Household Chores in English
Vocabulary

Click on the word to hear its pronunciation and repeat it.

sweep: to clean the floor with a broom
vacuum: to clean carpet using a vacuum cleaner
mop: to clean the floor with a wet mop
wash: to clean with water and soap
dry: to remove water or moisture
scrub: to clean by rubbing hard
polish: to clean and make something shiny
dust: to remove dust from surfaces

Exercise - Household Chores

Select the correct word to describe the image.

mop

vacuum

wash

sweep

dust

Past Participles

The past participle of the verb is used with the present perfect tense. The past participle is generally formed by adding the letters -ed to the end of the verb (the same way we form the simple past). However, there are many irregular past participle forms. Sometimes the past tense and the past participle are the same, and sometimes they are different. In each of the first lessons of the Advanced Level, we will learn some of the irregular past participle forms. The following table contains a list of some irregular past participle forms and their corresponding past tense forms for review.

Verb	Past	Participle
grow	grew	grown
hold	held	held
keep	kept	kept
lend	lent	lent
let	let	let
pay	paid	paid
ride	rode	ridden
sell	sold	sold
wake	woke	woken
write	wrote	written

pdf list of irregular verbs

Exercise - Sentences with irregular verbs

Use your imagination to write sentences in the blanks using irregular verbs. (Since there are so many possible answers, this exercise cannot be corrected.)

Example:
go: went - gone
Past

Participle

grow: grew - grown
Past

Participle

hold: held - held
Past

Participle

keep: kept - kept
Past

Participle

lend: lent - lent
Past

Participle

let: let - let
Past

Participle

pay: paid - paid
Past

Participle

ride: rode - ridden
Past

Participle

sell: sold - sold
Past

Participle

wake: woke - woken
Past

Participle

write: wrote - written
Past

Participle

Exercise - Irregular verbs

Fill in the table with the irregular verbs and then click the CHECK button. (If you type a space after the word, the computer will interpret it as an error when checking.)

Verb	Past	Participle
grow
hold
keep
lend
let
pay
ride
sell
wake
write

Exercise - Present, Past, or Participle

Write the verb in parentheses in the correct form (present, past, or participle) in the sentences below.

example
He's (find) a lot of interesting books at the library.

Writing

What household chores do you have to do this week?

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