aubry how do you feel about housework or i guess we could say household chores i
hate them so much everywhere i hate them so much for the worst it's crazy to me
that anyone likes housework i actually know a couple of people who don't mind
so let's give some examples before we go into these model speaking part one answers
that we will provide for you today um so again housework household chores um describing your home
right these are all topics that come up in speaking part one on the ielts exam
um so what are household chores because i think even that can be confusing for students um maybe
in some languages they don't have a like a word that groups together all of these tasks like we do
i'm not sure but i know what students have a tough time with this so what are household
chores i'm going to list them in order of the ones i hate the most wait i'll at least
list a few right cleaning toilets doing the dishes cleaning baseboards those are like the boards
along the bottom paying attention to that worse washing walls forget that we do that all the time
vacuuming um organizing just straightening the mess that kids make all the time dusting
dusting tidying there's a great verb guys too tidy it's not to clean too tidy is just like
to organize things right to put things away yeah dude cooking cleaning laundry all of this stuff
is housework these are all household chores doing the dishes blah blah blah um yeah i don't really
like any of that either but i do it every sunday one day a week like i have to have it be a regular
routine or i'm i'm not gonna do it so every sunday guys that's what i'm doing i'm cleaning
my house that's where you'll be that's where i'll be um okay so let's get into these sample answers
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get into this i'm gonna ask you two questions and you can ask me two questions okay perfect oh side
note these are this is a great example of when you do not have to be positive uh you don't have
to lie on the speaking exam right yeah like if you hate it just say so say it if you hate it say it
okay let's go um aubry do you do housework at home yes i still do a bit but more and more i find ways
to push it off on my kids i assign them all of the things that i don't want to do and i often
have to ask them multiple times but eventually they get it done so that i don't have to um
thank you what kind of housework do you often do i almost every day probably multiple times a day
i have to clean the kitchen even if i've asked someone else to do it they do a terrible job
and i have to redo it no one's wiping down the counters with hot soapy water unless i do that
no one's cleaning out the kitchen there's bits of food and gunk in there that gets hard and dried on
i still have to do that so no matter what it's me cleaning the kitchen
all right so as far as like length and tone and everything about those answers guys completely
everything that you must do on the ielts speaking exam okay those were great fantastic band nine
model answers so uh three vocabulary terms i want you guys to write down push it off on someone that
means you ask someone else to do your work for you um wipe down i think most people would say
most students would just say clean instead of that but to wipe something down is very specific
and gunk fantastic slang for just like gross stuff like leftover bits of food um dirt chunks like
that's all gunk okay i'm ready hit me jessica did you do housework when you were a child
yeah my mom i always had a list of chores for me i had to clean my own room i had to
clean the bathroom i always had to set and clear the table um i had to help get dinner
started if my mom wasn't home for work yet um i think those are the main ones i had to do but
yeah totally my mom was very strict as far as making me help her with all the housework
do you think that children should do housework for sure i didn't when i was a child but i do now um
but it's different now like we bribe our children to do housework for us like here's an example this
is the most recent deal i made with james i said i will pay for the xbox ultimate pass for you
monthly if you do all of your own laundry from now on so that's the deal he does all of his
own laundry now um which is great oh man those are so good you guys listen to these answers
a couple of times as you're listening to them it probably doesn't sound like that crazy impressive
but just the intonation right the vocabulary it's so well done okay so first of all really good job
listing all these different chores listen to all the great details that come out just because she's
listing all the different chores she had to do and then a really good adjective to call your mom
strict right just means she was no nonsense not necessarily mean but she made the rules and she
stuck to them that's really good and then i loved how you were talking about how thing
you immediately started talking about how things are different now because you know there really
isn't that much else to say yes i think children should have to do homework housework so then you
use this great strategy of talking about how the past was different to now and how before you know
when we were kids we were just expected to do it we didn't have to be bribed and i'm the same now
i have to brag my kids i have to promise them things what happened what changed no
we i don't know um we are just in general softer on our kids today but we're also cl
we have closer relationships to the kids today and i do think those two things are correlated
like more respect right you don't feel like you can just do this because i'm mom because it
doesn't feel respectful right and it's like um in the old days of students asked why parents would
be like because i said so or like i don't have to tell you but like i i always answer james and
jesus asks why because i'm like you're a person with a brain who deserves to know every now and
then i'll still say because i said so or something but i immediately feel icky i'm like i didn't feel
good i didn't like that totally i'll be like sorry no just give me a minute and then i'll answer
exactly it's so true it's such a good strategy a lot of these especially where your two questions
were so related that there really might not have been a lot more to say like the answer is yes so
you have to give something else that's so perfect to compare what was different for your childhood
and your life now um thank you so remember guys do take notes on these four model answers today
because these all have great things you can use on your own exam vocab pronunciation specific
examples you have to do all three of these well like we did to get a seven or higher on speaking
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will have a wonderful rest of the week and i'll see ya next tuesday you too see you next week bye