Shadowing Practice: What is your job? | JOBS | Simple Present | Short Interview by Solutions - Learn English Speaking with Video

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What is your job?
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I'm a nurse.
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I'm a lawyer.
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I work in marketing.
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I'm a snowboard instructor.
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I'm a waitress.
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Well, I work as a journalist.
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I work on the local newspaper and write stories about my area.
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What do you do every day?
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Every day I visit patients in their homes and I look after them.
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For example, I might give them medicine or sometimes they just need somebody to talk to.
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I go into the office, check my emails, do a bit of paperwork, maybe call my clients, that kind of thing.
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I have a lot of emails to deal with every day and I tend to talk to a lot of people.
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I go up to dry ski slopes and I teach people how to stand on a snowboard.
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I work in a cafe.
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I serve customers and I prepare food and bring it to the tables.
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Well, every day.
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I get up in the morning and go to the office
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and I find out what the news stories are going to be for the day.
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And very often I will go out into town to interview people and follow the stories.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “What is your job?”. This video has 20 sentences and 196 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:26. The speaker talks at a steady 137 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 77% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
nurse noun/nɝs/Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession.
journalist noun/ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly.
instructor noun/ɪnˈstɹʌktɚ/One who instructs; a teacher.
slope noun/sloʊp/A surface that either inclines or declines in a regular manner from the perspective of an observer.
paperwork noun/ˈpeɪ.pɚˌwɝk/Routine work involving written documents.
waitress noun/ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.
snowboard noun/ˈsnoʊˌbɔɹd/A board, somewhat like a broad ski, or a very long skateboard with no wheels, used in the sport of snowboarding.
café noun/ˌkæˈfeɪ/A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the…
email noun/ˈiˌmeɪl/A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet…
lawyer noun/ˈlɔɪ.ɚ/A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
teach verb/ˈtiːt͡ʃ/To pass on knowledge to.
customer noun/ˈkʌs.tə.mə/A person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant or intends to do so.
newspaper noun/ˈnjuːsˌpeɪpə/A publication, usually published daily or weekly, containing news and other articles. Traditionally a print publication typically printed on cheap, low-quality…
tend verb/ˈtɛnd/To look after (e.g. an ill person.)
prepare verb/pɹɪˈpɛ(ə)ɹ/To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip; to forearm.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
find out verbTo discover, as by asking or investigating.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 4 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like nurse, journalist, instructor.

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