Real English® Lesson 24 (modified) No Subtitles

I decided to make 2 separate videos for this lesson about jobs. The version on this page, for Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate students, concentrates on a variety of verbs in the Present Simple. For example, the question is usually "What do you do for a living?" and the answer always includes a verb in the present, such as "I direct traffic", to give one of the most simple questions / replies found in the exercises which make up this lesson.

There is also a version for real beginners which is quite short (approx. 2 minutes). The verb structure used in this short version is limited to am, is and are. For example the question is "What's your job?" and the answer "I'm an actor". However the exercises in this lesson use both types of replies, both types of uses of the present tense.

I was thinking of my own beginners when I organized it this way because the objective in some of the courses in our school is to enable our students to talk about themselves, and their their professional lives after a limited number of classroom sessions in our school. This strategy works for my own needs. I just hope that it is also useful for other teachers! In other words, I hope that these limited videos will be useful for teachers looking for beginner job talk.

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