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danger to it. It is a slightly just a little bit of a

is always the possibility of slipping and falling. So the

very risky job. Uh this person is working up on a roof. There

teacher interview evening. That's a little nerve wracking

dangerous job. I definitely would not do I I'm Not

factory around a lot of machinery. We would say it's a

about it and you're doing something that's good for

Um so far is honest work or teaching is honest work. Any

afraid of heights or something like that. We would call that

feeling that used car salesman are trying to get your money.

You have no energy at all. You just flop on the couch. We

you would say the opposite would be like a used car

would say that you definitely have a job that is draining. Um

time. They're usually jobs where there's some physical

And then we have risky. So a job can be risky when you have

job that you do on the side to make some extra money. We also

working and maybe she's teaching online and maybe she

wracking it actually makes you not necessarily nervous but

society. We would call it honest work. And this is a

busy and you come home really tired and exhausted. You might

have work that we describe as honest work. Um generally

kind of work where there's nothing sneaky or anything

the Possibility of injury. Um maybe you work in a large

the end of the day you have no energy left because the job is

would be her side hustle. So again this is a somewhat new

example we had earlier someone asked a question about you know

to work high up in the sky. A job can be risky when there is

money. So for many people they have a job and their side

might work on Friday Saturdays because those are the busy

job is very very draining. Nerve wracking. I was trying to

job. A part time job however is a job that you don't do

in the sky. If I was someone who was a crane operator I

proper and maybe your boss is yelling at you or maybe you

for me because I have to talk to parents about their kids.

hustle. So this is a relatively due term in English just in the

work everyday but you Only work a 4 hour shift. Um or the

think of a job that I would consider nerve racking. I am

like I said afraid of heights. If I had to work really high up

at night she makes videos. She makes cooking videos and she

have to work somewhere where you're a little bit you know

adds up if you do the math there. 40 to 45 hours a week.

to even 35 hours a week would be considered part time. A side

she's all done teaching English for the day she is drained. Her

I don't know if this person's job is draining. She doesn't

have a full time job. I work about sorry actually I work

very very draining. Um you could even use this to describe

like teaching you have students who aren't very nice. And at

has you know 1 hour sessions for 10 hours straight and when

at the end of the day. So sometimes when you have a job

job nerve racking. Um for me as a teacher when we have parent

Maybe you work nine to five. It's usually eight or nine

and you work from I don't know eight to four eight to five.

in a moment. Um when I was full time I worked everyday from 830

honest work refers to jobs that have been around for a long

like a little bit afraid and you have a lot of anxiety and

salesman. We would not call that honest work. Um although I

you're you're just maybe you're not sure how to do the job

And part time is anywhere from a couple hours a week right up

YouTube videos. So this lady I found maybe she has a job but

job is very very risky. Um so a risky job has an element of

be able to put the needle in and out precisely. And I would

if you're just working two hours a day five days a week.

usually 40 hours per week in Ontario Canada. Um and that

would find the job very nerve wracking. When a job is nerve

hydro wires but that's that's kind of an Ontario Canadian way

aspect to it. So you would say like farming is honest work. Or

probably be somewhat challenging as well like you

would also probably be repetitive and it would

to 9 hours. So a part time job you might be a waiter. So you

if you have a full time job you work Monday through Friday. Um

There's people who want to talk to you and you have to go to

use the word demanding to describe a job where you're

fairly relaxing. You're sitting out in the sun and enjoying

look too stressed doing her job. But she's definitely

be physically exhausted. You might be mentally exhausted.

till 530. Um so it's just a normal length day. A full time

do respect used car salesman. Um there is kind of this

working in a store where it's really busy. Anytime a job is

demanding. Full time. So a full time job in Ontario Canada is

great word to talk about work that makes you very very tired

term just in the last five years or so side hustle but a

yourself. But a demanding job this is a great picture.

