Jobs in France
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Listen to the vocabulary using the Jukebox, use the arrow on the right to go down or up into the list. You will find 5 sentences to ask for someone's job, they are not all correct in English, but in French they are.

1. Qu'est-ce que fait ton père comme métier? / What does your father do as a job?
2. Qu'est-ce que tu fais comme métier? /
What do you do as a job? (you know the person)
3. Qu'est-ce que vous faites comme métier? /
What do you do as a job? (you don't know the person)
4. Tu fais quoi dans la vie? / What do you do for a living?
5. Tu fais quoi comme métier? / What do you do as a job?
6. Tu travailles dans quoi? / You work in what?
7. Mon père travaille comme boulanger /
My father works as a baker
8. Mon père est boulanger /
My father is a baker
9. Je ne travaille pas, je suis à l'école /
I don't work, I go to school
10. Je suis pompier / I am a fireman
11. J'aime mon métier / I like my job
12. C'est bien payé? / Is it well paid?
12. Oui, je gagne 2500 euros par mois / Yes, I earn 2500 euros a month
12. Tu gagnes combien? / How much do you earn?

To win and to earn are the same in French: gagner.
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