2.an activity which is designed to help achieve a particular learning goal , especially in language teaching: tast -based learning
v. to give sb a task to do
Job
n. paid work 1. work for which you receive regualar payment: He's trying to get a job. She took a job as a waitress. His brother's just lost his job. a summer/holiday/Saturday/vacation job. a temperary ,permanent job . I' m thinking of applying for a new job. The takeover of the company is bound to mean more job losses. Many women are in part-time jobs. Did they offer you a job? He certainly knows his job.( = is very good at his job) I'm only doing my job.(I 'm doing what I am paid to do) He's been out of a job. (= unemployed) for six months now. She's never had a steady job .(a job that is not going to end suddenly)
Task 2. a particular task or piece of work that you have to do: I've got various job around the house to do. Sorting these papers out is going to be a long job. The builder has a couple of jobs on at the moment.
Duty 3. a responsible or duty: It's not my job to lock up?
Crime 4. a crime, especially stealing: a bank job. an inside job (done by sb in organization where the crime happened.)
Object 5. aparticula kind of thing: It's real wood-not one of those plastic jobs.
Computing 6. an item of work which is done by a computer as a single unit.
Do the job=to be effective or successful in doing what you want: This extra strong glue should do the job.
Work v.
do job/task.1.To do sth that involves physical or mental effort,especially as part of a job: I can't work if I 'm cold. I've been working at my assignment all day. He is working on a new novel. She's outside,working on his the car. Doctors often work very ong hours.
2. To have a job: Both my parents work. She works for an engineering company. I've always worked in education. Do you enjoy working with children? My son is working as a teacher.
Make effort 3. to make yourself/sb work,especially very hard: She works herself too hard.
4.to make effors to achieve sth: She dedicted her life to working for peace. The committee is working to get the prisioners freed.
Manage 5.to manage or operate sth. to gain benefit for it: I work the land(=grow crops on it, ete.) He works a large area(- selling a company's goods,etc.) She was a skilul speaker who know how to work a crowd (= at excite them or make them feel sth strongly).
Machine/device 6. to function; to operate: The phone isn't wroking. It works by electicity. Are they any closer to understanding how the brain works?
7. to make a machine,device,etc. operate: Do you know how to work the coffee machine? The machine is worked by wind power.
Have result/effect 8 to have the result or effect that you want: The pills the doctor gave me aren't wroking. My plan worked , and I got them to agree. His charm doesn't work on me(=does not affecr or impress me)
9 to have a particular effect: Your age can work against you in this job. Speaking Italian should work in his favour.
10 to cause or produce sth as a rusult of effort: You can wrok miracles with very little money if you follow our home decoration tips.
Use material 11 to make a material into a particular shape or form by pressing , stretching,hitting it,etc. to wort clay. to work gold . to work the mixure into a paste.
12 ( of an artist,etc,) to use a particular material to produce a picture or other item:an artist working in oils. a craftsman working with wool.
of part of face/ body 13 to move violently: he stared at me in horror, this mouth working.
move gradually 14 to move or pass to a particular
move gradually 14 to move or pass to a particular place or state, usually gradually: It will take a while for the drug to work out of your system. He worked his way to the top of his profession. I was tied up, but managed to work myself free. The screw had worked loose.
Labour n.
work 1 work,especaially physical work: manual labour(= work using your hands) The price will include the labour and materials. The company wonts to keep down labour costs. The workers voted to withdraw their labour costs. (=to stop work as a means of protest.) He was sentenced to two years in a labour camp.(= a type of prison where people have to do hard physical work.
2 a task or period of work: He was so exhausted from the day's labours that he went staight to bed.
people who work 3 the people who work or are available for work in a country or company: a shortage of labour . Employers are using immigrants as cheap labour. Repairs involve skilled labour,which can be expensive. good labour relations(=the relationsip between worker and employers)
having baby 4 the period of time or the process of giving birth to a baby: Jane was in labour for ten hours. She went into labour early. labour pains.
Politics 5 labour the British Labour Party: He always votes Labour. Labour has /have been for nearly ten years.
Verbs.
struggle 1 to try very hard to do sth difficult:He was in his study labouring away over some old papers. They laboured for years to clear their son's name.
work hard 2 to do hard physical work: We laboured all day in the fields. (old-fahioned) the labouring classes (= the working classes)
Move with difficulty 3 to move wiht difficulty and effort.=struggle: The horses laoured up the steep slope.
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