helicopter pilot you have a dangerous job. If you are a

puts them on YouTube to make a little bit of extra money. That

have a job teaching and I have a side hustle and that I make

Teaching is not a dangerous job at least for me. But if you are

race car driver you have a dangerous job. If you work like

five meetings in the day that job would be very very

would describe that job as dangerous. Um if you are a

electric poles and you work really high up in the sky you

demanding. When a job is physically demanding you you're

last few years. A side hustle means you have a job but you do

hustle might be making YouTube videos. You could say that I

something else on the side to make a little bit of extra

look really closely at what I was doing and I would have to

Canada anymore. I should check into that. When I was a kid it

cucumbers. I was picked. I was paid. I was picked. I was paid

So instead of paid like 5 dollars an hour to pick

It's when you get paid for every part of the job you do

So you would call that part time. But I'll talk about that

I would find it very tedious. Because I would have to like

by the amount of cucumbers that I picked. So that's why I put a

instead of getting paid by the hour. Tedious. So how would I

days. Maybe you just work two days a week. When maybe you

hours and it's usually about five days per week. Um so I

everyday. Or if you do it everyday you don't work eight

part time. I should take that back. I work I have I work 80%.

All of that would be considered part time. So full time is

by peacework although I'm not sure peacework is legal in

paid for every 10 cucumbers I picked. I got 25 cents I think.

eight to nine hours per day. Five days per week. Generally

there's only about five or six people there. That might be

basically using your muscles all day. But we can also just

it's it's kind of the opposite of a relaxing job. So a

relaxing job would be a lifeguard watching a pool and

There's phone calls. There's emails. There's text messages.

this person way up in the sky you have a dangerous job. We

had the word demanding earlier when we talked about physically

to describe it. So if you If you climb telephone poles or

someone who works on electric electrical wires. I want to say

repetitive and all those other words as well. Dangerous.

would need to focus really hard when you do a tedious job. Um

very tedious job. Difficult requiring lots of skill. You

definitely consider that job tedious. That to me would be a

have to do the same thing over and over again. So I would

button on a shirt. If that was my job sewing buttons on shirts

would need a certain amount of skill if I needed to sew a

was legal. And it might still be legal. But it's when you

describe a job that's tedious? For me a job that is tedious

piece of fruit here. Often people who pick fruit are paid

for the year. When you work by the hour you get a certain

amount of money each hour. When you do peace work you get a

to my mom oh do you get paid a lot at your job? And my mom

work that you would describe as voluntary. So we have work that

students really didn't want to learn. I can say I have a

at that place of work. So if you just start a job we would

confusing. It can mean even that it's loud. So it's like

English words and I I don't always know what to say. But I

example I can think of is working in a fast food

physically demanding job where you still have to be thinking

In fact people have asked what are your favourite sounding

over last weekend on the bridge that goes across Lake Ontario.

you're a tow truck driver. Definitely some jobs are very

think of firefighters. I think of people who have to solve

having lonely jobs. Some people love being by themselves. They

people get angry when they get a speeding ticket. It's a

really tough job. But usually when I think of tough job. I

lots of people around. But some jobs you could describe as

the how we Describe being by yourself like I do like

have a really important job you'll have an entry level job

teachers and I have students in my classroom every day all the

to here we go entry level. So an entry level job or if you

driver you're often on the road for days at a time by yourself.

as you can see with this guy here. And sometimes we have

of it is a thankless job where you're giving speeding tickets

a shovel and you move dirt from one to another. Let me get back

there's a lot of grunt work. And that's again work where you

time. It's not a lonely job. But I often feel like truck

does not require a lot of thinking. You can have a

don't have to be you don't have to use your brain very much to

work you usually don't need to think very much. You just grab

and all of the people that do life saving work in the world.

