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local
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
road trip
a long travel by car
Work
Actually, the IELTS Speaking vocabulary words for work are pretty much the same as
the IELTS Listening work vocabulary words. For your convenience (so you don’t have to
scroll back up to the Listening section of this P
DF), I’ve reproduced those words here:
career
“Career” is a more board term than “occupation.” It refers
to the category of work
someone does, and suggests a long-term commitment. To help you understand
the difference between occupation and career, I will tell you about my career and
the occupations I
’ve had in it. I have a career as an educator. My current
occupation in this career is a Test Expert position here at Magoosh. As a part-
time occupation, I am also a language tutor. And earlier
in my education career, I
was occupied (the verb form of occupation) as a middle school teacher, and then
as a university professor.
shift work
“Shift work” 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.
salary work
Salary work 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 shi
fts. Salary workers aren’t paid by the hour
and instead receive a
fixed rate of pay per week or month.