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Your work or studies
What do you do for work or study at the moment?
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Meetings, updates, and talking with colleagues.
Meetings, quick updates, a difficult conversation with a colleague — the situations that trip people up are rarely about vocabulary lists. These exercises put you in those moments so you can practise the phrasing and the register before you need them.
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What do you do for work or study at the moment?
Talk about your job or what you are studying.
Talk me through a typical working or studying day from start to finish.
Talk about a project. Use dependent prepositions naturally: depend on, deal with, succeed in, worry about, rely on.
Explain the rules at your work, school or home. Use 'have to', 'don't have to', 'must', 'should', 'can't'.
Describe a project from start to finish using phrasal verbs: take on, set up, carry out, deal with, sort out, follow up, wrap up.
Retell a conversation you had recently. Use reported speech: he said (that)…, she told me…, they asked if…
What do you do for work or study? Explain it so a child would understand.
What does a typical week look like in your job or course?
What are the best and worst parts of what you do?
What work skill would you most like to improve, and why that one?
Do you work better from home or in an office? Explain the trade-offs.