Shadowing Practice: Free English Class! Topic: Cleaning! ๐งน๐งบ๐๏ธ (Lesson Only) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about cleaning.
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I'm not sure this is going to be everyone's favorite topic.
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I mean you'll probably enjoy learning the words but cleaning isn't something that everyone enjoys doing.
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Uh but in this English lesson I'll teach you some words and phrases that you can use to talk about cleaning.
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Um we usually do cleaning a little bit every day and then a lot more on Saturdays so it'll
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of you when you do your cleaning and
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if you're wondering what I mean by cleaning I'm talking about cleaning your house or cleaning your apartment.
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So that's going to be the focus of today's English lesson.
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We'll talk about the English words
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and phrases you need to to know to be able to talk about cleaning your house or apartment.
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So how do we talk about cleaning the house?
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Well, we use the phrase to clean the house.
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This is the general term we use when we talk about picking up after ourselves, washing things, getting everything tidy.
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Sometimes your house gets messy and you need to clean your house.
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Sometimes you need to clean the apartment.
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We clean our house to a certain degree every day
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and we clean it a lot better every Saturday but the time
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when we clean the house the best is when we know people are coming over.
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When we know we are going to have guests.
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Uh we do a really good job of cleaning the house but that's the phrase we use in English.
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We say oh I need to clean the house.
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My mum is coming over tomorrow.
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I need to clean the house.
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My brother -in -law and sister -in -law are coming over tomorrow.
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And we usually do this because the house is a mess.
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I'm not sure if you are a messy person.
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I'm kind of a messy person. So I.
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try to keep things clean but when I'm busy I'm definitely a messy person
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and then the house is a mess and this is how you would describe your house or apartment.
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If you're a little before you clean it, you would say, oh, I need to clean my apartment.
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It is a mess.
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I need to clean my house.
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It is a mess.
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So you notice we say the house is a mess.
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You could also say the house is messy.
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That would work as well.
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And if it's really bad, we say the house is a disaster.
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Don't come over right now, mom.
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The house is a disaster.
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We need to clean the house first.
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If you have little kids.
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This is usually true.
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In fact, after you clean your house, if you have little kids, just wait a few hours and then the house will be a disaster again.
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So two ways we describe a messy house as we say the house is a mess.
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house is messy or the house is a disaster.
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And again you can use the possessive.
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My house is a disaster.
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Our house is a disaster.
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During the summer.
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Um our house is sometimes a disaster because Jen and I are very very busy.
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And then when you get to the specifics you might need to clean a specific part of the house.
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For kids usually we say you need to clean your room.
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I also have this room.
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This is my studio and it's kind of our living room.
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And so we refer to this as my room.
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So sometimes I'll say I need to clean my room because I have a visitor coming over.
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In fact the person who edits my videos visited in June.
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And so I said to Jen I because I don't want my editor to think I'm a messy person.
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But when your room is a mess, when your room is a disaster, you need to clean.
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your room.
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And sometimes your house isn't really messy.
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It's just a little bit messy.
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just need to straighten up.
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So when you straighten up it means like this person you put all the books in order.
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Maybe there's a cup and a plate on your desk in your office at home.
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You would bring that to the kitchen sink.
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Um maybe there's just a few things on the counter in your kitchen and you put them in the cupboard.
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But when you say straighten up it means that your isn't a total disaster.
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It's relatively tidy and neat already and you just need to arrange a few things
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and we have another phrase we use tidy up.
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So you might just need to tidy up a little bit.
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Uh this again means that maybe there's a few books out.
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Maybe there's a couple things on your kitchen table.
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Um when you tidy up or when you straighten up, it usually only takes about five or ten minutes.
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Maybe you
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by your entrance way or maybe you just put them all nice
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and straight but sometimes you know that people are coming over and you'll say don't come right away.
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I just need to tidy up or I just need to straighten up the house a little bit. And some specifics.
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And I'm trying to put together phrases with verbs
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and the thing the verb is modifying so that you can hear an English speaker say it.
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Sometimes you just need to sweep the floor.
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We sweep the floor after supper every night in the kitchen
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and we sweep the floor in our entrance way and other places usually once a week.
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But sometimes there's just a little bit of stuff on the floor and you need to sweep the
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you need to mop the floor.
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When you mop the floor you get some soap and water.
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Some people use vinegar and water.
