hi my name is Rebecca and welcome to the series of videos on business English
we're going to start by talking about one of the main questions that you're
asked in a business context and that is where do you work
ok there are a number of different ways in which you can answer this question
and they all involve the word work of course
so for example you would start by saying I work but after that you have a number
of different propositions that you use me to use depending on what you want to
say
so we're going to review some of these and then I hope you'll have a better
understanding of what to use and how to answer this basic question
ok so let's get started so the first one is I work in i work in can be used for a
place for example I work in a school
I work in an office I work in a factory right
and many other examples like that you can also use in to describe the sea
I work in Toronto I work in Paris
I work in Montreal
ok so you can use it for cities you can also use it for the country
I work in Australia I work in Japan
I work in India ok another way you can use
I work in is with the Department
I work in the marketing department I work in the accounting department
ok you can also use it to describe the field that you're in for example i work
in computers
I work in education
ocean right so you're using to describe the field that you're in the
professional field or I work in accounting for example or you can use it
similarly to describe the industry I work in the hospitality industry
I work in the tourism industry
ok so yes the preposition in covers a lot of different possibilities
ok let's move on from there to the next one which is on
so let's look at how we can use that I worked on a farm
I work on an oil rig
I work on a construction site either some specific examples you can see that
there are a little more specific
it's used not as often
ok to use more rarely so in is more common
you can also use it to talk about the area or feel that you're working on
so for example i work on software development
I work on educational policy ok that's another way you can use on now at
describe some place and you might be wondering because I mentioned place so
far in three different places but here it's a little more specific
for example i work at home
I work at the downtown branch right
I work at this location so you're usually talking about a more specific
place or branch or location
all right now we come to another one with so with is used to talk about who
you work with
right I work with John I work with the French
clients I work with several wonderful colleagues right
you're talking about the people that you're working with and last of all but
perhaps most important because this is what people may ask you first right
it might ask you who you work for
so in answer to that question you could say I work for a diplomat language
school
I work for Microsoft I work for IBM and so on
or you could say I work for my uncle
all right it could be a person as well but usually we are going to give the
name of a company and in case you're self-employed or you're an entrepreneur
you can also say I work for myself
okay so I know there's a lot of different possibilities here
I know that prepositions can be quite challenging to master
so the only way to really learn them is to listen to a lot of examples to write
out a lot of examples of your own using these prepositions and through
repetition
eventually you will get them ok if you have any more questions or if you'd like
to actually do a free quiz on this lesson you can do that at our website
www in big dot com
okay thanks very much and we'll see you again bye for now