Learn to talk about jobs, professions and ambitions. 🔹 Common jobs: • doctor — médecin | nurse — infirmier/infirmière • teacher — professeur | engineer — ingénieur • farmer — agriculteur | fisherman — pêcheur • driver — chauffeur | mechanic — mécanicien • trader / merchant — commerçant | policeman — policier • lawyer — avocat | journalist — journaliste • soldier — soldat | pilot — pilote | architect — architecte 🔹 Talking about jobs: • What does he/she do? — Que fait-il/elle dans la vie ? • He is a doctor. / She works as a nurse. • My father is a teacher. He works at a school. • I want to be an engineer when I grow up. • She works at a hospital / in an office / on a farm. 🔹 Job qualities & skills: • A good teacher must be patient and passionate. • A doctor needs to be careful and intelligent. • An engineer must be creative and good at maths. 🔹 Articles with jobs: • After BE: no article — He IS A doctor. ✓ (not: He is the doctor. ✗ unless referring to a specific one) • My mother is a nurse. / My uncle is an architect.

📝 Example — My future job: When I grow up, I want to be a doctor. I think it is a very important and useful job. Doctors help sick people and save lives. To become a doctor, I need to study hard at school, especially Science and Biology. A good doctor must be patient, kind and very careful. I would like to work in a hospital in Dakar and one day help people in rural areas where there are few doctors. 💡 Useful verbs for jobs: • work (travailler) | help (aider) | build (construire) • teach (enseigner) | treat / cure (soigner) | design (concevoir) • protect (protéger) | grow (cultiver) | sell (vendre)