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Some people use bleach and water.
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Some people use some sort of cleaner mixed with water.
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But you will use a mop and you will stick it in the bucket
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and get it wet and then you will mop the floor.
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After you mop the floor the floor is usually just a little bit wet for a while.
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So when you sweep the floor it's But when you mop the floor, it's more of a wet activity.
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You are making the floor a little bit wet.
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as you clean it.
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And then you might need to do the dishes or wash the dishes.
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We do the dishes after supper every night.
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We sometimes do the dishes after breakfast.
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It depends on the time of year.
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Yesterday I did the dishes three times.
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I did the dishes after breakfast.
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I did the dishes after lunch and I did the dishes after supper.
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Um and I didn't have any help because Jen and the kids were all very very
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for a few days and then you have to do two days worth of dishes.
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And that could be a little bit annoying.
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Thank you.
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Sometimes you want to wash the windows.
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This is something I need to do in my house because for some reason the windows are getting a little bit dirty.
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This isn't something people do every week necessarily.
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Some people might.
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Uh in our house, we wash the windows once or twice a year and I'll be honest,
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there's some windows in the second story that we've never washed but I should wash them someday.
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Um if you haven't washed your windows recently, you should wash your windows surprised.
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about how much easier it is to see through the windows, especially if you live in the city.
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And sometimes you just need to shake out a rug, shake out the rug or shake out the mat.
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And you're going to have to shake we have a mat a welcome mat outside our front door.
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We also have a small rug inside of our front door in our entrance way.
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And once a week we will take out that little rug
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and we'll take it outside and we will shake out the rug.
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Um and then we'll vacuum it afterwards
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but we usually shake it out outside first because it has little pieces of mud or stone or other things on it.
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So it's nice to go outside and shake out the rug.
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and sometimes you need to clean the bathroom my least favorite job in the world is cleaning the toilet
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But when you clean the bathroom, you will clean the mirror, you will clean the countertop, you will clean the sink, you will clean the toilet, you will clean the shower,
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you will clean the bathtub if that's what you have.
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So certainly when you want to clean your house, you will clean the bathroom.
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You might do the laundry.
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So part of keeping your house clean is to regularly do the laundry.
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Or you could say wash your clothes.
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I need to wash my clothes.
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The most common phrase for me is to say I need to do the laundry.
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This means getting all of your socks and underwear and pants
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and shirts and putting them in a washing machine and then washing them using laundry detergent.
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We do laundry quite often.
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In fact, we do laundry almost every other day.
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We do a load of laundry because there are six people living in this house.
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So there is a lot of laundry to do.
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And then you might put the laundry in a dryer.
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You might have a dryer in your house, but we hang up the laundry.
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So we put the laundry outside on a line and it dries in the sun and in the wind.
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In the winter, we hang our clothes up.
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Uh we hang up the laundry inside and it dries in our house inside of our house.
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And sometimes you need to wipe the table.
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So the action you take when you clean the table is you will wipe the table.
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You will get a damp cloth.
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You might say wet cloth but usually you make a cloth wet
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and then you wring it out so that it's only damp.
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You don't want the cloth to be dripping water or soapy water.
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So you wipe the table with a damp cloth.
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A few actions that you take when cleaning you might need to scrub.
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When we use the word scrub we mean to use a brush and to rub something really hard back and forth.
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This person is scrubbing the floor.
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Uh you could scrub with a cloth as well.
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Sometimes you'll get a face cloth and you'll scrub a kid's face if they are really dirty or muddy.
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Um but usually heart and you scrub.
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All right sometimes you dust so you will use a duster in order to dust this lady is dusting
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and she is using a duster.
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So we have the verb to dust
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and then we have the object you use the duster and I'll talk about that a bit later.
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But yes, as you go through time, there's just dust everywhere.
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Like there's dust on my computer right now.
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There's a bit of dust.
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So I need to dust my office. And vacuum.
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So the verb to vacuum.
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You get a vacuum cleaner.
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And you turn it on.
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It makes a lot of noise and it sucks all of the dirt and other things into it.
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And when you're done, the floor is clean.
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So you might say I need to vacuum the floors in my house.
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and I need to take care of that.
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A few people that do cleaning.
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So Jen and I don't have a house cleaner.
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In my part of the world in English, a person who cleans a house is called a house cleaner.
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Uh I know a couple of people who are house cleaners.