she's constantly saving people's lives. I really

thankless. When a job is thankless it means that people

people get angry when they get a speeding ticket or a lot of

could say you know if I was teaching at a School where the

loud and busy and you have to work fast and it's kind of

to work really fast. It means it can be a little bit

grunt work. I'm not sure if Brett's still here but I wanted

be the most hectic. We have something in English called

to ask Brent if he uses this term. We use the term grunt

have a job that you would consider life saving. Like he

level position. You might be someone's assistant. You might

truck is the truck they use to pick up vehicles. And if you

picture of a police officer is when you get a speeding ticket

does life saving work. Or that nurse she does life saving

used to describe jobs that are mentally demanding. Like I

never had a glamorous job. Um I think you get to drive sports

I was a kid I picked cucumbers. And it was peacework. And I got

when you're driving too fast and you get pulled over and you

say it's an entry level position. If you apply to work

officer for giving them a speeding ticket. I think more

work to talk about any kind of work that doesn't require very

looking. You can become a model or a or a celebrity of some

in an office building you'll probably start with an entry

shovel we would say that it's grunt work. Um on the farm

driving a Uber is rewarding because you enjoy driving your

guess as long as you like your job you can say it's rewarding.

oh my sister she's a paramedic. She does life saving work. So

saves people's lives. So if you were a paramedic we would say

is done by volunteers. Um someone might say for instance

be just working in the mail room delivering mail. You won't

aren't always happy when you do your job. The reason I put a

the job is probably very very hectic. Especially around lunch

restaurant. Uh years ago I worked in a restaurant when I

much thinking and just requires a lot of strength. So shoveling

appreciate doctors and nurses and paramedics and firefighters

say anytime you are serving food or working in a restaurant

A truck fell over on the Skyway Bridge. So I think it's a tough

very tough jobs. Hectic. I really like this English word.

that they really appreciated you when they had you as a

grow food for people. So definitely I I think this one's

picture. You have paparazzi following you around we would

a little broader than I initially said. I think you can

love being on the open road. They love solitude. Solitude is

similar to physically demanding. But it can also be

had to get vehicles out of the ditch like maybe a truck falls

problems. Like I think if you were a tow truck driver a tow

So I think it's a very lonely job. Some people really like

you later and say thank you so much you saved my life that

Glamorous. I have never had a glamorous job. Movie stars have

generic way to talk about almost any kind of work. It's

car and helping people get where they need to go. So I

work. Or my doctor She does life saving work. When you are

people. I don't have a lonely job. I work with over 25 other

I just Appreciate all of them. But we also have jobs that are

job. But that's my that's my interpretation of it. You might

kind and maybe you have a very glamorous job. You wear

cars and I'm just guessing what it's like to have a glamorous

certain amount of money for each little thing you do. When

would say oh no no it's volunteer. Um I volunteer at

doing life saving work it literally means the work you do

expensive clothes. People always want to take your

boss and how much you get paid and what the what work is like

maybe you helped someone and a few years later they come back

like farming can be rewarding. You can feel good because you

you're someone who can act and maybe you're really good

day because you've helped people in their lives. Um or

just gives you a really really nice feeling but even things

glamorous jobs. Models have glamorous jobs. I guess when

job at least for me it's a job where you help people. Teaching

a rewarding job is a job where you feel good at the end of the

teacher. I think being a doctor or nurse can be very rewarding

stressful. But almost any job can be described as stressful.

salary is when a company pays you a certain amount of money

out of a helicopter on a rope to rescue people. That would be

by the hour. Peacework is not when you have a salary. A

that store. So my mom volunteers at a store where she

and tell you. So generally when your job is rewarding it's a

does work that we would consider voluntary. That's how

when you operate on someone as a doctor and they come back to

is rewarding. Sometimes students come back and tell you

we would describe it. Peace So peace work is not getting paid

which is kind of at the beginning. It's the bottom step

You could say working in a restaurant as a a waiter or

have an entry level position it means that you're just starting

for you day to day. Um a bad boss can make any job very very

Almost any job can be described as stressful. Just repeated

the day. Stressful. Now I put a picture of something that I

repetitive job. But they're definitely not very engaging.

