Hello English learners welcome back to
another great English lesson today i am
bringing you a great intermediate
english lesson with some really useful
English vocabulary you will learn
English phrases that you speak at work
between 9-to-5. Vocabulary that you could
use to describe your job
this is really a common situation when
someone asks you what do you do? and you
have to tell them about your job
profiles so today's English lesson is
all about that
so first let's listen to a dialogue
between Jessica Arthur Caroline and Greg
who is Caroline's boyfriend
Jessica and Caroline work at the same
office carefully listen to the phrases
they use to introduce their partners and
how they talk about their job profiles
it's gonna be a little fast but you
don't have to worry about it because
I'll come back and explain you all the
important vocabulary
I hope you enjoyed the conversation I
think Greg was kind of a jerk
what do you think he had a sarcastic
tone in his voice and was all bragging
about himself and his job
what do you think drop me a comment I am
sure you heard some interesting phrases
and vocabulary in the dialogue so let's
talk about them now. I have five simple
words for you that you heard in the
dialogue
The first one is VP....VP so the VP of
the company is the vice president of a
company it's an acronym used for
vice-president. The next word is a
fortune 500 company a fortune 500
company. Fortune magazine ranks the 500
biggest companies in the world so a
fortune 500 company is one of the 500
biggest companies in the world. I hope
that simple enough to understand my
third word from the dialogue is
implement to implement something
let's look at some example sentences to
understand this word better
Great examples so to implement something
means to put something into action my
fourth word for vocabulary review is
policy and it's plural form is policies
policies are basically formal rules and
regulations for a company or an
organization my fifth word for
vocabulary review is over C to oversee
something so when you oversee operations
it means you watch it to make sure it's
okay
or you could say you supervise it
this is an excellent word to use when
you want to talk about your job
responsibilities
you could also use it while answering
questions that the job interview so
that's oversee and the last thing for
vocabulary review is kind of tricky so
let's listen to how Greg used it in the
dialogue that alarm means i have 1500
employees under me suffer so this guy
has around 1,500 employees under him
meaning he supervises 1,500 employees he
managers 1,500 employees i am sure he
must be a busy man
all right with this in mind we are ready
to listen to our dialogue for the second
time and this time you are ready to
understand all the vocabulary and
phrases we've just discussed
oh it's Carolina boyfriend he's always
going on about him of your thing
great thanks to Allah and come into play
oh man Jessica are hi I'd like you to
meet my boyfriend Greg he's a vp of
quality and safety for a top fortune 500
food company nice maybe because my
husband's office
alright how's it going Caroline post
about you all the time against me pretty
busy at work
well yeah VP position is not easy you
know quite implement policies and
procedures nationwide various
departments as well as train junior
manages an FDA an EPA regulation i also
have to oversee daily operations of our
quality control for the entire East
Coast that alone means i have 1500
employees under me because I haha wow
yeah that sounds exciting and what about
you are there what do you do for a
living
oh I'm on top gun pilot
okay that's great stuff with this we can
now start our fluency anda for today you
have some excellent phrases from this
dialogue some phrases that sound really
natural especially the first one
oh look there's Caroline and her
boyfriend she's always going on about
him at the office whenever someone talks
and talks and continues to talk without
stopping you would say she's always
going on about him at the office
this is a really natural way of saying
some people keep talking about something
constantly i have a few examples on how
this phrase works in real conversation
let's look at some examples example one
my boss is always going on about how we
need to save money
it's all he talks about example to David
is always going on about his girlfriend
he's always talking about how beautiful
she is
example 3 my dad is always going on
about how I need to be serious about my
career
ok excellent i hope it's clear now how
you could use this phrase also drop me a
comment about someone you know who is
always going on about something or
someone
well now let's move on to our second
phrase from the dialogue and this is a
great one to use whenever you meet
someone for the first time or when you
talk to someone for the first time
hey how's it going
so this is really relaxed and natural
way of saying how are you
you can just say how did going which
means the same thing
how are you but it sounds really natural
now our third phrase is the most
important one from the dialogue and it's
really common situation when someone
asks you about your job
that's what you heard in the dialogue
and what about You Arthur
what do you do for a living so this is
really a great way of asking what work
do you do or what is your job
I know a lot of English learners
sometimes say what is your job that is
kind of correct but it doesn't sound
very natural
so you would use what do you do or what
do you do for a living
doesn't that sound great that's the way
you ask someone what is your job
I am sure it sounds supernatural ok i
will little challenge for you viewers
today I'd like to know what's your
profession
yes tell me about your job what do you
do for a living and use some of the
great phrase as you've learned from this
Singlish lesson to describe your answer
in the comments i hope to see you soon
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