8 English for Work and Career
Learn English that is useful for work situations in this episode about Work and Career.
We chat about the worst jobs we’ve ever had and what our dream jobs are.
In this episode we focus on phrasal verbs using ‘get’. We talk about colleagues we don’t get along with, 😬things that get us down at work 😔and those projects we still haven’t gotten around to doing 🙄.
This is an episode we can all relate to!
- What kind of work do you do?
- What is your dream job?
- When did you try to get out of something?
- What is something you still haven’t gotten around to doing?
Read below for this episode’s vocabulary.
PODCAST VOCABULARY LIST
Listen to the podcast conversation more than once and try to hear the key phrasal verbs, idioms and slang that we use.
The conversation starts at 8.15 minutes.
Do you know what the key phrasal verbs mean? Can you guess?
- get along with
- get you down
- get out of something
- (can’t) get over
- get wound up
- get back to
- get on to
- get around to
Other vocabulary:
- to have a lot on one’s plate
- a bad apple
- to be in the same boat
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