A good housewife, as a rule, rises early ___ the morning. First ___ all she makes a fire ___ the stove and then begins to make coffee and get breakfast ready. ___ the time the breakfast is ready, her husband and children are ___ too.
Breakfast is over, but her work is not; it has only just begun. While the eldest daughter attends ___ the children, she tidies the rooms. She sweeps the floors, makes the beds, dusts the furniture, etc. When everything ___ the house is quite neat and ___ good order, she goes marketing and buys provisions ___ the day. After that she begins to prepare lunch. When she sits ___ to lunch ___ midday, she feels fairly tired, and yet the day holds some more fatigue ___ reserve ___ her. There is a dinner to be cooked, but as it happens to be washing-day, there is a bundle ___ clothes to be washed and dried. The ironing and mending is generally done ___ evenings. Now that the washing is done, there comes the dinner to be prepared. It must be ready ___ the time father comes ___home from his work ___ six o’clock.
While father smokes his pipe ___ dinner, she clears the table and washes ___ the dishes. And that is not all. ___ a short while the smaller children are to be washed and put ___ bed. It’s only late in the evening that she manages to sit ___ ___ the armchair, but not to rest. There are the socks and stockings to be darned and clothes to be mended. She takes ___ her workbox ___ her scissors, reels ___ cotton and silk thread, pins and needles, caps her middle finger ___ her thimble, and down she gets to mending the clothes, putting ___ a patch here and sewing ___ a rent there. The evening has far advanced ___ the night and everything is quiet ___ the house. Even father has long ago put ___ his evening newspaper and gone ___ bed, but mother is still ___ work – ___ first, she goes ___ bed last.
Speaking
Write instructions to leave with the removal men who are helping you to move house. Tell them where everything is at the moment and where you would like it in your new home. Warn them about any particularly important or fragile articles.
Keeping your room tidy
(essential vocabulary)
To be keen on neatness
Spring cleaning
to clean the mess in one’s room
to turn out one’s room
to do one’s room/ to clean up
To put the things where they belong
To tidy up
to do the dishes/ to wash up
To make things tidy
To dust
To beat the dust out of smth
To beat (a carpet)
To mop (up)
to wash/ to launder
Laundry
To do the laundry
To dry the laundry
To iron the laundry
To dry-clean
To polish the furniture
To sweep the floor
to vacuum-clean/ to hoover carpets
To air the room
it takes me...... minutes/ hours to do the room
Everything is spick and span
To be in ship-shape order
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