is considered grunt work. If you had to dig a hole with a

do it. But you definitely use your muscles. It's similar to

all the time about what you're doing. But when you do grunt

I talk about. Uh repetitive jobs can be very

think is very stressful. Um I'm afraid of heights. I wouldn't

myself there word for word. Um you could say that teaching is

want to be the person who works for the Coast Guard and goes

physically demanding. But the difference is that grunt work

I think you get the point. I'm getting a little repetitive as

You might be a little bit tired of the monotony at the end of

the night shift. When you say a job hectic. It means you have

time and around supper time. That's when it would probably

overwhelming a little bit. But a hectic job definitely I would

love the word hectic. Because to me it kind of sounds like

job if you're the person who has to lift that truck up if

lived in Quebec City. And it was very very hectic. I worked

what it means. A hectic job is a very very busy job. The best

thankless job. Lonely. So some jobs you do with lots of other

lonely jobs. We use the word tough too. This is a very

solitude a bit but I also like that I have a job where there's

driving would be a bit of a lonely job. If you were a truck

so people slow down so the world is safer but I think most

get a speeding ticket I don't think people thank the police

definitely say that you have a glamorous job. Um and I've I've

use this for a lot of different jobs. You could say that

stressful. You could also say that your job is rewarding. Uh

waitress is very stressful. It really just depends on your

stressful. You could say working in a bank is stressful.

away and the next car comes and then you put a door on the car.

straightforward. It can be very easy to train someone to do a

and then the car goes away and the next car comes and you put

it's the same thing. So if you work in a place you make cars.

repetitive. So a repetitive job this is similar to a job that

is monotonous. So when a job is monotonous you do the same

wash your hands and have a shower. So farming is a dirty

my this is my VR headset. We would say that you're doing

work at a job where it's cutting edge work it means that

the screen. When you work in a cutting edge field when you

job you're probably working with technology. In this

someone like this person maybe you're leading a conversation

talking to people and so you feel connected when you're

say he has a hard job and I would say that is really really

student who doesn't want to learn. So teaching as well can

Usually we use this word to describe work that is also

could be challenging because they have to take their

And their job is to get a good picture of something. So it

bit boring. So challenging. When you describe a job as

physically demanding necessarily. It might mean that

quite challenging and we'll get to that word in a bit. But when

lifeguard is watching a beach or a pool and there are no

very very physical. So some jobs can be described as

the show. He goes and he does jobs that are very dirty. A

You have a repetitive job. Your job is very repetitive. You

dirty job is any job where at the end of the day you need to

hands and definitely have a shower. So how do you know if

cutting-edge job. We also have jobs that are just dirty jobs.

So a cutting edge job is a job that definitely involves a lot

of technology and involves doing things that are

someone who made computer games. And if you were making

class and you find it very engaging because you like

It's very engaging. You could also say that maybe you're

with people a lot. It also can mean that you just really like

what you're doing. So let's say you're a scientist and you love

Like I think you could say like being a doctor is hard work. Um

work Um working in a car factory is hard work. Um

all day. Um you could also use this to describe other jobs.

physically tired because you are lifting and moving things

straight up use the word hard sometimes to describe work.

sometimes it rains and sometimes the weather is bad.

challenging it doesn't mean that the work itself is

there's noone swimming I think the job is probably a little

demanding. This is not physically demanding at all.

