Models Vocabulary Text

Hi this is AJ again and welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Models." Well, let's start

with that first word.

Role model, as I mentioned already in the main talk a role model is kind of a hero. It's

someone you want to imitate. You want to be the same as them. It's usually specific

though, it doesn't mean you want to be like them in everything, in every part of your life.

It's usually specific, in one part of your life you want to be like them. So maybe Donald

Trump, he's a very rich man for example, so you might say "Donald Trump is my role

model for business."

So you want to be rich like Donald Trump but maybe you don't want to be like Donald

Trump in other ways. Like he had a big divorce, for example, so maybe you don't want

your relationships to be like Donald Trump but you want your business to be like him.

So you say "He's my business role model." And it's the same with sports, if you play

golf then maybe Tiger Woods is your golf role model, but maybe you don't want your

personal life to be like Tiger Woods. So a role model usually has this idea of specific,

it's kind of a hero but just in a specific part of your life, or in a specific way.

The next word we're going to talk about is randomly, I mentioned the word randomly.

Randomly means by chance, it's not planned. So, for example, I said “I randomly chose

English lessons when I was a beginning teacher in the beginning." So randomly means

I just, by chance, I just picked a book and picked an exercise. I didn't have a plan. I

didn't have a clear, focused, organized reason. I just picked something and then l'd pick

something else and pick something else, just by chance. It was random.

Okay, I used the phrase bring back up, to bring something back up. To bring something

back up means to return it to a higher level. Bring back means return. So bring back

my book means return my book. So bring back up just means return up, return to a

higher level.

Okay, next, I used the word or the phrase actually, fast track. It's a very common, kind

of an idiom actually, common phrase, fast track. The fast track or a fast track is a

method or a situation where you are improving very quickly. So, for example, you have

two students are learning English, John and Jane. We might say John is learning

slowly but Jane is learning very quickly.

So we say Jane is on the fast track. On the fast track, it means she is improving very,

very fast. This is used in business sometimes, in careers. So, for example, in a

company if you are on the fast track it means you are going up, up, up, up, up in the