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Vocabulary

1) to be located – быть расположенным

2) an employee – служащий

3) Joint-Stock Company – акционерное общество

4) machine building – машиностроение

5) consumer goods – товары широкого потребления

6) woodcutting machine – деревообрабатывающая машина

7) shoe-making machines – машины для производства обуви

8) Leather-Processing Plant – кожевенный завод

9) the Foot - wear factory – обувная фабрика

10) the Garment Factory – фабрика для шитья одежды

11) the Food industry - пищевая промышленность

12) vocational school – профессиональная школа

13) to make use of – пользоваться

14) a draughts club – шашечный клуб

Текст № 5.

Our duties in the house

Our family is not very big. We are only four. My Mum works as a teacher and very often she feels tired. So we usually help her about the house.

Everybody in the family has duties. My Dad goes shopping and cleans the carpets. I tidy my room, wash up and sweep the floor. Sometimes I make tea or coffee for breakfast.

My Mum cooks dinner and lays the table. As you see we are a friendly family and we are ready to help each other.

I would like to say a few words about childrens duties at home. If we want to please our parents, to make them happy, not to upset them, we must perform our most common household chores1. If we do it, the house will look tidy2, clean, neat3 and shiny4. The atmosphere in the house will be friendly and we will give more time to each other, to our hobbies. It will help us to have enough time to go to the pictures (movies) and theatre, to visit the Zoo or the circus, to read interesting books.

Boys and girls have different duties at home. As for boys5, they help their fathers, elder brothers or Grandfathers to repair6 their family car, their flat, broken furniture, to fix simple electric appliances7, such as TV or radio sets, clocks or watches, irons or vacuum cleaners. They can use different tools such as a hammer8, a screw-driver9, a hacksaw10, a plane11, a drill12, an axe13, scissors and a soldering-iron14.

As for girls they have many duties at home as well. They put rubbish into a trashcan and empty it, wash the cutlery15 and the dishes. They must help their Mothers and Grandmothers to lay and clear the table and to serve meals16. They learn how to work with needles, threads17 and scissors.

In our family Mother keeps the house. It takes her a lot of time, but all the members of our family try to help her and share the duties18.

We have a lot of work to do at home. It is necessary to cook meals, to tidy all the rooms, to do the laundry19, to wash up20 and to take away rubbish21 out of a trashcan.

It is very important to keep the house clean and tidy, so we must clean all the rooms regularly. If the room is messy (there is a mess22 in the room), you must fold your clothes23 and put it into the wardrobe, then find the right place for every thing. After that water the flowers, dust and polish the furniture, water the carpets, sweep and wash (clean) the floor. Then you can enjoy your room.

Some people say that washing up isn't pleasant (boring) because you have to wash dirty dishes. Others like it. But washing up is a necessary domestic duty and we wash up after each meal.

First we must clear the table and pile24 everything tidily near the sink. Then you take a dish-cloth and wash glasses, cups, knives, forks, spoons, plates and other dishes. You must, of course, have a lot of hot water and some detergent25; after that you take a tea-towel and wipe everything. If you have a plate-rack, you can put the plates and cups in the rack to dry.

Everybody knows how pleasant it is to have clean clothes and clean bed linen. The family washing is one of the most important duties. Small things can be nicely washed in soapy water, but most people today use detergents.

Many families do all the laundry at home. They have modern washing machines and say that this work is not very difficult. They do one big washing every week26 when bed linen27 and towels are washed. If there is a big yard with wash-lines and it is a fine day, it is good to hang wet clothes and linen out in the fresh air and sunshine. They smell so pleasant when they are dry.

But if you don't like to wash things at home by hand28 or with the help of the washing machine, you can take your washing to a public laundry and fetch29 it as soon as it is ready. Everything will be washed, pressed and your time will be saved.