Learn English Vocabulary: Cleaning your house

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Let's get to work!
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Hey everyone, I'm Alex, thanks for clicking and welcome to this lesson on cleaning product
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vocabulary.
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So today, I'm going to take you through different rooms in the house and talk about different
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cleaning products, some hygiene products that you can find in the different places around
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your home.
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And in the second part of this video, I will talk about some general all-purpose cleaning
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products that you can use in most rooms in your house, or all of them.
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So first, let's start off in the bathroom, which is where most of us start off in the
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morning after, you know, waking up.
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So first, we have - you go to the sink and you wash your hands with some soap.
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I didn't have soap with me, so I drew a bar of soap for you guys.
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And as you can see, this is a bar of soap, really.
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It's beautiful, right?
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So, you wash your hands with a bar of soap.
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You can also use this right here.
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This is hand soap.
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I'm not going to put any on my hands right now, but you - this is also called liquid
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soap or hand soap.
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So, you can use that to wash your hands as well.
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I didn't bring this with me today, but you can also use facial soap, specific soap, liquid
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soap for your face.
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To wash your face in the morning, in the evening or whenever you feel like it.
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I really like this, this little leaning thing I've got going here.
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Let's keep going with that.
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So, facial soap, yeah.
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And then, when you're taking a shower or if you're in the bath and you want to wash your
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hair, wash your scalp, which is the skin, you know, around your head here, you wash
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your hair with shampoo.
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And then, to make your hair nice and smooth like a horse, like a horse, like a horse's
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mane or a lion's mane, you use conditioner, right?
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So, first, shampoo to clean the scalp, clean your hair.
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And then to make it nice and smooth, like a horse's mane, you can use conditioner.
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If you have dandruff, which is when the skin on your scalp is dry and you have flakes,
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right, in your hair?
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Like, little, small flakes?
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You can use dandruff shampoo as well.
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If you want to clean your toilet, right?
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You just need toilet bowl cleaner.
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I don't have any with me here today.
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I do have some all-purpose stuff which is - oh, that's a stain remover, that's something
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else.
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But basically, you know, you put it around the bowl and it has chemicals and it cleans
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your toilet and every other thing that you have that you put in your toilet.
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Yeah.
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Next, plunger.
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So, there is a toilet bowl plunger.
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You can also get a drain plunger.
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So, this is what you use when there's something stuck, you know, in the drain in your sink,
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in the kitchen, the bathroom, the bathtub or the shower.
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And you need to just push it back down.
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Maybe it's hair, maybe it's something else.
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Or, in your toilet, you can get a toilet bowl plunger as well, to push stuff down.
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Next, let's go to the laundry room.
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And in the laundry room, when you want to wash your clothes, you start with detergent.
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I do not advertise any specific brands in this video.
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Well, I guess I am advertising them, but I do not necessarily agree with them.
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Okay.
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So, that is laundry detergent, which you use to clean your clothes with in your laundry
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machine.
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Also, with laundry detergent, you can put fabric softener, which makes the clothes nice
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and soft, right, along with the detergent.
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Once the clothes are washed and you put them from the washing machine into the dryer, okay?
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And in the dryer, you can put dryer sheets, which take the static off of the clothes.
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So, if you just, you know, just take them out and dry them in the dryer without dryer
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sheets, you will take your clothes out and they'll be stuck together with static.
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You can just hang your clothes outside as well.
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That's what my mom does, and it works perfectly fine, so that's it.
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Next, hamper and a laundry basket.
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So, I have a laundry basket right here.
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Typically, the difference between a hamper and a laundry basket is not that big.
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But a hamper you use to put the dirty clothes in.
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I guess they do have, like, specialized hampers that are made from different materials that
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are fully covered and you can cover the dirty clothes.
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But think of a hamper as a basket, sometimes a covered basket, a vertical basket where
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you throw your dirty clothes.
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And then you use the laundry basket when your clothes are nice and dry and you fold them
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and you put them in the laundry basket and put them back in your closet and your drawers.
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Alright.
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Let's move over here to the kitchen.
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Can you guys see all the words here?
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Is that okay?
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Yeah?
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Nothing's blocked?
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Good.
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So, we have dish soap.
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What do I have here?
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Where's that dish soap?
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I knew I had dish soap in here.
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Where's the dish soap?
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Duh duh duh duh duh... here it is!
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Okay.
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So, you have your dish soap, which you use in conjunction with a sponge or a scrub pad
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or a soap sponge or a dish sponge.
