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Daily Chores

by Karen Evans

Doing the Laundry

Read the following story and make sure you understand all the words.

My laundry day is on Wednesdays. I collect all the laundry from the hampers. Then, I sort the clothes into piles of dark and light clothing. I add the detergent to my washing machine and then I load the machine with the dark clothes. When these are done I take out the clothes that are to line-dry. I hang the wet clothes on the clothesline with clothespins. I put the rest of the clothes in the dryer and put in a dryer sheet to make the clothes smell fresh. I turn on the dryer. Then, I put the light-colored clothes into the washing machine and add the detergent. When the clothes are dry, I fold the laundry. I make sure I clean the lint trap of the dryer. Sometimes there are wrinkled clothes. Usually there is a shirt that needs to be ironed. I iron the wrinkled shirts. I use spray starch on the shirts.

Make sentences about how you do laundry using some of the bold-faced words.

1. Which clothes do you hang up and which clothes do you put in drawers?

2. How do you sort the laundry? Do you use bleach? Do you use fabric softener or dryer sheets?

3. How often do you iron your clothes?

4. Do you buy “dry-clean only” clothes?

5. Do you have a specific day of the week that you do laundry? Which one/ones?

More Housework and Working Together

Before the kids go to bed, they put away their toys. In the morning, the kids make their beds. My daughter dusts the furniture and my son empties all the wastebaskets. He also takes out the garbage. I vacuum the carpet and sweep the floor. My daughter likes to wash the windows and my son enjoys washing the dishes. The floor around the sink gets wet but that’s okay because after he is done with the dishes, I dry the dishes and put them away and then I mop the floor and wipe the counter.

Who does the chores at your home? Use sentences to tell who does which chores.

How often do you change the sheets? Polish the furniture? Dust the furniture? Scrub the floor?

What is your favorite cleaning job? What is your least favorite chore?

Do you recycle bottles, newspapers, or cardboard? Do you have to recycle items in your country? If so, which ones? Do you have to separate them into different piles? Explain.

Daily Routines

Use complete sentences to answer these questions.

1. When do you clean the house?

2. When do you make dinner? When do you have dinner?

3. When does your husband get home? When do you come home?

4. When do you relax? What do you do to relax?

5. When do you go to bed?

6. Do you take the children to school? Do you pick up the children? Do they take the bus to school?

7. When do you go grocery shopping? Do you go to specialty stores for some of your groceries? If so, which ones? (Korean market, Asian Market, etc.)

Idioms

Use these idioms in a sentence of your own.

Cost an arm and a leg: very expensive

I would like to hire a maid, but it would cost me an arm and a leg to do so.

Make time: to do something even though you did not plan it and you are already busy Rachel made time to help mow his lawn since he has been sick.

High time: almost too late to do something

Abby thought it was high time that Bob helped with the dishes.

Hold one’s breath: to pause, to stop and think; to anticipate something

Kevin said that he would take out the trash, but Naomi is not holding her breath.

REVIEW:

• Look back at all the pictures in this lesson and tell what the person is doing or what cleaning tool is shown.

• Make sentences of some of your morning routines and tell someone in your group and listen to her morning routine. Then tell her some of your cleaning jobs and listen to hers.

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