APIEVocabulary & Pronunciation: Sanitation
Sanitation and clean toilets
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Sanitation & Clean Toilets
Master key health terms, practical collocations, and confident pronunciation.
💡 How to use this lesson
👩🏫 For Teachers
Guide students through the 10 core words and memory tips during the first 5 minutes.
Allow 10 minutes for interactive practice, then dedicate the final 5 minutes to audio recording and shadowing checks.
🧑🎓 For Learners
Read the word table carefully and use the simple memory tips to fix each term in your mind.
Complete the 16 exercises below, then use the microphone button in the Shadowing section to record your voice.
📚 Word Table
Study these 10 core vocabulary words divided into 3 everyday themes.
Theme 1 Toilets
| Word | Meaning | Common Collocations | Example Sentence | Memory Tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| latrine | a simple toilet outdoors, often a pit in the ground | public latrine, pit latrine | "They dug a clean latrine near the school." | Picture a pit toilet in a rural field. |
| flush | to clean or clear a toilet with a sudden rush of water | flush the toilet, flush water | "Please flush the toilet before you leave." | Sounds like the fast "rush" of water. |
| septic | containing or caused by waste bacteria | septic tank, septic system | "The house needs a new septic tank in the garden." | Think of a sealed waste tank buried underground. |
| cubicle | a small enclosed space or private stall | toilet cubicle, shower cubicle | "She entered the cubicle and locked the door." | Starts with "cube": a small square room. |
Theme 2 The System
| Word | Meaning | Common Collocations | Example Sentence | Memory Tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sewer | an underground pipe that carries wastewater away | sewer pipe, sewer system | "Heavy rain caused the city sewer to overflow." | Flows under the street like an underground river. |
| sanitation | systems that keep places clean and protect public health | sanitation system, public sanitation | "Good sanitation prevents the spread of diseases." | Related to "sanitizer": keeping things clean. |
| plumbing | the network of pipes and fixtures for water in a building | plumbing system, indoor plumbing | "The plumber fixed our home plumbing system." | Connects to a "plumber" fixing water pipes. |
Theme 3 Staying Healthy
| Word | Meaning | Common Collocations | Example Sentence | Memory Tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cholera | a serious stomach disease caused by dirty drinking water | cholera outbreak, spread cholera | "Clean drinking water stops cholera outbreaks." | Associates with polluted water illness. |
| disease | an illness affecting humans, animals, or plants | prevent disease, serious disease | "Washing hands helps prevent dangerous disease." | "Dis-" (not) + "ease" (comfortable/healthy). |
| dirty | not clean; covered with dirt or bacteria | dirty water, dirty hands | "Do not drink dirty water from the river." | Direct opposite of "clean". |
✍️ Practice (16 Items)
Work through these tasks step by step from collocations to sentence building.
Part 1 Collocation Matrix (Items 1–4)
Item 1: Match the verb "flush" to its correct noun phrase.
Item 2: Match the verb "prevent" to its correct noun phrase.
Item 3: Match the verb "clean" to its correct noun phrase.
Item 4: Match the verb "fix" to its correct noun phrase.
Part 2 Gap-fill with Word Bank (Items 5–8)
Word Bank:
Item 5: Dialogue gap-fill
"The school built a new toilet ____ so students have privacy."
Item 6: Sentence gap-fill
"Rats sometimes live in the dark ____ under the city streets."
Item 7: Sentence gap-fill
"Dirty water can easily spread ____ in warm weather."
Item 8: Sentence gap-fill
"The farm is far from the city, so it has its own ____ tank for its waste."
Part 3 Choose the Word (Items 9–12)
Select the single correct word that makes sense in the context of the sentence.
Item 9: Good public ___ stops germs from spreading in town.
Item 10: Do not touch that door handle with ___ hands.
Item 11: The ___ in this old house is so bad that the sink and shower often stop working.
Item 12: Vaccines help protect children against serious ___.
Part 4 Sentence Building (Items 13–16)
Re-order the given words into a grammatically complete, natural sentence.
Item 13: Reorder these 6 words into a complete sentence:
Item 14: Reorder these 5 words into a complete sentence:
Item 15: Reorder these 5 words into a complete sentence:
Item 16: Reorder these 5 words into a complete sentence:
🎙️ Shadowing & Pronunciation Practice
Listen to each target audio clip, repeat out loud, and record your pronunciation.
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