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Language point:
Jobs vocabulary
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The Flatmates Jobs vocabulary

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People who work with food

a cook
someone who cooks and prepares food

a chef
a cook who has qualifications and is very skilled at cooking

a sous-chef
a chef who works below the main chef and who is directly in charge of what is produced
in the kitchen

a baker
someone who makes bread and cakes

People who work with children

a child-minder
someone who looks after children in her/his house during the day while the children's
parents are working

a nursery school teacher

someone who cares for and teaches young children (3 5 year-olds) before they go to
primary or infants school

People who work in politics

a canvasser
someone who goes to people's houses and tries to persuade them to vote for a
particular politician or political party in an election (canvassers are usually volunteers,
they don't get paid for this work)

a spin doctor
someone who makes ideas, events and political speeches seem better than they really
are

a speech writer
someone who writes speeches for a politician

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People who work in newspapers or magazines

an agony aunt
someone who answers people's emotional, work or family problems

a gossip columnist
someone who writes about what famous people are doing, what parties they go to and
who's dating who

an editor
the person who is responsible for what is written in a newspaper

People who work outside

a traffic warden
someone who enforces parking rules and gives out tickets to drivers who park their cars
illegally

a bicycle courier
someone who delivers letters and parcels within a city (usually in the business district)
by bike

a road sweeper
someone who brushes up and collects litter on pavements and streets

Vocabulary

a whiz at something
someone who is very good or fast at a particular activity or task

a pager
a small machine which receives signals from a telephone

right away
immediately

a favour
something you do for someone to help them out

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