Today we are gonna look at some expressions related to house chores. What are house chores?

Well chores are your house work that you do on daily basis. I’m sure many of us don’t like

to do it. But it’s important, it’s important to keep your house nice and clean. And,hey

you know what, house chores or doing the house chores keeps you fit. It is a good form of

exercise. SO people if you are not doing it start doing it, it will keep you fit as well.

So now let’s have look at some expressions to talk about house chores or house work.

The other word for house chores is house work. So, the first thing that comes to your mind

when you wake up, well you need to tidy up your house right? It means you need to clean

your house. Now what are the expressions that you use to these certain house works is what

we are gonna learn in today’s lesson. Let’s imagine, before we go with that let

me also mention that the two common verbs that we use when we talk about house chores

are do and make. In a very common way when you are talking about house chores you say “ I gonna

do the dishes” “ I am gonna do the kitchen” “I am gonna do the laundry”

Okay, so you end up using the verb do very commonly and in fact if you think about it

the verb to replaces the word to clean or wash. So you wash your laundry or you clean

the dishes right? But rather than using these verbs when you are talking casually to someone

you end up using the verb do. So, it’s like I am doing the dishes. I am gonna do the laundry.

I am gonna do the windows, so it means that you are gonna clean the windows.

And then another verb that we commonly use is make. Now make probably replaces the verb

create, to create something. SO make is like, “I am gonna make my bed” you will not

say “I am gonna do the bed” You will say I am gonna make the bed or I

am gonna make the breakfast. I am gonna make lunch. So here you are creating something.

So that’s exactly the reason why you are using the verb make.

So please keep this in mind when you are talking casually about your household chores then

you end up using the verbs do and make. And now let’s look at the expressions that

you can use. The first one is make the bed. So you wake

in the morning and the first thing that comes to your mind is that you need to tidy up the

house. So the very first thing that you do is make the bed. So, basically you will put

the blanket properly, you will put the pillows in place because when you sleep you tend to

move a lot, at least I do. So you tend to move a lot, your blanket is all over the bed

so when you wake up you don’t want to leave it as it is you wanna make it. So you make

the bed. The second expression is beat the rug. SO

probably you have a rug on the floor or probably a mat on the floor so you pick it up and you

beat it. Probably you just wanna dust all the dirt or whatever is settled on it you

wanna beat it. So you are cleaning the rug but rather than saying I am cleaning the rug

you gonna say beat the rug. I am beating the rug. Right!

Next one is dust the furniture. Probably you find your furniture is little dusty, you find

a thin layer of dust or thick layer of dust if you haven’t been cleaning past few days.

So if you find that please dust your furniture. SO dust the furniture means to wipe up the

dust or clean the dust on the furniture that’s settled on your furniture. That’s the expression

you would use. The next one sweep the floor, so lot of dust

is on the floor and now you would like to clean the floor. So rather than saying I’m

gonna clean the floor the right expression that you would use is I’m gonna sweep the

floor. In order to sweep the floor you need a broom. Right! So you sweep the floor with

a broom. The next one that we have over here is mop

the floor. So after sweeping the floor you want your house to smell nice so you add some

disinfectants or toiletries to the water and you mop it up. SO with the use of a mop you

mop the floor, you clean the floor. Then the next one is vacuum the carpet. Lot

of stuff is settled on your carpet, it looks dirty it looks very dusty if you have a dog

you find dog hair on your carpet. Then it’s time to vacuum it. SO please go ahead get

a nice vacuum cleaner and start vacuuming the carpet. That means you are cleaning the

carpet, you are using a vacuum cleaner to clean the carpet hence you are using the expression

vacuum the carpet, okay! Now let’s have a look at another set of

expressions here. So these expressions can be used for cleaning your bedroom or your

living room and if you look at these expressions here it’s mainly for the kitchen

Now everybody wants to keep their kitchen nice and clean so what are the expressions

that you would use The first one is set the table. You are hungry

and you have cooked a very nice meal for you and your family. So the next job that you

gonna do is , you are gonna set the table. So you gonna put the napkins, you gonna lay

the plates, the crockery your spook , fork and knife so it means that you are setting

the table. So you finished with your lunch or your dinner and now it’s time to clear

the table. So if you have cooked, you are the wife and you have cooked please ask your

husband to clear the table, it’s nice to share your jobs right!

So now you wanna take all the stuff back in the kitchen and you would like to clear the

table. Well, not always we end up finishing the food, there are left over so what do you

do with it? You put the food away. So you or your husband whoever is doing the job so

put the food away so basically taking care of the leftovers. And then you are done with

your meal and there are lots of dishes in the sink. Dirty dishes in the sink what are

you gonna do? So you are gonna do the dishes. You gonna rinse the dishes or probably if

you have a dishwasher you gonna set your dishes in the dishwasher. So you gonna do the dishes

and then the last thing you gonna do is you are going to clean the stove or you gonna

clean the sink. After doing the dishes probably your sink

is all clogged up so you would clean the sink and of course you will clean the stove as

well. So these are some common household chores

that you do it on daily basis. So hope it helps you to talk in English and in a very

confident manner you can talk about it. The next time someone calls you and says hey what

you doing? And if you are doing your household chores you can use one of these expressions

specifically. I will be back with a new lesson until then

you take care and have a great day.