How to Talk about Household Tasks in English!

my name is alicia and in this week's live lesson we are going to talk about how to talk about your household activities so in this lesson we are going to cover chores so that means your regular household tasks we are going to talk about sharing space with other people so that means like how do you express time alone how do you express that you want time alone and how do you express wanting to spend time with other people and finally we are going to talk about some everyday use household expressions so as you join live please please please please please make sure to hit the like button and of course share this video so that other people can find the lesson okay so we're gonna start in a couple minutes but as always a few quick announcements a few quick announcements first is about this banner at the bottom of the screen if you have not checked recently or ever there are free pdfs for you to download they look like this i show you all the time they are about vocabulary phrases and 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about basic topics yes but i want to cover some vocabulary words that maybe are a little maybe some new vocabulary words and new expressions so part one will be chores your household tasks part two will be using space like with together time alone and time with other people so how do you how do you express these desires and finally household expressions just things that we say around the house so i hope this is a good i hope this is a good lesson just for everyday practice stuff you can use right away and so if you have questions uh or want to practice with some example sentences send them in the chat and i will try to check live okay let's begin and if you haven't make sure to like i know it's i tell you all the time but it helps other people to find the lesson okay let's get started first chores let's begin so our first vocabulary word for this lesson is chores what are chores chores always lists i need to do some chores yeah so a chore a chore as a noun a chore is a household task or perhaps you have office chores also but chores refers to those everyday maintenance tasks at your place of work or the place where you live so cleaning tasks or organizing tasks those are all chores those little daily things you need to do to make your life clean and tidy right so let's talk about some chore vocabulary and kind of expand on it a little bit and cover some questions that and some issues i see sometimes okay so first one is this one do the laundry to do laundry so sometimes people say do the laundry sometimes people say do laundry both are fine to use this the refers to the laundry in the house i guess if you want to be really specific so to do laundry we do not use like make laundry we don't really say clean laundry sometimes we do say wash clothes i need to wash my clothes one common issue i see a lot in the chat actually is a lot of uh speakers and a lot of uh learners use the word dress i think instead of using clothes so we don't say dress to mean all of our clothes we say clothes uh when we talk about this so we don't say i need to wash my dress no that's a dress is one specific uh part of our clothing yeah so please make sure to say clothes wash my clothes or do the laundry yeah so do the laundry includes all of this wash dry hang and fold wash dry hang and fold these are all included in do the laundry if you want to be specific you can say i need to wash my clothes i need to dry my clothes i need to hang my clothes i need to fold my clothes but usually we say do the laundry do the laundry okay all right so this is our first one if you have questions let me know okay next one is wash the dishes wash the dishes you may also hear do the dishes to do the dishes cannot use make here cannot use make make means to create something yeah so wash the dishes or do the dishes we typically do not say clean the dishes we might use clean for like one plate like hey can you please clean this plate it's dirty you might hear that but we almost always say this wash the dishes or do the dishes yeah okay i'm looking for your questions there are many people watching hello everybody watching make sure you like this okay let's go to the next one the next one is actually three verbs for the same uh the same chore the same task okay so we have clean and pickup and tidy clean pick up and tidy these are all verbs yeah so clean the and then the room i have room in brackets here so you can put in the room the living room the kitchen the bedroom the bathroom i need to clean the bathroom i need to pick up the bedroom i need to tidy the bathroom whatever so what's the difference in this case not much clean sounds very thorough so that means we are going to maybe do all the cleaning tasks in that room so i'm going to for example in a bedroom if i say i need to clean the bedroom maybe i'm going to wash my sheets and i'm going to wash the windows i'm going to do everything pick up the room sounds like maybe there are some clothes on the floor or maybe many objects in the room that don't belong in the room i'm going to organize it yeah so i'm going to pick up the room usually pick up the room means like there's stuff in the room on the floor or in the room that doesn't belong finally too tidy to tidy the room too tidy tidy is used more often in british english i feel but in american english we do sometimes use it to tidy the room is like the light the mini clean so we're not going to do deep cleaning of the room but we just want to a little a little maintenance to tidy the room so like i need to i need to pick up my room i've got some stuff around i need to put away some laundry that's always my task i always leave the laundry too long sergio says can we use cleaning to refer to all of these activities uh yes you can yes you can like if someone calls you and you're like ah i can't talk i'm cleaning my house perfect yes all of these refer to cleaning awesome sokun and no kalo i hope i said your names right said i tidy the bathroom or i need to tidy the bathroom and i tidy the bathroom every day nice i tidy make sure the bathroom every day yeah jonatha willian says what does folds mean uh to fold means when you wash after you