Effective management of Household Chores

A busy person always has to come up with an effective way of efficiently managing all the household chores and attending to matters of other interest to them. This obligates the person to prepare the chores list that will help them distribute the available time equally amidst all the responsibilities to be done. When the available time is scheduled well, it becomes easy for one to meet all the family and work responsibility that they have. This article will help you plan your time and activities of the day to meet all the expectations adequately.

The first step requires you to determine the priority of every task that you do at home. There are some daily chores like cleaning utensils and perhaps vacuuming the carpets if you have pets that keep dropping unwanted filth on the floor. Sometimes a person with kids will be required to remove the `kid traffic’ that is caused by the children as they are playing. If left unattended the house looks disorganized. Whatever your main chores are, divide them into categories. Write the recurring responsibilities be written on a printable chore chart and hung at a place that you can easily see it. Things like laundry and grocery shopping can be done on specific times.

Keep increasing your responsibilities. Start with the most important ones and keep trying to do it every time at a higher speed than the last time. Also try to avoid doing it so often when it’s not necessary. For instance when the kids and the rest of the family are away from home, reduce the cleaning rate of the house since it will not accumulate so much dirt. Distribute easy chores to the kids so that they can help you finish faster. You can draw charts that will show the house hold chores for kids that need to get done irrespective of whether you will direct them. The children can help you with easy tasks like wiping the windows and draining blocked sinks. Do the chores in the few minutes that you may manage. After supper, you can put your clothes in the washing machine when the rest of the family is resting. You may not have enough time to do all the work you need all at once.

When you are shopping for groceries, start by making an inventory of the items that you require in the house. You can prepare a whole week menu so that you can buy the supply all at once. This will save you money and time since items in bulk are cheaper. You only make sure that the items you are purchasing are perishable to last the set time schedule.

When you have time, rotate the chores. Clean the often ignored areas like the curtains, dusting your ceiling fans and the like. However do not allow the work overwhelm you such that you can’t get time to relax. Take time listening to some music. Let not the household chores deny you time to relax. You can even hire extra labor if the work is too much for you.

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GRAMMAR SECTION

VERBALS

Participle I

Participle 1 Active Passive

Non-perfect sending being sent

Perfect having sent having been sent

В предложении причастие 1 может выступать как определение (все формы, кроме перфектных), как обстоятельство (времени, причины, образа действия, и др.) в сочетании с союзами when, while, if, with ; и как часть сложного дополнения и обстоятельства в предикативных оборотах.

Participle II

Some stamps collected by him are very curious.

At last she saw the man, who had saved her sun.

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Non perfect form of Participle I

hear, to see, to look,, to notice, to learn, to understand, to realize, to come, to arrive, to seize, to turn

GERUND

Active Passive

Non-perfect writing being written

Perfect having written having been written

Герундий может выступать в предложении как:

1)подлежащее,

2)часть сказуемого;

3)дополнение;

4)предложное дополнение (после многих глаголов, причастий, прилагательных, требующих определенных предлогов);

5)определение;

6)обстоятельство (времени, образа действия, цели, сопутствующих условий).

Gerund as an attribute

Walking – stick, boiling- point, swimming – race, blotting-paper, eating apples, cooking apples, laughing- stock, dancing-room, dancing master

Participle II

Some stamps collected by him are very curious.

At last she saw the man, who had saved her sun.

Some questions, touched upon in the report are worth careful consideration.

To do or to make?

To make a cup of tea, to do one’s best, to do the washing up, to make a mess, to make an offer, to do aerobics, to do a favor, to make plans, to do the waltz, to make a mistake, to do the accounts, to make a date, to do business, to make trouble, to do the ironing, to do a casserole, to make a cabinet, to do exercises, to do cleaning.

DO – shopping, work, homework, housework, cleaning, washing up, gardening, military service, mathematics, something interesting, a boring job….

MAKE – arrangements, an offer, a suggestion, an attempt, an effort, an excuse, a mistake, a noise, a phone call, a date, a profit, a bed, a cake, a speech, trouble…..

Some grammar rules

Used to-(+ Infinitive), be used to- get used to (+Gerund)

USED TO expresses past habits, regularly repeated actions in the past or past states.