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You can call this any number of things, okay?
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Sometimes, I just say "Where's the dish sponge?
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Where is the soap sponge?
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Where is the scrub pad?
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The soap sponge?"
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The sponge, okay?
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So, this is a sponge.
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I have a small one and I have a big one for the larger messes in the house, okay?
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Good.
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So, you have your dish soap and you have your dish sponges here, or scrub pads, soap sponges,
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dish sponges, etc.
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Cloth.
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This is all-purpose.
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You can use this in a variety of scenarios, a variety of situations.
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You want to be a matador or if you want to wipe down things in your house, get them nice
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and clean, you use a cloth or a hand cloth or a towel cloth or a cloth towel; any number
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of names, okay?
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So, in general, this is a piece of cloth, okay, or a hand cloth.
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And finally, we have a hand towel.
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This one is very smelly, because it hasn't been washed in a long time, and I'm going
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to wash my hands right after I use it.
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So, this is a hand towel.
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Usually, you keep this in your kitchen when you need to dry your hands very quickly after,
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you know, washing the dishes or cleaning something like a piece of fruit or something.
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So, that is a hand towel, alright.
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And one more that I didn't put up here, but I guess you can use it with all-purpose, typically
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found in your kitchen.
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This is a roll of paper towels.
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So, these are called paper towels.
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Some people call them kitchen towels, which I disagree with, because I think paper towel
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fits so much better.
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Kitchen towel sounds like it could be anything.
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This is a kitchen towel.
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This is - a cloth, but you could call it a kitchen towel.
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Paper towels, just remember that name.
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Alright.
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I'm going to go wash my hands because that towel was disgusting, and I'll be right back
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with some more all-purpose cleaners.
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Ah, fresh like a baby boy born in spring.
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Alright, next we have general/all-purpose cleaning products.
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So here, we have our good friend the paper towel, or paper towels, plural, that you can
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use in many situations.
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Spills in the kitchen or in the living room or your gym - jam?
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Yeah, if your friend like, you know, eats a jam sandwich and gets some jam on the couch
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because they're eating in the living room like an animal.
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You can use some paper towels to wash that off.
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But you probably need some all-purpose cleaner to help finish the job.
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So here, I got this from my mom's house.
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I guess some all-purpose cleaners come in a bottle like this, with a cap on top.
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But most of them that I've seen usually come in a spray bottle, like this, like I said.
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So, this one is an all-purpose bathroom cleaner, but you can get all-purpose cleaners for all
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areas of the house.
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Some are safer than others and are made with more environmentally friendly ingredients,
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whereas some are just loaded with chemicals that will slowly kill us.
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That's life, right, every day.
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So next, we have window cleaner.
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And there is one brand that has really just cornered the market on window cleaners, so
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much so that we just call it "Windex".
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Say, "Hey, do you have any Windex?" and people understand automatically, you need window
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cleaner.
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Just like in the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", where the - is it the mother or the grandmother?
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I think it's the mother - she just puts Windex on everything.
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It's like "Oh, I cut myself!"
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"Put some Windex on it."
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Let's see if it works.
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It smells.
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That's about it, okay.
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Next, we have disinfectant.
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So, a lot of cleaning products, you know, they claim to be disinfectants.
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They kill bacteria and viruses around your kitchen, around your house.
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You know, stuff like salmonella or e-coli, so these are different bacteria that you can
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kill with disinfectant products.
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A natural disinfectant is vinegar, which can kill many types of bacteria.
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So, I brought some, you know, some white vinegar from home here.
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Usually you can just mix that with some, maybe even some dish soap, and you can clean almost
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anything with it, so it's pretty good.
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Next, what do we have?
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Tissues or Kleenex, yeah.
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So, if you have a small spill on a table somewhere, you can just grab a small tissue from the
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tissue box, and this is a situation like Windex, where one company has dominated the market
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so much that we just call, you know, the product, the tissue, by the corporate name Kleenex.
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Does anyone have a Kleenex?
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Does anyone have a tissue?
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Okay.
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Next, we have vacuum cleaners.
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So, you use these, vroom, to clean the floors, the carpets in your home.
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In the UK, the brand Hoover, again, has dominated the vacuum cleaner so much that people use
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Hoover like a verb in the UK.
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So, I need to Hoover the living room.
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Or, have you seen the Hoover?
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Where is the Hoover?
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Where is the vacuum cleaner?
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Next, wipes.
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You can have cloth wipes or disinfectant wipes.
