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Week 33: Jobs & Work

IELTS Warm-up Questions: Jobs & Work

Warm-up Questions: 

• What was your first job?
• What do you enjoy about your current job?
• Is there anything you don’t enjoy about your job?
• What would be your ideal job?

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IELTS Lesson – How to Describe in Part 2

A few newsletters ago, I outlined the PDF strategy to help your answer any IELTS Part 2 speaking question: Past → Describe → Future 

The Describe step of the strategy is the main focus of the task, and also gives you the most to talk about. This means you have a great opportunity to show off some of your more specific and varied English vocabulary. 

Also, most of the time you spend talking should be on describing what you did, who you were with, what you saw and how you felt – (plus any other details you want to mention) so it’s important to know some different ways to describe things in English. 

This short video will give you some of the ideal vocabulary, language points and sentence structures you can use depending on the Part 2 question you get. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUE4UzdGNso&feature=youtu.be

Bonus video! 

Here are some IELTS example answers to some Part 2 and 3 questions about Jobs & Work:

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Links and Resources

Find more IELTS-ready vocabulary, collocations and phrases associated with Jobs & Work here!

• http://www.freecollocation.com/search?word=work
• http://www.freecollocation.com/search?word=job

What’s the perfect career for you? Did you know you can take online tests that help you discover your ideal job or field? Take a free one (and practice some great English adjectives) here: 

• https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

What if you have a job that you don’t like? Maybe it’s difficult, monotonous or stressful. Here are some useful tips (which make great IELTS Answers!) for dealing with this tricky situation: 

• https://www.lifehack.org/articles/work/how-deal-with-job-you-dont-like.html

IELTS Practice Questions

Putting it all together:

Part 2 Cue Card – 

• Describe someone who is good at their job.
  You can say:
  • Who they are
  • What they do
  • How you know them
  • And why you think they are good at their job

Part 3 – 

• Does university education help students to find a good job in your country?
• How do university students plan their careers in your country?
• How can people learn to do a new job?
• What difficulties do people usually have when they start a new job?
• Do you agree that nowadays people work too much?
• Does technology help to improve people’s work-life balance?
• Do you think that nowadays the only way for people to find personal fulfilment is through work?

Happy learning!