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‫We'll now move on to eight key pieces of vocabulary and language for the topic of work.

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‫Again, it's very likely that this will come up in your speaking test.

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‫Let's move on to take a look at these key phrases so we have a contract employer.

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‫Job, share, stressful occupation, resign, commute and vocation.

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‫Let's take a look at contract site contract is a legally binding document that you sign with your employer,

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‫and it usually gives you a list of duties that you must do.

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‫And it talks about things like holidays and hours and when you will work.

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‫Let's look at some examples.

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‫My current contract means I have to work 35 hours from Monday until Friday.

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‫I'm trying to change to a part time contract to give me more time for studying, so a few examples of

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‫the word contract.

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‫And here we have employer and employer is often considered your boss, it's the company or person that

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‫gives you a contract and pays you for work.

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‫My former employer was quite unkind, so I decided to quit the job.

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‫It's important for an employer and employee to have a good relationship, so the employer is the boss,

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‫the manager of the company and an employee is the person who works for the company.

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‫Now we have Josh.

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‫Georgia is a type of contract where you share, sometimes equally or sometimes not, you share the work

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‫with another person.

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‫So it may be that a job share with Simon to do some work.

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‫And I work Monday and Tuesday and Simon works Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

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‫They don't happen too often.

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‫They are kind of rare.

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‫But I know in the UK there are people who have these types of contracts, job, share.

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‫In the last few years, more married men have started to job share to spend more time at home in education,

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‫it is common for some teachers to job share.

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‫It's similar to a part time contract, but it's a full time contract split between usually two people.

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‫And next, we have stressful stressful is a negative feeling.

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‫Often when you are too busy and there is too much pressure, so you feel this this negative feeling

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‫stress and yeah, it's it's not very pleasant.

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‫Let's take a look at some examples.

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‫Many working parents find looking after their children and having a part time job.

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‫Quite stressful.

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‫Although my new work can be stressful, I do find it enjoyable.

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‫And here we have occupation, when you talk about somebody's job, you can say or you can ask them,

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‫what is your occupation?

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‫It's more formal.

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‫So it is often used in more formal situations, such as forms and contracts.

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‫But yes, occupation means somebodies work.

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‫My father's occupation was in computing and information technology.

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‫Children should start to consider what occupation they would like in the future.

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‫And here we have resign, if you resign from your work, it means that you are quitting.

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‫It often means if you resign, that you are still abiding, still being careful with your contract.

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‫So it may be that you resign, but you have to work for six, seven, eight weeks.

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‫Then you can finish its notice that you give to your employer.

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‫I will cut my contract short.

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‫After many policemen reached forty five, they decided to resign from their role.

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‫If a job becomes unmanageable, then you can always resign, and I've highlighted this word unmanageable.

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‫You can use unmanageable to describe tasks or jobs and work that are too difficult, that too busy.

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‫The task is unmanageable.

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‫OK, let's move on.

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‫And here we have commute.

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‫Commute quite simply means how you get from home to the place of your work.

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‫Many people commute from their local town into the city for work, the evening commute is a nightmare

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‫because of the traffic.

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‫So a few examples of commute, and it's a great thing to be able to describe your commute.

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‫OK, lastly, we have vocation.

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‫Vacation is a synonym for job, and it means a job that you are 150 percent matched perfectly with.

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‫You want to do that work if you enjoy your job, but not really.

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‫It's not your vocation.

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‫A vocation is a job that you love.

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‫Some people find their vocation early, lucky then.

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‫To me, nursing is more than a job.

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‫It's my vocation and I love it very much.

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‫So if you're talking about a job that you love, you can call that your vocation.

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‫OK, and here are your eight key pieces of language for work.

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‫See you in the next vocabulary lesson.