Coronavirus related vocabulary
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Nowadays you can’t open your phone without reading something about COVID-19, but how well do you understand and know how to use all the vocabulary associated with the pandemic? And why is it called a pandemic and not an outbreak?
In this podcast, Ellen covers over 20 words that are commonly used when talking about COVID-19. Knowing these words will help you:
- Understand what you are reading/ listening to in the news
- Help you formulate answers in speaking and possibly writing
- And give you the confidence you need to communicate on these topics
She discusses the difference between coronavirus and COVID-19 and often misunderstood words like: quarantine, shelter-in-place and lockdown. Is “social distance,” a noun, a verb or an adjective??? What does it mean when a potential vaccine is in phase 3? Many frequently used terms are described in this podcast so stay tuned and find out all you need to know!
Vocabulary resource:
- Coronavirus
- Covid 19
- SARS
- Outbreak
- Epidemic
- Pandemic
- Droplets
- Masks
- Social distancing
- Quarantine
- Lock down
- Shelter in place
- Asymptomatic
- Community spread
- Contact tracing
- Flatten the curve
- ICU
- Ventilators
- Vulnerable
- Immune- compromised
- High risk
- Vaccine
- Pre-clinical stage
- Phase 1
- Phase 2
- Phase 3
Resources
For more useful phrases and vocabulary to use in the IELTS exam, visit these resources :
- IELTS vocabulary and lexical resource
- IELTS vocabulary about modern technology
- IELTS vocabulary about food and nutrition
- Vocabulary for IELTS about travel
- Tips to learn vocabulary
- Climate change vocabulary
- Employment vocabulary
- How to expand your IELTS vocabulary for writing
- Improving your grammatical range and accuracy
- IELTS band 8 vocabulary and collocations
- IELTS vocabulary and lexical resource
Audio tutorial
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