wash your clothes your laundry you fold the clothes you fold the uh like your shirts or whatever to put them away somewhere okay okay let's go to the next one next is this group sweep mop and scrub the floor sweep mop and scrub the floor what is the difference so the difference is the tool so first the floor is the bottom of your house yeah the place where you walk that's your floor so we have three verbs here to sweep to mop and to scrub the floor sweep is with a broom yeah this motion so i'm going to sweep the floor so that's where you clean the big stuff like dirt or i don't know crumbs like small pieces of food the big stuff with this motion yeah we sweep then mop to mop so mop is a verb and a noun mop is the name of the tool we use and it's the verb we use so a mop is a wet kind of brush on a stick it's a mop so we clean the floor with a wet tool to make it clean yeah so final one is scrub scrub to scrub the floor this is the most intense floor cleaning i scrubbed my floor a couple days ago it was good so to scrub the floor means to use some like a cloth towel or something and cleaning supply cleaning water and you really on the floor like this with your towel so really really intensely cleaning the floor these are the three verbs we use to talk about floor cleaning to sweep the floor to mop the floor and to scrub the floor okay hollis nguyen says i'm learning this vocab in my el lesson at school oh that's so cool oh that's awesome so i hope this is good practice for you thanks for sharing that okay all right gennaro herreria says uh scrub is like deep cleaning yes we use scrub for like floors we also use scrub for like skin care yeah like it means a deep cleaning you have some like a product that you scrub in your face or you scrub on your skin it's like deep cleaning that's the feel with scrub you can use it for your car too like scrubbing your car clean okay cool uh awesome cesar says i must wash the dishes every day yes we must but sometimes we get lazy okay let's go on let's go on to the next one the next one is dust dust this is a verb and a noun to dust and dust so first let's look at the noun form dust is the really really really small pieces of like dirt fuzz it gathers on like a table or a shelf so when we i don't know i have no dust here i was cleaning i guess recently but when we have dust it's usually on the top of a table some place we did we have not touched recently so there's little dirt or fuzz or something here so to describe that when we find oh there's this dirt there's dust here we would say there's a lot of dust on the shelf there's a lot of dust on the shelf here it's used as a noun there's a lot of dust on the shell so maybe there's some dust on my shelf somewhere i should check this lesson makes me want to clean my house okay and we use dust as a verb to mean to clean dust yeah for example i dusted the shelf i dusted the shell so to dust as a verb means to remove dust yeah with like usually a wet towel or some other cleaning towel we usually do this motion we use dust to mean to remove dust i dusted the top of my tv yeah or i dusted the shelf yeah this means to remove dust someone on facebook i can't read your name i'm very sorry he says there are there are a lot of dust on my book close dust we use there is there is it's a singular or yeah it's we use this as a singular noun there's a lot of dust so like a mass noun yeah uncountable uncountable there is a lot of dust on my book okay nick nick says can i say the room is so dusty yes yes you can say that absolutely my house is so dusty my room is so dusty uh gabriel says when i need to use an iron on my clothes how do i say ah to express that yeah nice one i think there's a little space down here i'll add that there's a little space left so uh to iron clothes we use the verb iron to iron clothes yeah i'll talk about that last okay cool then let's go to the last two we have to take out the trash or to take out the garbage both are fine we use trash and garbage in american english if you're studying british english you might know rubbish to take out the rubbish yeah so to take out the trash so we usually say the trash to mean the trash in my house right now take out the trash okay nando says do you use the word debri in american english yes we use debris for american english but we use that to mean the small pieces of um like machine or maybe dirt and stuff like that usually like after an accident or after some kind of maybe like um like a fight like in war so we typically don't use debris in our house unless maybe unless maybe there's been a huge accident in the house like i don't know maybe i made a big like explosion in my kitchen then i might say oh there's debris everywhere it sounds really serious debris uh jonathan says can i say there is a plethora of dust on the table we would not say plethora plethora is usually used in more formal situations for like a huge amount of stuff like i think my favorite example is like a plethora of treasure in uh the egyptian king's tomb so we don't really use plethora very much in everyday speech but you can say um uh there's a lot of dust plenty of sounds kind of positive and dust is generally not a good thing okay oh my gosh um lee and anita hi says how about telling the kid to put the trash in the bin ah yeah good one so bin is another one we don't use bin in american english it's used in australian and i think in british english as well so you can yeah tell your kid put the trash in the bin yeah for sure or put the trash in american english we would say put your trash in the garbage can we use garbage can or trash can we don't say bin in american english okay phew great questions everyone let's go to the last one we just added to iron clothes to iron clothes so that's when you want to make your clothes smooth i have like a wrinkle in my shirt i didn't see it i started so we have this if we want to make this smooth we would say i need to iron my shirt so that's with the hot iron obviously on a surface to iron your clothes and if you have a steamer you say to steam your clothes that's when you have the hot iron and water inside to steam that's your sound effect okay phew that was a lot oh my gosh that's only part one we need to continue so let's