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hi I am Vanessa from speak English with
Vanessa comm and I’m Dan and today we’re
gonna talk about how to use the word
order deeply are you ready to get
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today we’re gonna talk about three ways
to use the word order and if you enjoy
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talk about the first way hmm I want to
know what is something that you like to
order in a restaurant
ah so when I go to the restaurant I like
to order hamburgers I really like
hamburger it’s such a typical American
answer is but you know if I go to a
restaurant and I’m not sure what I want
and I’m not feeling like they have
something really really special I’ll
just say hey I’ll order a hamburger you
can’t mess up a hamburger right so in
this situation we’re just talking about
the most basic way to use the word order
which is in a restaurant you’ve probably
used this way in your classes maybe when
you’re role playing going to a
restaurant you’re ordering something the
waitress asks what do you want to order
are you ready to order
but it could also mean something a
little bit different as well yeah it
could be more commanding yeah so for
instance you might say my boss ordered
me to work harder so that’s more of a
command yes you must do this i order you
yeah and in this what you wish really
you wouldn’t say that to many people
right because here it’s kind of strong
but the sentence constructions a little
different so in the first situation I’m
ordering food I’m ordering a new water
bottle from Amazon you’re ordering an
item yeah when you buy stuff you can say
order right but the second way is
ordering someone
so if you say he ordered me I ordered
her in this situation it’s gonna be more
like an Army drill sergeant he ordered
me go to the store you should order me
usually the person has to be above you
in some way a boss a parent a military
sergeant sure but sometimes if someone
like child orders other people you might
say it’s not such a good thing yeah like
the child she’s always ordering around
her little brother she always orders her
parents to do what she wants to so this
is a pretty negative situation and it’s
pretty strong so make sure you say I
order something if you’re gonna buy
something let’s talk about the second
way sometimes I try to put my sock
drawer in order okay that’s one example
putting something in order and this full
expression put in order you can imagine
Dan opens the drawer and his socks are
so orderly pink purple blue yes all of
Dan’s colorful socks just look like a
rainbow yeah you can imagine it’s in
order so the verb is to put in order put
something in order so not in chaos right
so for me when I look at my bookshelf
they are in order but they’re not in
order by author they’re not in order by
color they’re in order by topic and size
so the tallest books go down to the
smallest books and I have books about
language books about traveling books
about history
there’s topics and size they’re in order
by size yeah would you use this same
expression put an order by size put in
order by height yeah it just depends on
the day really for me oh I’d say it’s an
order of size maybe by topic so here
we’ve got two choices to put in order by
topic I put my books in order by topic
I put my books in order of topic you
could say that for me I
they buy more often some people might
say of you might hear that but I think
buy is probably gonna be a little bit
better in this situation so you could
also say maybe someone asks what are you
doing during your vacation you could say
I’m putting my life in order yeah ionic
I’m getting my life in order yes I’m
getting my life in order so it’s a
possibility
you’re not literally making something
physically in order but just the mental
idea yeah maybe in your head yeah maybe
your habits yeah maybe your life is
really chaotic you could say I’m getting
my life in order I need to do something
I’m gonna take a break and get my life
in order all right let’s talk about the
third way all right Dan I want to know
are you an orderly person orderly hmm so
in general is everything around me in
order oh not really I mean that’s your
sock drawer
except my sock drawer yeah I think I
have to work a little hard to be orderly
yeah so by nature I don’t clean
everything up
I don’t stack my clothes in a specific
way except for my sock drawer yeah so I
would say I am medium to low orderly
sure sure so you’re not the most orderly
person no I think for me if you watch
these videos you might think I’m really
orderly but I think I’m only orderly in
specific areas in my life so around our
living room there’s things on the floor
it’s not so messy but it’s not really
clean yeah so it doesn’t bother me when
things are a little bit messy but if
it’s really messy then we try to put
things in order
yeah but in general I think I would say
I’m a average person I would say you’re
a pretty orderly person okay I’m pretty
orderly so I wouldn’t know for you let
us know in the comments below are you an
orderly person do you like to put things
in order in your house yeah and give us
an example of what you keep in order
yeah let us know in the
it’s a great way to use this expression
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