Joy English · Level B2 · Workjoy-english.com
A career change
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Understand reasons and questions about a life decision.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
Audio and answer checking: https://joy-english.com/listening-lessons/a-career-change
Words to know
- finance
- The work of managing money.
- retrain
- To learn the skills for a new job.
- meaningful
- Important and worth doing.
Answer key
- I'm thinking of leaving my job in finance to become a teacher.“Of” is weak: “thinking-uv”.
- That's a big step, what made you decide?“What made you” is quick: “wha-may-joo”.
- I want to do something that feels more meaningful.The stress in “meaningful” is on “mean”.
- Will you need to retrain first?The stress in “retrain” is on “train”.
- Yes, the course takes a year, but I think it's worth the risk.“Worth the” has two th sounds.