Daily Reading Practice · Beginner passage
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In my family, everyone helps with jobs at home. “Does your mother cookcook (verb)To prepare food by heating it.≈ Synonym: prepare food🇺🇿UZ: pishirmoq, ovqat tayyorlamoq🇷🇺RU: готовить (еду) dinner every day?” my friend John asks me. “Yes, she does,” I say. “She cooks dinner every evening. She also washeswash (verb)To clean something with water.≈ Synonym: clean🇺🇿UZ: yuvmoq🇷🇺RU: мыть the dishesdish (noun)A plate or bowl used for food.≈ Synonym: plate🇺🇿UZ: idish, tarelka🇷🇺RU: посуда after we eat.”
“Does your father cleanclean (verb)To make something free of dirt.≈ Synonym: tidy🇺🇿UZ: tozalamoq🇷🇺RU: убирать the house?” “No, he doesn't clean much. But he does the shoppingshopping (noun)The activity of buying things.≈ Synonym: —🇺🇿UZ: xarid qilish🇷🇺RU: покупки every weekend, and he washes the car on Sundays.”
“What about you? Do you help at home?” “Yes, I do. I make my bed every morning, and I sometimes cook breakfast. Does your family shareshare (verb)To divide something between people, or do something together.≈ Synonym: divide🇺🇿UZ: bo'lishmoq🇷🇺RU: делить(ся) the jobs at home too?”
“Yes, we do,” John says. “My mother doesn't like cleaning, so my father usually cleans the bathroombathroom (noun)A room with a bath, shower, or toilet.≈ Synonym: —🇺🇿UZ: hammom, vannaxona🇷🇺RU: ванная комната and the kitchenkitchen (noun)A room where you cook food.≈ Synonym: —🇺🇿UZ: oshxona🇷🇺RU: кухня. I walk our dog every day, and my sister feedsfeed (verb)To give food to a person or animal.≈ Synonym: give food to🇺🇿UZ: ovqatlantirmoq🇷🇺RU: кормить our cat.”
“Does your sister enjoyenjoy (verb)To get pleasure from something.≈ Synonym: like🇺🇿UZ: yoqtirmoq, zavqlanmoq🇷🇺RU: наслаждаться feeding the cat?” “Yes, she does. She loves animalsanimal (noun)A living creature, like a dog or cat.≈ Synonym: creature🇺🇿UZ: hayvon🇷🇺RU: животное.”
It's interestinginteresting (adj)Making you want to know more.≈ Synonym: fascinating🇺🇿UZ: qiziqarli🇷🇺RU: интересный — every family shares jobs in a different way. In my family, my mother cooks, my father shops, and I clean my room. Sharing jobs at home helps everyone, and nobodynobody (pron)No person; not anybody.≈ Synonym: no one🇺🇿UZ: hech kim🇷🇺RU: никто feels tiredtired (adj)Needing rest or sleep; not having energy.≈ Synonym: exhausted🇺🇿UZ: charchagan🇷🇺RU: усталый all the time.