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They're they clean other people's houses and they get paid for it.
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You might also see the word housekeeper or made.
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We don't use the word housekeeper in this area.
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Um but they might in other English speaking parts of the world.
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And we don't use the word made anymore.
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Um we tend to use the word house cleaner or the term house cleaner.
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So this person is probably someone who is paid to clean this house.
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This person is a house of to have a house cleaner.
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But I think it's better for Jen and I
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and our kids to clean our own house
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because number one it doesn't cost anything
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and number two I think it's important for kids to learn how to clean up after themselves.
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A person who works at a business though could be called a janitor or a custodian.
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At school we have a janitor and their job is to keep the school clean.
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Um I don't know the exact difference between janitor and custodian.
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Some people will call that person a custodian.
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Some people will call that person a janitor.
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So a person who cleans, a business or a school or another building.
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You might have someone who is a window washer.
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Their only job is that they wash windows.
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They might wash windows on skyscrapers.
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That would scare me.
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You need to go really high up in the air with ropes to clean the windows.
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You can also see this person is using what's called a squeegee and I'll talk about that in a little bit.
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But the person who cleans windows is a window washer.
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You can also have your carpets clean.
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So you can have a person who's called a carpet cleaner come and clean your carpets.
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They will use a machine called a carpet cleaner and they will use a product called carpet cleaner.
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So I thought this was kind of funny.
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Sometimes people will have their carpets professionally cleaned.
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They will pay a company to come with special machines called carpet cleaners.
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Um so the carpet cleaner will come with a carpet cleaner to clean your carpets.
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You can also rent a carpet cleaner.
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You can go to a rental store.
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They even have these at the grocery store and you can rent a machine called a carpet cleaner and you
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And you will use something called carpet cleaner when you clean your carpets.
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So if you use a machine like this, you might actually have this as well.
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Yeah.
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Let's talk a little bit about the things you use to clean
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and I'm gonna go rather quickly through this section because I think it's fairly straightforward English vocabulary.
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This is a mop.
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You use a mop with a pail and with some soapy water to mop the floor and we talked about this earlier.
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So a mop is a wet way to clean the floor.
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When you use a mop, you might use a bucket or pail.
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We use either word.
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I need a bucket.
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I need a pail.
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I'm going to mop the floor.
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Where's the bucket?
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Where's the pail?
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Thank you.
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You might wear cleaning gloves.
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I usually don't wear cleaning gloves when I clean.
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I usually just use a cloth and clean but when I clean the toilet sometimes I wish I had cleaning gloves.
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In fact, I might buy some.
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Some people will wear cleaning gloves whenever they clean.
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They will wear cleaning gloves to keep their hands.
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clean while they clean.
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Thank you.
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And you might have a vacuum cleaner.
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A vacuum cleaner again is used to vacuum the floors.
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So this is a vacuum cleaner.
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In fact this is one of the vacuum cleaners we have at school.
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I'm not sure why his name is Henry but this is a vacuum cleaner.
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and the vacuum cleaner will have attachments depending on what you are vacuuming you might put a small attachment
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or a nozzle attachment or a small brush attachment there are lots of different attachments
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that you can use when you are using the vacuum cleaner.
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You in the vacuum cleaner there is a filter so you might need to change the vacuum cleaner filter.
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Although someone mentioned earlier something called a Dyson vacuum cleaner.
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We have a Dyson vacuum cleaner and there are no vacuum cleaner bags or filters that you have to worry about.
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It's kind of cool.
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You might use a duster and we saw a picture of someone dusting earlier.
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So again you will use a duster to dust.
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So you will dust using a duster.
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It's nice to get all of the dust off of everything.
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When you do dishes, you will most likely use a dish brush.
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Some people will use a cloth when they do dishes.
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Some people will use a dish brush.
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Some people will use a sponge when they do dishes.
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So when we do the dishes, we use a dish brush.
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I know I've been to other people's houses where they use something called a sponge.
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When they do the dishes, all of these things are great little tools to use.
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when you are trying to keep your house clean.
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When you sweep you use a broom.
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You might also have a dustpan to go with the broom.
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So you sweep the floor with the broom and
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when you have all of the stuff that you've swept up in one spot you get a dustpan.
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You get a dustpan.
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You get a dustpan and then you sweep it into the dust pan.
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So different than a mop, a broom is used.
