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My household duties. Прочитайте и переведите Текст. Выполните задание После текста 2. . Dividing up chores
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MY HOUSEHOLD DUTIES
Прочитайте и переведите текст. Выполните задание после Текста 2.
This is my last year at school and I work hard to pass my final exams successfully. As I am very busy I can't help my parents much in keeping house.
But still I have some household duties. Every day I do my room and my bed, wash up dishes, dust the furniture and take out the rubbish. It is also my duty to buy bread and milk. I usually go to the baker's after I have dinner. I buy some brown and white bread, biscuits and cakes there. The shop is not far from our house and it doesn't take me long to do everyday shopping.
Once a week I help my mother to do all other work about the house. We wash our linen, iron and mend it, clean the flat. We beat the dust out of the carpets, vacuum the floors and polish them. It's not difficult to keep the flat tidy if you do your rooms regularly. This is my usual round of duties. But sometimes I have some other things to do.
When my mother is ill or away from home I do the cooking and the washing up, the buying of food and the planning of meals. I am not a good cook, but my vegetable soup is always tasty. I can also boil an egg or fry some meat. I also lay the table and clear away the dishes. If I'm too busy or can't do these things, all the duties are organized among other members of our family.
Sometimes I have to visit everyday services: hairdresser's, shoemakers', tailor's, dry cleaners', photographer's. At the hairdresser's I have my hair cut and waved. At the shoemakers' I have my shoes and boots repaired, at the photographer's I have my photo taken. Service is generally good, but in some cases it leaves much to be desired.
My brother has his own duties at home. He helps to fix and repair some things. For example, he repairs electrical appliances when they are out of order. He has already repaired our mother's electric iron, my desk lamp and his own shaver.
Last year I was at my grandparents'. They are elderly people and need our care and attention. During my stay there I swept the floors and washed them, fed the chickens, collected the eggs and weeded the vegetable-beds. I didn't learn to milk the cow but I helped to feed the other animals: lambs, sheep and pigs.
I enjoyed this work very much.
Текст 2
FAMILY DAILY ROUTINES
It is not a bad idea to have a kind of subdivision of labor at home when each person knows his own daily household jobs. The children should keep their own room tidy, make their beds, set the table for meals, clear away the dishes and wash up. The mother could then concentrate on the more specialized jobs of cooking, washing, ironing and mending. It would be useless, however, if the children promised to help, and then failed to do their jobs, so that she constantly had to say: " I wish you would make your bed, Carol. I'd like you to pick up all those toys from the floor, Bob": Shopping at the supermarket could be a kind of family outing, if they all were free at the right time and went together and helped to choose the goods and push the trolley.
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Прочитайте тексты 1 и 2 и ответьте на вопросы:
1. What household duties do you have? Do you consider them difficult?
2. Are you a good cook? What dishes can you prepare?
3. What everyday services do you sometimes visit?
4. What household duties do the other members of your family have?
Текст 3
Dividing Up Chores
Times have changed. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the traditional division of labor, which includes the man working full-time outside the home and the woman taking care of the house. But now, many women also work outside the home and are still forced to continue taking care of all the household duties. However, it's very important to take into account your outside obligations when dividing up the household chores. Most people are busy and would rather be doing something else than washing the dishes or taking out the garbage. But chores are a fact of life, and they need to get done.
It's useful to create a chore chart that will work for your household. Some items on the chore chart will probably be standard, and others will be specific to your home. You and your spouse need to sit down together to make a list that will work for both of you. If you are currently doing the majority of the housework, your spouse may not be so enthusiastic about working out a new system with you. But if there is resentment on your part, then you need to explain this to your spouse.
Holding grudges because of unfair workloads can lead to conflicts in other areas of your marriage. You need to come up with a compromise chore list. You may not be thrilled with it, but it should be one that both of you can live with. It should include daily chores as well as weekly chores.
Ответьте на вопросы:
1. Do you agree with the traditional division of labor?
2. What is the man supposed to do?
3. What is the woman supposed to do?
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