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English Vocabulary for Jobs

Learn Common Jobs in English

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This is a lesson to help you learn common jobs and occupations in English. There are eight learning methods for you to work through, including five different games and three different types of flashcard. At the end, there are three example sentences for each word.

Vocabulary Games for

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Match-the-Pairs Game

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  • Your mission is to match each picture with the correct word in as few a clicks as possible.
  • There are three pictures in each set, and there are sets to complete.
  • Click on your first square to start. Good luck!
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Memory Game

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  • Your mission is to pair pictures with their correct titles in as few a clicks as possible.
  • Click on a card to turn it. Next, try to find its partner by clicking on a second card. (If you fail to find a match with your second click, both cards will turn again.)
  • This is a memory game as well as a vocabulary-learning game.
  • Click on your first card to start. Good luck!
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Basic Flash Cards

Spell-the-Word Game

Spell the word represented by the picture.

Learn with Hangman!

Hangman is a classic word game. In this version, the hidden word is one of the words from the "accessories" category. Choose your first letter to start.
  • Guess the hidden word by choosing one letter at a time.
  • If you guess a letter in the hidden word, then all is good.
  • If you guess a letter that is not in the hidden word, then the hangman starts to build the gallows.
  • If the gallows are completed, you lose.
  • Good luck!
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"Missing Word" Flash Cards

Click on the box to see the missing word in a sentence.
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Example Sentences

Here are 3 sentences for each of the following words from the "jobs" category:
  • job, teacher, doctor, engineer, nurse, lawyer, accountant, chef, police officer, firefighter, mechanic
    job vocabulary list

    job

  • My brother’s job is in a hospital.
  • He doesn't like his job because it is hard.
  • Mary got a new job last February.
    teacher vocabulary list

    teacher

  • The teacher is wearing a blue dress.
  • My teacher has a big red bag.
  • Did your teacher give you homework yesterday?
    doctor vocabulary list

    doctor

  • She went to the doctor on Wednesday.
  • I called the doctor this morning.
  • A doctor works in a hospital.
    engineer vocabulary list

    engineer

  • My brother is an engineer.
  • An engineer is always good at maths.
  • The engineers can't come because it's too windy.
    nurse vocabulary list

    nurse

  • Poppy works in a hospital because she’s a nurse.
  • My nurse is wearing a green uniform.
  • The nurse helped the old man walk to the restaurant.
    lawyer vocabulary list

    lawyer

  • The lawyer is reading a big book.
  • Jack's lawyer works in a big office in the city.
  • Is she the lawyer in the black dress?
    accountant vocabulary list

    accountant

  • An accountant works with money.
  • My father is an accountant.
  • My accountant works in an office near the train station.
    chef vocabulary list

    chef

  • A chef wears a white hat.
  • This restaurant has the best chef in the city.
  • The chef is chopping vegetables.
    police officer vocabulary list

    police officer

  • The police officer is talking to the man who committed fraud.
  • The police officer’s car is blue and white.
  • She got arrested by a police officer for burglary.
    firefighter vocabulary list

    firefighter

  • The firefighter is wearing a red jacket.
  • The firefighter saved my cat from a tall tree.
  • Are firefighters strong?
    mechanic vocabulary list

    mechanic

  • The mechanic is working on my car.
  • Sorry, the mechanic is very busy this month.
  • The garage has three month mechanics.
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This page was written by Craig Shrives.

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