Name: 70 Cleaning Vocabulary Words: Expand Your English Vocabulary
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Hi. I'm Vanessa with SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.
Do you like cleaning? Let's talk about it.

Do you love cleaning? Is it your dream to
do the dishes and take out the trash? Okay,

Adverbs of manner

probably not, but these are necessary parts
of daily life. Today you're going to learn

how to explain over 30 common household chores.
The word chore means a necessary cleaning

activity. Maybe when you were a kid your parents
made a chore chart and you had to check off

the various chores whenever you finished them,
or maybe they just said, "Doing chores is

a necessary part of daily life, so do them."
Now that you're an adult, they definitely

are. You're invited to my mother-in-law's
house to clean. Today I'm going to be showing

you around her house and we're going to be
cleaning around it using these important expressions.

All right. Let's get started with some daily
household chores. Good morning. It's time

to make the bed. Maybe I'll put the pillows
here at the top. I got to pull up the sheets,

pull up the comforter, put some decorative
pillows up. Looks pretty good.

Now it's time to change the sheets. All right.
I'll probably take the pillowcases off. Got

to wash the pillowcases. Take the comforter
off. Take the flat sheet, take that off the

bed. Take the fitted sheet off the bed, and
I got to put some new sheets the bed after

that.
Next, I got to scrub down the tub and the

shower. I'll probably use a rag, maybe some
kind of cleaning solution, and scrub the walls,

scrub the tub, get around the bottom of the
drain. The drain is where the water goes down.

Maybe I'll clean the shower head, I'll clean
the faucet. All of these are important parts

when you're cleaning out your tub.
Next is everyone's favorite thing, cleaning

the toilet. We could use the verb scrub, just
like we used with the tub and the shower.

You might first start by lifting the lid,
then taking a scrub brush, scrubbing around

a little bit, and then you might pour some
kind of cleaning solution into the toilet

bowl, letting it sit for a little while, scrubbing
it out. You might scrub around the toilet

bowl. Maybe you'll scrub behind the toilet
bowl, making sure that everything is clean.

We have so much laundry in our hamper. It's
time to do the laundry. The first step is

to take your dirty clothes, take them out
of the hamper. The hamper is usually that

thing that you use to carry your dirty laundry
in your bedroom, or maybe in your bathroom.

We got to load the laundry into the washing
machine.

Now, we can use two different verbs for this.
We could just simply say, "Put laundry into

the washing machine." Put. Or, we could say,
"Load the washing machine. I need to load

the washing machine." It means you're putting
stuff in, so I'm loading things in. What do

you think happens when it's all done? Let's
imagine it's finished washing. Well, you need

to unload, unload the washing machine. Great.
There's a couple items that we use. This is

washing detergent. Usually we use the word
detergent to talk about the soap that you

put into the washing machine. You put the
soap into the washing machine.

Then, when it's done you have two different
options. One option is you might hang it on

a clothesline. A clothesline is a rope, and
you might hang it on the rope to dry usually

outside, or you might have a clothes rack.
This is just one piece of metal or wood that

you hang your wet clothes on to dry.
Here in the U.S. it's most common to have

a dryer. It's pretty interesting why some
other countries don't use dryers. I'm curious

in your country do you have a dryer? Do you
use a dryer often? In the U.S. it's often

used. It's used almost every single time.
As you can see, these are huge machines. These

are not small. I know other countries I've
lived in you have a small washer. Maybe it's

a washer dryer combo together, but in the
U.S. they're pretty big.

Then, we'll take the clothes, we'll unload
the washer, and we'll put them into the dryer.

Here we have a front-loading dryer. That means
you load the dryer from the front, so if you

need to buy a dryer or washer in the U.S.
you'll definitely hear these terms, front-loading

dryer. Maybe you have a front-loading washer,
but this is a top-loading washer. Those are

just some very specific terms about washers
and dryers.

There's a couple of other items that some
people use when they're drying things in the

dyer. You might use dryer sheets. These are
just little sheets. They're supposed to help

your clothes get softer. Dan and I ... I don't
think we've ever used these. Some people feel

like it's essential. We don't use them, but
it's just personal preference.

What happens after the laundry is finished
drying? You need to fold the laundry, or fold

the clothes and put them maybe in a drawer
or put them in the laundry basket. Then we

can take that to the bedroom or where you're
going to put them away. We say fold the laundry

or fold the clothes, and then put it away.
It's a great phrasal verb for cleaning. Put

it away.
Whose job it is it in your house to prepare

the meals? We might say "Prepare the meals,"
or before you prepare a meal you might need

to make a meal plan. Some people do this.
It means that you write down Monday through

Sunday and you decide what am I going to eat
on Monday? I'm going to eat spaghetti. What

am I going to eat on Tuesday? Tuesday I'm
going to eat fish tacos.

Then, you write down each day so that when
you go grocery shopping, which is another

chore, you can easily decide all of the things
that you need to buy and you don't need to

keep going back.
I'm curious, do you make a meal plan? Who

prepares the meals at your house? After you've
finished preparing the meal, maybe after you

finished eating your meal, you need to wipe
down the counters, or we could say the kitchen

counters.
This is a kitchen counter, so we need to wipe

it down. This phrasal verb, wipe down, is
useful for almost any room. You can wipe down

the kitchen counter, you can wipe down the
bathroom counter. You could wipe down the

kitchen table. You can wipe down a lot of
surfaces. It just means you have a wet cloth

and you are wiping that surface.
What do you have to do after you cook? You

got to wash the dishes. You might use a rag,
like this, or you might use some kind of steel

wool, depending on how tough the dishes are.
Or, you might use a scrub brush or you might

use a sponge. My mother-in-law doesn't have
a sponge here, but you might use a sponge.

You might use a rag like this.
After you wash them with some soap, or some

dish soap we could call it, you have a couple
options. You might air dry them, so we could

put them on the drying rack. Put them on the
drying rack means you just set the things

here to dry and let the air dry them, or,
if you're extra lucky you might have a dishwasher.

It's true, my mother-in-law has a dishwasher,
so you can load the dishwasher. It's the same

verb that we use for the clothes in the washer
in the dishwasher. We don't call this simply

the washer. We always call it the dishwasher,
because the washer is for clothes and the

dishwasher is for dishes, for things that
you use for eating.

You might put them on the top shelf, maybe
the bottom shelf. Maybe you put them in the

silverware rack at the bottom, and you load
up the soap, the detergent in here, and turn

it on and it's done. So easy. If you don't
have a dishwasher you have to wash them by

hand and you need to set them in the drying
rack. You've got two options. What do you

use at your house?
Whose job is it in your house to take out

of the trash? Maybe this is something that
you do every day, maybe it's something that

you do weekly. If I can figure out how to
get my mother-in-law's trash, aha. I did it,

open. Maybe it's something that you need to
do weekly. Maybe it's something that you need

to do daily. You need to take the trash bag
out of the trash can. Maybe you put it in

a dumpster, maybe you put in a bin outside,
but you need to take the trash bag out.

If you're already taking out the trash you
should probably take out the recycling, too.

This is another great phrasal verb. We use
phrasal verbs a lot for household chores.

Take out the trash, take the trash out, or
take the recycling out, take out the recycling.

What about your refrigerator? Or, we can call
it just a fridge. There might be a couple

things that you do. The first simple step
might be to simply wipe down, using that great

phrasal verb, wipe down the fridge.
It means inside you're just wiping the surfaces,

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