‫We'll now move on to eight key pieces of vocabulary and language for the topic of work.
‫Again, it's very likely that this will come up in your speaking test.
‫Let's move on to take a look at these key phrases so we have a contract employer.
‫Job, share, stressful occupation, resign, commute and vocation.
‫Let's take a look at contract site contract is a legally binding document that you sign with your employer,
‫and it usually gives you a list of duties that you must do.
‫And it talks about things like holidays and hours and when you will work.
‫Let's look at some examples.
‫My current contract means I have to work 35 hours from Monday until Friday.
‫I'm trying to change to a part time contract to give me more time for studying, so a few examples of
‫the word contract.
‫And here we have employer and employer is often considered your boss, it's the company or person that
‫gives you a contract and pays you for work.
‫My former employer was quite unkind, so I decided to quit the job.
‫It's important for an employer and employee to have a good relationship, so the employer is the boss,
‫the manager of the company and an employee is the person who works for the company.
‫Now we have Josh.
‫Georgia is a type of contract where you share, sometimes equally or sometimes not, you share the work
‫with another person.
‫So it may be that a job share with Simon to do some work.
‫And I work Monday and Tuesday and Simon works Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
‫They don't happen too often.
‫They are kind of rare.
‫But I know in the UK there are people who have these types of contracts, job, share.
‫In the last few years, more married men have started to job share to spend more time at home in education,
‫it is common for some teachers to job share.
‫It's similar to a part time contract, but it's a full time contract split between usually two people.
‫And next, we have stressful stressful is a negative feeling.
‫Often when you are too busy and there is too much pressure, so you feel this this negative feeling
‫stress and yeah, it's it's not very pleasant.
‫Let's take a look at some examples.
‫Many working parents find looking after their children and having a part time job.
‫Quite stressful.
‫Although my new work can be stressful, I do find it enjoyable.
‫And here we have occupation, when you talk about somebody's job, you can say or you can ask them,
‫what is your occupation?
‫It's more formal.
‫So it is often used in more formal situations, such as forms and contracts.
‫But yes, occupation means somebodies work.
‫My father's occupation was in computing and information technology.
‫Children should start to consider what occupation they would like in the future.
‫And here we have resign, if you resign from your work, it means that you are quitting.
‫It often means if you resign, that you are still abiding, still being careful with your contract.
‫So it may be that you resign, but you have to work for six, seven, eight weeks.
‫Then you can finish its notice that you give to your employer.
‫I will cut my contract short.
‫After many policemen reached forty five, they decided to resign from their role.
‫If a job becomes unmanageable, then you can always resign, and I've highlighted this word unmanageable.
‫You can use unmanageable to describe tasks or jobs and work that are too difficult, that too busy.
‫The task is unmanageable.
‫OK, let's move on.
‫And here we have commute.
‫Commute quite simply means how you get from home to the place of your work.
‫Many people commute from their local town into the city for work, the evening commute is a nightmare
‫because of the traffic.
‫So a few examples of commute, and it's a great thing to be able to describe your commute.
‫OK, lastly, we have vocation.
‫Vacation is a synonym for job, and it means a job that you are 150 percent matched perfectly with.
‫You want to do that work if you enjoy your job, but not really.
‫It's not your vocation.
‫A vocation is a job that you love.
‫Some people find their vocation early, lucky then.
‫To me, nursing is more than a job.
‫It's my vocation and I love it very much.
‫So if you're talking about a job that you love, you can call that your vocation.
‫OK, and here are your eight key pieces of language for work.
‫See you in the next vocabulary lesson.