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👔 Professions

Job words make sense when a child can point to a person. This page is the short English list from the profession games: teacher, chef, doctor, farmer, musician, painter, cook, neighbor, friend, and nurse. It is short on purpose. On a walk or after an errand, match one real person to one line. The nurse at a clinic, the person who cooks at home, or a neighbor you actually know. Friend is on this list too, because the games keep it with the people words. Say the sentence about that person, then stop. You do not need costumes.

Chef and cook are two lines. In everyday English they overlap. Here chef is the job title and cook is the person who cooks. Neighbor is the person next door, not the idea of a neighborhood. Friend takes a in the sentence because it starts with a consonant sound. The semicolon you may notice is not in these sentences. The verse below keeps the semicolon that the King James printing uses, because the thought continues in the next verse, which is not quoted here.

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The flashcards open with English on one side and Spanish on the other, which is the usual pair when you start from the home page.

Words to practice

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  teacher

  Say it: TEE-cher

  Example: The teacher helps.

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  chef

  Say it: SHEF

  Example: The chef cooks.

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  doctor

  Say it: DOK-ter

  Example: The doctor helps.

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  farmer

  Say it: FAR-mer

  Example: The farmer grows food.

• 
  musician

  Say it: myoo-ZISH-un

  Example: The musician plays.

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  painter

  Say it: PAYN-ter

  Example: The painter paints.

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  cook

  Say it: KUK

  Example: The cook cooks.

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  neighbor

  Say it: NAY-ber

  Example: The neighbor lives nearby.

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  friend

  Say it: FREND

  Example: A friend helps.

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  nurse

  Say it: NURSS

  Example: The nurse helps.

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