Household Chores - B1.2

Oct 1, 2026

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Household Chores explains common home responsibilities across multiple everyday areas, including laundry steps from stain treatment through washing, drying, and ironing, plus routines for keeping the house clean such as wiping surfaces, using bleach for heavy dirt, sweeping, scrubbing, mopping, polishing, dusting, tidying, vacuuming, and taking rubbish out. It also covers kitchen and dining tasks like washing and drying dishes, using a dishwasher, garden chores such as mowing, raking, and watering, and animal care like feeding and walking pets. It further introduces phrasal verbs used for chores, for example “clean up” and “to make clean.”

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLifestyle

FormatPDF

Pages34

Reading Time52 min

AccessFree to download

What are household chores?

Laundry

Around the House

In the Kitchen/Dining Room

In the Garden

Animals

Phrasal Verbs for Chores

to clean up

to make clean

Household Chores Copyright © 2020 Virtually Fluent Ltd. Household Chores What are household chores? Copyright © 2020 Virtually Fluent Ltd. Laundry E To do the laundry, you may need to put stain remover on the clothes before you load the washing machine and add detergent. Once the clothes are washed, you can hang them up on the washing line with pegs or hangers, put them on a drying rack or in a clothes dryer. Finally, they need to be ironed on the ironing board or folded up and put away. Copyright © 2020 Virtually Fluent Ltd. Around The House To keep the house clean I often wipe the surfaces with a cloth and cleaning spray. When something is very dirty, I use bleach. I need to sweep the ﬂoor with a sweeping brush and sometimes I scrub then mop the ﬂoor. I also polish things in my house and dust. I tidy my house, vacuum it and take the rubbish out too. Copyright © 2020 Virtually Fluent Ltd. In The Kitchen/ Dining Room A B G C F D E In the kitchen, I cook regularly but I also need to wash up. I use fairy liquid anda sponge to clean/do the dishes. I need to dry the dishes using a tea towel. Sometimes I use a dishwasher and simply load it. Copyright © 2020 Virtually Fluent Ltd. In The Garden In the garden, I mow the lawn, rake the leaves and water my ﬂowers . Copyright © 2020 Virtually Fluent Ltd. Animals I need to look after my pets by feeding them and walking them. Copyright © 2020 Virtually Fluent Ltd. Household Chores Which household chores do you do? Copyright © 2020 Virtually Fluent Ltd. I love baking cakes but I hate cleaning up afterwards. I need to wipe down the surfaces, put away the ingredients, throw away the rubbish and generally tidy the kitchen up-it’s always a mess once I’ve been baking. Copyright © 2020 Virtually Fluent Ltd. Phrasal Verbs for Chores to clean up intransitive / transitive-separable To make clean Can you clean your bedroom up, please? Copyright © 2020 Virtually Fluent Ltd.

FAQs

What are the main steps involved in doing the laundry?

Apply stain remover, load the washing machine with detergent, wash the clothes, dry them on a line or rack or in a dryer, then iron on the ironing board or fold and put them away.

How do you keep the house clean according to the text?

Wipe surfaces with a cloth and cleaning spray, use bleach when something is very dirty, then sweep, scrub, mop, polish, dust, tidy, vacuum, and take the rubbish out.

Which phrasal verbs for chores are introduced?

The text presents “to clean up” and “to make clean,” along with example use for tidying up a bedroom.

Oct 1, 2026

Upload by lilac