Today lesson is about cleaning
Spill??
What is spilling?
Spill is when u have liquid and u drop it on the floor and it goes everywhere. Sometimes u spill things like rice, sugar, or salt because they are uncountable and they go everywhere like liquid
1. Wipe
What is to wipe?
When u wipe something u take a paper, rag, or cloth <<< theseare the things we use to wipe
Wipe it’s a soft movement to clean something
We wipe tables and walls
If something is not serious you can wipe it and it will go easily
2. Wash
You should wash your hands to get them clean
But we also need to wash other things:
What other things we wash?
After you eat your food, you have your knife and your fork and your plate. You put them in water, you put your dishes in the sink, and you wash them.
We also wash our clothes. You are clean right?
I’m sure you don’t wear the same clothes all the time right!
You take them off, you put them in the machine. We call that a washing machine.
So you wash dishes, and you wash your clothes
Another word for clothes by the way, is LAUNDRY
A lot of times we don’t say I’m washing my clothes
In fact we mostly say: I am doing my laundry
So you got laundry to wash
3. Scrub
Do you remember when we say we use paper, cloth, and rag for soft?
Scrub is when we go really really hard on something because it’shard to clean.
What do we scrub?
You scrub floor, you scrub your sink, because you remember we have been washing things, so you need to scrub to get the dirt out, it won’t come out with a wipe. There are a lot of dirt there.
Toilet
Please, please tell me you scrub your toilet, don’t wipe your toilet ok. You know what you use it for, you need to scrub that thing clean.
Walls
Walls get dirty. People throw things, food goes on the wall, especially if you have babies, they go up on the walls, and youneed to scrub it.
So we got the verb is to scrub, and what do you scrub?
Floors, sinks, toilets, and walls
What do you use to scrub?
Usually we use a brush to scrub
4. Sweep
Sometimes people have wood floors or hard floors but no carpet and we sweep the floor
What do you use to sweep?
The thing that we use is broom
We use broom to sweep the floor.
Broom move things like papers, sugar, dirt... Etc. but it’s not good for spill like water.
So the verb is to sweep, and we sweep floors using broom. Sweep the floors not the walls ok? Just the floors
5. Vacuum
Vacuum is for carpets and rugs,
You don’t always have woods on the floor, you have material of cloth, you need a vacuum to suck up the dirt.
So you say: I’m going to vacuum my house
You have carpet or rugs in your house
A carpet is usually from wall to wall, the whole floor has it on
A rug is usually a small area
So you need a vacuum cleaner to vacuum.
6. Mop
Mop up a mess, or mop something up...
You need this: mop, bucket (pail)
So you put the mop in the bucket, then you take the mop and u go over the water and squeeze the water in the bucket.
So these are 6 general things for general cleaning of the house
1. Mopping is for wet things, for liquids, using a mop
2. Vacuum is for carpet and rugs, using vacuum cleaner
3. Sweeping floors, normal floors by using broom.
4. You scrub on surfaces that are really really dirty, you use a brush
5. You wash in the sink the dishes, and your clothes in washing machine
6. And you wipe most times, u wipe things all the time, just to clean it a little bit
Now I’m gonna give you 3 handy phrases you're gonna like:
It’s a way in English to save time saying what we do for jobs.
We call it shorthand.
Shorthand means to say many things by saying just a little bit
In this case, in North America, Britain and other places
We say something to get the message across quickly
1. Do (doing) the laundry
What do you mean doing the laundry?!!
Wash - dry - fold - put away
It means I’m washing, remember when we talked about washing machine?
I put it in the washing machine, then I put it in the dryer. Some people hang their clothes outside if it’s a nice weather so the sun can dry it, then after that I fold them,
I fold the clothes. After I finished folding the clothes I put them away.
So instead of saying I’m washing my clothes, I’m drying my clothes, I’m folding my clothes, I’m putting them away...
I say I’m doing the laundry!!
So u can tell your friends if they call:
Your friend: Hey! Do you wanna go to the store?
You: sorry dude! I gotta do the laundry.
So they will know it’s a long job, two hours or more, so no time
2. Do (doing) the dishes
Wash - rinse - dry - put away
What do u mean do the dishes? Are you gonna make them?
Do you have a factory where you make the dishes? And give to people??
No!!!
It’s the same idea, it means washing the dishes..
So what i mean by doing the dishes is:
I’m washing it with soap and clean them, then rinse it (putting it in water only and get rid of soap), then I have to dry them (u take a paper or cloth and dry them), then u put them away.
3. Take out the trash/garbage
Take out - collect (tie up bag) - take outside - replace bags in the house
So it means I’m gonna take the bag out, first off, then I’m gonnatie it (so when the you take the trash out, it’s not only tying one bag. you go around your house and you look for all the garbage and you put all in the bag)
You take it out, then you come back, and replace the bag!
So when you hear us saying these things, as the shorthand to say my jobs or my chores (chores are home's job)
So u see people say: I have got chores to do
So chores means jobs in my house that I don’t get paid for.
So the last point I wanna talk about it:
That someone people are really cleany (clean freaks), they like their house clean.
So the word we use is dust
So what dust means?
Well dust mean: when u go to your furniture, your chairs, you tables…etc. and you take spray and you spray it on a paper or a cloth and you clean that dust, that grey stuff flying in the air and you clean it off your furniture.
If you don’t do it you will got dust bunnies!!
Dust bunnies: means little ball of dust that grows because you don’t dust.
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