The Magic Do (Meanings of Do)  

 

1- Action: What are you doing?

2- Behave/ act: Do as you are told.

3- Success: How is the business doing?

4- Perform/ work: I have a lot of things to do.

5- Task: wash/clean: I did the dishes.

6- Tasks mentioned: I’m doing the ironing.

7- Job: What do you do?

8- Learn/ study: I’m doing physics.

9- Solve: I can’t do this sum.

10- Produce / Make: I’ll do you a copy.

11- Perform: They are doing “Hamlet” next month.

12- Copy: Can you do an Isfahani accent?

13- Finish: I have done it.

14- Travel: How many miles did you do?

15- Complete a trip: We did the round trip in 2 hours.

16- Speed: The car was doing 90 miles per hour.

17- Visit: We did Tokyo in 3 day.

18- Spend: She did a year at college.

19- Cut the hair: The hairdresser did me at 3 o’clock.

20- Suitable: This jacket won’t do for the party.

21- Enough: Will $20 do?

22- Cook: How would you like your steak done?

23- Cheat: We have been done.

24- Punish: She got done for speeding.

25- Fasten: Do your shoes.

26- Emphasize: I do go to see him.

27- Rob: The gangs did the bank.

28- Take: They don’t do drugs.

29- Open: I undid the box.

30- Cancel the effect of: He undid most of the good work of the previous manager.

31- Fail: The team was undone by the opponents.

32- Down fall / Ruin: That one mistake was his undoing.

33- Edit: We occasionally undo some programs.

34- Upset: She has come undone.

35- Unsatisfactory: It really won’t do.

36- Look attractive: That doesn’t do any thing for her.

37- Announce: I do the weather report on KNTV.

The Magic Get (Meanings of Get)

 

1- Receive: I got a letter from Mina.

2- Earn: He gets about $ 1000.

3- Buy: Where did you get that shirt?

4- Obtain: He opened the door to get some light.

5- Fetch: Somebody gets a doctor.

6- Pick up: I have to get my son from school.

7- Take: Which newspaper do you get?

8- Achieve: He got a “B” in English.

9- Suffer from: He gets a really bad headache.

10- Infected with: I got this cold from you.

11- Dial: I got your number by chance.

12- Reach a condition: It’s getting late.

13- Reach a state: He is getting angry.

14- Take off: He got undressed.

15- Put on: Get dressed, please.

16- Mugged: His car got stolen last week.

17- Make: I couldn’t get the car to start this morning.

18- Persuade: It is not hard to get him talking.

19- Cause: I must get my hair cut.

20- Start: Let’s get going.

21- Have the opportunity: I never get to go first.

22- Arrive: He got here at 6.

23- Go: We don’t get to bed until mid night.

24- Move: We have to get it through the door.

25- Prepare a meal: I must go home and get lunch for them.

26- Answer: Will you get the phone.

27- Catch: The police got them.

28- Hit: The bullet got him in the neck.

29- Retaliate, harm: I’ll get you for that!

30- Understand: I don’t get it.

31- Exist: We still get cases of typhoid.

32- Puzzle: You have got me there!

33- Annoy: What gets me is sitting and doing nothing.

34- Memorize: She got the verses by heart.

35- Have: I’ve got no money.

36- Learn: I told them to get.

37- Penalty: He got $100 for dangerous driving.

38- Repair: Can you get the car going?