(MY HOUSEHOLD CHORES/DUTIES)

1.

I think nobody likes it when his house is in a mess. Doing household

chores and keeping the house clean and cozy are necessary in every flat.

My parents work hard and they get rather tired after work. So it goes
without saying that they don’t have to manage all the housework and I
have to help them. Everyone in our family has some household chores.
But frankly speaking I must admit that my mother does the majority of
the housework. Some things must be done every day, others need to be
done once or twice a week (like watering the plants).

My daily chores are making my bed, washing up, tidying my room in

the evening, cleaning my shoes and taking out the rubbish. This is my
usual routine. I also pick up my little sister from the kindergarten.
Fortunately I don’t have to cook any food because my mum and granny
do that and they really enjoy cooking. I just sometimes help them and
serve the table. Once or twice a week my mother asks me to go shopping
to the nearest food supermarket. I usually buy some bread, milk, fruits
and vegetables.

Once a week, on Sundays my parents give the flat a big cleaning. There
is a lot of work to do: dusting the furniture, ironing the clothes, mopping
the floor, clearing out the bathroom and the kitchen. I am busy with
vacuum-cleaning the carpets in our bedrooms and cleaning the mirrors. 

I don’t consider my household chores difficult and I can cope with them
easily, but sometimes I feel a bit lazy or I may be too busy with my
school homework.

2.

My household chores

Doing household chores is a necessary part of our life. People all over th
e world try to work hard. They usually have a lot of duties. I have a lot o
f duties, too. My parents are often tired and I must take care of them. Ev
erybody is happy when the home is always bright and clean. Day after d
ay I can have fun when I do my household chores. I sweep the floor, tidy 
my room, clean the shoes, dust the furniture, make food myself and do e
very kind of work. It's not easy to do every kind of work at home, but I c
an learn to do everything myself.

When I do my household chores well, everybody in the family is happy. 
If I have a holiday party at home, I can help my mother and grandmother 
a lot. How happy mother is to see everything bright! It's a nice present fo
r my parents to tidy the house! It's wonderful to make people happy! If I 
have time, my mother asks me to go to the shop. I go there and buy brea
d, eggs and sugar. Very often I go to the market with my mother. We bu
y some vegetables and fruits. Then I help my mother to carry them. My 
mother cooks well; sometimes I help her when she makes cakes. She usu
ally makes them before holidays and on my birthday.

We have got a country house. There is a big garden with many trees, bus
hes and flowers in it. There is a lot of work in our garden and I help my 
parents to do it. We must do our household chores, because if we hadn't 
done it our flat would look like a trash can. I usually clean my flat on Fri
day. First of all I clean with duster table, piano, some boxes, TV, lamp a
nd many other things. At second I clean with vacuum cleaner carpet in 
my room, then I clean carpet in mother's and father's room. I usually was
h the floor in all rooms. Then I wash bath shell with "Pemolux". Later I 
wash stove with "Fairy".

Every day I must feed my cat. It is very big and fat. I cook a fish soup I t
o it. After supper I always wash plates and dishes. Sometimes I cook my
self, but my cookies up aren't so nice as mother's. I think I make an impa
ct in tiding our place. It is necessary to help the parents. Try to make peo
ple happy and you will be happy yourself.

3.

ТОПИК 1

There are certain things in life, which you have to do whether you like it
or not. One of such things is household chores, doing which is a
necessity. It’s what someone in the family has to do every day in spite of
his wish or desire. You can hardly find a person who doesn’t like
comfort, delicious food, clean and tidy clothes. All these things need
somebody’s attention and doing them is called housework.

