Hello and welcome to today's English lesson my name is Stuart in today's
lesson we're looking at words and vocabulary that we use when we talk
about work and working in English let's go to the intro now as I said today's
lesson is looking at this topic here work and working and all of these words
and expressions will come in handy should you need to talk about this topic
in your life maybe you are working maybe every day you go to work you have a job
you have a profession you have an occupation and you go to work maybe you
are studying at the moment and going to work in the future maybe you're going to
go to another country to work an english-speaking country and you'll need
to know some of these words if not all of these words in order to express
yourself fluently in English now the first words we're looking at are these
ones here job employed occupation and career and your job is the thing that
you get paid for okay you go to work in a job the job is the thing that you get
paid for so people have different jobs doctors lawyers people that work in
shops people that work in restaurants that is their job ok they are employed
by somebody that is their occupation their occupation is also what they get
paid to do he's a doctor his occupation is a doctor and maybe you have a career
now there's a difference between having a career and a job a career is normally
something that you can develop over a long period of time you can start off at
the bottom in a company for example and work your way to the top or work your
way up through the ranks of the company that is your career if you work in a job
maybe you don't have a career you can be in the same position your whole life if
work as a waiter for example there's not really a chance of being promoted so
it's not really a career it's a job okay so there's a little bit of a difference
between the two so a job you are employed it is your occupation and maybe
you have a career as an engineer maybe you have a career as an engineer okay
that is the work that you do all right your job or the work that you do now you
can be at work meaning you're physically at your place of work okay you are at
work or you can be in work which means that you have a job so if you say that I
am in work at the moment it means that I have a job I'm getting paid to do
something and if I am at work I'm just physically at my place of work so here
in my office I am at work at the moment okay you can work full-time or you can
work part-time full-time normally means that you work around 40 hours per week
some countries more some countries less but around 40 okay in most modern
countries let's say you work around 40 hours if you're full-time and if you're
part-time it means that you work maybe half of those 40 hours maybe you work 20
maybe you work 25 maybe you even work 18 hours per week but you work on a
part-time basis a lot of people in Australia or where I'm from when they
study at university they work part-time they have a part-time job or maybe you
decide to have a family and you want to look after the children and you try to
balance your family life with your work life so you can also have a part-time
job work experience is something that you do in order to to practice your
skills okay you get work experience maybe you can work in a company for a
couple of weeks a couple of months you get experience that will help you
get another job in the future okay that's your work experience you can
be on work experience at a company like I said for a month couple of weeks
however long the experience is for the work experience program we can also say
that people are under worked or overworked if you're under work that
means that you're not working to your full potential you're under worked and
if you're overworked that means that you're working too much you're working
more than you think that you should be working you're overworked I'm really
overworked at the moment my boss is a slave driver I'm really overworked at
the moment okay so under worked and overworked you could also be a hard
worker if you're somebody that works hard you're a hard worker I consider
myself to be a reasonably hard worker there are some people that work more
than me some people work less than me but in
general I consider myself to be a hard worker I get up every day and I do my
eight or nine hours every day hard worker if you're not a hard worker and
many people out there are not hard workers you could be called a slacker or
as we say in Australia we call people that don't work hard we call them
bludgers okay he's a bludger he's bludging at the moment so he's a slacker
or he's a bludger we can use both of those words in Australia but this one is
more or less unique to Australia here bludger workaholic workaholic is
somebody that works a lot of hours somebody who dedicates a lot of their
life to work okay maybe they spend many many hours per day
at the office maybe they maybe they're supposed to work from 8 o'clock to 5
o'clock in the afternoon but they continue to work because they love their
job they can be called workaholics ok similar to an alcoholic somebody that
drinks too much alcohol if you work too hard people
can call you a workaholic okay I don't consider myself to be a workaholic
I like to work I like to do things and keep busy but I'm not a workaholic we
all know people that are workaholics but I don't consider myself to be one now
these words here work flow workload workplace workspace and work week now
the work flow are the stages or the process of your work okay
it's the stages or the processes it's the workflow from the beginning to the
end so if you're working on a project if you're making something developing
something the workflow from the beginning to the end it's the stages
it's the workflow of the project for example again similar is your work load
it's the amount of work that you have your work load some people have a heavy
work load some people have a light work load some people work more than others
therefore they have a bigger work load your workplace is the place that you
work okay your work place it can be either the building that you work in or
your more smaller space maybe your office or your desk which can also be
called your work space so your desk could be your work space so the work
place the place that you work and your work space the space that you work in
okay and your work week again we mentioned before that normally a work
week or a working week is around 40 hours 38 40 42 some countries it's less
I know in France I think they work only 35 hours a week so the work week a
thirty hour work week a 40-hour work week okay
the amount of hours that you work in your week now here are some idioms that
we use to talk about working okay normally we use them to talk about
people that work hard or when you work hard you can use these expressions here
so you can say for example to work like a dog he works like a dog he works hard
he where's he works hard everyday he works
like a dog you can work until you drop you can work until you drop meaning that
you work until you're so physically tired that you just bump that you drop
okay not dead okay but you drop because you're tired you work until you drop you
can work your fingers to the bone meaning that you also work very very
hard you work your fingers to the bone okay work your fingers to the bone I've
been working my fingers to the bone okay I've been working very very hard lately
and to work your guts out guts are in your stomach you work your guts out
again meaning that you work very very hard
I've been working my guts off over the last couple of weeks to get these videos
done working my guts out and to work your ass off is another expression that
we can use when you work really really hard you work your ass off he's been
working his ass off over the last couple of weeks because he wants to get a
promotion so he's been working his ass off so all of these expressions we can
use in English when we talk about work and working now thank you very much for
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