Ultimate Vocabulary Guide For IELTS (50 trang)

Ultimate Vocabulary Guide for IELTS

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• Vocabulary is key to scoring high in your IELTS. It is also important to know that each section of IELTS requires a different vocabulary. In this ultimate guide we'll discuss the vocabulary that should be used in listening, reading, writing, and speaking. We'll also look at the vocabulary that deals with different topics.

• In the last section, I have listed some topics that students usually come across in IELTS. I have also mentioned some words that you should use when attempting a question on that topic. Finally, I have provided a few exercises that will improve your vocabulary.

Ultimate Vocabulary

Guide for

IELTS

IELTS Listening

IELTS Reading

IELTS Writing

IELTS Speaking

Section 1 IELTS LISTENING VOCABULARY

• Although IELTS Listening has a variety of topics, one thing they all have in common is that they are conversations. Even the speeches in listening are spoken as if they're being given to a live audience. Since the audios are conversations, they have a conversational vocabulary.

• Some of the most common topics in IELTS listening are work, travel, family, and school life.

Work

• Work is a very common topic in listening. Here are a few words that you might come across when listening to an audio on this topic.

Career

• “Career” refers to a category of work that someone does and describes a long-term commitment. “Occupation”, on the other hand, refers to a single job that you have done. This job is included in your career. In fact, any job that you have done related to the same category falls under your career. For example, “In my writing career, I have written affiliate review articles, blog posts, product listings, and web content.” In this example, my career was 'writing'. However, any type of writing that I did, were my occupation. I had worked for a short-term as an affiliate review writer, blog post writer, product listing writer, and a web content writer. However, these are all under the same category, so, they are all a part of my writing career, which was long-term

Shift Work

• Shift work refers to work that has a scheduled time where the worker must be in the workplace. The scheduled time is called a shift. The usual shift is 8 hours but it may be shorter. Shift workers are commonly paid hourly.

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Salary Work

• Salary workers have a scheduled time, a shift where the worker will be in the office. They also a fixed salary paid monthly or weekly. However, the schedule is not strict. The worker may have to work shifts longer than the time he was required on a given day. He may even have to come in on the weekends. Despite that, he will only be paid the amount that was fixed. On the other hand, a salary worker has more freedom to leave early or even work for shorter hours than the schedule. Even then, he will still be paid the same fixed salary.

Unskilled/Skilled

• Unskilled work is that which requires little or no training. Some examples of unskilled workers are sweepers, grocery clerks, janitors, and fast-food workers. This type of work is usually the lowest-paying. They may or may not require physical activities or strength. Regardless, it doesn't require any special training for one to do it well. Skilled work requires a person to go through special training, diplomas, or degrees to be good at them. These are higher paying than unskilled jobs. Some examples of skilled workers are engineers, doctors, software developers, and even plumbers. Skilled work may or may not require labor. Some examples of laborious skilled work are plumbers, engineers, soldiers, and paramedics.

Manual Labour

• Manual labor work is one that is very physical and requires strength. They include both unskilled and skilled work.