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Vocabulary: clean or dirty

"Go and have a shower!", "Have you washed your hands?" "I'm fed up with the dirty fingermarks you leave everywhere!", "Hum hum ... Looks as if your feet are dirty...", "You nails need cutting and cleaning!" How many sentences are said and repeated, in every language, before cleanness and cleanliness are (more or less) acquired... and how many sentences before our kids' rooms are tidied up and cleaned?

Cleanliness and cleanness, for "Man cubs" are neither innate nor acquired easily as they are, they say, for cats... ! Parents have to say, repeat, show, and repeat again!... if they are lucky enough to know the vocabulary in use...

Cleanness Lots of germs being transmitted... Cleanliness

clean	sparkling clean
cleanness	cleanliness
wash (soap)/ rub/ scrub	rinse -> dry
neat	neat as a new pin
spotless/ immaculate/ to be spick and span	to be tidy/ untidy
to be tidy/ to be orderly	to be neat and tidy
to put things away/ do some tidying up	to mess up a room
to be a shambles	upside-down/ higgledy-piggledy

dirty	dirt/ grime
to dirty	to get dirty/ to dirty oneself
to get dirty/ to get soiled	this material shows the dirt
filth=> to be filthy	this material soils (gets dirty) easily
disgusting	foul

Untidy /// Tidy... Tidy room/ tidy work => tidy mind!

grease=> greasy	dust=> dusty
mud=> muddy	sticky
a smear	a mark
to make a mess	fingermarks
soiled	to stain/ a stain/ a spot

They're muddy... Sticky fingers...

rubbish (BE)/ trash (US) (singulier)	kitchen waste/ household refuse
litter (singulier)	a dustbin= a rubbish bin (BE)
a trash can/ a garbage can (US)	a rubbish chute/ garbage chute
a waste disposal unit/ a grinder	to throw stg in the dustbin

A rubbish bin/ a garbage can Litter A rubbish/ garbage chute

Here was the necessary vocabulary to talk precisely about « clean ou dirty » ... I'm sure your success will be great... Good luck!

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1.'Lucy, I wish you were now... You’re very good at your room... If only you could after playing, that would be great! '

2.'I love this dress, but the material easily and it’s already after a few hours...I’ll go and change!'

3.'Oh dear! Lucy! Look at your brand new jumper... there’s a of chocolate right in the middle, some chocolate on the left sleeve, and a huge on the right one! We can call it ' your chocolate jumper '.'

4.'Don’t put anything in the sink, please, the is clogged again and will be repaired tomorrow morning!'

5.'Can you check whether the have been emptied or not, please? I couldn’t hear the dustmen today...'

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION : http://www.who.int/gpsc/clean_hands_protection/en/

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