BBC Learning English - Real Easy English: Talking about housework

Episode 260828 / 28 Aug 2026

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核心介绍

中文简介

本期节目探讨家务话题。Georgie 和 Phil 用简单英语聊聊保持房屋清洁整洁所需的工作（吸尘/吸地垫、扫地、拖地和洗衣）、他们不喜欢做的家务（如清洁马桶）和喜欢做的家务（如洗衣），以及当他们不想做这些事情时会如何推迟家务。学习核心词汇：housework、chores、laundry、hoover/vacuum、sweep、mop、put (something) off。

重点词汇表

课文重点解析

1. 核心表达：Housework 和 Chores

Georgie: Well, Phil, we are talking about housework today in Real Easy English. So, housework is all of those jobs you do in the house. So, cleaning, washing, cooking – things like that.

Phil: We are talking about household chores. Is there one that you really hate doing?

关键点：

• ✅ housework = 做家务的总称（清洁、洗衣、做饭等）
• ✅ chores = 具体的家务杂务，通常指重复性的日常工作
• ✅ 可扩展：do the housework, do the chores, household chores

2. 具体家务动词：hoover/vacuum, sweep, mop

Phil: I had to make sure I was cleaning the kitchen. I also did… We say do the hoovering or do the vacuuming, around all the carpets…

Georgie: …One person will clean those properly. So, wipe the surfaces, wipe away the crumbs. So, the crumbs are little bits of food. Then hoover or sweep the floor. So, that removes the crumbs from the floor so that the floor is ready to be mopped. So, when you mop, that’s when you make the floor wet and properly clean.

关键点：

• ✅ hoover / vacuum = 吸尘（美式常用 vacuum，英式常用 hoover 作为动词）
• ✅ sweep = 扫地（使用扫帚将垃圾聚集到一堆）
• ✅ mop = 拖地（使用拖把和水/肥皂清洁地板）
• ✅ 常见顺序：sweep → mop（先扫后拖）

3. 短语动词：put off

Phil: …some of those jobs, they get put off and put off and put off, which isn’t good.

Georgie: Well, there’s also just so many other things we would rather be doing. So, yeah, it’s easy to put off – to delay.

Phil: If you put something off, you delay something, sometimes because you just don’t want to do it.

关键点：

• ✅ put off sth = 推迟做某事；拖延
• ✅ put sth off = 同义词序（宾语可以放在中间）
• ✅ 常用语境：put off doing homework, put off the meeting, put off chores

4. 喜好与厌恶的家务

Georgie: Yes, Phil, there is one job that comes to mind immediately, which is cleaning the bathroom – specifically cleaning the toilet.

Phil: I think what I really dislike is trying to clean things – the bits on the cooker where everything gets stuck on, and you have to really rub it and scrub it really hard. I hate those jobs.

Phil: Well, you know what? Laundry or washing – that’s washing your clothes. That can sometimes be really satisfying when you get a lot of it done.

关键点：

• ✅ 表达厌恶：I hate [doing] X, I really dislike X, there is one job that I hate doing
• ✅ 表达喜好：I love X, that is so exciting, I enjoy doing X
• ✅ 常见厌恶的家务：cleaning the toilet, cleaning cooker/stove bits
• ✅ 常见喜欢的家务：laundry/washing clothes（因可见成就感）

批判性思考题

1. 家务分配：Georgie 提到她和室友有轮流清理公共区域的制度。你认为公平分配家务的最佳方式是什么？轮流、按能力分配、还是按喜好分配？用英语表达你的观点。（例如：I think chores should be… / In my opinion, it’s fairest to…）

2. 文化差异：中式家庭通常强调集体责任和长辈权威，而西式家庭可能更强调个人责任和孩子参与。中英文中关于“家务”的表达有何文化差异？例如，“帮妈妈做家务” vs “doing your chores”有什么不同的含义？

3. 拖延心理学：Phil 和 Georgie 讨论了把家务“put off”的原因——因为他们“would rather be doing”其他事情。拖延通常源于什么心理因素？（如厌恶任务、害怕失败、完美主义）。如何用英语表达“I keep putting off cleaning because I find it boring”?

