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1 Warm up
Part A: Look at the questions about housework below and share your opinion with your partner.
1. How often should you clean your shower?
a. once a month b. once a day c. once a week
2. Which of these tasks would you ask a seven-year-old child to do?
a. clean the car b. clean the dog c. clean the floor
3. Which of these things can you find in dust?
a. dead skin b. living bugs c. vegetables
4. Which is the dirtiest room in the house?
a. bedroom b. kitchen c. living room
5. If you clean for an hour how many calories can you burn?
a. 2 b. 20 c. 200
Part B: In pairs, discuss the following questions.
1. Do you like doing housework? Why/ Why not?
2. How do you feel if your house looks dirty?
3. Why do you think some people choose to pay for a cleaner?
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2 Visual guide: housework
Look at the images of housework below and then try and fill in the gaps.
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
Have a quick chat with your partner about housework.
• Have you done any of these tasks recently?
• How do each of the tasks make you feel when you do them?
• Why do people not want to do housework?
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3 Focus on keywords
Match the underlined words to the definitions below.
1. He spent a lot of time cleaning his car, and when he was finished the windows were always so
shiny.
2. She always wanted to receive a ring with a sparkling diamond in the middle.
3. I saw the baby throw up all over his dad’s trousers.
4. I always cook dinner for my family, but I hate doing it and it feels like a chore.
5. I was incredibly excited to be going on holiday to New York.
6. It can be easy for children to burn themselves when they are cooking, and they should be careful.
7. August is the worst month because it is always roasting outside.
8. I didn’t drink enough water and I think that’s why I have a sore head.
a. (adj.) smooth and bright
b. (adj.) feel pain somewhere
c. (v) damaged or injured by the sun, fire, heat etc.
d. (adj.) extremely hot
e. (n) a task that you do regularly, usually one that you do not enjoy
f. (adv.) extremely
g. (adj.) shining and flashing with light
h. (phr. v) be physically sick
4 Listening comprehension
Part A: Look at the chores below, with your partner try and predict which four chores people hate
the most, listen and check then discuss the questions underneath.
clean the windows do the dishes
do the ironing do the laundry
make the bed mop the floor
clean the toilet vacuum the floor
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Talk to your partner.
• Do you agree with the listening about which chores are the worst?
• How often do you do the chores above?
• Are there any of these chores that you like doing?
Part B: Read the sentences from the script and think about which words from the vocabulary section
could go in the gaps, only five are needed. Afterwards, listen to the audio and check your predictions.
1. ... the toilet bowl seems to be enough to make people want to ...
2. ... vacuuming for a long time can often leave us with a back ...
3. ... the thought that it is boring ...
4. ... tables, windows and a perfect
living room are all things we love ...
Part C: Listen one more time and try to answer the following questions.
1. What makes people want to throw up?
2. What is doing the dishes often know as in the UK?
3. What can doing the dishes do to the skin on our hands?
4. How are the washing up and the ironing similar?
5. When vacuuming what is something we want to avoid?
5 Vocabulary for conversation
Look at the examples of natural language from the audio, with your partner and from the context,
try to guess the meaning of each one. To help you remember the expressions, have a discussion with
your partner and use them to talk about your life.
• ...is vacuuming the floor, there are loads of us that can’t stand this one ...
• ... loud noise of most vacuum cleaners seems to get on our nerves...
Let’s chat
1. What kind of housework can’t you stand?
2. Is there anything that your friends do that gets on your nerves?
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6 Focus vocabulary: things in the home
Look at the crossword puzzle below and with your partner use the clues to complete it. Once you
have completed the crossword have a chat with your partner about natural disasters.
Across
4) pieces of cloth you put in front of a window to make a room dark
6) a large piece of soft material used to cover a hard floor
7) an electric machine used to clean clothes
8) a tool for washing floors that has a big handle and some thick strings on the end
9) a large cupboard for hanging clothes in
11) a piece of furniture with doors used for storing things
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Down
1) a machine that cleans floors by sucking up dirt and dust
2) a piece of special glass that you can see yourself in
3) a metal device used to heat a room
5) a device that usually uses electricity to produce light
10) a machine for cleaning plates, dishes etc.
Let’s chat
1. Do you prefer to clean the floor with a mop or a vacuum cleaner? Why?
2. How many mirrors do you have at home? How do you usually clean them?
3. Do you use radiators to heat your home? If not, what do you use instead?
4. Do you think your wardrobes and cupboards are tidy? How often do you organise them?
7 Optional extension / homework
Look at the pairs of expressions below, do you think the words are the same or different? Talk to your
partner and then share your ideas with the class, then try to make a sentence for each expression.
1. clean / tidy
2. dishes / plates
3. sweep / mop
4. wash / rinse
5. vacuum / sweep
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