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Before I mention, you know, this is a cloth.
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This can be considered a cloth wipe as well.
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Or you also have disinfectant - why did I write "disinfect..." yes, okay, this should
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be one word.
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It looks like "disinfect-ant", like you should disinfect an ant because of the space, but
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it's one word, one word.
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So next, Swiffer.
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Another example where this company, Swiffer, created this product and everyone is using
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it, or so many people are using it that we just say, "Hey, where's the Swiffer?" or "I
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need to use the Swiffer in the living room", okay?
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Looks pretty cool.
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I have one of these.
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I don't use it often.
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Normally, I stick to brooms and dustpans.
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So, we'll talk about those in a moment.
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Like next!
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So, dustpan and broom.
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You've got your dustpan right here for dust and other things that are dirty.
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And you have your broom.
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This one's kind of clean, so I feel okay doing this, although I will wash my hands again
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right after this video.
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So, you have your broom and your dustpan.
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It's kind of cool.
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I feel powerful holding this, like I want to clean.
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Now the feeling has passed.
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Okay.
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I'm just going to... there we go, good.
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Okay so, baking soda.
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I love baking soda.
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I have some - I don't mind saying the brand.
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Arm and Hammer baking soda, for that real, real tough smell collecting product.
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So, normally, you know, you can do a lot of things with baking soda.
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Number one: you can put it in your refrigerator if you want to collect all the bad smells
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inside this little box here.
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The baking soda attracts terrible smells.
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If you have a bad spill on your carpet or if you have a child that pees the bed at night,
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you can, you know, put some baking soda on it to absorb and collect liquids and smells.
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So, baking soda is amazing.
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Next, what do we have?
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Rubber gloves, right.
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When you are doing all of that cleaning with those terrible chemicals and you don't want
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your hands to get red and irritated, you need a pair of rubber gloves.
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Now I feel powerful.
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I'm going to keep this on.
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Alright.
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Hey.
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And what would rubber gloves be without their friends, goggles?
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Here, we have some goggles.
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I hope they don't reflect too much in the camera.
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Alright.
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So, when you are cleaning the bathroom and you're using some really high chemical products,
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which is not great for the environment, but what's more important?
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Having a clean toilet or clean air?
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Don't answer that question, it's a terrible question.
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So, rubber gloves, googles, trash cans.
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Or you can say, you know, a trash bin or the bin or the most common way I say it is "the
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garbage".
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Where's the garbage?
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I don't mean, like, the actually dirty stuff that you put in the garbage can or the trash
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can.
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I literally mean the can, the bin.
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So, maybe that's specific to me and a couple of my friends, but I say, "Hey, where's the
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garbage?", or, "Where's the bin", or, "Where's the trash can", alright?
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Brush.
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I have a brush right here.
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Right, so you can use this for many - there's a hair, many hairs - you can use this for
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many purposes, many things.
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Brushing the floor - well, pretty much the floor, right?
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I guess you can use it on top of the kitchen counter as well, or any other area you feel
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needs a good scrub or a good brush.
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Next, we have a mop and bucket.
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So, think of a mop as like a really wet broom.
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You can see it in the picture here.
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That's right, I'm making the editing team work to put a picture right here.
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Mop and the bucket.
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Yes.
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Good.
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Alright.
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Now, you know all these amazing words.
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All these very common household cleaning product words.
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So, you are ready to go out and clean your room, clean your friend's room, clean your
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house, clean your friend's house, help everyone in your neighborhood.
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Hopefully, you feel a lot more confident, a lot more comfortable with the vocabulary
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we have learned in this video.
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And now, you'll be able to understand more when you watch films, when you watch TV shows,
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when you hear conversations out in the street or when you even go shopping for these products.
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You will know what they're called.
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And if you want to test your understanding of a lot of the vocabulary we've covered today,
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as always, you can check out the quiz on www.engvid.com . While you're there, please support us and
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consider making a financial donation to www.engvid.com . And if you want to support me and check
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out what I'm doing, don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel.
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Click that bell and check me out on Facebook and on Twitter, where you can keep in touch
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with me, comment, we can have a little conversation and that's basically it, guys.
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Whew.
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Well, I'm going to go clean some stuff.
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No...
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I don't think I'm going to do that.
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I'm going to say I'm going to do it though, because it makes me sound responsible, which
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I kind of am but kind of am not.
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Sorry, guys.
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Until next time, thanks for clicking and stay clean.
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Bye!
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