Talking About Your Job

Talk About Your Job

A fun lesson for beginner ESL students to learn adjectives, adverbs of frequency and vocabulary, and expressions to talk about your job and likes and dislikes. Watch the ESL video and use the ESL Printable and Digital storytelling flashcards to practice using new vocabulary and expressions to talk about your job likes and dislikes using adjectives and adverbs of frequency. Get the downloadable worksheets, ESL printable and digital flashcards, ESL listening and reading exercises, and gamify lessons with badges and stamps.

Warm Up

  1. What do you like about your job?
  2. What do you dislike about your job?
  3. Do you like your co-workers?
  4. Do you like your boss?
  5. What is your dream job?
Talk About Job esl printable flashcards

ESL Listening – Talking About Your Job

Watch the following YouTube video:

ESL Questions Talking about Your Job

1. What are Tony and Samantha talking about?

2. How does Samantha feel about the principal?

3. What doesn’t Samantha like about her job?

4. How does Samantha feel about working overtime?

5. What doesn’t she mind doing?

6. How does Samantha feel about her co-workers?

7. Does Samantha like teaching?

8. Do you think Samantha likes her job?

Vocabulary Bank

co-workers
prepare
correct homework
assignments
overtime
misbehave
boss
strict
helpful
overall

Talking About Job esl printable flashcards

ESL Printable and Digital Flashcards – Talk About Your Job

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ESL Vocabulary – Talk About Your Job

Synonyms

What is a word from the video with the same meaning as the words below?

  1. get ready for
  2. work
  3. so so
  4. work extra hours
  5. content with

Antonyms

What is a word with the opposite meaning as the words below?

  1. go to bed
  2. easy-going
  3. boring
  4. hate

Grammar

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb.

Every day I ______________________ 1 (wake up) early to go to work. I am a morning person, so I like ______________________ 2 (wake up) early.

I can’t stand ______________________ 3 (work) overtime. I ______________________ 4 (work) overtime three times a week.

My boss is very nice. He often ______________________ 5 (help) me.

Bob always ______________________ 6 (arrive) at work thirty minutes early. He’s very punctual.

He’s ______________________ 7 (correct) their tests right now. After he ______________________ 8 (correct) them he will give them to the students.

Sally doesn’t like to ______________________ 9 (do) homework. She’s ______________________ 10 (do) her homework now.

They always ______________________ 11 (complain) about their job. They are ______________________ 12 (complain) now.

Wendy ______________________ 13 (work) hard every day. She’s ______________________ 14 (work) until ten o’clock today.

over work
work hard/hard worker
colleagues
job satisfaction
company
department

ESL Conversation about Job Likes and Dislikes

Tony: Do you like your job Samantha?

Samantha: I like many things about my job, but there are some things that I don’t like.

Tony: What do you like about your job?

Samantha: I like my co-workers and I don’t mind preparing for my classes. I love to teach my students and I even like to correct homework and assignments.

Tony: Hmm. Very interesting! What don’t you like about your job?

Samantha: I don’t like to work overtime. I don’t like it when my students misbehave. I don’t like waking up early. And sometimes I don’t like my boss. Our principal Mr. Scott is very strict, but sometimes he’s very helpful too.

Tony: It sounds like overall you are happy with your job.

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Reference: B1L15

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