Hi there this is Harry and welcome back to my advanced English lessons,
advanced English lessons with Harry. And today we're going to talk about advanced vocabulary
and particular advanced vocabulary relating to ambitions. You won't remember them all,
of course, it's not possible but try and pick up on a few of them try to
use them in your business English or just your conversational English.
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Okay, so what are we going to talk about today? As I said, it's that advanced vocabulary relating
to ambitions. I've got 10 particular words or phrases relating to ambitions. I'll give
them to you and then in the list and then we'll go down through them one by one,
hopefully give you some examples that you will be able to practice. And if you don't
understand them, as I said, I'll give you the contact details at the end of
the video. And you can write to me if you need more information. Okay,
let's get into it. So as I said, we've got 10 of them as always. Let's go through them one by one.
Crave. To crave so we're using it as a verb. Yeah, we can have a craving so that's a noun,
but to crave. Alright as to... you can crave attention. You can crave certain information
or crave news. Or you can crave certain foods that you really want to have. So to crave us when
you really really want something you have a deep desire. Often they talk about ladies when they're
expecting a baby that they the develop a craving for a particular food so they crave chocolate,
or they crave pizza, or they crave certain unusual combinations because of the effects of
the pregnancy so you can crave in that way. Or perhaps you've been on a diet for a long time,
and you crave the taste of meat. Or maybe you've had a recent festival like Easter or something
like that. And before Easter, perhaps you want some sort of fast air where you gave up meat.
And maybe you were eating vegetarian meals for a while so you crave the taste of meat. So come
that Easter Sunday, you're going to cook a beautiful chicken or a roast beef, whatever
it might be that you really, really crave. So when you crave something, you desire it very,
very deeply. So you crave attention. When you haven't had attention. Perhaps you didn't have
a happy childhood, and you didn't have a warm relationship with parents. And as you grow older,
you crave attention from other people. young puppies or kittens that we get they always crave
attention. They come over to you the look into to make friends that they're looking for the warmth
of your skin against theirs. Or in fact the might just be looking for some food, but they do crave
attention in the same way so to crave looking for something, or desiring something deeply.
To hanker after something. Similar to crave, okay,
to hanker after something that you haven't had, for a long time. You could hanker after a game of
squash or a game of tennis because you haven't played it in a while. You can hanker after your
favourite food, a bag of crisps, a bag of chips, whatever that might be. You hanker after a beer,
when you've perhaps been on a fasting or you've given up a beer for a certain period of time,
perhaps you had to go on a diet because you put on a little bit of weight. And the summer months
have gone by, and you've been really, really waiting for that time when you've lost the
weight. And you can, okay, sit down and have a cool beer, not too many. But it's cool beer
because you've got a real hankering after beer. So to hanker after something, is to,
again have a desire or a wish, to, to eat, to drink, to do something to hanker after.
To be in the spotlight. Well, when you're in the spotlight, usually the light is shining on you
like it's shining on me. Now, as I'm doing this recording. So technically, I'm in the spotlight
at the moment, some people like to be in the spotlight. Some people don't, some people are
shy and prefer not to be in the spotlight, you can be in the spotlight for good reasons
and bad reasons. So if you've done something that focuses attention on you, then you're definitely
going to be in the spotlight, if the police are trying to understand who committed the crime,
and they have their ideas who did it. So he may be in their spotlight, but they're just trying to
find evidence that will lead them to him that they will be able to prove that he or she is the guilty
party. So to be in the spotlight. Politicians just before they come up for reelection, are always in
the spotlight. So the focus of attention is on them. The TV want to interview them, they
want to hold debates, so they look at them, then journalists from the newspapers will have them in
the spotlight tried to dig up a little bit of dirt to cause some sensation or perhaps to derail their
campaign. So they will remain and constantly will be in the spotlight during the term running up to
an after the election to be in the spotlight. So to be in the spotlight has to be in everybody's
view to be looked at. And everything is going to be scrutinised. Whatever you happen to do,
or what happened as ever, you happen to say or indeed, because of technology, they'll be able
to examine and put under the spotlight things that you said in the past when you were younger,
and you might not have mentored or you may have made a few mistakes. But guess what,
it's going to come out to haunt you because you will then be in the spotlight.
