HUW- It’s not to do with offloading in that way. It’s to do with putting myself in a different place. And I think that’s very healthy.

HUW- I think it’s impossible to deny that, because that’s part of who you are. And in my case it’s a matter of managing it. I can’t tell you there’s a trigger for this or a trigger for that. I know after my dad died a couple of years went by and suddenly I seemed to realise that he wasn’t there anymore, and that did trigger something. So, that’s a trigger. But other times I’ve had bouts of depression and I honestly can’t give you a trigger. So, therefore managing that can be a bit of a handful at times. And you’re also aware that you don’t want to offload this onto people because actually people have got their own stuff to think about. I don’t want to give my family cause for concern, so you try to manage it in your own way. I’ve got to do something is different from the have got possession form, because the former goes with a verb and the latter goes with a noun. P.S. In my (great-lakes US) dialect, at least, for I’ve got to be the present perfect of get, it would need to be I’ve gotten. Just my 2 cents. Reply What were your fears for the final? Did you have anything you were particularly worried about when going into it? Yes, that it would turn out like the sausages I made in my Nostalgia Dish Challenge! That was a disaster. I hated that sausage. I'll never eat that sausage again. You just think you might overcook it, or you might take your eye off the ball for a minute. I know this sounds stupid but I hadn't had a chance to properly practice elements of it so I was just taking it a day at a time, you know, literally a day at a time trying to get through that day. Once you got through that day, you were so obsessed with having a glass of wine to try and get the next day!

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Matthew and Lily ... make a charming young couple, despite their differences and their occasional inability to see eye-to-eye. And although they're very much in love, they seem to encounter more than their fair share of obstacles and inconveniences, including visits from Lily's eccentric Russian family and Matt's dreaded mother, and a persistent scarcity of funds - not helped when Matthew's disapproving family decide to cut him off without a shilling... [show more] Pauline Collins (best known for her signature role as Shirley Valentine) played Clara with a mischievous twinkle that made her illogical leaps endearing – even if CD thought she dressed like “the remnant of a disbanded folk group”. At the end of the day, you want to teach them practical English, and not by the book English. Unless you are teaching a linguist, to whom the intrinsic nature of these language details might be important for whatever research reasons. But then again, he or she would not necessarily enrol in an ESL course but maybe something more challenging. My 2 cents is, we are here to help non native speakers acquire the level of fluency needed in today’s demanding world, not to over complicate things and confuse them. Trust me: in business English, the simpler the better, in any way imaginable, grammar, vocab, expressions, etc. Any non native who wishes to acquire a higher level of English, will never go for an ESL lesson with a TEFL teacher… trust me. :) I’m an absolute non native language trainer, so… really, my 2 cents only. Reply

For many people the pandemic is still not over. One group known as the Forgotten 500,000 represents the half a million people across the UK, many of whom are still shielding, who have weakened immune systems, which mean they could become seriously ill or even die if they got COVID. Unfortunately vaccines just do not work for them. Problem is, Aaron my dear, that the simple past tense and the past participle ARE THE SAME THING FOR A REGULAR VERB – eg. work, worked, worked and in Brit English the past participle of ‘get’ is ‘got’, just as the simple past is also ‘got’. That’s just simple ignorance of another form of the language, But when he says: PAUL- So, Evusheld is a preventative prophylaxis treatment, so it’s two types of antibody that can fight COVID-19. And it’s designed for people who can’t get protection from vaccines so that they can have this treatment instead and it will give them protection against COVID-19.PAUL- Yeah, absolutely. We know of people who have had to separate from their close family. It’s drastic the measures that have to be taken. But the consequences of not taking those actions don’t bear thinking about. As an British/English native myself, I much prefer SAYING the (apparently) more ‘American’‘I have…’. To me, it sounds better. Matthew and Lily make a charming young couple, despite their differences and their occasional inability to see eye-to-eye. And although they're very much in love, they seem to encounter more than their fair share of obstacles and inconveniences, including visits from Lily's eccentric Russian family and Matt's dreaded mother, and a persistent scarcity of funds - not helped when Matthew's disapproving family decide to cut him off without a shilling...

