Introducing Yourself and Talking About Your Job | English Lesson

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Hello my name is Tom.
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I come from England.
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My job is an English teacher.
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Hello my name is Tom.
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Eat Sleep Dreamers, that's not how we really talk.
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Here are ways to introduce yourself and talk about your job more naturally.
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So instead of saying 'my name is..' we say 'I'm' so 'I'm Tom, nice to meet you' or you
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could say 'I'm Tom, pleasure to meet you' If you have a longer name and you want them
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to use the shorter version you could say 'I'm Thomas but you can call me Tom' or 'I'm Thomas
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but please call me Tom'.
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When we meet someone for the first time we often ask 'What do you do?'
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and this means what job do you have.
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And your answer could be 'I'm a teacher', 'I'm a social media manager', I'm a graphic
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designer' it could be 'I'm a student at HKU' I'm a student at Oxford'.
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So you've got I'm a and then the job.
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Before we go any further I'm going to tell you right now guys, your homework is to introduce
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yourself to me and tell me about your job in the comments below, ok?
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So pay attention to the rest of the lesson and at the end write in the comments, introduce
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yourself and tell me what you do.
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You might want to say the job and also where you work.
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So for example 'I'm an admin assistant in a bank' So there you've got the job and where
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you work.
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Another example, 'I'm a personal trainer in a gym'.
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Now if you want to say the name of the place you work, the company name, you can use at.
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So for example 'I'm a personal trainer at Fitness First'.
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Another way to say this would be 'I work for' so 'I work for Google', 'I work for Microsoft',
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"I work for Nike' etc.
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You might just want to talk about the industry that you work in so not just the job but the
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larger industry.So you would say 'I work in ' and then the industry 'I work in fashion'
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or 'I work in advertising' or 'I work in education'.
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But stop!
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What if you haven't got a job?
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How do you talk about that?
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Well, one way would be to say 'I'm unemployed' that's a standard way to talk about it.
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Another way would be to say 'I'm currently looking for work' that's pretty good.
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Another nice one 'I'm between jobs' that kind of says that we've finished our last job,
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we've got another job in the future, hopefully, and so we're between jobs.
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We're waiting for the new one to start.
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Eat Sleep Dreamers it's been a pleasure.
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Thank you for watching.
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Check out this video and until next time this is Tom, the English Hipster, saying goodbye.
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