are lots of people swimming in the ocean this job is actually

physically demanding. Um teaching is not physically

to say it is boring. Someone might say they have a boring

day. A construction worker has a physically demand job. They

have. We also have what are called physically demanding

do a job like that. You have to be strong. Here I'll go to. You

have to be strong to do a job like that. Uh and so we would

that pilot has an exciting job. That would be a fun job to

see the see the waterfall from the air. And I always think

a door on the car and you put two bolts in and the car goes

you have a dirty job? If you have to wash your hands before

job. Um when I was a construction worker it was

lunch you have a dirty job. And then we also have jobs that are

sometimes a dirty job. Um sometimes people have to clean

you are doing some of the coolest stuff. If you were

out different things and it's a dirty job. At the end of the

computer games for people to play with a VR headset. This is

researching cures for different diseases. You could say that

next types of games that people will be playing. Not the old

Jobs. Where the person Mike Rowe I think that's the name of

cutting-edge game design because you're designing the

you find the work very engaging. It's very engaging

picture you can see that there is a bunch of computer code on

like to do. Cutting edge. So when you have a cutting edge

preference. An engaging job is usually also something that you

doing it. So it's always nice if I was to choose I'd rather

job is monotonous. So a monotonous job is a job where

have a job that's really engaging than hard. That's my

it's still something where they yell at each other to buy

bricklaying is hard work. What we mean by that is that at the

day to do it. So we would call that a challenge job. Um and I

you do the same thing. So a monotonous job would be a job

you do that for eight or 9 hours a day. We would say the

because there's a lot of mental challenges throughout the day

like if you work on an assembly line. Maybe it's your job to

when your job is engaging. Um it means that you really like

equipment out in the rain. They have to find the right time of

students don't like the teacher. Maybe you have a

as well. Um but deaf Definitely if you were this guy I would

for instance in this picture maybe this person's job is that

would say this as well. Teaching can be challenging.

Sometimes the conditions aren't right for teaching. Maybe

Falls there are helicopters and you can go on a helicopter to

probably put the door on the car and you put two bolts in

things. I I think they do it all on computer now but in my

They watch the prices of things and they buy things and sell

maybe in an airplane or in a helicopter maybe a job like I'm

games that people just play on a computer or on their phone.

driver would have an exciting job. Um when I go to Niagara

work. Your mind is very much enjoying doing the research.

relatively new. When you explain your job to people they

day their hands are very dirty. And they need to wash their

thing all day. But when you have a job that is repetitive

of job fast paced is because there's something happening all

might not understand what you do because it's so new. Um a

it. It means that you're probably connecting and talking

In fact I think there's a TV show about this called Dirty

market I apologize but if you look at people who work at the

hard work. Engaging. So when you have work that is engaging

end of the day you're going to be really really tired. Like

things. So it's definitely a fast paced job. Now another

buy and sell stocks. If you're not familiar with the stock

swimmers the job is probably really boring. Um that was the

physically demanding. But if you were to say farming is hard

don't think they're job is boring but in the picture I

the time. They have to watch the price of the stocks. They

call it physically demanding. A bricklayer has a physically

noticed that there's noone swimming. So I think if a

and buy and sell stocks. The reason we would call this kind

exciting job would be I would think any job where you are

work. When I have to grade thirty tests that's a little

jobs. So in this picture you can see these two guys are

be considered physically demanding. You need muscles to

best picture I could find for boring job. I'm sure when there

demanding job. They have to lick lift bricks and blocks all

Another type of job or another way to describe a job would be

job. Now I would think this person this is a lifeguard. I

drilling holes and they're pushing up. And that job would

usually quite fun and there's a lot of variety. Exciting. So an

this English lesson about describing work. So one of the

lesson. I think you will enjoy it. So once again welcome to

when you're at work. And I think it will be a pretty fun

trying to think of other exciting jobs like a race car

be described as challenging sometimes. Hard. We just

need to hammer and carry wood. They have to do things that are

you're a teacher. How to describe the work you do if you

bit monotonous. But usually teaching is the opposite. It's

they are a photographer. Um and it would be challenging because

monotonous until you have to grade a huge pile of student

are a construction worker. How to describe the work you do if

you are a pilot. So I'm not going to be talking about the

describe those jobs. How to describe the work that you do

actual jobs. But I'm going to be talking about how to

who work in the stock market. People who are stock brokers

ways that we describe work is to say that it is fast paced.

looks like a very fast paced job. They watch the graphs.

There's different kinds of work that you do and there are

different ways to describe work in English. So this English

you do the same thing all the time. Teaching is not

describe work. Uh many of us have jobs when you go to work.

interested in having a risky job at all.

put one small part on a car every time the car goes by and

monotonous it usually means that for the entire work day

type of job would be monotonous. When a job is

Toronto Stock Exchange or the New York Stock Exchange. It

Whenever I think of fast paced work I usually think of people

lesson will be about how to describe the work you do if

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