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Talking About Occupation - Basic English Conversation

The document discusses common questions and responses about occupations and work situations. It provides examples of asking about someone's occupation, describing different types of jobs and industries, and ways of working such as full-time, part-time, flexi-time, or shifts. It also includes a sample conversation asking about and describing occupations.

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Talking About Occupation - Basic English Conversation

The document discusses common questions and responses about occupations and work situations. It provides examples of asking about someone's occupation, describing different types of jobs and industries, and ways of working such as full-time, part-time, flexi-time, or shifts. It also includes a sample conversation asking about and describing occupations.

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Talking about occupation: Basic English Conversation

Asking about occupations


What do you do for a living?
What do you do to make a living?
What company do you work for?
What's your job?
What's your occupation?
What do you do?

Office jobs - Many people work in an office. You can say you’re an “office worker”, or give
the title of your job: a receptionist, an accountant, etc.

Other places you can work


I work… in a factory/school/hospital; on a farm; from home (“I work from home” = you have
an office in your house)
You can also say “I work as a doctor / as an actor etc”.

If you don’t know the title of your job, you can talk about your industry or type of job.

For example, “I work in … (industry / type of job)

Some typical industries: publishing (creating books): education (teaching); construction


(building houses); manufacturing (making things); finance (money)

Some typical types of job: marketing; sales; IT; logistics; HR; management; consultancy

For example:
I’d like to work in IT.
His dream is to work in management.

Talking about how you work


full-time (for example, 5 days a week, from 9 to 5)
part-time (for example, 2 days a week, or mornings / afternoons only)
flexi-time (for example, from 10 – 6)
in shifts (for example, only the morning, afternoon, evening or night)

Practice Conversation:
A: Hi Jane! Didn't know you work in the same building.
B. Yeah. I just started to work here last month.
A: What do you do?
B: I work as an IT for Apple. How about you?
A: That's an interesting job. I'm currently in finance, but I'm thinking about changing job soon.
Perhaps I'd apply somewhere I can work from home so I can focus on my family.
B: That sounds very ideal.

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