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Last week we discussed living by yourself. Living by yourself often means doing thing around the house by yourself.

Now, when I say "things around the house", I mean cleaning, cooking, laundry, grocery shopping and stuff like that. And these tasks are often called "household chores".

When you make a sentence about carrying out these tasks, you can use the verb "do" for almost all household chores. For example, you can say "you do the dishes", instead of saying "you wash the dishes". Likewise, you do the laundry. You do the ironing. You do the bathroom, which means "cleaning the bathroom". You do the floors. You do the garden. You do the groceries. Collectively, you do the household chores.

Now would you like to practice the phrase together? Please repeat after me:

I'll do the cooking, you'll do the dishes.