Doing the laundry

Make household chores into a fun opportunity to practise English with your child! Here are our top tips for doing the laundry.

Household chores can be a fun opportunity to practise English with your child.
When you are doing the laundry, talk to your child about the colours and fabrics (cotton, wool, etc.) of the clothes.
Later when you are sorting the clean washing you can practise language for clothes and possessives ('This is Mum's top.' or 'These are Jenny's socks.').
You can download and print a set of clothes flashcards. Play games with the flashcards to practise clothes vocabulary.
Talk to your child about their favourite clothes.
Encourage older children to write about their clothes on our Clothes Your turn.

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