(Stative verbs are not used with “would”)

WOULD expresses regularly repeated actions and routines in the past. It isn’t used for states.

BE USED TO means “be accustomed to”, “be in the habit of”.

WAS GOING TO expresses actions one intended to do but didn’t do.

For example:

She used to tell me stories. (also would tell me…)

He used to live in the country.(not: would – state)

He used to have a beard. (not :would – state)

The negative form is either:

I didn’t use to or I used not to (rare for some speakers).

Mum would always make me a big breakfast.

(also: Mum used to make…)

She isn’t used to living in tropical climates. (=she isn’t accustomed to living…)

She was going to move to London but then she decided to stay in York.

WAS GOING TO describes events intended to take place, but which didn’t happened.

For example: I was going to phone you, but I forgot.

I was thinking of going to Italy this year, but I haven’t decided.

I was about to do it, but I started doing something else.

Jack was to have taken part, but he fell ill.

Some grammar rules for using gerund

The –ing form is used:

as a noun. Walking is a good exercise.

after certain verbs:

accuse of, admit, anticipate, appreciate, approve of, avoid, be better of, consider, count on, continue, delay, deny, depend on, discuss, enjoy, escape, excuse, fancy, finish, forgive, give up, go, imagine, insist on, involve, keep on (=continue), mention, mind, miss, object to, postpone, practice, prevent from, put off, quit, recall, recollect, rely on, report, succeed in, think about, resent, resist, risk, save, stand, suggest, tolerate, understand, worry about, etc).

after: dislike, enjoy, hate, like, love, prefer to express general preference. She likes painting.

Note: like + to-inf = it’s a good idea. I like to wash my hair every day.

after: I’m busy, it’s no use, it’s (no) good, it’s (not) worth, what’s the use of, can’t help, there’s no point (in), can’t stand, have difficulty ( in), in addition to, as well as, have trouble, have a hard\difficult time, be : better off, accustomed to, afraid of, capable of, intend on, successful in, tired of . He can’t stand being treated like a slave. He had difficulty finding his way back.

after: spend\waste ( time, money etc), look forward to, be (get) used to, be (get) accustomed to, admit (to).

After prepositions: after, before, on, upon, by, without, instead of, in spite of

Some grammar rules:

The to-infinitive is used:

to express purpose. He went to university to become a lawyer.

after certain verbs (agree, appear, decide, expect, hope, plan, promise, refuse etc).

He refused to pay the bill.

after certain adjectives (happy, glad, sorry etc).

She was happy to win the prize.

after I would like\would prefer to express specific preference.

I’d like to see the manager.

after certain nouns. What a surprise to see him there!

after too\enough constructions.

He’s too young to have his own car.

with: it + be+ adjective (+ of + noun\pronoun).

It was generous of him to offer money.

with: so + adjective + as.

Would you be so kind as to help me move the sofa?

with “only” to express an unsatisfactory result.

She came in only to find Bob had left.

after: be + the first\second etc\next\last\best etc.

He was the last to come to work.

in the expression: for + noun\pronoun + to –inf.

For him to be so rude was unforgivable.

in expressions such as : to tell you the truth, to begin with, to be honest etc.

To be honest, I don’t like him.

The infinitive without to is used:

after: most modal verbs,

after: had better\would rather

after: make\let\see\hear\feel + object. They made him pay for the damage. But: in the passive: be made, be heard, be seen + to –infinitive.

“know” and “help” are followed by a to-infinitive or an infinitive without to.

I have never known him (to) be so mean.

In the passive: be known, be helped + to-infinitive.

She was known to have worked as a teacher

To get smb to do smth, to have smth done/smb do, it’s imperative that smb do smth

In case + present tense, to make smb do smth

Had better=should I had better + present V without to,

I would have been better if + past perfect

Would rather= I’d prefer

I’d rather + V perfect base infinitive

I’d rather + past simple/ + past perfect

Prefer + gerund/ noun+to+gerund+noun

Prefer+ full infinitive+rather than + bare infinitive

Would rather + bare infinitive + than +bare infinitive

INFINITIVE

Form Active Passive