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Advanced Vocabulary for Working From Home

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Tram Nguyen
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These 際際滷s provide you with 31 different collocations, idioms expressions, vocabulary that you could use when talking about "Working From Home" experiences. I have made this list based on a video on Youtube posted by Speak Confident English Channel. I hope this helps you be more confident when you are in conversations talking about remote working.

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ADVANCED VOCABULARY FOR WORKING FROM HOME I want to share with you a variety, in fact, 31, different collocations, idioms expressions, vocabulary, and more for advanced level conversations about working from home in English. In this lesson today, I'm going to focus on four primary topics: different things that we say when we talk about where we're working specifically working at home. Number two language that we use to talk about how you work at home and whether or not you've developed productive routines. Number three, language that we use to talk about some of the challenges of working at home. And number four different expressions or language we use when we talk about communicating with colleagues online. We often say that we are working remotely or that we're doing a job remotely. The word remotely means you're working outside or away from your business office or your company building. Similarly, we can use the verb to telecommute, to telecommute means that you're using telephone and internet access to do all of your work from a home office or some other place outside your work office. Telecommuting, also called telework, teleworking, working from home mobile work, remote work, and flexible workplace. Similar to saying that you can work from anywhere. You'll hear some freelancers say that they are a digital nomad. Someone who is a digital nomad is location independent. That means they don't need to be in a specific place to do their job. Instead, they can do everything they need online and telecommute. If your profession allows you to do all of your work online, you can say that you are working virtually. In fact, maybe you're even on a virtual team. There are definitely challenges to working from home. People who have developed a productive work at home routine will often talk about the importance of breaking up their day. To break up your day. What that means is to divide different times of your day for specific activities. For example, in the morning, you have time that is specific for working out. Then you have time for answering emails, time for online meetings. And so on. Similarly, you'll hear people talk about the importance of blocking out time. If you block out time on your calendar, it means you don't schedule anything else during that time, except maybe working out. Maybe that is time that is dedicated to getting exercise and staying fit.
To do deep work or to have deep focus time. Deep work, or deep focus time means you have the ability to block out all other distractions so that you can do some difficult brainwork or mental work. Those activities take a lot of mental effort. Another component of working productively from home or from anywhere is to minimize context switching. It's kind of a complex way to say you're going to eliminate distractions and block time for specific activities. For example, maybe you do all your meetings in the morning and you spend one hour, one specific hour, a day answering email, and then you spend two hours doing some important writing or other tasks. A lot of people talk about the benefit of work from home flexibility. And when you see it in writing, you'll often see WFH for work from home. And certainly that is true. You do have a lot of flexibility with your time, It's also important to make sure that you create time to unwind, to unwind means to relax, to let go. If you work from home, there's this pressure, this feeling that you're always at work, there's no separation. It is important to create that opportunity to unwind, to relax, to be separated from work so that you can thrive. If you thrive in a work from home environment, it means that you prosper. You flourish. You do well. You enjoy it. And you appreciate all the flexibility that it affords. One of the challenges of working from home, when you have multiple distractions and responsibilities. Your children need to be homeschooled is that sometimes you might feel that you have to steal a few minutes to do something. So what do you think it means if someone says yesterday, it was so hard for me to steal a few minutes of time to work. It was really hard to take a little bit of time during the day for you to focus on your job. When that happens, when it's hard to steal a little bit of time to do your work, it can be hard to stay on track, to stay on track means to stay focused on what you're doing and to meet all of your deadlines properly. If you do want to stay on track, you might need to shut out the world. It closes out any distractions or extra noise that you don't want to hear. Some of the language we use to talk about those difficulties of separating personal and professional life are to have blurred lines between your professional and your personal life. What that means is it's not a clear straight line, but now it's all blurry and confusing. It's hard to step away or remove yourself from your An always-on work culture means you're always available. All of this might lead to feeling burnout. When you feel burned out, it means you are exhausted. You are finished. You have no more energy. One final challenge of working from home is the feeling of self-isolation or to feel cut off from the world To block out the world. That is when you intentionally close the door on all of those distractions. To feel closed off from the world means someone else shut the door and you don't have the opportunity to interact, to engage and to be with others.
Let's zoom on Monday at 10 o'clock. Zoom has become so common and popular that it is now used like a verb. Ex: Let's zoom on Friday at 9:00 AM. If you have a bad connection, it makes it difficult to have a productive conversation online. As a result, you might hear people say things like my internet is unstable today. I have a bad connection, an unstable connection, a poor connection. If you've been in an online meeting, you've probably experienced someone saying you're frozen. What that means is your video has stopped transmitting and your image is still, you're also going to hear people say, Oh, you're on mute. If you're on camera that you'll see that someone is talking, but of course you can't hear them because they've turned off their microphone. And of course there are times when people just suddenly disappear. What you might say in that moment is we've lost [someones name]. For example, we've lost Anna. When we have online meetings, it's really important to have strong bandwidth Bandwidth are the frequencies that transmit signals. You might hear people say, I don't have the bandwidth for this today. Or I don't have the bandwidth for this conversation. I don't have the bandwidth to take on a new project. If someone doesn't have the bandwidth to do something, it means they don't have the energy or the capacity to do something. They're overwhelmed or burnout.

