What’s your day like? Do you get up early? Do you drive to work? In this lesson we’re going to see and revise vocabulary related to daily routine and we’re going to listen to people speak about what a usual working day is like for them. First of all let’s brush up on some collocations…… Continue reading A2 Daily Routine & Comparative adjectives
In this post, we’ll listen to a podcast and talk about career choices. First, look at the image. What types of jobs are represented in this picture? What type of job can you relate to? Next up is a short personality quiz to get you thinking. Speaking about your result on the quiz Do you…… Continue reading B2 Listening and Speaking about Career Choices
As I’m teaching A2 this year, I’ll be posting lots of useful content and cheat sheets to help my students along the way. In this post, you can download a cheat sheet and try a quick quiz to refresh your grammar. Happy learning! the indefinite articleDownload
… or maybe not so ideal. In the previous post, you have a personality quiz, but it’s also true that you will now need some nice words to describe the workplace. If you could choose your ideal workplace or your nightmare one, how would you describe it? And if you already have a job, which…… Continue reading B2 Vocabulary The Ideal Working Environment
Right! I’ve got to get my groups to read and if that means making up tons of personality quizzes, be it so! Do you work in a company? Do you feel you fit in, or do you feel more like a fish out of water that doesn’t seem to click with your colleagues? Whatever made…… Continue reading B2 Personality quiz: Discover Your Ideal Work Environment
How would you describe a good worker? How would you describe yourself when filling in a job application or writing a CV? In this post, you have 10 ‘must-know’ adjectives that you can use to describe a worker (or yourself if you happen to be job hunting) You have here a word cloud, a crossword…… Continue reading B2 Vocabulary for describing workers
If you’re jobseeking, you might read that the post requires somebody capable of thinking on their feet. Now, what does that mean? Does somebody expect you to do a handstand? 😄 Here’s another one of those work idioms I posted ages ago, now upgraded to a video.
I posted this idiom over a year ago, but now I want to try out some videos so I can hear the pronunciation and see an example. Let’s see how it goes. This idiom may be a bit old-fashioned, but I still think it’s fun to learn. And by the way, I like my drawing.…… Continue reading English idioms: Work like a Trojan
Serena Here are six more idioms that are related to the work world. On the previous post, you will find eight more. Nearly all these idioms can be used for other situations, for instance to refer to study. Take a look at the illustrations on the flipping cards. What do they suggest? Can you think…… Continue reading Idioms about work number 2
As I’m creating activities related to the work world, I coudn’t possibly expect to get away with not posting something on idioms related to this topic. So I’ve dug out a few of them for this post. I’ve also put my wacom to work to sort of try to make these idioms a little easier…… Continue reading Idioms about work number 1
