English occupation games

Log in Sign up Newsletter. Job mixer. Word games. Jobs 1. Play some word games to learn and practise jobs vocabulary. Jobs 2. Play a word game to learn and practise more jobs vocabulary.

People work. Practise job words with this song about work. Short stories. At the beginning of the game they are displayed face down. Click on two cards to match the word and the picture. If they show the pair, the cards remain open. Try to remember where the pictures or words are. Continue until you have twelve pairs. Please note.

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Here are some ideas to inspire you. These activities can be used in any topic! Draw and label your words. You must colour your drawings. This continues until the sentence is complete, e. Each time a student turns over a picture card, they can start a new sentence to describe that job, so a student may be working on many sentences at the same time. The student with the most sentences at the end of the game wins.

Guess the Job. In this jobs guessing game, students describe past and present job duties using the past simple and present simple. In groups, students take turns picking up a white card and a grey card. The white card shows the first job they did when they were young and the grey card shows the job they do now. The student then describes their first job in the past simple.

For example, if the job was 'paperboy', the student might say 'I used to deliver newspapers to houses in my area. I rode my bike around my neighbourhood and threw papers on people's front lawns. The Job Interview. In this job interview role-play activity, students create job interview questions and then role-play a job interview to practice asking and answering the questions.

First, students decide on a job they would like to apply for. Next, in two groups, interviewers and candidates, the interviewers discuss and create details for the job, e. The candidates discuss and write down the ideal profile a candidate should have for the job, e. The interviewers then write down job interview questions for the items on their worksheet and the candidates write down questions to ask during the interview. After that, pairs of interviewers and candidates role-play the job interview.

Afterwards, the interviewers say what qualities they were looking for and if they found the right candidate. The candidates say what they thought of the job and if they would like to do it. The Right Person for the Job. In this free work preferences activity, students ask and answer questions about their likes and dislikes for work-related activities and choose a job for a partner based on their preferences.

First, students answer 'Do you like? In pairs, students then ask their partner the same questions to find out their likes and dislikes and note down their answers on the worksheet. Students also ask for reasons why and write down the explanations. Afterwards, students look at their partner's answers and think of a job for them based on their preferences.

Finally, students report back to the class on the job they chose for their partner, explaining the reasons for their choice. This job In this communicative jobs discussion activity, students match jobs to statements and then discuss the statements in groups to collectively agree on one job for each statement.

Working alone, students think of a job that describes each statement and write down the job. In groups, students then find a job they all agree on for each of the statements. Students discuss each statement in turn and give their answers. Students also give their opinions on other students' ideas and come up with a job they all agree on, writing the job on the worksheet.

Afterwards, there is a class feedback session where groups explain their choices to the class. What's my job? In this job descriptions game, students describe and guess jobs.

In groups, students prepare five present simple clues for the job shown on their card. Students then take it in turns to give their clues to the other students who listen and try to guess the job. The first student to correctly guess the job wins and keeps the card. If no one guesses correctly, the student with the card wins and keeps the card. For lower-level students, you can have them mime the jobs for other students to guess.