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Hello, hello, dear listener, and welcome into our Speaking Part 2 Premium episode.
Talk about a job that is useful to society.
You should say what the job is, how you know about this job, what types of people do this job, and explain why this job is useful to society.
Okay? Rory here is with me.
Rory, give us your story.
Absolutely. Well, I'm a teacher, so of course I'll say my job is pretty important to society.
Basically, it involves helping others to become good at something.
I mostly teach English these days, so I focus on helping people to get better at using the language to communicate effectively.
I've been doing my job for over 10 years now, so I hear about it all the time.
But even before that, it was always on the periphery.
I always heard about someone teaching English and working abroad with people all over the world to make a difference.
and of course before then my dream was to be a teacher though i wasn't sure about what kind i wanted to be then i focus on english but different teachers help people develop their skills and knowledge in different areas there are people who pass on knowledge and skills related to all kinds of topics
and being able to do that effectively saves people so much time money and hassle because they can access it much more easily than if they did it by themselves and when it comes to the kind of person that gets into teaching, I think that's a pretty broad group of people, really.
As far as I can tell, no two teachers are alike, and there's a diversity of opinion in terms of what constitutes best practice.
But generally speaking, it seems like they're all reasonably orderly and knowledgeable people who have an interest in others, just based on my experience with them.
I suppose it's so useful for the time and energy -saving qualities, especially in larger groups.
If you can transmit or reconstruct knowledge and skills with a large number of people in a short time, then that saves a lot of work that might otherwise never have been done, or that has to be done on an individual basis, and that can be quite costly.
And what about your friends?
Do they think it's useful?
My friends that are teachers probably think it's Useful yes.
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see you soon right dear listeners So a job that is useful to society.
Talk about yourself.
Yeah, you can talk about a doctor or you can talk about yourself.
Yeah. So I mean, not yourself, but a job that you do and just say that it's useful.
Okay. You are an IT specialist.
It's useful. But like you don't, you talk about a job.
So in general, like IT specialists are really useful or you are a shop assistant or I don't know, a driver.
Pretty much any job is useful to society, okay?
So, yeah. Can you think of any job that's not useful to society?
Hmm, maybe murderers.
Murderers. People who murder other people.
Not useful. Well, hitmen.
Hitmen, right. Or hitwomen.
But there's the strategy for this one.
If you're asked about a job that's useful, talk about your own job.
Or feel free to steal Rory's story and talk about the job of a teacher.
So, you can say that teachers are pretty useful in our life.
Or you can lie and say, well, I'm a teacher, so my job is super useful.
It's pretty important to society.
Dear listener, we use society without any article, okay?
So, it's important to society.
It's useful to society.
Please remember it, write it down.
And also in your essays, do not use any article.
So it's important to society.
It's important to people.
This job involves helping others.
This job involves solving problems, creating, I don't know, new things.
So this job involves doing something.
What does your job involve?
My job involves creating courses and new content and making people happy and making you, dear listener, more knowledgeable.
Band 9 way. Yeah, that's my job.
You can say that teachers focus on helping people or drivers focus on driving.
So people with this job focus on doing something.
I've been doing my job for 10 years.
So if you talk about your own job, so you can use Present Perfect Continuous.
I've been working as an IT specialist for 10 years.
I've been working as a shop assistant for two years.
And you can say that I do make a difference.
Or people who have this job make a difference.
so they will make the world a better place.
Well, if you make a difference, then you do something important.
Yeah, like teachers make a difference.
Doctors make a difference.
They save other people's lives.
You can say that my dream was to be a teacher or my dream was to be a doctor to make a difference in this world.
and teachers help people develop their skills and knowledge doctors help people to improve their health i thought you were going to say doctors help people to avoid dying yeah help people to stay alive very important job and doing this job effectively saves people so much time money and money and hassle
and hassle yeah what what's what's a hassle confusion or difficulty please tell me that's a c2 word come on no the cambridge english diction doesn't have a level for this word hassle oh well i'm telling you now it's a c2 word it's a good one it's informal so it saves me a lot of hassle so difficulty
or trouble so drivers doctors teachers if they work effectively they save people so much time money and hassle like different people get into different people get into teaching or like smart people get into driving but if you get into something that just means that you start doing it so people who are into
science get into science what kind of i mean i'd said it was very broad but what do you think maria what kind of people get into teaching i think people who want to communicate to other people people who want to travel perhaps and teach in different places of the world and people who enjoy sharing what they
know and also people who think that they are the best in the world they know everything super confident people yeah i can say to my new samsung galaxy s25 ultra hey find a keto friendly restaurant nearby and text it to beth and steve and it does without me lifting a finger so i can get in more squats
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You can say that that's a pretty broad group of people.
