickets are very popular and he
was too late to get a ticket so he will
say I didn’t manage to get a ticket to
see Beyonce
it’s very sad again he says managed to
to put that emphasis to say it’s
difficult it’s difficult and I did do it
it’s difficult and I did not do it so I
hope you managed to learn all of today’s
expressions don’t worry if not one day
you will get round to learning them
remembering them and one day you’ll even
get to use them in conversation and when
that day comes make sure you head to
London so I can ask you how come you’re
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