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Um it's a dry way to sweep to clean the floor.
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So you would use a broom, put everything in dust pan and then dump the dust pan.
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into the garbage or another place.
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There's another thing called a Swiffer.
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We do not have a Swiffer but this has become very common in a lot of people's houses.
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A Swiffer I'm not sure if you can see it.
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That's not the greatest.
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It's a small.
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It's a small.
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It's a small.
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It's a
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but it's kind of like a mop
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but it has a built -in container of cleaning solution
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and you can pull the trigger and squirt it on the floor and then sweep it up.
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It's kind of like a modern mop I guess I would call it.
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Um I think that uh using a Swiffer would be cool but we don't have one.
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We just mop the floor.
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That seems to work best for us.
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I've mentioned squeegee a couple of times in this lesson.
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I had to check five times if I was spelling this correctly.
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This is how you spell squeegee.
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This is how you spell squeegee.
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This A squeegee is a thin...
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probably rubber tool with a handle that you use
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when you're cleaning glass or a mirror and it helps you to wipe away the water and soap.
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So that is a squeegee.
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Squeegee.
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It's probably a hard word to say for some of you but when you clean windows it's nice to have a squeegee.
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Sometimes you'll just use a cloth.
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You might just call it a a a kitchen cloth, a cleaning cloth, but it's usually we just say cloth.
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I'm going to use a cloth to clean the counter.
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I'm going to wipe the table with a cloth.
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Maybe you'll just use rags.
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Jen and I keep rags in our bathroom cupboard.
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Usually our rags are from old t shirts.
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When we have a t -shirt that gets a hole in it, we'll cut it up into rags and we will use the rags to do some cleaning.
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if I was going to wash my car I might grab a few rags to wash my car.
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So rags usually are just old.
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pieces of clothing that you use for cleaning.
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Sometimes you might use paper towels.
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So we have paper towels in our kitchen.
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We don't use them very often but if someone spills some milk
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or spills some orange juice we will grab a paper towel
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and we will wipe up the spill and then we usually put the paper towels in the compost because they are compostable.
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So we don't throw them in the garbage if we use them.
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And we just have something called cleaner.
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This is the general term for anything you use to clean.
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You might use water.
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You might use soap and water or you might use something like this.
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This is Mr. Clean or Monsieur Net.
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En Francais.
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Monsieur Net.
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See it must be a Canadian package.
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Mr. Clean.
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This is a product that has some cleaning chemicals in it and it usually smells like lemon.
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I think you can see the lemons on Thank you container.
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Yes, right under his face are some lemons.
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But yes, you will use a cleaner to clean your house.
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Um, I forgot to mention toilet brush when I was talking about things you use.
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A toilet brush is a special brush that you use to clean the toilet.
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So we have a toilet brush beside each toilet.
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We have two toilets in our house, two bathrooms.
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And we use the toilet brush to clean our toilet.
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and we use toilet bowl cleaner to clean our toilet.
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So this is a special type of cleaner.
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So you might have a general purpose cleaner or an all purpose cleaner.
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But this is a specific cleaner made for cleaning toilets.
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And this is exactly the kind we use.
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We usually buy a pack of four and it takes us about a year to get through them.
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But we use toilet bowl cleaner to clean our toilets.
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Um when you wash your car, you might use a car brush, a special brush designed for cleaning your car.
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Um we don't usually wash our vehicles.
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If we do, we actually go to a car wash. in town.
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Not the kind you drive through though.
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This is a car wash that you drive through or it pulls your vehicle through.
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We go to a car wash where they just have some car brushes and some pressure washers.
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Some special hoses that you can use.
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But again we don't wash our vehicles very often.
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Sometimes we go down a muddy road and we might go and wash our car after that.
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So car wash and then last slide here what we all love Even if we don't like cleaning,
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I think everyone loves a house that is neat and tidy.
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I said this a couple of times in this lesson.
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I don't like cleaning.
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But I love the feeling I get when I'm done cleaning.
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I like a house that's neat and tidy.
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When my desk where I work is neat and tidy, I'm happy.
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When the kitchen is neat and tidy, I'm happy.
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So like a day like yesterday, I worked really hard to keep the kitchen neat and tidy all day because I knew I had to make breakfast,
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lunch, and supper for my kids because Jen was gone.
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And so I kept it neat and tidy.
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