IELTS Vocabulary on Topic Work and Jobs
About the video
In the video you will learn how to build upon your lexical resources in an effective and productive manner. Touching upon the derivation or origin of a word, which is known as the etymology of a word. Video entails how learning one word root can help predict and recall the meaning of several other terms.
To commence with, we deconstruct the word ‘Job’ itself by learning the part of speech it hails from, the meaning, the etymology and its appropriate usage in a sentence. Then moving further, we learn jobs categorized as the color of collars
- white collar job
- blue collar job
- pink collar job
- red collar job
- orange collar job
- green collar job
- no collar job
Similarly, we learn another verb ‘Employ’ and thus the key terms derived from it such as
- employee
- employer
- employment
- unemployment
- under-employed
- reemploy
- employability
After that the video entails some miscellaneous lexical terminologies such as
- payroll
- internship
- résumé
- cv (curriculum vitae)
- resign
- compensation
- colleagues
- apprenticeship
- hiatus
- probation
- interim
- severance pay
- remuneration
- allowances
- retirement
- appointment
Then we learn some idioms
- work one’s fingers to the bone
- work all the hours god sends
- burning candle at both ends
- to go the extra mile
- backlog of work
- work in progress
- work for peanuts
- have a lot on one’s plate
Furthermore, the video elaborates on some key terms that could be deployed while tending to questions or speech regarding technology.