When you're in the spotlight, you're also the centre of attention. Now,
you can be the centre of attention, as I said, for good or for bad reasons, you might like to
be the centre of attention. So there are certain people that we know that when they go to a party,
they want to be the centre of attention, so they dress appropriately or inappropriately.
So they become the centre of attention, they sing and dance when other people are
looking at them. So everybody's focused on them. So they are the centre of attention,
okay, or they meet up with the right boy or girl because then it will be noticed and then they will
be the centre of attention. Other people may not like to be the centre of attention, even if they
are. Okay, so it could be a pop star, a film star, a sports star, all they want to do is play their
sport, they want to play that tennis, or their golf or the football and that they don't like
being and they're not comfortable being at the centre of attention. But if they're really good at
that particular sport, well, unfortunately, they are going to be the centre of attention is the
fans of that particular game want to meet them, the fans want to take the selfie with them,
the fans want to see them and be seen with them. So if they're walking down the street, somebody's
going to come up to them and before long, there'll be a big crowd around them all looking for
autograph. So that particular period of time, yet they are the centre of attention. And you can be
as always the centre of attention for good and bad reasons something has happened negatively, you'll
be the centre of attention because people want to find out the story, the real story what happened.
To be held in high esteem. When when we are held in high esteem. It means that people
think a lot about us. They think well of us, okay, so whatever we do, or whatever we have
done in the past comes to people's attention and therefore they look on it as really, really good
off. He's an amazing politician you know, he does everything he possibly can, for the people in his
constituency, he's always trying to help them, the poor, the sick, the needy, he does everything
thing he can to bring it to the attention of the government. So that money is spent in this
particular area. So all of his voters, all of the people in that area where he lives or represents
hold them in very high regard. Or they hold him in high esteem, meaning nothing he can do would
make them think badly of him, they absolutely love and adore him again. So to be held in high esteem
is something we can talk about politicians or it could be business guys, yeah. Some local
businessman who set his business up from scratch, he started and built the business up employees,
now a lot of people locally are family members, they all come through that company, he reinvests
money into the area, he helps out local charities. So, everything is done possible that he can do
to make things good for that particular area because he realises his social responsibility. So,
the local people will consider and look at him with regard him in high esteem. Okay,
so high esteem means the highest regard, nobody will think badly of him. Nobody will
believe any negative views or opinions because they hold him in high esteem.
To be renowned for. When, when you are renowned for something, you're known to do things you're
you've got a history and good history, a track record of doing positive things,
or he's renowned for his charity work, meaning he's well known for the work
he does. Somebody like Bill Gates is renowned for his charitable work, the amount of money,
his own personal money that he's handed over to charities all around the world. And lots of other
well known billionaires like Bill Gates have followed suit. And they do exactly the same. So
they are renowned for their charitable activities, they are renowned for being very generous,
they are renowned for the help they do for the poor. And they really poor poor countries, okay,
so to be renowned for you could also be renowned for something negative,
but normally we use it with a positive twist, a positive, objective renowned for.
To become an overnight success. Well, when you become an overnight success,
it means you didn't have success or your weren't well known before that. But suddenly, something
happens. And overnight, almost literally, you become well known a good example of this would be
somebody who writes books or fiction books, okay, so they've decided that writing is what they want
to do. And they've written a couple of books that weren't so interesting, or the publishers didn't
publish them. But then they write a particular book that the publishers think is going to be a
real success. So they take on the book, they publish it, they launch the book. And within
within a couple of days, everybody's talking about it. The book has sold out in every country,
it's been translated into many, many different languages. And in that situation, we can say,
Yeah, this particular author has become an overnight success. Now, in most cases, it doesn't
literally happen overnight, because it takes a little bit of luck. But it can happen that way.