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  • 1. ADVANCED VOCABULARY FOR WORKING FROM HOME I want to share with you a variety, in fact, 31, different collocations, idioms expressions, vocabulary, and more for advanced level conversations about working from home in English. In this lesson today, I'm going to focus on four primary topics: different things that we say when we talk about where we're working specifically working at home. Number two language that we use to talk about how you work at home and whether or not you've developed productive routines. Number three, language that we use to talk about some of the challenges of working at home. And number four different expressions or language we use when we talk about communicating with colleagues online. We often say that we are working remotely or that we're doing a job remotely. The word remotely means you're working outside or away from your business office or your company building. Similarly, we can use the verb to telecommute, to telecommute means that you're using telephone and internet access to do all of your work from a home office or some other place outside your work office. Telecommuting, also called telework, teleworking, working from home mobile work, remote work, and flexible workplace. Similar to saying that you can work from anywhere. You'll hear some freelancers say that they are a digital nomad. Someone who is a digital nomad is location independent. That means they don't need to be in a specific place to do their job. Instead, they can do everything they need online and telecommute. If your profession allows you to do all of your work online, you can say that you are working virtually. In fact, maybe you're even on a virtual team. There are definitely challenges to working from home. People who have developed a productive work at home routine will often talk about the importance of breaking up their day. To break up your day. What that means is to divide different times of your day for specific activities. For example, in the morning, you have time that is specific for working out. Then you have time for answering emails, time for online meetings. And so on. Similarly, you'll hear people talk about the importance of blocking out time. If you block out time on your calendar, it means you don't schedule anything else during that time, except maybe working out. Maybe that is time that is dedicated to getting exercise and staying fit.
  • 2. To do deep work or to have deep focus time. Deep work, or deep focus time means you have the ability to block out all other distractions so that you can do some difficult brainwork or mental work. Those activities take a lot of mental effort. Another component of working productively from home or from anywhere is to minimize context switching. It's kind of a complex way to say you're going to eliminate distractions and block time for specific activities. For example, maybe you do all your meetings in the morning and you spend one hour, one specific hour, a day answering email, and then you spend two hours doing some important writing or other tasks. A lot of people talk about the benefit of work from home flexibility. And when you see it in writing, you'll often see WFH for work from home. And certainly that is true. You do have a lot of flexibility with your time, It's also important to make sure that you create time to unwind, to unwind means to relax, to let go. If you work from home, there's this pressure, this feeling that you're always at work, there's no separation. It is important to create that opportunity to unwind, to relax, to be separated from work so that you can thrive. If you thrive in a work from home environment, it means that you prosper. You flourish. You do well. You enjoy it. And you appreciate all the flexibility that it affords. One of the challenges of working from home, when you have multiple distractions and responsibilities. Your children need to be homeschooled is that sometimes you might feel that you have to steal a few minutes to do something. So what do you think it means if someone says yesterday, it was so hard for me to steal a few minutes of time to work. It was really hard to take a little bit of time during the day for you to focus on your job. When that happens, when it's hard to steal a little bit of time to do your work, it can be hard to stay on track, to stay on track means to stay focused on what you're doing and to meet all of your deadlines properly. If you do want to stay on track, you might need to shut out the world. It closes out any distractions or extra noise that you don't want to hear. Some of the language we use to talk about those difficulties of separating personal and professional life are to have blurred lines between your professional and your personal life. What that means is it's not a clear straight line, but now it's all blurry and confusing. It's hard to step away or remove yourself from your An always-on work culture means you're always available. All of this might lead to feeling burnout. When you feel burned out, it means you are exhausted. You are finished. You have no more energy. One final challenge of working from home is the feeling of self-isolation or to feel cut off from the world To block out the world. That is when you intentionally close the door on all of those distractions. To feel closed off from the world means someone else shut the door and you don't have the opportunity to interact, to engage and to be with others.
  • 3. Let's zoom on Monday at 10 o'clock. Zoom has become so common and popular that it is now used like a verb. Ex: Let's zoom on Friday at 9:00 AM. If you have a bad connection, it makes it difficult to have a productive conversation online. As a result, you might hear people say things like my internet is unstable today. I have a bad connection, an unstable connection, a poor connection. If you've been in an online meeting, you've probably experienced someone saying you're frozen. What that means is your video has stopped transmitting and your image is still, you're also going to hear people say, Oh, you're on mute. If you're on camera that you'll see that someone is talking, but of course you can't hear them because they've turned off their microphone. And of course there are times when people just suddenly disappear. What you might say in that moment is we've lost [someones name]. For example, we've lost Anna. When we have online meetings, it's really important to have strong bandwidth Bandwidth are the frequencies that transmit signals. You might hear people say, I don't have the bandwidth for this today. Or I don't have the bandwidth for this conversation. I don't have the bandwidth to take on a new project. If someone doesn't have the bandwidth to do something, it means they don't have the energy or the capacity to do something. They're overwhelmed or burnout.