IELTS Vocabulary
Across
- 1. a planned activity, done outside of the home for fun, with other people
- 6. refers to work that is scheduled with a specific beginning and ending time. A shift at a workplace often lasts 8 hours, but can be shorter. Shift work is usually paid on an hourly basis.
- 7. an activity done for enjoyment
- 9. schooling taken immediately before university; high school
- 11. a planned meeting of two people, either romantic or between friends
- 12. a specific activity someone does in their spare time
- 13. a formally planned trip, usually one arranged through a travel agency, airline, or other travel-services company
- 16. outside of one’s home country
- 17. a more broad term than “occupation.” It refers to the category of work someone does, and suggests a long-term commitment.
- 18. connected to one’s area of origin; local travel is travel in one’s own country or region, and local people are people who are found in their own country or region
- 19. scores or grades that students receive on their academic assignments and exams major: a chosen field of study that a university student earns a degree in
Down
- 2. work that requires little or no training, such as fry cook work at a fast food restaurant, or work cleaning and maintaining buildings. the other one does require training. Some workers are so highly skilled that they have doctoral degrees — lawyers and doctors for examples. Other skilled occupations require less training. Skilled work as a plumber, computer programmer, or automotive repairman may only require a four-year degree, a two-year degree, or an even shorter certification.
- 3. in educational vocabulary, either an academic field of study OR guidance/punishment given to students
- 4. a hobby in which someone purchases and keeps a certain kind of thing (ex: collecting sea shells, collecting comic books
- 5. the beginning grade levels of school, for young children; elementary and middle school
- 8. a group of travel and hospitality services that are purchased together; a vacation package may include hotel fees, airfare, restaurant meals, a trip on a tour bus, etc…
- 10. a long travel by car
- 14. may have an expected schedule, a shift where the worker will normally be at work. But the schedule and hours per day for salary work are not as strictly controlled. A salary worker may have to work much longer hours than usual on a given day, or come in on the weekends. Sometimes, however, a salary worker’s situation is the opposite. A salary worker may also work shorter hours and have more freedom to leave the workplace during their normally scheduled shifts. Salary workers aren’t paid by the hour and instead receive a fixed rate of pay per week or month.
- 15. refers to work that is very physical, requiring a lot of strength and physical activity. These jobs include unskilled work such as stocking shelves at a grocery store, and skilled work such as welding.