D2 - Speak: Housework

D2 - Speak: Housework

Part 1

Housework

  • Do you do housework at home?
  • What kinds of housework do you often do?
  • Did you do housework when you were a child?
  • Do you think that children should do housework?
  • Do you think that men and women should share housework?
  • What kinds of household chores do you dislike doing?

Tidy

  • Are you a tidy person?
  • How do you keep things tidy?
  • Do you think people should be tidy all the time?
  • Would you like your home to be tidier in the future?

Casual Talk

  • Gender stereotypes? Who is the main person to do the housework?
  • Does people outsoure housework?
  • Quarterly/Annual Cleaning?
    • Taiwanese do annually housework before the Lunar New Year

Vocabularies

Notes

hate = despise, miserable

  • I despised doing dishes. For that reason, I bought a dish washer.
  • What a miserable existence! How could anyone live in such awful conditions?

tidy = well kept, neat, organized, spick and span
-> tidiness, cleanliness
<=> untidy, dirty, disorderly, messy, clutter

  • He was astonished to find nice streets and well-kept houses.
  • My father was always very particular about cleanliness and tidiness.
  • keeping my belongings organised and surroundings spic and span is my habit

Housework:

  • do the dishes
  • dust the furniture
  • sweep the floor.
  • mopthe floor.
  • vacuum the carpet
  • scrub the kitchen and bathroom.

Children do chores:

  • teaches the sense of responsibility
  • not be spoiled

Gender stereotypes of only women doing housework.

  • They should share the responsibilities
  • takes the pressure off
  • housewife should get paid. -> Housekeeper

How and Why:

  • mindless activity
  • live a comfortable life
  • do a deep clean every two weeks, but keep
  • tidying up during the week.
  • smart household appliance and automatic device will be more commonplace
  • sometimes we have to compromise with tidiness.
  • not be able to focus much on cleanliness which is acceptable in that circumstance.
  • We oppose capital punishment in/under any circumstances.
  • Under no circumstances should children (= children should not) do housework alone.
  • The meeting has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control.
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