Vocabulary Spotlight | 3 Confusing Words

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl shares 3 confusing words with the listeners. She and Jack explain the meanings of the words and how to use them in sentences. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack Hey, A is the English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase. 00:00:17 Jack And if you. 00:00:18 Jack Join the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to. 00:00:22 Jack Talk with social. 00:00:23 Jack And we can answer your questions. We can read your comments on the podcast. So we'd love for you to join us and be active in our we chat group. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast. Thanks. See you on the app. 00:00:50 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we're going to share. Well, we're going to do a we're under the vocabulary spotlight and we are going to share some words that we came across during our English corner classes that students kind of struggle with. And so so. 00:01:11 Jack Was the first one that you you had that you came up with? 00:01:15 Xochitl The first one I noticed students struggled a little bit with was workload, the pronunciation, workload and then on top of that, what it meant workload is just. It's a compound word. It has the word work in it and the word load in it, and you put it together. 00:01:19 발표자 Hmm. 00:01:36 Xochitl With no spaces and its workload, so workload just means the amount of work that each person is. 00:01:44 Xochitl Uh. 00:01:45 Jack Each. 00:01:45 Xochitl Person's share of work so that can be at your house like domestic tasks like chores or that can also be at your job. You know, between your colleagues you may have a heavier workload if you have a higher position in the company. So that's kind of what workload refers to. 00:02:08 Jack Yeah, exactly. It's, it's it's a lot of times you hear it with the word share shared workload. 00:02:15 Jack You know, so you have, you have this like? 00:02:18 Jack The certain amount of work that you have to do at your office and then they divide it among the employees. You're gonna do this much? You're gonna do this much? You're gonna do this much? You're gonna do this much, and each piece is your workload. 00:02:33 Jack And and then you basically just start working away, chipping away at it, you know, trying to to decrease it down to 0. 00:02:42 Jack And of course, in the company or corporation it never gets down to 0 because there's always more work. You know you there's another workload piled on top of your old workload. And so you know, it's kind of a never ending, you know, thing but. 00:03:02 Jack Yeah, I mean, I just think that like, yeah, certain even within this podcast social and I divide certain parts of the workload, she's spends a lot of time talking to students on the app. 00:03:13 Jack App communicating with them, recording I my workload is. Yeah, I do like the editing and and and some of the you know adding like little music pieces or whatever to it which actually I enjoy. So it's kind of like my my workload is kind of the fun part and I get the the editing part of it. 00:03:19 Xochitl Can I have an idea? 00:03:34 Jack But yeah, it's a it's a shared workload and and you know when you do that, when you share the workload, it makes it a lot easier to finish a project more quickly. 00:03:47 발표자 So. 00:03:50 Xochitl The second one that I saw some students struggle with was the meaning of emotional labor. When I say emotional labor, what does that mean to you, Jack? 00:03:59 Jack This one I've actually I'm not too familiar with this term. This seems like uh, maybe something that is a newer. 00:04:07 Xochitl Kind of a new age term. 00:04:09 Jack Yeah, just like a Gen. Z kind of thing like. 00:04:12 발표자 Yes. 00:04:15 Jack Most workload is, that is that does that mean like managing your relationship