Most children don’t enjoy doing housework. They like playing computer games rather than cleaning the rooms.

大多数孩子不喜欢做家务。他们喜欢玩电脑游戏而不是打扫房间。

重点词汇：enjoy doing sth:喜欢做某事；housework:家务，（不可数名词）；rather than:而不是；

But in Australia, Jim and Robert’s mother, Mrs Black, has good and proper methods to get their children to do housework. Here is an example.

但在澳大利亚，吉姆和罗伯特的母亲布莱克夫人有很好的方法让孩子们做家务。下面是一个例子。

重点词汇：Australia：澳大利亚；proper：适当的，正确的；get sb to do sth:使某人做某事；do housework:做家务；

“Mum, have you worked out next week’s housework? Let Jim and me choose the cards I can’t wait. It’s fun!”

“妈妈，你安排好下周的家务了吗？让吉姆和我选择我迫不及待想要的卡片。很有趣！”

重点词汇：work out:制定（方案，计划）；想出，得到（解决方法）；解出，算出（题目）；锻炼身体；choose：<vt>选择, choice:<n>选择，make a choice作出选择；fun:<n>乐趣，不可数名词，have fun doing sth:做某事很有趣；

When Robert shouted out, his mother had already put all the cards on their big table. On the cards, there are some words like these, “sweep the floor, clean your bedroom, help mum cook, wash vegetables, make beds, feed the fish, cut the wood, clean the bathroom” and many others.

当罗伯特大喊时，他妈妈已经把所有的牌都放在他们的大桌子上了。卡片上有这样一些词：“扫地，打扫卧室，帮妈妈做饭，洗蔬菜，铺床，喂鱼，砍柴，打扫浴室”等等。

重点词汇：shout:大声说/喊; 斥责，怒骂；shout at sb: 大声斥责某人；shout out: 大声喊出；sweep：打扫；bedroom：卧室；make beds ：铺床；feed:<v>喂养，饲养；养活；提供；feed sth to sb:给某人喂养；feed on: 以…为食；wood：木头；woods:小树林；

Jim and Robert chose two cards for each day from Monday to Friday. Then they would hang them on the week day task board. Jim likes to clean the bathroom, so he picked up the card “clean the bathroom”.

吉姆和罗伯特从周一到周五每天选两张卡片。然后他们会把它们挂在工作日任务板上。吉姆喜欢打扫浴室，所以他拿起了“打扫浴室”的卡片。

重点词汇：hang: 悬挂，下垂；绞死；pick up: 捡起，拾起；开车接某人/某物；偶然获得/学到…;

Robert loves to make the bed so he picked up his favorite card. Jim again picked up “wash vegetables” and Robert chose “feed the fish”. Soon the two boys were happy to take away all the cards

罗伯特喜欢铺床，所以他拿起了他最喜欢的卡片。吉姆又拿起了“洗菜”，罗伯特选择了“喂鱼”。很快，两个男孩高兴地拿走了所有的卡片

To help the children do housework, their mother thought hard and came up with this idea. Of    course, the parents did the housework on the weekends and left Jim and Robert two days free.

为了帮助孩子们做家务，他们的母亲苦思冥想，想出了这个主意。当然，父母在周末做家务，让吉姆和罗伯特有两天空闲。

重点词汇：take away:拿走，带走；help:<vt/n>帮忙，help sb do sth:帮助某人做某事； come up with: 想出，提出（计划，方案）