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49
Express your opinion on the following.
'...I told myself that there are so many people in the world that it doesn't matter if one doesn't hit it off
with one or two of them.'
'The trouble about housework is that whatever you do seems to lead to another job to do or a mess to clear
up.'
'...If
it was you, you'd be thinking of how depressing it will be tomorrow morning to arrive at crack of
dawn and find things filthy.'
Exercise 17
Give a description of:
a) an untidy kitchen
> Use:
To squeeze something on to something, to be piled high with something, to be cluttered with peelings,
basins etc., to be in an awful mess, to spill rice, flour etc., not to manage one's household chores properly, to
leak, to drip something all over the floor, to scrub, a stiff brush, ragged;
b) a room in a mess
>
Use:
Unattractive, shabby, broken, to give the place a clean-out, to be littered with something, to stain, finger
marks, to put things tidy, to do the repairs, to need decorating, to be crammed with something, to find chaos,
not to have been decorated for years, to be in a hideous mess, to be in a horrid condition, to smell unaired,
can hardly move about, to knock smth. over, to leave the bed unmade, to be not much of a housewife, to do a
thorough turn out;
c) a neat room
> Use:
An efficient housewife, to clean the room from top to bottom, a lovely colour scheme, to look neat,
spacious, to have a minimum of furniture, newly decorated, vivid colours of upholstery and paintings, in
good taste, to be comfortably furnished with something, potted flowers, spick and span, to vacuum the room,
to owe much of its charm to something, to give a bright mood;
d) the most boring house chores
> Use:
To get bored with something, to make somebody nervous, to hate doing something, to get through the
usual tedious business of doing something, to turn a blind eye to the state of things.
Exercise 18
Translate into Russian.
1. When Mum came in she was horrified to see that I hadn't cleared up the mess in my room.
2. My brother and I do hate washing up. Dad persuaded us to form an agreement between us that we
should do it in turn.
3. Every other day I sweep the carpets with the carpet-sweeper, or vacuum them and dust the furniture. It
really helps me to keep my room clean and tidy.
4. John's son is rather untidy. He always leaves such a mess in his room. John doesn't like things left
around in the room and he makes his son tuck things away and clean the room every day.
5. Once a season we turn out our flat. We usually vacuum the floor, the furniture, beat the carpets and
rugs, mop the floor, and dust all the rooms. It's a messy and dull job, I should say.
6. Frank is very good at helping his wife. She is proud of him and says that he is always ready to share
household chores with her. And apart from that he's an old hand at repairing all sorts of electrical appliances.
7. My wife left a note for me and asked me to vacuum the living-room as we were giving a party that day.
That was a chance for me to try out the new vacuum-cleaner and I got on so well that I cleaned the living-
room and the bedroom. It was a real joy cleaning with such a marvellous vacuum. 1 was amazed at the speed
with which time went when I was working.
8. I was pressed for time and had a lot of work to do about the house. So I bolted down some coffee and
started washing up. The kitchen was just in a hideous mess but I realised that I couldn't leave all that till
tomorrow, otherwise it would become a mess of a greater magnitude.
9. 'Bill, go and empty the dustbin. It's full. And you didn't wipe your feet on the doormat again', said Bill's
mother. She was more than frank in her annoyance over the mess she discovered on her coming back home.
It really made her upset.