Learn the English Phrases "track record" and "to get sidetracked"

<p>In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase &quot;track record.&quot; When you refer to someone&#39;s track record, you&#39;re talking about how they&#39;ve performed in the past. As a teacher, I think I have a good track record when it comes to doing my job well.</p><p>I&#39;ve done this job for almost 30 years. Wait, has it been 30 years? It&#39;s certainly been a long time, and I think that when you do something that long, you must have a good track record. If they look at how well I relate to students, how well I grade the work that they give me, my consistency year to year.</p><p>I think I have a good track record. So, track record is a phrase we use to describe past performance of a person at a job or at a place where they&#39;re volunteering or anything that they are doing. The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is to get sidetracked.</p><p>So, this has the word &quot;track&quot; in it. I I try to keep the phrases related. When you get sidetracked, it means you&#39;re not doing what you&#39;re supposed to do. A common goal for students in a classroom is to get the teacher sidetracked. I remember when I was in grade six, no, it might have been grade five, we had a teacher where if we asked him questions about what it was like living in the Netherlands when he was young, he would get sidetracked and instead of teaching math, he would talk about growing up in the Netherlands.</p><p>He he got easily sidetracked. I sometimes get sidetracked as a teacher if students talk to me about farming. I love talking about farming. I don&#39;t have a lot of students who live on farms, so sometimes I get sidetracked if they ask me about farming. So to review, if you have a good track record, it means you&#39;ve done well as a politician, as a teacher, as a worker, as a manager.</p><p>It simply means that over time you&#39;ve been doing a good job consistently, and to get sidetracked means to get off topic, to talk about what you&#39;re not supposed to do, or to do what you&#39;re not supposed to do when something else important needs to be said or done.</p><p>But hey, let&#39;s look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Vladimir. Bob, you have a unique memory. I&#39;ve been watching your videos for five years now, and there are no repeats in them. I don&#39;t recall YOLO ever being used before. And my response, I&#39;m sure there are a few phrases.</p><p>I&#39;ve covered twice or maybe even three times, but other