Trabajo en inglés: Vocabulario ; La mayoría de las personas trabajan para ganarse la vida. ¡Trabajamos para sobrevivir, pagar las cuentas y, a veces comprarnos cosas bonitas! En esta lección aprenderemos vocabulario, phrasal verbs y modismos relacionados con el trabajo.
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¿Cómo preguntamos por el trabajo de alguien en inglés?
La pregunta más común para saber acerca del trabajo de alguien es: “What do you do?”
Otras formas de preguntar por el trabajo de alguien:
Preguntas | Respuestas |
Can I ask what you do?
(Esta forma es más educada.)
What do you do for a living?
What kind of work do you do?
What line of work are you in?
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I work for the largest bank in the country.
I work on equities and investments. I manage a team of investors. I have ten people under me. I deal with different businessmen. I work with managers and owners of different businesses. One of my responsibilities is to make sure that the money they invested will prosper. |
¿Cuáles son los tipos de trabajo y de salario?
Tipos de trabajo | Significado | Traducción |
full-time job | work for a full number of hours considered standard or normal | trabajo a jornada completa |
part-time job | work fewer hours/day than what is normal | trabajo a tiempo parcial |
flexitime | work in a chosen time to start and finish | horario flexible |
overtime | work more than the required hours in the contract | horas extras |
permanent job | a job that doesn’t finish at a period of time | trabajo fijo |
temporary job | a job that finishes at a period of time | trabajo temporal |
Jimmy works part-time in the coffee shop.
He’s hunting for a permanent job now that his wife is pregnant.
We always work overtime to hit our target.
I can settle for a temporary job to get by my daily expenses.
¿De qué forma expresamos la pérdida de un trabajo o qué dejamos un trabajo?
Dejar un trabajo | to resign
to quit to leave to retire (dejar de trabajar por jubilación o por enfermedad) |
Perder un trabajo | to be dismissed
to be fired to get fired to get the sack to get the chop to lose your job to let someone go / to be let go to be made redundant (perder un trabajo porque ya no te necesitan más) |
She is getting tired of her routine job, so she decided to leave the company
He is about to lose his job. He is always absent and comes to work late.
Phrasal verbs de trabajo en inglés: Vocabulario
Phrasal verbs | Significado | Ejemplo |
work off | hacer ejercicio para quitarte estrés o perder peso | I love going to the gym at the weekend. It helps me work off all the stress of the week. |
work on | mejorar o desarrollar | The IT guys are working on a new platform for billing. |
work out | terminar bien
encontrar una respuesta o solución hacer ejercicio |
I’m so glad everything worked out for you.
That’s a difficult calculation. Give me a minute to work it out. |
work over | asaltar o pegar
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The poor old man was worked over by some boys. |
work through | tratar con, resolver un problema | You two need to site down and work through these issues. |
work up | causar un estado emocional
llegar a algo a través de la preparación |
Everyone is getting worked up about the deadline.
Paula worked up a list of topics to discuss at the meeting. |
work around | encontrar el camino para resolver un problema | The servers are down for the moment but you’ll just have to work around that. |
Expresiones y modismos con work
Expresiones | Significado | Ejemplo |
work the system | aprovechar el sistema para obtener lo que quieres | Helen has worked the system and she’s been very successful. |
in the works | actualmente siendo producido o desarrollado | There’s a new computer program in the works so that we can deal with customer enquiries. |
works like a charm | cuando algo funciona perfectamente | I tried a stronger glue and it worked like a charm. |
work wonders | tener un efecto muy positivo para resolver un problema | You should go out get some fresh air – it’ll work wonders for your mood. |
put to work | asignar un trabajo o hacer que alguien trabaje | The manager puts me to work in the finance department. |
out of work | no tener trabajo | She’s been out of work for a month now.
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all in a day’s work | algo es muy rutinario y no fuera de lo común | You’re very welcome, Mrs Gray. I’m glad I could fix your pipes. All in a day’s work. |
all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) | alguien está trabajando duro y no tiene tiempo para jugar y disfrutar | You have been working hard. Remember, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Go out and enjoy yourself for a change. |
piece of work | es difícil llevarse bien con alguien | It’s difficult to talk to her. She’s a piece of work.
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dirty work | hacer un trabajo poco ético o deshonesto | My boss makes me do all the dirty work, like when he asked me to fire his secretary! |
work up a sweat | poner mucho esfuerzo en algo | She wrote all the reports, made the presentation, greeted everyone before and after the session – and she barely worked up a sweat! She’s amazing! |
have your work cut out for you | tener mucho trabajo por hacer para lograr una meta / objetivo | This is going to be a difficult job – you’ve got your work cut out for you. |
Ejercicios sobre Trabajo en inglés: Vocabulario
1.1 Une la columna A con la columna B. Encuentra el significado del phrasal verb a través de la oración de ejemplo.
A | B |
1. work off (c) | a. We have been up all night preparing for this proposal, and we’re glad that the boss approved it. |
2. work on (b) | b. You have to improve or develop your communication skills. |
3. work out (e) | c. She was so stressed with her job, so she decided to release it by exercising. |
4. work over (d) | d. They really beat him badly. He’ll be in hospital for a few days. |
5. work through (f) | e. Things didn’t go as they expected, but it ended nicely though. |
6. work up (a) | f. It took him months to deal with his anger. |
7. work around (g) | g. You have no paper and the printer has run out of ink. Don’t worry I think I’ve found a solution. |
Elige la mejor respuesta.
- My mother works in the government. She can have this job as long as she likes, or she can leave at retirement age. My mother has a (permanent job / temporary job). (permanent job)
- Sheila works in a shop from 8 in the morning till noon. She has to go to university at 1 pm. She has a (part-time job / full-time job). (part-time job)
- Daisy works in the library from 9 am till 5 pm. She has a (part-time job / full-time job). (full-time job)
- Theodore goes to work anytime he wants. He’s free to choose his time. He works on (flexitime / part-time). (flexitime)
- Liza works at the office from 9 am till 5 pm, but sometimes she works until 9 pm. She does a lot of (overtime / flexitime). (overtime)
- Henry wasn’t doing well in his job so he was (fired / retired). (fired)
Ejercicio de comunicación sobre trabajo en inglés: Vocabulario
- Do you have a permanent job or a temporary job?
- Do you work full-time or part time?
- How many jobs you have had before getting a permanent job?
- Is it better to have a job or to have your own business?
- How long do you plan to stay in your current job?