了解今日课堂：

Dialogue:

men, and housekeeping services page 2 of 3

dialogue 1

Jingjing: Mark, do you ______ at home or do you ______ and do it?

Mark: I'd______ if I knew who to call. Anyone______?

Jingjing: Sorry, but no. I'm ______.

Mark: The topic of______? I started on my kitchen______, after the plumber came over. I spent the whole afternoon and ______.

Jingjing: I bet your kitchen ______!

Mark: And______! No more______.

Jingjing: So, here's ______about this topic: I'll ______ for you.

Mark: OK; ______.

Jingjing: Would you ______ and do the cleaning you need, or ______?

Mark: ______, I'd rather ______came over.

Jingjing: ______? Do you think ______?

Mark: Possibly. If he's ______, he might finish it as quickly as possible, so he could go to another house and ______.

Jingjing: You don't think______?

Mark: Some would, very possibly just______. Anyway, you asked me if I thought men would work harder and, my answer was, ______—but I'd have to______ and wouldn't be surprised to______.

Jingjing: So, you think women are more______, right?

Mark: Are you fishing for______, Jingjing? I thought you ______.

Jingjing: OK, OK. But I'd still like to know why you said you'd______.

Mark: It's just like, when I ______, I see a dirty stove, ______, and radiators with lots of dust behind them.

Jingjing: And you'd feel better about______ those trouble spots to______.

Mark: ______, but, yes.

dialogue 2

Jingjing: Mark, I've just been reading about ______ in Hangzhou who______.

Mark: Oh yeah? What's ______?

Jingjing: Just as we were talking about, men are ______ traditionally occupied by women. The advantage they______ is being able to move heavy furniture and ______.

Mark: That's what people need. Either someone has enough money for ______or they ______, right?

Jingjing: I think it makes more sense in China for young men to ______ and ______ specialists in bathrooms, kitchens, balconies—you know, places that are hard to reach and can ______ after a year or longer.

Mark: Why is that?

Jingjing: Not because of______—just because lots of people ______who do a good deal of housework.

Mark: That reminds me of______.

Jingjing: I think you told me about that. It was an______, right?

Mark: The lady and her grandson ______.

Jingjing: Except ______, I imagine.

Mark: ______ when needed, of course.

Jingjing: And______?

Mark: The only other service I saw them______ was a yearly ______. It was 100yuan to ______ the vent tube, and thoroughly clean the hood.

Jingjing: That's the kind of business that's really ______. According to what I read, 300 new companies ______ in the past couple of years.

Mark: And ______ are male?

Jingjing: You ______.

new words and phrases

detail oriented:

gender stereotype:

<be> above <something>:

octogenarian:

70+ septuagenarian

90+ nonagenarian

100+ centagenarian (used informally, doesn't come from Latin in the same way as these others)

refit:

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