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News image  Weekender 2006 / 7  
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- Bloopers

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- Housework

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- Beer festival

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- Talking posh

Man with iron

In Weekender this week, we find out what the BBC Learning English team's favourite household chores are and look at a new Spanish law obliging men who get married to split housework equally with their wives.

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Vocabulary used in the show
houseworkthe work of keeping a house clean and tidy
to dustto remove dust from something
ironingto smooth clothes by running a hot iron over them
to vacuumto use a vacuum cleaner (a machine) to suck up dust and dirt
washing upcleaning dishes, cups etc.
a taska piece of work that has to be done
to tidy upto clean up and put things in order
a considerable shifta big change
the lion's sharethe largest part of something
there’s still a long way to goa lot more needs to be done
domesticthings related to the home

 



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