Jobs Vocabulary Exercises
Learn the names of common jobs in English with these interactive exercises. This page has three activities: interactive flashcards with audio to study job words, multiple choice quiz to review the new words, and a spelling practice activity. After completing the practice exercises, read the example sentences and try to make your own. There are 12 words included in these exercises: teacher, student, doctor, nurse, pilot, artist, dentist, driver, police officer, firefighter, farmer, and chef.
Jobs Exercise 1: Guess the Job
See which job names you already know. Look at the picture and then click Reveal Word to see the answer. Then click on the audio to listen to how the word is pronounced.
Jobs Exercise 2: Multiple Choice
See how many you can remember. Look at the picture and then choose the correct job name from the three options.
Jobs Exercise 3: Spelling Practice
Look at the picture and then type the correct job name. If you need help with spelling, click Show Word Bank to see all the possible answers.
Jobs and Occupations Example Sentences
Now you’ve learned common job names, try making your own sentences. Swap out the word in bold with another job title to make a new sentence. If you need more job names, check out this big list of jobs in English.
- I am a teacher.
- He is a doctor.
- She is a bus driver.
- My father is a dentist.
- My mother is a nurse.
- I want to be a pilot.