go on to part two okay if you missed it i will show a screenshot uh and you can watch this live back later okay real quick super quick break if you missed it earlier there's free stuff for you from the link below the video if you're watching on youtube and above the video if you're watching facebook you can find vocabulary practice pdfs and some example dialogues this one's for beginners which one is this one ah this is the crush your goals sheet so if you need some help planning your goal you can do that so 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is more general like we use clean for a room yeah we use wash for like an object so like wash a window wash a dish uh wash clothes yeah um so there is some overlap between those two yeah but clean sounds more like a general thing we use for like a room okay uh all right we need to continue oh my gosh so let's talk about using your space with other people so uh part two is yeah communicating with the other people in your space like your roommates your family members your partner whatever so time alone i have time alone and time with other people so first let's talk about how to express when you want time alone or when you plan to take time alone okay first i'm gonna i'm going to i'm gonna take some time for myself i'm gonna take some time for myself so that means i am going to be alone now goodbye so i'm going to take some time for myself so you can use this at home i'm going to take some time for myself tonight like have a good evening you could say that to your roommate yeah it's maybe kind of maybe it's like a little bit serious sounding maybe you've used this when you feel stressed or really tired but if you want to express you need some alone time you can do this another one this is the key word i wanted to practice today i need to unwind i need to unwind i'm gonna take a bath i need to unwind i'm gonna take a bath okay what is un oh i'm gonna sneeze sorry okay unwind so this is a key word i wanted to introduce today u n w i n d to unwind what does this mean so on means not right so to wind something like when we wind something i'll use my hair as an example it's like this we twist something yeah we cause stress to that thing so when we unwind we relax right so unwind is a kind of casual way to say relax i need to unwind yeah i'm gonna take a bath i'm gonna take a bath so this is a good keyword yeah so uh unwind means release stress or relax chill out i need to unwind okay next is everybody can understand this one i think i just want to watch netflix i just want to watch netflix so this is a great response and the key here is this just yeah so this sentence is correct i want to watch netflix perfect sentence but when you feel tired like the end of the day you're stressed out you don't want to do anything really difficult you're just tired so you could say i just want to watch netflix that's the only thing i want to do or hulu or hbo or whatever whatever you like to watch i just want to watch netflix i don't want to think anymore i just want to watch youtube okay cool and then this one you can express you want just alone time or you want to just shut off everything with this i don't want to think about work school or anything right now i don't want to think about work school or anything right now okay so that's like saying no just i just want to be alone yeah i just want to shut down so shut down we use for computers we use it for people too okay then the other on the other side time with other people when you want to talk about spending time with the people you live with like your roommates your partner or your family members so do you want to make dinner together so uh an inquiry yeah do you want to make dinner together or do you want to make lunch together so this one do you want to blah blah together is a good way to make an invitation do you want to make dinner together that's how we say it at native speed do you want to becomes do you wanna do you wanna do you wanna make dinner together or we use these let's patterns let's watch a movie later let's watch a movie later or let's go to the park leader or let's play basketball later whatever you like to do okay let's do this later or let's do it now i suppose but later is nice for a suggestion later in the day okay cool let's go to the next one why don't we this is the pattern why don't we blah blah why don't we get some exercise to unwind why don't we get some exercise to unwind here's that unwind again yeah why don't we get some exercise in order to relax that's what this means why don't we get some exercise to unwind and finally let's have a relaxing night in let's have a relaxing night in this inn means at home yeah so the opposite is going out like to a restaurant or to a party or to a bar to a club right an exciting night out or a relaxing night in now let's have a relaxing night in maybe you can have an exciting night in if you have a big party at your house i guess but usually we say like an exciting night out and a relaxing night in okay cool that's it for part two we're oh my gosh i've talked so much i talked so much about part one oh my goodness let's go to part three then very very quickly uh and then we'll wrap up for this week okay so we're going back to we've talked about using your space when you want to be alone and with others cleaning your space now i want to talk about just some general use household expressions okay so if you haven't please please please make sure to hit the like button yeah it will help other people to share shahan says can you show pictures well please don't send lots and lots of messages in the chat yeah like i can i can read so let's have other people have a chance to to check the chat i i don't i can't put pictures for everything here yeah so let's continue on to the last part okay the last part here uh household expressions everybody has uh just kind of those things they say around the house yeah so some very common ones are related to cleaning yeah this place is a mess this place is a mess yeah so this place refers to your house or your apartment this place is a mess so when you need to clean something you can you can say it with this okay and then my house is squeaky clean my house is squeaky clean what is