My friend and I really CLICK. We HIT IT OFF the first time we met. Learn how to use these idioms along with GET ALONG WITH to talk about relationships and friendships. This video is for ESL students and teachers that want to sound more natural and fluent speaking English.
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⏱TimeStamps⏱
0:00 – Introduction
0:28 – Get Along With
0:39 – Don’t Get Along With
1:00 – Got Along With (Past tense)
1:33 – Click
2:20 – Don’t Click
3:44 – Hit It Off
4:11 – How was your date?
5:21 – It Goes Well With (for foods)
6:21 – They Go Well Together (for foods)
8:12 – Lesson Summary
Transcript
My friend and I really click. Hmm, what does that expression mean?
Check out this video to find out!
Hi, I’m Steve and this is Single Step English.
In this lesson, you will learn a few different ways to say the expression “get along with.”
This means when people or even animals have a friendly relationship.
The opposite meaning is don’t get along.
These two dogs don’t get along.
If you want to talk about past information, you can say… got along. Get becomes GOT.
Example: She never got along with her sister.
This means throughout her life, she never agreed or was never close to her sister.
However, there are other ways to say get along with that you will often hear native speakers use.
If two people really get along with each other right from the start, you can say…we really clicked.
This means from the very first time you meet someone, you both like and understand each other.
Check out this sentence:
She and I clicked from the first time we met.
If you want to use this in a negative sentence in the present tense, you can say “don’t click.”
He and I don’t click. I can’t understand the way he thinks.
Here is another example:
Did you catch that?
She said….Tomas is lovely, but we haven’t really clicked yet.
Let’s check it out once more.
(Insert video clip of The Good Place)
In this case, it means that she and Tomas have yet to get along.
We haven’t really clicked yet.
Is there anyone who you really click with? Tell us about in the comment section below.
In my case, my friend Reggie and I really click.
Another idiom you can use to say “get along with’ is hit it off. This has the same meaning as click. It means you get along with someone right from the start.
Here is a situation….
Maybe you had a date, and your friend asks you, how was your date?
You answer….Oh great! We really hit it off.
This means you got along well right from the start.
However, what can you say if the date did not go well?
Your friend asks again, how was your date?
Hmm, not so good. We just didn’t hit it off.
We only use this for relationships between people. If you want to talk about foods that taste good together, we say….it goes well with or they go well together. Let’s look at some example sentences.
You should try this apple pie. It goes well with ice cream.
The pie is singular, so we use the pronoun IT. By the way, we call pie with ice cream, a la mode. Even though pies started in France, this dessert, pie a la mode, started in the United States.
If there are two nouns and they use the word AND, we say go well together.
For example: A burger and fries go well together. Two nouns are joined together with the word AND.
Here are two sentences:
Pancakes and maple syrup go well together.
Donuts and coffee go well together.
You may also hear native speakers remove the words “well together” in casual spoken language, and only use the word, GO.
Pancakes go with maple syrup.
Many people from the United States will tell you that peanut butter and jelly go well together.
In fact, we call peanut butter and jelly, PBJ for short.
Hmm, which foods go well together in your country?
Please tell us about those food pairs in the comment section below.
In this lesson, you learned some very useful idioms for the expression, get along with.
Click, hit it off, and for foods, goes well with and go well together.
I hope you can use these to sound more natural speaking English.
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