In Contact! Episode 11: Work

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For many of us, work is a part of our daily grind (or daily routine); also, many of us are also studying and getting prepared for that activity we've projected to do for life. In this programme we'll discuss some facts of the world of work.
About the subject of this episode, we'll give you some useful and interesting expressions you can use to describe your job or to talk about work in general, as well as some idioms to refer to your daily chores. We'll give you a few tips that you may find very useful for prepare for a job interview, and in our Top 5 we'll have some cool songs related to the topic. We'll have some fun with the Job Word Tango listing as many occupations as we can remember, and we'll ask people in our university what they consider are the best and the worst jobs. Make sure you don't miss our Smart Learning advice about pronunciation and our explanation for the difference between the words work and job. Wow, yeap, an episode loaded with lots of useful information. We truly hope you enjoy this programme!

Once you listen to this episode, we'd love to have your answer to these questions in our comments section:

• What are some typical expressions used to refer to work?
• Are you happy with your job? Why, and why not?
• What do you think are the best and the worst jobs a person can have, and why?
• If you could do any job different from the one you have now, which one would you go for and why?

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