Welcome to a new episode of English Vocabulary Booster.
My name is Lara and I'm a SALSA-certified English teacher.
Learning new vocabulary usually takes a long time, but we'll do it in a way that's easy, quick and efficient.
In every episode, we'll learn how to use five new English words or expressions, so that you too can start speaking like a native.
So let's get learning!
Welcome back to all my listeners and just welcome to the new ones.
Let's listen to today's story.
This week's topic is work.
That's it.
I'm not cut out for this.
I've made up my mind.
I'm going to resign.
Sir, you can't do that.
But I'm so burned out.
I feel like I don't have time for myself anymore.
I'm working all the time.
When I started, I thought it was going to be easier.
But I feel like this is too much responsibility now.
Sir, you don't understand.
It's just, you cannot do that.
I don't care.
Set up a few interviews.
See if you find someone that can take over.
But sir, how are we going?
I mean, it's impossible.
Just do what I tell you.
But sir, you're you're the king.
All right, we're back.
So when I wrote the story, I actually didn't know, or I still don't know, what happens to a king if they want to resign.
Like, is that even a thing?
I'm not I'm not entirely sure.
Anyway, let's get to our expressions.
Let's begin with expression number one, be cut out for.
I'm not cut out for this.
If you are cut out for a job or an activity, do you have the right qualities for it or not?
Yes.
If you are cut out for a job or for a certain activity, you have the perfect qualities that you need in order to do it.
And what is something that you are cut out for?
I think I am cut out for teaching.
So I am cut out to be a teacher.
Because I am very patient, at least with my students, not in my private life at all.
But with my students, I am very patient.
I tend to be very empathetic, which means I have a good feeling of how the other person's feeling.
And I think I'm pretty good at responding to that.
So I am cut out for teaching.
And what is something that you are not cut out for?
Well, in my case, it's an easy one.
And my answer is I'm not cut out for sports.
I suck at sports.
I am terrible at.
I'm like do okay with racket sports such as tennis and ping pong and stuff like that.
But anything else that requires me holding or throwing a ball, I'm just the worst, honestly.
Expression number two, resign.
I'm going to resign.
If you decide to resign, do you plan to continue working where you are currently working or not?
If you decide to resign, that means in the future, you do not want to work there anymore.
And now, are you leaving your job voluntarily or not?
Is that your decision?
Yes, I already said that you don't want to continue working where you are working now.
So you resign.
You leave your job voluntarily because you want to.
Maybe you found a better job opportunity, or maybe you're just tired of working where you're working and you don't want to work there anymore.
And so you resign.
You go to your boss and say, sorry, I'm not going to be working here anymore.
Have you ever resigned from a job?
I have resigned from a few jobs.
So I think the time that I should probably talk about was when I was around 20.
So I was 20 years old and I was working at this clothing store.
And I hated it.
I was supposed to work there, I think only, yeah, it was only on the weekends.
And I worked there one weekend.
And then the following weekend, I already went in there with the idea of resigning.
And so I went in and I resigned.
I still worked that weekend.
But I just, I hated it so much.
It was so, it was a nicer place. so to speak, it was a nicer clothing store.
And so you it wasn't like it wasn't just about folding clothes.
It was about trying to sell as many things as you could to the customers.
And it was just so stressful.
It was very competitive.
But yeah, that's a good example of a time when I resigned.
Expression number three, burned out.
I'm so burned out.
If you feel burned out, how are you feeling?
Tired and unmotivated or full of energy and excited?
If you're feeling burned out, you are tired and unmotivated.
You just don't want to do it.
You don't have the energy.
Why do you feel that way?
Because you haven't slept enough?
Or because you've worked too much.
It's the second option.
It's because you've worked too much.
I'm sure you've had the feeling at some point in your life.
It's usually connected to work, but it can also be in your personal life, where you put so much work into something and then you feel like you don't have any energy left to keep doing what you were doing.
Have you ever been burned out?
And when?
I felt that way.
I felt like I was burnt out very recently, probably two to three months ago.
And that was because I was teaching online.
I've already kind of touched on that before.
And I was basically working a lot of hours because I was not charging a lot.
And so obviously I had to work a lot of hours to make sure I could get some money at the end of the month.
And that meant teaching around five hours a day.
And I don't know if you know, but guys, when you're teaching, especially one to one classes, it takes a lot of energy because
You talk with people from all over the world and everybody's got their needs and their style of communication.
And you need to adapt as a teacher.
You need to adapt.
And it was really tiring.
And I think I did it for too long.
And I got to a point where I just had to quit.
I just had to stop because I felt so burned out.
I felt like I didn't have the energy to keep giving classes.
Expression number four, set up an interview.
Set up a few interviews.
If you set up an interview, do you schedule it or cancel it?
Setting up an interview means scheduling it.
And who sets up an interview?
The employer, the boss, so to say, Or the possible employee, the person that wants to work?
Well, the person who sets up the interview is the person who's in power.
So the employer, your boss or your company, they schedule the interview.
They decide when the interview is going to happen.
So they set up the interview.
Have you ever had to set up an interview yourself?
I've never had to do that.
I've never been in on like the other side.
I've always been on the side of the employee.
So I've had my bosses like senior teachers or companies that have set up an interview for me.
But no, personally, I've never had to set up an interview.
Expression number five, take over.
See if you can find someone to take over.
If someone takes over your job, will they work with you or will they replace you?
If someone takes over, it means that they will replace you.
They will start doing what you were doing.
And why would someone need to take over your job?
The thing is that if they need to take over your job, it's because you can no longer do that job.
Maybe let's say you are on vacation and someone needs to replace you.
Or maybe you are going to be a mom, so you're taking some time off of work.
Have you ever taken over from someone at work?
Yes.
So as a teacher, I've taken over from other teachers a lot of times.
I remember this one time specifically, this colleague of mine, she couldn't finish a course.
So I had to take over from her and finished the course for her and she had really scared me because she told me that she had these students and they were terrible.
They chatted all the time and they wouldn't listen and they're, they were very disrespectful and I walked in there like terrified, you know, and they were adorable I.
It was like one of the best classes I ever had.
So I don't know what happened there, but it I sure was glad that I took over from her.
And that is it for today.
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