They say that doing housework is boring and, besides, it takes a lot of
time with a hardly visible result. In my opinion the best way to do many
things about the house is by splitting the job among the family members.
If every member of the family does his bit about the house, then keeping
it isn t difficult or boring, and proves the proverb «Many hands make
light work». But it’s only in theory, and it may be different in practice.
Certainly I have some household chores. There are some things which I
can’t avoid doing. For instance, my regular chore is cleaning my room.
Generally, I do it once a week, on Sunday. I can’t say that I’m a messy
person, but as I am very busy during the week at school and doing my
homework in the afternoons, I hardly clean my room at all on weekdays
and that’s why by the end of the week it looks like a storehouse with
piles of books, cassettes, discs and my clothes on every chair. As a
matter of fact I usually like to have all my things at hand and I don’t
want to put them in their right places each time I have used them.
Another thing which I have to do daily is washing up. It has been my
duty for years.

Going on short shopping rounds for some foodstuffs is my favourite

chore. In fact it is the only thing which I like doing about the house.
When I am sick and tired of doing my homework I enjoy having a walk
outside and eating an icecream or a cake on the way. At present we are a
fairly large family by modern standards. There are six of us, and it
means a lot of housework to be done to make everyone feel more or less
pleased and contented.

Once a week my parents give the flat a big clean. If I am not very busy I
help them with it. While my parents are dusting the carpets outside I am
polishing the furniture and vacuum-cleaning. What I most hate doing
about the house is washing the windows, though I have to do it from
time to time. But we have agreed that it should be the father’s job.

I don’t do much washing as we have a washing machine. And I must

add here that I dislike ironing clothes, though I iron my own things.

There are some other things I also do about the house, but they are
occasional. I think that I should mention here the role of technical
progress in making housework easier. On TV they advertise a lot of
things for it from washing powders to washing machines and liquid
vacuum-cleaners. That’s all very well, but not all families can afford
them as most quality things are really expensive. And in the XXI
century it’s already impossible to imagine our life without automatic,
electric and electronic appliances which make the housework better and
faster. Some scientists even say that computers will one day replace man
in all household chores and I hope that in some time it will be enough
just to press a button to have your housework done and you may sit
comfortably in an armchair and relax. But at present il’s the mother’s
hands that make my life pleasant and cosy at home.

ТОПИК 2

I am a boy and though I like delicious food and clean shirts I must admit
that I hate housework though I have to do some things about the house
almost every day.

As for our family we are considered to be a fairy large one because there
are 5 of us sharing a three-room flat and of course there is a lot of work
to be done every day like cleaning, cooking, shopping and so on. The
best way in my opinion to do all the chores is by splitting them among
the family members. Hut it’s only in theory. In practice all the
housework is the burden on the mum’s shoulders. Firstly because my
father is very busy as he has to support the family and he prefers having
a rest in front of the TV set or playing with the younger children alter
the hard day at work rather than washing up or doing the flat. Our
father’s special duty is going shopping. He does it with pleasure and our
family is always provided with a great amount of all necessary and
unnecessary food.

My brother and sister are too small to be helpful with doing housework.
Instead they make a big mess everywhere as they can’t stay in one and
the same place for more than a minute. Our little ones are very restless,
more naughty than they should be. And when the two of them are
playing they make a hell of the house which of course drives our mother
mad because she is the only person to do the rooms afterwards.

As for me I haven’t got a room for myself, so all my stuff is scattered

about the flat. I like to have all my things at hand and I think that it’s
only a waste of time to put things in their right places each time I’ve
used them. So my mother does it. Unfortunately we have different views
on this problem. She is crazy about having the place clean and tidy with
everything in its right place. So when I come home from school I have
to apply all my enthusiasm and quick wit to find the things I need.

Generally speaking, I can’t say that I am absolutely set against

household chores but eventually it turns out to be like that. But
nevertheless I have to wash up and to do some other work about the
house. And my personal duty is to take care of the dog which in its turn
demands much time and patience but I must say it’s the most pleasant
and at the same time responsible housework I do every day, and here I
must add as well that occasionally I assist my father in doing the
shopping, help my mother when she starts giving the flat a big clean. I
also sometimes go on short shopping rounds for small things but I
seldom wash clothes or the windows or iron bed linen.

Frankly speaking, I’m not at all keen on housework. It never looks

encouraging to me though I have to do it from time to time.