Learn English Vocabulary Common Household Tasks

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hi everybody my name is alicia in this

lesson i’m going to talk about some

vocabulary you can use

to talk about common household tasks or

chores

in english let’s get started first i

want to look at this part of the board

i’ve tried to draw a picture

to help with this vocabulary word the

first one

is make the bed make the bed in this

lesson i’m going to introduce a few

vocabulary words that use

do and make this first one is make

to make the bed means

to move your bed from this like messy

state so the blanket is messy or the

pillow is

somewhat like off its position

we take it from this position to

the proper position so your blanket and

your pillow

are perfectly laid out like the pillow

is at the top of your bed

your blanket is covering your bed this

process

is called to make the bed we call this

making the bed in english so we’re not

actually creating a bed no

but we’re making a nice bed space that’s

kind of how we think of it we make

the bed the second expression is

do the laundry do the laundry so to do

the laundry means wash clothes

but we usually say to do the laundry i

need to

do the laundry so doing the laundry

can mean using a washing machine like

just to put soap on clothes and use

water with that

it can also refer to using a dryer to

dry the clothes after

so sometimes people want to be specific

i want to do the laundry i’m going to

use the washer and dryer i guess you

could

but in most cases we just say i’m going

to do

the laundry the second or third rather

the third expression

is to do or wash the dishes so

to do the dishes or to wash the dishes

means to clean

the dishes clean the dishes but we

typically use either dew

or wash so this can be with a sponge it

could be with

a dishwasher whatever it means to make

your dishes

clean so to do the dishes or to wash

the dishes the next three are very

similar in appearance

they’re common tasks the first one is to

vacuum to vacuum so this might be a

little bit

old-fashioned looking but this is

actually called a

vacuum this is a vacuum a noun and we

you know use it to pick up using

electricity

dirt and small things on the ground

uh or on the floor in our carpets in our

house

so to vacuum is to use this machine or

another similar machine an electrical

machine

that uses air to pull up crumbs and

other small

things from our floors to vacuum

and this is called a vacuum this however

when we use this tool this is called

sweeping or

to sweep to sweep this is the verb we

use

the tool is called a broom a broom

and we typically use a broom with a dust

pan a dustpan

so vacuums are electrical broom and

dustpan

analog not electrical so we

sweep this motion of using a broom

so this motion is called sweeping to

sweep i’m going to sweep my floors

i will use a dust pan and i will sweep

the dirt into the dustpan those are the

kinds of

verbs we would use to describe that

action

of using a broom and dustpan together

sweep

crumbs or sweep dirt into a dustpan

finally the third one here is mop to

mop to mop and this object this item is

called a mop

so this is pretty much like a broom but

we use

water so a water bucket and some soap

is typically paired with a mop a mop

so we mop floors we use it as a verb and

as a noun

to mop the floor i need to mop the floor

let’s look at the next group the next

group is

dust or the first one at the top is dust

to dust refers to using a piece of

cloth so for example like a

this is a tissue but usually we use a

towel

uh it could be a paper towel it could be

cloth

to remove dust from the tops of things

or from

like small spaces where dust gathers so

dust is like

tiny tiny fine pieces of dirt

or other things in your house so to

remove them

we use cloth in this motion and maybe

some kind

of cleaning agent some kind of a

chemical perhaps

so we use to dust as the verb to

describe

that and dust is the name

of that small fine dirt so we dust

in order to remove dust so

we dust as a verb in order to remove

dust

now so to dust to dust is that motion

the next expression is to clean the

windows or

to wash the windows to clean the windows

or to wash the windows

either verb is fine they communicate the

same idea

using some kind of cloth and some kind

of cleaner

to make the windows clear to make the

windows clean we can use clean the

windows

or wash the windows for this motion

the next verb is scrub scrub we use this

verb

in a few different places very commonly

like scrub

the sink scrub the floor or scrub the

toilet

so to scrub refers to a very

hard cleaning motion so we use this when

we want to make something very

very clean we use a sponge or we use

some other like very scratchy rough

material

to clean something and it takes some

effort we use the verb

to scrub to talk about that of course

you can use this

verb outside of cleaning as well so to

scrub

something off of something else so when

cleaning we say i’m going to scrub

the floor or maybe with a brush i’m

going to scrub

the toilet we use scrub to talk about

this rough

cleaning motion the next verb is

bleach to bleach so bleach is a chemical

it comes usually in a bottle like this

to bleach something means to make

something white

usually to make something white again

like when our clothes

are white and we want to keep them white

we might

bleach our clothes so i need to bleach

this shirt i got a stain on it

or i bleached my curtains so to bleach

something means to use

the chemical bleach to make something

white

or we might use bleach again for like

extra special cleaning like there’s

something extremely

extremely messy or something that we

really need to pay attention to

we might use a bleach to clean it so

tube bleach

is the verb that we use the next

expression

is to hang the laundry or to dry the

laundry to hang the laundry or to dry

the laundry you might hear both

to hang perhaps you can see in this

image

we use something like this this is

called a hanger

we place our clothes in this case a

shirt

on a hanger a hanger to hang up

and dry so to hang the laundry is

specifically on this or on something

similar

maybe using clips and dry the laundry

generally just means allowing the

laundry to become

dry so to hang specifically to put it up

sometimes you dry laundry flat as well

like you lay a sweater down

flat so to dry a shirt flat you can use

that too

so to dry the laundry or to hang the

laundry

next on this list is fold clothes to

fold clothes so after

the laundry is dry after the laundry is

ready

we typically fold clothes so this is

folding this motion whatever motion you

use

to make the clothes easy to store so to

fold clothes

we don’t really use fold the laundry i

guess you could fold the laundry i

personally

i use fold clothes more often than fold

laundry but

uh you could use that if you want to i

personally

i feel like i use fold clothes more

often but

fold laundry i suppose is okay too uh

full clothes so to fold clothes is one

of my least favorite tasks i think

okay almost finished here the next one

is to take out the trash

or to take out the garbage to take out

the trash or take out the garbage trash

and garbage here

they mean the same thing you might also

hear rubbish

in british english to take out the trash

or to take out the garbage

so this means removing trash from your

home

and putting the trash uh in some cases

into a trash

bin or a garbage bin or a dumpster

which is a very very big garbage bin

in your neighborhood or perhaps you have

something similar

but this refers to removing the trash

from your home to take out

the trash or to take out the garbage

finally

this expression to clean out to clean

out

so we use to clean out commonly with

to clean out the refrigerator or to

clean out the closet

so to clean is a little bit different

from clean

out because clean out is used when maybe

we have

lots of things inside our refrigerator

or our closet that are kind of old so we

have many

old things and we need to remove

them we want to throw away some old

things

in that case we use clean out like i

cleaned out my refrigerator

last week so that means i removed some

maybe

old things from my refrigerator and

i cleaned my refrigerator too so usually

they’re done at the same time

so you remove old things from inside

and then you make the space clean same

thing for the closet

like you remove some old clothes or some

old things

you want to throw away and then you make

the closet

space clean so we use to clean out

to refer to this okay so this

is a list of some very common household

tasks so i hope that these are verbs

that you can use

in your everyday life to talk about

basic things you need to do

in your home maybe a good way to study

these kinds of words is to think about

these words and describe them to

yourself

as you are doing them in your home so as

you’re making

plans to do these things in your home

maybe consider

thinking about them or even saying them

out loud in

english to help you with your studies so

i hope that this lesson was helpful for

you

if you have any questions or comments or

if there’s another household task you

know how to describe in english

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