hi my name is rebecca and welcome to
this series of videos on business
english
we're going to start by talking about
one of the main questions that you're
asked in a business context and that is
where do you work okay
there are a number of different ways in
which you can answer this question and
they all involve the word work of course
so for example you would start by saying
i work
but after that you have a number of
different prepositions that you use need
to use depending on what you want to say
so we're going to review some of these
and then i hope you'll have a better
understanding of what to use and how to
answer this basic question okay so let's
get started
so the first one is i work in
i work in can be used for a place for
example i work in a school
i work in an office i work in a factory
right there are many other examples like
that
you can also use in
to describe
the city i work in toronto i work in
paris i work in
montreal okay so you can use it for
cities
you can also use it for the country i
work in australia i work in japan i work
in india okay
another way you can use i work in is
with the department i work in the
marketing department i work in the
accounting department okay
you can also use it to describe the
field that you're in for example i work
in computers
i work in education right so you're
using it to describe the the field that
you're in the professional field
or i work in accounting for example or
you can use it similarly to describe the
industry i work in the hospitality
industry i work in the
tourism industry okay
so yes the preposition in covers a lot
of different possibilities okay
let's move on from there to the next one
which is on
so let's look at how we can use that
i work on a farm
i work on an oil rig
i work on a construction site these are
some specific examples you can see that
they are a little more specific it's
used
not as often okay it's used more rarely
so
in is more common
you can also use it to talk about the
area or field that you're working on so
for example i work on software
development i work on educational policy
okay
that's another way you can use on
now at
describes a place
and you might be wondering because i
mentioned place
so far in three different places but
here it's a little more specific for
example i work at home
i work at
the downtown branch right
i work at this location
so you're usually talking about a more
specific
place or branch or location all right
now we come to another one with
so with is used to talk about who you
work with right i work with
john i work with
the french clients i work with several
wonderful colleagues right you're
talking about the people that you're
working with
and last of all but perhaps
most important
because this is what people may ask you
first right they might ask you who do
you work for
so in answer to that question you could
say i work for
diplomat language school i work for
microsoft i work for
ibm and so on
or you could say i work for my uncle all
right it could be a person as well but
usually we're going to give the name of
a company and in case you're
self-employed or you're an entrepreneur
you can also say i work for myself
okay
so
i know there's a lot of different
possibilities here i know that
prepositions can be quite challenging to
master so the only way to really learn
them is to listen to a lot of examples
to write out a lot of examples of your
own using these prepositions and through
repetition eventually you will get them
okay
if you have any more questions or if
you'd like to actually do a free quiz on
this lesson you can do that at our
website www.ingvid.com
okay thanks very much and we'll see you
again bye for now
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