ALL THINGS LISTENING
  • All Things Listening Home
  • Privacy Policy
  • Grammar Quizzes
  • Easy Listening Exercises
  • Intermediate Listening Exercises
  • Advanced Academic Listening Exercises
  • Air Travel (easy)
  • Air Travel (intermediate)
  • Air Travel - Airbus A380 (advanced)
  • Aliens (easy)
  • Aliens (intermediate)
  • Apophis - Killer Asteroid? (advanced)
  • Australia - Coober Pedy (advanced)
  • Brazil - Welcome! (advanced)
  • Bus Travel (intermediate)
  • Cave Homes in Turkey (advanced)
  • Colds and Flu (easy)
  • College Life (intermediate)
  • Colleges and Universities - Oxford (advanced)
  • Daily Activities (easy)
  • Describing People (easy)
  • Dinosaurs (easy)
  • Directions (easy)
  • Emotions (easy)
  • Environment (easy)
  • Environment - Great Pacific Garbage Patch (advanced)
  • Exercise and Sports (easy)
  • Exercise and Sports (intermediate)
  • Fast Food (easy)
  • Holidays - Thanksgiving (advanced)
  • Hospitals (easy)
  • Household Chores (easy)
  • Iceland (advanced)
  • IELTS Test - A Brief Introduction (advanced)
  • Internet (easy)
  • Internet - Five Reasons Why the Internet is Bad (advanced)
  • Jobs and Work (intermediate)
  • Jobs - Stressful Jobs (advanced)
  • Komodo Dragon (advanced)
  • Money - 5 Ways to Become Rich (advanced)
  • Movies (easy)
  • Past Tense - Yesterday on the Moon (intermediate)
  • People - Dwayne Johnson (advanced)
  • People - Steve Jobs (advanced)
  • Shopping List (intermediate)
  • Smoking - A Short History of the Cigarette (advanced)
  • SpaceX - Mars (advanced)
  • Sports - Invention of Basketball (advanced)
  • Sports - History of the Olympics (advanced)
  • Supermarket (easy)
  • Supermarket (intermediate)
  • Taxis (easy)
  • Telephone (easy)
  • Telephone - Alexander Bell Inventor (advanced)
  • Time (easy)
  • Travel Advice (intermediate)
  • Travel (easy)
  • Weather (easy)
  • Weather - Raining Frogs (advanced)
Email Robert at All Things Listening
ACADEMIC LISTENING TEST PRACTICE
STRESSFUL JOBS
For Students Preparing for Academic Tests / IELTS and TOEFL
Picture
Playing Time: 1 minute 49 seconds
Picture
Discuss these questions with a friend or classmate.
1. Do you think that being an airline pilot might be a good job? Why? / Why not?
2. Which is more important: having a job you enjoy - or having a job with a high salary? Why?
3. Do you know anyone with the jobs that are mentioned in the lecture?
4. If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Why? 
5. When was the last time you felt stress?

​6. Why do you think driving a taxi might be stressful?
Picture
Note: For more cool ESL resources about jobs, visit my All Things Topics site.
Picture