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Talking About Your Job

CEFR level:
A1
Sentences:
8
Duration:
1 min
Speakers:
Tom & Emma

"Talking About Your Job" is an A1-level English conversation about personal information, 8 lines long (about 1 minute) between Tom & Emma. Read the full script below with the translation next to each line, then try speaking one of the roles out loud.

Dialogue script

Each entry shows the English sentence first, with the translation on the line below it. To practise speaking, cover the translation and repeat after the audio.

  1. Tom 0:00

    Emma, what kind of work do you do?

    Line 1
  2. Emma 0:02

    I'm an English teacher at an elementary school.

    Line 2
  3. Tom 0:05

    That sounds rewarding! Do you enjoy teaching kids?

    Line 3
  4. Emma 0:09

    Yes, they are very lively and fun. What about you?

    Line 4
  5. Tom 0:14

    I work as a graphic designer from home.

    Line 5
  6. Emma 0:16

    Working from home must be very flexible!

    Line 6
  7. Tom 0:20

    It is, but sometimes I miss chatting with coworkers.

    Line 7
  8. Emma 0:23

    That makes sense. We should have lunch together sometime!

    Line 8

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Key vocabulary

Content words from this dialogue, ranked by the CEFR level at which they appear across the whole 500-dialogue library. Function words and proper nouns are excluded.

  • kind /kaɪnd/ adjective

    friendly, generous, and considerate

  • work /wɝk/ noun

    a job, task, or effort

  • sounds /saʊndz/ plural noun; verb

    things heard; seems or makes noise

  • rewarding /rɪˈwɔrdɪŋ/ adjective/verb

    satisfying or worthwhile; giving a reward

  • designer /dɪˈzaɪnər/ noun

    a person who plans how something will look or work

  • flexible /ˈflɛksəbəl/ adjective

    able to bend or adapt easily

  • sometimes /ˈsʌmˌtaɪmz/ adverb

    on some occasions but not always

  • miss /mɪs/ verb/noun

    to fail to hit, catch, attend, or notice

  • coworkers /ˈkoʊˌwɜrkərz/ noun

    plural of coworker; people one works with

  • makes /meɪks/ verb

    third-person singular of make

  • sense /sɛns/ noun

    meaning, feeling, or good judgment

  • together /təˈɡɛðər/ adverb

    with each other or in one group

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