Sep 23, 2026 · 21 min
English learners turn everyday jobs into practical conversation
Talking About Jobs 👮♂️👨🏫🧑🍳 | Slow English Podcast | Episode 205 | English With Us Podcast | With Subtitles
The lesson gives beginner English learners a usable framework for describing work, evaluating job conditions, and discussing future career plans.
- 1Learners practice asking about job titles, workplaces, schedules, duties, and coworkers in simple English.
- 2The lesson connects workplace vocabulary with preferences about skills, stress, pay, flexibility, and job satisfaction.
- 3Practice dialogues and a vocabulary quiz turn job-search and career-goal phrases into repeatable speaking patterns.
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The brief
The episode starts with the basic question “What do you do?” and builds a vocabulary framework for titles, fields of work, and the phrase “work as.”
Workplace language expands into offices, stores, schools, hospitals, remote work, full-time and part-time jobs, plus schedules, shifts, and days off.
The lesson then describes duties, typical workdays, coworkers, managers, skills, experience, demanding jobs, and the workplace relationships that shape daily work.
Job satisfaction becomes the central practical question as the hosts cover commuting, flexible schedules, salary, hourly pay, changing jobs, promotions, and career goals.
Practice conversations and a final quiz consolidate the vocabulary, while the review offers a simple strategy for describing a job from title through future plans.