squeaky clean this is the common expression that we use squeaky clean refers to when something is very very clean oh maybe i can do it oh maybe i can't do it it squeaks i can't do it oh i can't do it when we when we touch like a car that's really clean it makes a squeaking sound oh i can't make it sound but when it's very very clean it's squeaky clean it's so clean it makes it sound it's very very clean okay all right then uh this next one is one we use when we feel happy about coming home it feels so good to be home it feels so good to be home so at the end of the day you're tired from work or from school you can come home and say it feels so good to be home or i'm so glad to be home okay cool all right onward next one i get a cleaning one i say this a lot maybe everybody does i really need to clean plus the object or the room so the object or like the item to clean like i really need to clean the kitchen oh no it's a mess i really need to clean the kitchen or i really need to clean the windows or i really need to clean the floor so you are maybe you're thinking out loud to yourself oh i really need to clean the windows look how dirty they are so you can use this when you talk to yourself yeah this is a really really good one you're thinking out loud yeah okay on to the next one uh this next one uh is for uh when you need something and you want to ask someone else to bring it to you this is a super super useful pattern i think i wanted to include this the pattern is can you bring me object it's location can you bring me that thing it's in the bathroom let's look at some examples of this and review some prepositions we'll do this to finish today's lesson okay first example is can you bring me the tape it's in the office can you bring me the tape it's in the office so a request to like your kid or your partner or whatever can you bring me the tape it's in the office another one more complex prepositions can you bring me my coffee it's in the kitchen on the counter can you bring me my coffee it's in the kitchen on the counter so here's my object can you bring me my coffee it's in preposition in the kitchen on the counter so we have two in that sentence it's in the kitchen on the counter okay all right finally can you bring me my laptop it's in the kitchen it's in my bag next to the table can you bring me my laptop it's in the kitchen it's in my bag next to the table so this is a good chance to practice your preposition yeah okay hhl says can you bring me the vacuum it's in the storeroom perfect very nice very nice okay uh all right others other questions i'm looking for your questions make a video on based on kitchen basic objects i think i have a top words video on youtube that's about uh kitchen objects i think i do so i do a search for like kitchen or cooking on the youtube channel i'm pretty sure it was a few years ago i'm pretty sure there's one okay uh nick nick says how about can you pass to me the sponge oh pass me something something yes you can use can so we don't say pass to me we use pass when we're at like a table yeah someone else can reach the object so if i say someone's over here i say can you pass me the marker they can reach the marker but i can't so pass is used when we're all together nobody has to go somewhere else to get the thing yeah so pass is used when the other person can reach across and get something for us joe sanchez hey one of our members says can you bring me my guitar perfect very nice others i need to clean my backyard because it is full of bushes juran dear bushes plural there yeah uh gemeshu says what is i hope i said that right gimmichu tadesa hi says what is the difference between bathroom and washroom oh bathroom is used in american english british english typically uh more often uses washroom yeah that's the difference you i mean there's no communication problem if you use washroom in america in english but we use a bathroom typically okay all right i have to finish i'm very late today that was a lot part one was long oh my gosh so we'll finish there for today um i'll show you today's lesson board so you can take a screenshot part one had lots of key vocabulary for chores i hope you can use that right away here is today's lesson info so take a screenshot we talked about chores your household tasks we talked about uh time alone how to express time alone or wanting time alone and uh wanting time with other people and we talked about basic household expressions so my place is a mess or my place is squeaky clean my place i need to i need to tidy my place that's what i'll do okay uh we'll end there for today but i'll be back next week next week next week where is next week's lesson information here it is okay next week we'll be back as always next week's lesson will be on september 22nd at 10 p.m eastern standard time that is new york city time wednesday night if you don't know your local time please google it or use uh youtube's notification facebook's notification or if you follow me on instagram i always share a link and a topic reminder in my stories next week i'm going to talk about how to use conditionals to talk about your dreams for the future yeah we haven't done a conditional lesson in a while so we're going to practice conditionals next week uh yeah so like if travel opens up again where do you want to go those kinds of things dreaming about the future with conditionals okay cool so we'll finish there for this week that was super awesome thanks for your great questions i love it when you guys send all these awesome questions in example sentences that was cool i hope you found something useful so i will say goodbye for this week i hope that you enjoyed this week's lesson uh enjoy the rest of your day uh don't forget to check out the free stuff from the link below the video or above the video all there's like i don't know 25 30 of these for free now go check it out if you haven't recently or if you never tried so check that stuff out get your free stuff there uh and if you want to find me on social media you can also find those links in the youtube description phew okay uh check all of that out and enjoy the rest of your day have a good weekend too and i will see you

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