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Hello and welcome
to Real Easy English,
the podcast where we have
real conversations in easy English
to help you learn.
I'm Georgie.
And I'm Neil.
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go to our website,
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Hi Neil. How are you?
Are you happy to be at work today?
Of course.
I'm always happy to be at work.
Great. Well, today we are talking
about dream jobs.
Obviously, this job is amazing,
but we're going to talk about
some different jobs we'd like to do.
Sounds good. Shall we start?
Yes.
So, Georgie, when you were a child, what
did you want to do when you grew up?
What was your dream job?
Well, when I was really little,
about five or six.
I remember telling people
that I wanted to be a princess.
When I realised that wasn't going
to be possible for me,
my next dream was to be
a pop star,
because my friends
and I used to write songs
and perform in front of our parents,
and I thought that would be really fun.
Yeah. What about you?
Well, I'm kind of similar.
I think, actually,
when I was... when I was a child,
I thought that being a professional
sportsman would be fantastic –
either a footballer or a cricketer.
What went wrong?
I'm not good enough!
I learned that lesson.
But also, I wanted, when I got
a little bit older, sort of teenage,
and started playing guitar,
I thought, yeah, maybe a rock star
would be the thing for me.
So, Neil, obviously you are not
a rock star,
but how or when did you decide
to become an English teacher instead?
Well, when I finished university,
I wanted to travel
more than anything else.
And I wanted to live in foreign
countries, not just go on holiday.
And I thought a good way to do that
would be to become an English teacher.
Yeah, I have a similar story.
It was the same thing for me.
I just wanted to live abroad.
Georgie, what is important to you
about your job now?
Well, many of us spend a lot
of our lives working.
So, for me, it's really important
to enjoy the day.
We work nine to five.
It's a lot of hours in the day.
It's really important to me to have a
nice team that you can have fun with.
It's also really important
for me to feel like I'm giving
something good or doing a good job.
What about you?
Yeah, I think it's important to feel
that you're doing something useful.
So, hopefully our conversations
like this are useful for people
because they can learn something,
and I like that.
Yeah. Me too.
So, Neil, if you didn't have to worry
about money or anything else,
what would your dream job be?
I think I know the answer already.
Yeah, well, you said earlier
that I didn't become a rock star,
but there is still a future.
And, you know, if I didn't have to
work, I could just follow my dream.
How about you?
I think if I didn't do this job,
I would like to be
a travel photographer
or someone that makes documentaries.
I really love
those nature documentaries,
and it would be very fun
to be involved in those.
Yes, that sounds
like it would be amazing.
OK. Let's recap the language
we heard during the conversation.
We can describe something
like a job as 'important to' us.
For example, I said that a nice team
at work is important to me.
We talked about our dream jobs when
we were children using the structure
'when I was younger, I wanted to be...'
So, for example, when I was younger
I wanted to be a footballer.
And we talked about our
dream jobs now using conditionals.
So, for example, if I 'could' do any job,
I 'would' be a travel photographer.
And when we're talking about jobs,
we can 'do' them, or we can 'be' them.
For example, I teach English,
or I am an English teacher.
And that's it for this episode
of Real Easy English.
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