A House Husband
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 766.
Word Building 1
Fill in each space with an appropriate word from the list, forming a compound noun. The first (0) is given as an example.
| word table worker washing piece meal time wife book up electrical washer computer sitter house |
My wife is a social worker (0) and she works for the local council and has a very busy time ____________ (1) every day. She obviously can't be in full-____________ (2) work and be a house____________ (3) at the same time. This means I've been a ____________ (4) husband for many years now, because my job as a text ____________ (5) writer for students of English can be done home working on a personal ____________ (6). As we can't afford a baby-____________ (7) I'm in charge of the baby as well as having to do all the cooking and washing-____________ (8). My job is made much easier by the variety of ____________ (9) goods available – I just put all the dirty plates in the dish____________ (10) and the baby's clothes in the ____________ (11) machine and away I go. I'm free to produce yet another master ____________ (12) for students on my ____________ (13) processor. When my wife comes home at three she has a ready-made ____________ (14) to look forward to. Not bad, eh?
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