60 free printable jobs flashcards (PDF)

For teaching children, you can use the cards to play all your favorite flashcard games. They are also great for matching activities and the cards have been specifically designed so that the job names can be cut out separately just for this. Here are a few more teaching ideas that you might find both interesting and helpful for older students.

Arranging. You can ask your students to arrange the cards in all kinds of ways such as these –

• In alphabetical order from A to Z.
• Jobs that are inside, outside, or both.
• Occupations students would like to do and would not like to do.
• Clean jobs and dirty jobs
• Easiest to most difficult.
• Lowest wages to highest paid.
• Safest to most dangerous

Some of these arrangements can be done in teams, as a competition if your class enjoys games.

Speaking. There are a ton of different ways that you can involve speaking with the jobs flashcards. You can ask just about anything related to these professions. One of my favorite uses is to ask “What do they do?”.

Ask students to answer with the form –  A (job) + (Verb) +s/es + (noun). For example, A carpenter makes things out of wood, or A chef cooks food. The flashcards here show people at work doing their jobs which is very helpful for this.

Next, you can expand on this by asking about where they work, what tools or equipment they need to use, and so on.

Games. You can use the vocabulary on the flashcards to play games such as Pictionary and Charades. Ask 1 student to come to the front of the class, choose a random card, and either try to draw it on the board (pictionary) or physically act it out for others to guess (charades).