So who gets into medicine?
Who gets into IT? That's a pretty broad, like a big group of people.
But, in general, they are reasonably knowledgeable.
So, people who get into teaching are knowledgeable and orderly.
That just means they like organization.
Yeah, they are organized.
And also those people who have an interest in others.
So, people who have an interest in other people, in others, get into teaching.
So they're interested in people.
It is important to point out all of this is based on my experience.
I could be totally wrong.
Yeah, you can start off with it.
Well, based on my experience, knowledgeable people usually get into teaching.
And then why is this job useful?
You can say, I suppose it's so useful because...
What helped you to organize this answer?
Well, being an English teacher helped me to organize the answer because really what do we have to do here?
We have to talk about a job.
So as long as you talk about your job you'd probably do all of these things that you're required to do.
I did them in the order that they are on the task but if you just sit and speak about your job for two minutes you will probably cover all of these things quite nicely.
So like I say, I started off with just a small preamble saying I'm a teacher so I'm going to talk about this job.
Let's imagine that you're a student, though, and you don't have a job.
You could talk about the job that you want to have in the future as well.
And that way, you're talking about something that you know about and all of the high -level vocabulary that's there.
Then, how long I've known about it?
Well, or how I know about it?
I know about it because I do the job.
But you can also talk about your childhood too, because this is usually when we hear about jobs.
And the same thing is true for the different kinds of people that get into a job.
If you do a job, then you know about the kind of people who will get into it.
But even if you don't do the job, you could probably guess.
You could say, I don't really know the kind of people that do this job.
However, if I were to guess, and then you could talk about that.
And then we just rounded off by doing exactly what was required of us, explaining why the job is useful to society.
It saves time. And really, I feel like, isn't that what all jobs do?
They're supposed to save people time and energy and reduce the hassle.
So really, you could take any job and insert it into where I said the word teacher.
And that would probably describe it quite accurately.
Yay. And now, Rory's quiz time.
Vocabulary from Rory.
Oh yes, it's the part of the show where I ask Maria questions about what I said.
And she has to guess the word or the kind of grammar that I'm talking about.
So, Maria, let's start at the very, very beginning.
I used a word to signal that I was going to summarize the key points of what the job involved or what the job was.
But what was that word?
Basically. Basically, yes.
That's a good way to introduce a small summary when you're speaking.
Probably don't do it in writing.
Then we moved on to how I heard about the job.
And I said that it was always at the edge of my awareness But that's not the word that I used to describe it I used some other word A more advanced word Periphery Yes, the periphery is the edge of something So the periphery of the country could be the borders The periphery of your awareness could just
be Knowing about something but not investigating it thoroughly Oh, question number three This is a word that I use to describe difficulty.
Hassle. Yes, if something is a hassle, then it's difficult or annoying.
Then we have question number four.
I said that people have different kinds of opinions about who or what constitutes a good teacher.
But I didn't say they have different opinions.
Instead, I used a phrase to describe this.
What was that phrase?
There's a diversity of opinion in terms of da -da -da Excellent, yes, fantastic Diversity just means different Well done, Maria, four out of four, nice job Yay!
And hopefully everyone else at home got four out of four as well Thank you for listening Yay!
Now, dear listener, your job is to pick a job that's useful to society, alright?
right or steal rory's story and talk about teachers you can talk about doctors as well or your own job like well i'm a driver i'm an it specialist and it's super useful to society to society no article okay and since you're talking about teachers it's important to point out that i'm a teacher and i
have three slots in the schedule you can find a link to this in the description of the episode if you're interested in finding out more we'll get back to you in our a new episode speaking part three about employment in general and jobs and working.
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Well, I'm a teacher, so of course I'll say my job is pretty important to society.
Basically, it involves helping others to become good at something.
I mostly teach English these days, so I focus on helping people to get better at using the language to communicate effectively.
I've been doing my job for over 10 years now, so I hear about it all the time.
But even before that, it was always on the periphery.
I always heard about someone teaching English and working abroad with people all over the world to make a difference.
And of course, before then, my dream was to be a teacher, though I wasn't sure about what kind I wanted to be then.
I focus on English, but different teachers help people develop their skills and knowledge in different areas.
There are people who pass on knowledge and skills related to all kinds of topics, and being able to do that effectively saves people so much time, money and hassle because they can access it much more easily than if they did it by themselves.
And when it comes to the kind of person that gets into teaching, I think that's a pretty broad group of people, really.
As far as I can tell, no two teachers are alike, and there's a diversity of opinion in terms of what constitutes best practice.
But generally speaking, it seems like they're all reasonably orderly and knowledgeable people whoโฆ
