Unit 16 Your Career
Useful Language
| Word | Definition | Translation | Transcription |
| adventure | an unusual, exciting and possibly dangerous activity such as a journey or experience | ədˈven.tʃər | |
| ambition | something that you want to do or achieve very much | , | æmˈbɪʃ.ən |
| antisocial | that can be annoying or harmful to other people | , | ˌæntiˈsoʊʃəl |
| (to) attempt | to try to do something, especially something difficult | , | əˈtem p t |
| career path | the particular way that someones career progresses, or a particular series of jobs that someone has | kəˈrɪər pɑːθ | |
| career plan | a plan for how someone will progress in their career | kəˈrɪər plæn | |
| (to) carry out | to do or complete something, especially that you have said you would do or that you have been told to do | , | ˈkær.i aʊt |
| cause | an organization or idea that people fight for | ; | kɔːz |
| celebrity | a famous person, especially one whose job is in entertainment | ; | sɪˈleb.rɪ.ti |
| challenge | a new or difficult task that tests someones ability and skill | , | ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ |
| (to) change direction | to start doing something completely different to before in your work or life | ( ) | ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ d a ɪˈrek.ʃən |
| civil service | government departments in a country, except the armed forces, and the people who work for them | ˈsɪv.əl ˈsɜː.vɪs | |
| (to) complete | to finish making or doing something | , | kəmˈpliːt |
| (to) concentrate on | to give all your attention to something and not think about anything else | , - | ˈkɒn t .sən.treɪt ɒn |
| consultant | a person who knows a lot about a particular subject and is employed to give advice about it | , | kənˈsʌl.tənt |
| extreme | very great in degree | , | ɪkˈstriːm |
| freelance | earning money by selling your work or services to several different organizations rather than being employed by one particular organization | , | ˈfriː.lɑːn t s |
| fundraising | when you collect or produce money for a particular purpose, especially for a charity | ( ) | ˈfriː.lɑːn t s |
| (to) give up | to stop doing or having something | , ; | gɪv ʌp |
| graduate | a person who has a first degree from a university or college | ˈgrædʒ.u.ət | |
| high-powered | important, with a lot of responsibility | ; | ˌhaɪˈpaʊəd |
| hobby | an activity that you do for pleasure when you are not working | , | ˈhɒb.i |
| hometown | the town or city that a person is from, especially the one in which they were born and lived while they were young | həʊm taʊn | |
| (to) join the army | to join a particular country's fighting force | dʒɔɪn ðə ˈɑː.mi | |
| (to) make a decision | to decide something | / , | meɪk ə dɪˈsɪʒ.ən |
| nurse | a person whose job is to care for people who are ill or injured, especially in a hospital | , | nɜːs |
| poverty | the condition of being poor | , | ˈpɒv.ə.ti |
| proper | real, satisfactory, suitable or correct | , ; | ˈprɒp.ər |
| (to) qualify | to successfully finish a training course so that you are able to do a job; | -. | ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ |
| qualification | an exam that you have passed or a course of study that you have successfully completed | ; | ˌkwɒl.ɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən |
| (to) recover | to get back something lost, especially health | , | rɪˈkʌv.ər |
| rest | a period of time in which you relax, do not do anything active | rest | |
| role | the position that someone or somebody has in an organization | rəʊl | |
| (to) run | to be in charge of a business or part of a business | , | rʌn |
| (to) sack | to remove someone from a job, usually because they have done something wrong or badly | sæk | |
| strength | a quality or an ability that a person has that gives them an advantage | , | streŋθ |
| (to) target a market | to direct a product at particular people | tɑː.gɪt ə mɑː.kɪt | |
| trauma | part of a hospital where people come who have injuries | ˈtrɔː.mə | |
| weakness | a lack of a quality or ability that a person has, that can cause problems | , | ˈwiːk.nəs |
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I. Match the words (1-10) with their definitions (a-j)
| 1. celebrity | a.earning money by selling work to several different organizations |
| 2. ambition | b. a new or difficult task that tests someones ability and skill |
| 3. poverty | c. the position that someone or somebody has in an organization |
| 4. freelance | d. a famous person, especially one whose job is in entertainment |
| 5. antisocial | e. an organization or idea that people fight for |
| 6. challenge | f. something that you want to do or achieve very much |
| 7. fundraising | g. the condition of being poor |
| 8. cause | h. that can be annoying or harmful to other people |
| 9. sack | i. when you collect money for a particular purpose, especially for a charity |
| 10. role | j. to remove someone from a job, usu because they have done something wrong |
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