IELTS Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. a planned activity, done outside of the home for fun, with other people
  2. 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.
  3. 7. an activity done for enjoyment
  4. 9. schooling taken immediately before university; high school
  5. 11. a planned meeting of two people, either romantic or between friends
  6. 12. a specific activity someone does in their spare time
  7. 13. a formally planned trip, usually one arranged through a travel agency, airline, or other travel-services company
  8. 16. outside of one’s home country
  9. 17. a more broad term than “occupation.” It refers to the category of work someone does, and suggests a long-term commitment.
  10. 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
  11. 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
  1. 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.
  2. 3. in educational vocabulary, either an academic field of study OR guidance/punishment given to students
  3. 4. a hobby in which someone purchases and keeps a certain kind of thing (ex: collecting sea shells, collecting comic books
  4. 5. the beginning grade levels of school, for young children; elementary and middle school
  5. 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…
  6. 10. a long travel by car
  7. 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.
  8. 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.