Extend your IELTS vocabulary on the topic of work
If you get a text on the topic of work in the IELTS Reading test, it will be more difficult for you to understand if there’s a lot of vocabulary that you don’t understand. (If you’re taking the IELTS General Training test, you’ll definitely have two texts on the topic of work in Section 2 of the reading test).
With this in mind, here’s a list of vocabulary related to the topic of work taken from one of the texts I recommended you read in our post ‘Read like an IELTS band score 9.0 candidate‘.
In each case, check you understand what the word means or click on the word below for a dictionary definition, and then look at how the word is used in the example.
People:
- “Thousands of Chinese factory workers will be given the chance to…”
- “Employees of some suppliers complain of…
- “…suppliers can raise wages, employ more staff and…”
Factories:
- “…assembly lines producing Apple iPads”
- “…plants producing Apple goods”
- “…sweatshops in the clothing industry“
Working conditions:
- “Employees of some suppliers complain of 10-hour shifts with only one permitted break“
- “…suppliers can raise wages, employ more staff and…”
If any of these words are new for you, it may help you remember them if you think of how they relate to your own work experience.
You could, for example, think about how many breaks you take or how many employees work for the company that you work for or own.
Pete
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