Hello and welcome to English in Brazil.
This is another video that's almost 100% in English.
So welcome to this new series on my channel.
In this series, I'm gonna be doing something, in English,
and then I'll be teaching you
vocabulary related to this specific context.
So in the first video of this series,
I did my nails with you, guys.
So I taught you lots of vocabulary related to
manicure and pedicure.
And today I'm gonna be cleaning and organizing my house,
while I teach you new verbs, and new expressions,
and new words.
I usually start with my bedroom.
I make my bed first, and then
I fluff my pillows like this.
And I like to arrange all my pillows like this.
But look at this!
I have a pile of clothes to fold.
And this is something
I hate doing.
Folding all these clothes,
Oh my God! I don't like doing it.
Actually, it's not that I hate folding my clothes,
but sometimes I feel this task never ends.
Every time I look around,
there is another piece of clothing to be folded.
Anyways, so now I'm folding my clothes
and I'm smoothing them out with my hands,
so they become
less wrinkled.
Okay? To fold your clothes.
This is an interesting expression.
This is a hanger, right?
And I'm putting this shirt on the hanger.
And then, I'll hang it up, right?
And this is my drawer.
A drawer.
And I'm gonna put away some clothes here.
And I like rolling them,
because they get less wrinkled, right?
So I always try to keep things organized like this,
but I usually fail miserably.
"To put away" is another very useful phrasal verb
for you to talk about organizing things, okay?
To put away.
This is an iron.
An iron.
This device that I...
hate!
I'm sorry, I hate ironing my clothes.
But pay attention to the pronunciation,
you say /ˈaɪə(r)n/
/ˈaɪə(r)n/
To iron the clothes.
And here?
More things to put away. I told you!
So let me put away this tiny shoe here.
And now this is a broom.
A broom.
And I'm gonna pick up this rug here and start
sweeping the floor.
To sweep the floor.
This is what I'm doing now.
I'm sweeping the floor.
And this is a dustpan.
A dustpan.
And now I'm sweeping the dust into the dustpan,
so I can throw it away.
To throw away. To put it in the trash bin, okay?
So when you wanna get rid of something,
you throw it away.
Next step: the bathroom.
So now I have to clean up the toilet.
So first, I will flush the toilet.
To flush the toilet. This is what I'm doing now.
And then I'll put in the toilet bowl cleaner
and scrub it using the toilet brush.
So it will be super, super clean.
Now it's time to clean up the sink.
Yeah, so this is the sink, right?
So I grab a cloth,
I wet this cloth
and I wring it out before I use the all-purpose cleaner.
So to wring.
To wring is another interesting verb for you to use in this context.
To wring.
And now the living room.
Yeah, the living room.
And I have this cup here
so I can water this plant.
To water the plants.
This is also something that we have to do every day.
At least three times a week, right?
Otherwise, our plants will die and we don't want that.
No, we don't.
And the next part I wanna teach you is to dust.
To dust.
And this means to remove all the dust with a cloth or a duster.
And I'm using a cloth here, a cleaning cloth
with furniture polisher.
It smells really good.
And then, the kitchen.
And here is the phrasal verb "put away", again.
I'm putting away the plasticware.
I'm taking all the things from the drying rack and putting them away.
I'm putting them away.
I'm putting them in the drawer.
This is a sponge and now I'm putting the soap on the sponge.
I'm washing a glass right now,
but if I wanted to say that I'm washing all of the things,
I would say that I was washing the dishes or doing the dishes, okay?
So you can say, okay I'm now I'm washing the glass
because this is something that's very specific,
but when I talk about the whole process,
when you are washing everything you can say,
I'm washing the dishes or doing the dishes.
And I don't have a dishwasher,
so after I do the dishes,
I put them in the drying rack
and let them air dry.
I rarely use a cloth to dry my dishes.
But let me know in the comment section,
if you have a dishwasher
and if you usually use a cloth to dry your dishes
or if you just let them air dry.
This is a squeegee.
A squeegee, and I love my squeegee because when I use it,
it means that I've finished everything.
So you use a squeegee to remove the water
on a flat surface like this, right?
So squeegee .
And here is something I actually like to do
which is clean my stove.
It is pretty dirty, as you can see,
so I really need to clean this up.
So I usually use a brillo pad with this stove cleaner
to clean it up, right?
And the I clean it gently because I don't want to scratch the surface.
Okay, I've finished and oh my God, it's so shiny!
It's blinding me!
I need to put on my sunglasses.
Now It's perfect.
And one of the last steps in any cleaning process is the floor.
So, again, I take a cloth, I dip the cloth in water,
I'm using a bucket here. This is a bucket
And then I wring this cloth
and use a squeegee, floor squeegee, or a mop to clean the floor.
Now my house is clean and organized, but I still have lots of clothes to wash.
So this is my washing machine,
and I'm putting detergent in the machine
and also fabric softener,
so my clothes will stay soft and smell good.
So I'm doing the laundry.
That's the expression we use to say that we're washing our clothes, right?
So, to do the laundry.
And I don't have a dryer either so
I usually just hang up my clothes and let them air dry.
And now I'm taking them off the clothes rack,
this is a clothes rack.
And you know what I'll have to do next?
I will have to start folding my clothes again,
and smoothing them out with my hands,
and then putting them away,
and this a never-ending process.
I've told you time management was everything.
As soon as I finished cleaning the kitchen,
the baby woke up.