with jobs vocabulary and relationships vocabulary
Choose one person below who has spoken to you (face to face and/ or through technology) and report what they have said until your partner guesses who you are talking about. Each reporting verb can only be used once.
| Useful verbs: suggest, recommend, propose, tell, ask, mention, apologise, thank, offer, inform, announce, agree, predict, guarantee, promise, reassure, emphasize, stress, insist, remind, order, deny, encourage, introduce, admit, say, invite |
Relationships
- my mother/ my mum – my father/ my dad
- my younger sister/ my little sister – my little brother/ my younger brother
- my big sister/ my older sister – my big brother/ my older brother
- my grandmother – my grandfather
- my aunt – my uncle
- my cousin
- my daughter – my son
- my (best/ oldest) friend
- my (school/ cram school/ music/ English) teacher
- my doctor
- my neighbour
- my dentist
- my fiancée – my fiancé
- my ex(-boyfriend/ girlfriend/ husband/ wife)
- Fellow graduate/ Fellow alumni/ Ex-classmate
Jobs
- (Foreign) colleague (= Workmate)
- Client/ Customer
- Supplier
- Competitor
- Presenter
- (Door to door) salesman (= Sales executive)/ Telesales
- Help desk staff/ Call centre staff
- Recorded message/ Automatic switchboard
- Line manager (= Direct boss)/ Team leader
- Chairman/ President/ CEO/ Managing Director
- Executive (= Director = Top manager)
- Middle manager
- HR manager (= Personnel manager)
- Accountant/ Accounts clerk
- Factory worker/ Factory supervisor
- Secretary/ PA
- Solicitor/ Barrister/ Attorney/ Lawyer
- Cleaner
- Receptionist
- Security guard
- Shop assistant/ Cashier
- Businessman/ Entrepreneur
- Consultant
- Auditor
- Office worker/ Clerk
- Door man/ Concierge
- Handyman/ Janitor (= Caretaker)
- Trader
- Banker/ Bank clerk
- Politician
- Civil servant (= Public servant)
- Teacher/ (Corporate) trainer
- Lecturer/ Professor
- Researcher/ Lab assistant
- Technician/ Repair man/ Service engineer/ Mechanic
- Estate agent (= Real estate agent)
- Translator/ Interpreter
- Editor/ Sub-editor
- Cycle courier/ Motorcycle courier/ Delivery man/ Postman (= Mailman)
- Travel agent
When your teacher stops you, report some speech that your partner told you along with who said, and see if the same thing has been said to anyone else in the class.
Ask about any vocabulary you aren’t sure about, working together to think of what they might say each time.
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