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Lesson 07 / At home
5 phrases · 12 minutes · Look, listen and try.
Arrange furniture, clean and take care of living space.
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Let us tidy up the living room before our guests arrive.
Let us tidy up the living room before our guests arrive.
My desk is messy. I need to tidy it up.
My desk is messy. I need to tidy it up.
Emphasize making things neat, not necessarily cleaning.
Cambridge Dictionary · tidy up
I spilled some juice. I will clean it up.
I spilled some juice. I will clean it up.
We cleaned up the kitchen after the party.
We cleaned up the kitchen after the party.
Emphasis on treating stains or messes. The pronoun comes between the verb and “up”.
Cambridge Dictionary · clean up
Do not throw away that box. We can use it again.
Do not throw away that box. We can use it again.
This food smells bad. Throw it away.
This food smells bad. Throw it away.
“Throw away” means discard an unwanted item; “put away” means return it to its proper place for storage.
Cambridge Dictionary · throw away
Can you take out the rubbish before dinner?
Can you take out the rubbish before dinner?
Take the empty bottles out of the cupboard.
Take the empty bottles out of the cupboard.
The meaning in the lesson is to take or bring something out of the place where it is contained.
It is dark. Please turn on the lamp.
It is dark. Please turn on the lamp.
The fan is off. Can you turn it on?
The fan is off. Can you turn it on?
Antonym of “turn off”. With pronouns: “turn it on”.
The examples were written for this course. Usage was checked against Matt Errey’s book, pages 131, 22, 131, 129, 134. A2–B1 is the course’s intended level.
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An arranged the books lying haphazardly on the shelf.
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Let us tidy up before our guests arrive.
Let us tidy up before our guests arrive.
I will put the books on the shelf. Can you clean up the spilled juice?
I will put the books on the shelf. Can you clean up the spilled juice?
Yes. Keep the bottles we can reuse; do not throw them away.
Yes. Keep the bottles we can reuse; do not throw them away.
“Tidy up” focuses on putting things in order; “clean up” focuses on removing dirt or dealing with a mess. An orderly room may still need cleaning.
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The answers below are models. Other answers can also work if they preserve the facts, meaning and structure requested in the task.
After a craft session, chairs are scattered and glue covers one table. Useful paper remains on the floor.
Which job concerns arranging the chairs?
Tidy up the chairs.
The scattered chairs need arranging: “tidy up”; removing glue is the cleaning task.
Correct: Do not throw away it; we can reuse it.
Do not throw it away; we can reuse it.
“It” refers to reusable paper, so use “throw it away”; “do not” tells the reader to keep it.
Give two different instructions for the room.
Tidy up the chairs and clean up the glue on the table.
“Tidy up” arranges the chairs, while “clean up” removes the glue: two instructions for different kinds of mess.
The usage comparisons are checked against the Cambridge Dictionary entries linked beside the compared expressions. The additional conversations and exercises are written for this course.
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