Some actor can be an overnight success never heard of before, suddenly, this movie looks like
it's going to be the movie of the year, it's going to win the Oscars. And that particular
actor or actress becomes an overnight success. Okay, so something that happens very suddenly,
prior to that, hardly known at all, either for the writing or the music, or their acting,
but then suddenly, because of that success of that movie, a book, they become an overnight success.
The footballer who makes his debut for his team and scores hattrick in the first game,
he will be an overnight success because all the fans will want his autograph. They'll all be
talking about him and think yeah, this is exactly what the team needed. Okay, so overnight success.
Okay, well, when we spoken about to become an overnight success, something that can happen
to you very, very quickly, not always the case but it can happen very, very quickly. And following on
from being an overnight success. You can shoot to fame. Okay, so you can shoot a gun you can shoot a
movie but when we should defame it means we rise up and become famous. What we always dreamt of
doing. Yeah. So we take the situation For example of JK Rowling, she shot to fame after the first
couple of books of Harry Potter. She wasn't an overnight success by any manner of means. She
used to write stories when she was at school, if you check up on her history, she used to use
her classmates as certain characters and some of her books, but it wasn't overnight success. But
after the first couple of books, and people began to read them, the kids, and I remember my kids
queuing up outside of bookshops to buy them. Yeah, she shot to fame. And then following on from the
books, she's had the movies and following on from the movies, she's had the theme parks and museums,
and then other stories related to the whole Harry Potter pre and post. So you can say, definitely,
she has shot to fame as a result of her prowess as an author. And it happens to lots of people that
happens to sports stars. So you sign some really wonderful footballer, and you know, they should to
fame or some basketball player or baseball player, whatever it might be, they will shoot to fame
as a result of their activities on the playing field. actors, actresses, ballerinas, whatever
it might be, everybody wants a part of them, when they should to fame, they become famous.
Now, next one to be set on something, okay? So when we use this, it means somebody has a desire,
or they have a real aim or ambition to do something, okay. She has her heart set on being
a ballerina, yeah. She has her heart set on being an actor, she has her heart set on being a doctor.
To be set on means that's what they want to do, no matter what you say, or what you do, you're not
going to be able to change their mind. She is set on marrying him, no matter what you say you don't
like him. But the more you... you're negative, the more entrenched her view will be. So she is set on
marrying him, perhaps you'll find out later on that it's not what she wants. But you know, at
the moment, you're not going to be able to change her mind, she's set on going to that university,
her friends are going there, it's out of town, it's going to be a little bit more expensive for
us, but you know, she'll have friends with it. So she's set on that course of action to sort
of be set on is to be determined to follow or to be determined to do something to be set on.
And then finally, to have aspirations Well, an aspiration is a desire or a wish or something
that you you want to do something that you hope to achieve. You have aspirations to be a politician,
you have aspirations to be an astronaut. You've thought about it since you were seven or eight,
the first time you looked through a telescope, and you looked at the moon, and you asked your
parents, how'd you get there, and they tell you about the rockets and the astronauts and they
show you the picture. So your aspirations are to be an astronaut. You might not achieve it,
but that's deep down is your hope, your belief is that that's what you want to achieve.
So an aspiration is a desire, a belief, a hope, something that you want to achieve.
Okay, so they're all the vocabulary that we're using relating to ambitions, where you
have certain ambitions something that you want to achieve. So, let me go through them one more time:
to crave something or somebody. Or to crave after. To hanker after something similar to crave.
To be in the spotlight. To be the centre of attention. To be held in high esteem by other
people. To be renowned for well known for to be renowned for. To become an overnight success.
Shoot to fame. To be set on something and have aspirations about something have aspirations.
Okay, so as I said, they are advanced vocabulary relating to ambitions. Try to use a few of them if
you can remember them great. Try and put them into practice in business English or in conversational
English. And as always, if you want to contact me, then you can do so and I'd happily give you
some further examples. So if you want to contact me then it's www.englishlessonviaskype.com. Very,
very happy to hear from you. As always, thanks for listening. Thanks for watching. Join me again soon