Georgie Hello and welcome to Real Easy English. In this podcast, we have a different conversation in easy English each week to help you learn. I’m Georgie.
Neil And I’m Neil. If you want to read along with the programme, visit our website for a text version: bbclearningenglish.com.
Georgie Hi, Neil, how are you?
Neil I’m very well, thank you, Georgie. How are you?
Georgie Yes, I’m also very well, thank you. What are we talking about in this episode?
Neil Well, today we’re talking more about jobs. We talked before in the podcast about some of the jobs we’ve done. Beth told us she had a job where she looked after goats.
But today, we’re going to talk about the jobs our families and friends do.
Georgie Sounds good. So, Neil, what jobs do your parents do?
Neil Well, my parents are retired. That means they don’t work anymore because they are too old. But my dad worked in a bank and my mum had lots of different jobs, but her last job was a counsellor.
Georgie Neil, you said your mum was a counsellor. What… what is a counsellor?
Neil A counsellor is somebody who talks to people who have problems and they need to discuss or talk about their problems to help them get better.
Georgie OK, so she’s probably quite kind.
Neil She’s good at listening to people, I think.
Georgie OK, well my dad is also retired, but my mum still works. She works as an estate agent. That’s someone who works with houses. She sells and rents houses for people.
Neil OK, so did your mum have any other jobs before she was an estate agent?
Georgie Yes, she did. When she first started working, she worked as a nurse, so that’s someone who works in a hospital.
And she also sometimes works as a hairdresser because she has curly hair, so she does this treatment to make her hair straighter and she does it for other people as well.
Neil, do you have any friends or family that have some other interesting jobs?
Neil Well, my sister is a teacher. She teaches in schools. And my wife is a florist.
Georgie Wow. What’s a florist?
Neil A florist is somebody who makes designs with flowers for events like weddings, funerals, parties and that kind of thing.
Georgie Oh, wow. So she must be quite creative, then?
Neil Yes, she is. She loves making things look nice, she’s good at it.
Georgie Ah, that’s nice.
Neil Georgie, what is your dream job? What job would you love to do?
Georgie I really like this job that we have. But my dream job is a travel photographer because I really like travelling and I really like taking photos. So that’s a great combination I think for a job. What about you?
Neil Oh, I would definitely be a professional sportsman of some kind.
Georgie OK!
Neil Or a rock star!
Georgie Do you play any instruments?
Neil Yeah, I play guitar. I’m probably slightly better at guitar than I am football or cricket. Definitely not professional standard.
Georgie Let’s look at some of the vocabulary, about jobs we learned during the conversation.
We’ve had nurse, someone who assists doctors and helps patients in hospital.
Neil We heard estate agent, someone who sells or rents houses and flats.
Georgie** Retired**, someone who stops working, usually because of their age.
Neil We heard counsellor, someone who talks to people who have problems to help them feel better.
Georgie And florist, someone who creates designs with flowers and sells them.
Neil Thanks for listening to Real Easy English for more from us try The London to Edinburgh Challenge.
Georgie It’s an easy English series where three people race from London all the way to Edinburgh Castle and it’s great for learning simple English phrases, grammar and vocabulary.
Neil Find it on our website: bbclearningenglish.com.
Georgie Bye for now.
Neil Goodbye.