Spanish Jobs and Occupations Vocabulary Exercise 3

The third exercise on jobs and occupations in Spanish. This set includes a wider range of professional vocabulary. Elementary–intermediate level.

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Homonyms: when the job sounds like something else — el músico / la música — but la música also means 'music'! el químico / la química — but la química also means 'chemistry'! el político / la política — but la política also means 'politics'. Context always sorts it out.

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Invariable professions in this set — el/la atleta, el/la taxista, el/la modelo stay the same for both genders. el fotógrafo / la fotógrafa, el geólogo / la geóloga, el mecánico / la mecánica, el ingeniero / la ingeniera follow the regular -o/-a pattern. Knowing which group a word falls into saves a lot of guessing.

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Aspirations and descriptions — Es un músico increíble (He's an incredible musician). Quiero ser fotógrafa de naturaleza (I want to be a nature photographer). Trabaja como taxista de noche (He works as a taxi driver at night). Es ingeniera en una empresa internacional (She's an engineer at an international company).

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Write the correct Spanish translation for each of the occupations. Choose from the following occupations, altering each one as needed to make each response grammatically correct: inginiero, músico, fotógrafo, modelo, químico, geólogo, político, mecánico, atleta, taxista.

1. Mi hermano es . (athlete)✓

2. Mis padres son . (politicians)✓

3. Raúl es . (taxi driver)✓

4. Mi prima es . (photographer)✓

5. Pedro es . (engineer)✓

6. Mis hermanas son . (chemists)✓

7. Ella es . (mechanic)✓

8. El trabaja de . (model)✓

9. Mis primos son . (musicians)✓

10. Mis abuelos eran . (geologists)✓