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HOUSEHOLD CHORES 🍽️🛟🚗🏫🔆🔴🔓📢

🏠 What Are Household Chores?

Household chores are the daily tasks we do to keep our home clean, organized, and comfortable.

🧩 Common Household Chores

Category Chores Example Sentences

🧼 Cleaning
🏠sweep the floor, mop the floor, dust the furniture, vacuum the carpet, clean the windows
🥫 I sweep the floor every morning.

🧺 Laundry
wash the clothes, hang the clothes, fold the clothes, iron the clothes

🏫 She irons the clothes on Sundays.

🍽️ Kitchen

🔴wash the dishes, cook the meals, clean the stove, set the table, clear the table, take out the trash
🔆He takes out the trash every night.

🛏️ Bedroom

🛟 make the bed, change the
sheets, tidy up the room

🔆I make my bed before going to school.

🌿 Outdoor

💐 water the plants, mow the lawn, clean the yard, feed the pets
🔆They water the plants every afternoon.

📋 Useful Expressions-Expression Example

Do the dishes
🔆 I do the dishes after dinner.
Do the laundry
🔆She does the laundry on weekends.
Make the bed
🔆He makes his bed every morning.
Take out the trash
🔆Don’t forget to take out the trash!
Clean up
🔆Let’s clean up the kitchenp
Drop off
🔆Drop off the dry cleanning

👍 Grammar Tip

When talking about chores, we often use simple present tense because they are routine actions.

💎Example:

I wash the dishes every day.

She cleans her room on Saturdays.

There IS - there are
Perfect 👍 Here are the rules and formulas for using There is / There are clearly explained:

🧩 1. Basic Rule

Use “there is” for singular and uncountable nouns.
Use “there are” for plural nouns.

🧠 2. Formulas

✅ Affirmative (Positive)

Formula Example

There is + singular noun There is a cat on the chair.
There are + plural noun There are two cats on the chair.
There is + uncountable noun There is milk in the fridge.

❌ Negative-Formula Example

There isn’t + singular noun There isn’t a cat on the chair.
There aren’t + plural noun There aren’t any cats on the chair.
There isn’t + uncountable noun There isn’t any milk in the fridge.

❓ Interrogative (Question) Formula Example

Is there + singular noun? Is there a cat on the chair?
Are there + plural noun? Are there any cats on the chair?
Is there + uncountable noun? Is there milk in the fridge?

🗣️ 3. Short Answers

Question Short Answer

Is there a park? Yes, there is. / No, there isn’t.
Are there any apples? Yes, there are. / No, there aren't.

💡 4. Key Points

Use “any” in questions and negatives:
→ Are there any students? / There aren’t any students.

Use “some” in affirmative sentences:
→ There are some books on the desk.

“There’s” = short form of “There is”
→ There’s a cat outside