📖LearnModule 6 · Lesson 6 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, first halfUnit 2 · Work, school and the future
Los oficios — the working world
Module 6 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B1, first half), lesson 6 of 30: The Independent band talks about real life, and real life works: el médico, la enfermera, el ingeniero. On this page: 10 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
el trabajo
the job
ehl trah-BAH-hoh
el médico
the doctor
ehl MEH-dee-koh
la enfermera
the nurse (f)
lah ehn-fehr-MEH-rah
el ingeniero
the engineer
ehl een-heh-NYEH-roh
la periodista
the journalist (f)
lah peh-ryoh-DEES-tah
el vendedor
the salesclerk (m)
ehl behn-deh-DOHR
la vendedora
the salesclerk (f)
lah behn-deh-DOH-rah
trabajar
to work
trah-bah-HAR
mi madre es médica
my mother is a doctor
mee MAH-dreh ehs MEH-dee-kah
casado
married (m)
kah-SAH-doh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
The Independent band talks about real life, and real life works: el médico, la enfermera, el ingeniero, la periodista. Notice the pairs — el vendedor, la vendedora: most job words carry their gender in the ending, and the feminine forms are standard.
Y también · And also
Mi madre es médica. Mi tío trabaja en un banco. Spanish drops the article after ser with jobs: ella es periodista, not una periodista. Add the article only with a describing word: es una buena periodista.
Ojo · Watch out
After ser a job takes no article: ella es periodista, never ella es una periodista. Add one only with an adjective: es una buena periodista. And casado is married, not a house — the house is la casa.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 10 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with el trabajo.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 6 in Module 6 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.