English grammar strictly states that ‘have got’ is incorrect and rightly so: ‘have'(pres) and ‘got'(past) should never be used together or taught as a correct usage in English, regardless of its idiomatic usage.” EMMA- Yeah, she says that her husband should be paid a living wage after being assessed as being her full-time carer. She says making a legitimate and important job would actually help the social care crisis because you would have less carers coming in, and they wouldn’t be trying to work and get money and all that kind of stuff from elsewhere. And she also says that full-time carers could be really useful if unfortunately their, she says, charge dies, they could go into the social care industry because they have so much experience…Yes, Honestly was an obvious sequel to No, Honestly, although the lead names and actors changed and there was no direct storyline continuity. I mean, the biggest challenge has been keeping it a secret since March. That's really the biggest challenge because I've gotten a notoriously big mouth! The biggest challenge I suppose was just focusing on your own stuff, and trying not to get thrown by what other people did. When Jamelia went through, I was so thrilled for her and you think, I’m okay to go today. NIKKI- But if you’re not feeling in the mood you’re like, well what have I got to give to this conversation. I’ve got a dozen or so teaching methods that introduce I have got within the first few units and got(past), it just shows he has no idea what a British irregular verb table looks like, (rather than for the US) ‘got’ is both past tense and past participle. On this particular point, the difference between Am and Br is simply that (British) IRREGULAR verb to get has a different past participle to the one he has learnt. For us got is both the past tense and the past participle. Has he ever heard a British person use the past perfect expression I had gotten? Of course not = we had got, just like we still have got, a different way of doing it. HUW- Because one of the best things has been colleagues in the newsroom, especially younger colleagues, come through the pandemic, lots of them living alone in London, and they’ve actually gone through a very tough time, and quite a lot of colleagues have come up to me and said, ‘Thank you for raising it, because actually I’d never have raised it, but it’s encouraged me to raise it’. And I thought well, if I’ve done that to two or three people that’s enough. And the truth is that you’ve got to hold these employers to what they promise. If they say that they’ve got a good code in terms of mental health well then you hold them to that.

I suppose John nagged me from day one to try and be a tidier chef. So probably to be a much tidier cook and to be more organised in my cooking and in my timings. I also took a picture of all of my ingredients for the final and wrote a list to make sure I had everything. Of course, both have and have got are used in the imperative sense, equivalent to “must.” Interestingly, in AmE (not sure about BrE), we seem to use have got in this context when we want to add emphasis, for example: You have GOT to see this movie. You HAVE to see this movie works too, but it just doesn’t sound as forceful. Likewise, you’d almost never hear the negative or question forms of have got used in this context ( I don’t have to go to work today is common, whereas I haven’t got to go to work today doesn’t sound quite right to me. NIKKI- Well, we did offer the Department of Health and Social Care to come on today. They declined but did provide us with this statement, ‘Following a robust review of the available data our clinical experts advised there is currently insufficient data on the duration of protection offered by Evusheld in relation to the Omicron variant. And in line with that advice the government will not be procuring doses at this time. We are keeping the evidence under close review, and NICE have begun their appraisal of Evusheld. If they consider the treatment to be clinically and cost effective it will be made available on the NHS in the usual way’. EMMA- And is that one of your big strategies for managing your mental health? And what are your other strategies or management tools that you use?It’s rare but we use it this way, and have been doing so for quite some time. Search Shakespeare (those of you who say have got is simply wrong and for ‘idiots’, bear in mind you’re calling Shakespeare an idiot), and you will find examples of have, have got, and have gotten, conforming with the usage I have described. Reply Ultimately, I think it’s important to inform your students that both versions are commonly and widely used (and therefore acceptable) and that they should use whichever feels more comfortable to them. Students need to be aware that both are used – because they WILL encounter them both! I am a native English speaker, but when I went to England for the first time I was surprised at how much the word ‘got’ was used, and I was particularly irritated by how people kept on saying ‘I’ve got’ when what they really meant is “I have”. I have 2 post graduate degrees with heavy linguistic emphasis. I teach, study and live an academic life. I am anything but lazy… It is NOT Laziness to speak with shortened, grammically incorrect words and sentences. The point is to convey understanding through oral expression…if someone asks me if I have a car, I typically say, Yeah, i gotta car. My SOLE objective being to convey the idea of my personal car ownership. Shortening a thought in verbal communication is not lazy. It is efficient, effective and time-saving. It allows for more time to advance the conversation to new topics. It allows one to sound like a “normal” human being in informal social settings rather than a high-browed, elitist, academic stiff. Or perhaps to demonstrate non-lazy, verbal communication, we should respond, “Yes, I am the owner of an automobile” Problem of have, have got solved! Reply