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Hello, and welcome to the English Like a Native podcast. My name is Anna and you're listening to week 26, day three of Your English Five -a -Day, the second season.
By tuning in every day of the working week from Monday to Friday, or as often as you can, you are committing to dunking daily into the English language, building a habit and slowly but surely improving your communication skills and your confidence when it comes to using English.
I am happy to be your guide on this journey.
Today, we've got five fantastic pieces of vocabulary for you.
So, let's start with today's snapshot.
snapshot. She rode hell for leather around the sharp bend, barely noticing the Chevron's warning of danger ahead after the crash.
She decided to live a carless life and began cycling everywhere.
Her story became the driving force behind a campaign to accelerate road safety reforms in the city.
Fantastic. Let's start our deep dive.
We're going to be looking at some car vocabulary today.
And we're going to start with a less commonly known noun.
And it is Chevron. Chevron.
The spelling is C -H -E -V -R -O -N.
Chevron. A Chevron is a V or upside down v -shape that indicates a severe bend in the road so this is a usually a set of v -shapes that are on a sign chevrons can also be seen on people's uniform badges to indicate rank but in this case we're talking about road signs now I've just had a little spider it's on me a little spider dropped down right in front of my nose as I'm recording so bear with me I'm just going to relocate him out of the window.
Come on little spider.
You can go outside.
Outside. There we go.
The spider has been evicted.
Right, so chevrons, they indicate severe bends in the road, normally.
Here's an example sentence.
Oh, I didn't see the chevron markings until it was too late.
My car slid off the road and into the ditch below.
Number two on the list is the verb accelerate.
Accelerate. If you accelerate, then it means you go faster.
So, you have an accelerator, which is your pedal, your go pedal in your car.
And when you press down on the accelerator, accelerator you will accelerate.
Here's an example sentence.
I had to accelerate to get out of the car park before the barrier came down on my roof.
Well that would be scary, wouldn't it?
Do you ever accelerate through an open barrier nervous that it might come down on you?
I certainly have in the the past. I wonder if they have a sensor that can sense when you're no longer, you know, obstructing the barrier area and that's when the barrier comes down or if in some cases the barrier is timed.
Anyway, moving on, we have a noun and it is driving force.
This basically means that you you have a strong influence in making something happen.
So the driving force of something is very strong and very powerful.
It makes things happen.
The driving force. Here's an example sentence.
The transport minister is without a doubt the driving force behind the implementation of new road safety laws.
Have you ever been the driving force behind something?
next we have an idiom and it is hell for leather hell for leather when this comes together we have hell for leather hell for leather for becomes for hell for leather you usually go hell for leather and this means that you go as fast as possible or like extremely fast so if you are driving nicely along the road.
Maybe it's a motorway and you're going at a steady 65 miles an hour and then someone zooms past you.
Whoa! He was going hell for leather.
He's going very fast. Here's an example sentence.
The taxi drove hell for leather to get to the airport on time.
We only just made it.
The final word on our list is an adjective and it is car -less.
Car -less. Can you guess what car -less could possibly mean?
It means you are without a car.
You are car -less. So, if you have the name Carlos, I have a number of students called Carlos.
If you are Carlos and you don't have a car, then you could say, I'm carless Carlos.
I'm carless Carlos.
Anyway, here's an example sentence.
I'm not sure I can do the school runs next week as I'm carless.
It's still in the garage being repaired.
Right, so there were our five words for today.
Let's hear them again.
Number one was a noun, chevron.
What was this? A chevron.
Chevron is a V shape that indicates a severe bend in the road, a very tight corner.
Next on the list was the verb to accelerate, meaning to suddenly go faster.
Next is the noun driving force.
To be the driving force is to be the strong influence that makes something happen.
Next was the idiom hell for leather, which means to go as fast as possible or to just go really, really fast. And we finished with the adjective Carlos, not to be mistaken for the name Carlos.
Carlos. You are without a car.
car -less. Notice that schwa at the end, car -less, car -less.
Okay, let's now revisit our snapshot.
She rode hell for leather around the sharp bend, barely noticing the Chevron's warning of danger ahead after the crash.
She decided to live a car -less life and began cycling everywhere.
Her story became the driving force behind a campaign to accelerate road safety reforms in the city.
Right, let's bring it all together in a story.
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You wouldn't expect a new vehicle to break down within a month of having it.
But that's what happened to me.
I had just pulled out of the car park on my way to drop the kids at school when my car slowly rolled to a complete stop.
I tried to accelerate but nothing happened.
The engine wouldn't restart and the wheels had locked so I couldn't even move the car off the main road.
The chevron markings indicated a sharp bend so I was worried someone would come whizzing around the corner and not see me there.
I quickly text a few friends who live nearby to see who could help.
Paula, the driving force behind our community group, was first to respond.
She gave me the name of a local garage so that when the recovery truck arrived, I could ask the car to be taken straight there.
The next problem was how do I get the kids to school now that I'm carless?
Luckily, my husband came to the rescue.
Whilst I waited for the recovery truck to arrive, drive.
My husband had to drive hell for leather to get the girls to school on time.
Three weeks later, and I'm still waiting to get my car back.
What a nightmare. And there we go.
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