4. 技术影响：现代吸尘器（如机器人吸尘器）如何改变了人们做家务的方式？你认为这些技术是让人们更容易还是更不愿意做家务？用英语讨论。（例如：Robot vacuums make hoovering easier, but…）

5. 角色刻板印象：对话中没有明确提到性别角色分工，但 Phil 提到清洁炉灶缝隙的工作很麻烦。在不同文化中，哪些家务被视为“女人的活”，哪些被视为“男人的活”？这种刻板印象在变化吗？用中英双语举例说明。

完整对话记录

Transcript

Georgie: Hi, Phil. How are you doing?   Phil: I’m good, I’m good. A little bit tired, but yeah. I’m good.   Georgie: Oh no. Why?   Phil: Lots of housework this weekend. We had to get the house ready so, yeah, a lot to do.   Georgie: You said ready? Ready for what?   Phil: Oh, we’ve got some people coming to visit, so we had to… we had to get ready for that.   Georgie: Well, Phil, we are talking about housework today in Real Easy English. So, housework is all of those jobs you do in the house. So, cleaning, washing, cooking – things like that.   Phil: Yep. All really important things. Just before we start, I just wanted to remind everyone that they can go to our website to get a worksheet to get even more practice, and that is bbclearningenglish.com.   Georgie: So, Phil, you said at the weekend you did a lot of housework. What did you do?   Phil: Well, I mean we share out the housework, but I was… I had to make sure I was cleaning the kitchen. I also did… We say do the hoovering or do the vacuuming, around all the carpets to make sure that’s nice and clean, under all the furniture. So, Georgie, do you do a lot of housework?   Georgie: Well, I live in a shared flat, so I have two housemates, who are not super clean, so I have a bit of a routine with them. Every weekend, one person will clean the communal areas. So, those are the areas that are shared – so the kitchen and the living room. One person will clean those properly. So, wipe the surfaces, wipe away the crumbs. So, the crumbs are little bits of food. Then hoover or sweep the floor. So, that removes the crumbs from the floor so that the floor is ready to be mopped. So, when you mop, that’s when you make the floor wet and properly clean.   Phil: That’s a really impressive system. I like the way you’ve got it so organised. We always find we run out of time to get a lot of housework done, or we’re doing stuff at the weekend or we’re working during the week, and so some of those jobs, they get put off and put off and put off, which isn’t good. But yeah, it happens sometimes.   Georgie: Well, there’s also just so many other things we would rather be doing. So, yeah, it’s easy to put off – to delay.   Phil: Georgie, we’re talking about household chores. Is there one that you really hate doing?   Georgie: Yes, Phil, there is one job that comes to mind immediately, which is cleaning the bathroom – specifically cleaning the toilet.   Phil: Oh yes.   Georgie: Not very nice!   Phil: Yeah. No, not at all.   Georgie: Do you have one that you hate the most?   Phil: I think what I really dislike is trying to clean things – the bits on the cooker where everything gets stuck on, and you have to really rub it and scrub it really hard. I hate those jobs.   Georgie: So, do you… You said that you share… you share the chores. Do you get your kids to do chores?   Phil: Now, that’s a really good question. We ask the kids to do chores and sometimes they do something.   Georgie: OK.   Phil: But not a lot. I’d really like them to be able to keep their rooms tidy. That’s never going to happen, it feels. I’d really like it if they could, you know, help out cleaning the living room and putting things away. But, yeah, we haven’t taught them very well.   Georgie: Oh, maybe one day!   Phil: Maybe.   Georgie: It’s when you become an adult, I think, that you really appreciate a clean space, so hopefully that will come.   Phil: I was terrible as a teenager. I didn’t do much as a teenager at all, so this is just coming back to me now. GeorgieYeah. Well, me too! So, we’ve talked about chores that we hate doing, but are there any jobs that you enjoy doing?   Phil: Well, you know what? Laundry or washing – that’s washing your clothes. That can sometimes be really satisfying when you get a lot of it done. And actually, I’ve just got a new washing machine and it’s much bigger than the one I had before, so I can do so much in one load.   Georgie: I love that! Putting a… putting a load of washing in the washing machine and then having it dry by the end of the day. That is so good.   Phil: It’s the best thing.   Georgie: Teenage Georgie would be so disappointed that I’m excited by laundry, but here we go…! OK. Phil, let’s recap the vocabulary we used in this conversation, starting with housework. So, this is the general term for jobs that we have to do in the house. And then we had chores, which are the specific jobs that you have to do – for example, laundry.   Phil: Yes. So, laundry is washing your clothes. We say do the laundry, or just do the washing.   Georgie: Yes. And we had some other chores – for example, hoovering and sweeping the floor, which is what you do when there are crumbs on the floor. After you’ve swept the crumbs, you can mop the floor, which is when you make the floor wet and clean it like that.   Phil: Yes. We also talked about jobs that you hate, and sometimes when you really hate a job, you end up putting it off – that means to delay it. If you put something off, you delay something, sometimes because you just don’t want to do it.   Georgie: So, that is the end of this episode of Real Easy English, but we’ll be back next week, won’t we?   Phil: Yes, we’ll be back with another episode. Also, don’t forget about that worksheet that’s on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.   Georgie: Goodbye for now.   Phil: Bye!

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Source: BBC Learning English - Real Easy English
Published: 28 Aug 2026
Length: ~6 minutes
Presenters: Georgie, Phil
Series: Real Easy English
Episode Code: 260828

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