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Jobs and workplaces
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Learn words for common jobs, places of work and talking about your working week.
Choose the job word
Choose the correct answer.
- Who repairs cars?
- A colleague is ___.
- Where do people and machines make things like bicycles or shoes?
- Ravi works 20 hours a week. He has a ___ job.
- Which person works in a restaurant kitchen?
- My new job pays well. The ___ is good.
- Choose the correct sentence.
Complete the work sentences
Type one word in each gap. Use each word once and add -s if you need a plural. Use: colleague, engineer, factory, farmer, nurse, office, receptionist.
- The ___ at the hotel gave us a map of the city.
- My uncle is a ___. He grows rice and keeps chickens.
- Lena works at a desk in an ___ on the fifth floor.
- I get on well with my ___. We often have lunch together after meetings.
- The ___ makes 500 bicycles a day.
- Kofi is an ___. He designs roads and bridges.
- At the hospital, a ___ checked my temperature and gave me some water.
Answer key
Choose the job word
- b) a mechanicA mechanic repairs cars and machines.
- c) a person you work withA colleague is a person you work with.
- a) in a factoryA factory is a building where things are made.
- b) part-timeTwenty hours is only part of a normal working week, so it is part-time.
- c) a chefA chef cooks in a restaurant kitchen.
- a) salaryYour salary is the money you get for your job.
- b) She works as a nurse.We use a or an with jobs: She works as a nurse.
Complete the work sentences
- receptionistA receptionist welcomes visitors at a hotel and helps them.
- farmerA farmer grows food and keeps animals.
- officeAn office is a room or building where people work at desks.
- colleagues / colleague / co-workers / coworkers / co-worker / coworkerColleagues are the people you work with. You can use colleague for one person or colleagues for more than one.
- factoryA factory is where things like bicycles are made.
- engineerAn engineer designs or builds machines, roads or bridges.
- nurseA nurse looks after sick people in a hospital.