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Welcome back to another lesson with me Tom. Today we're looking at two words that cause
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so many problems for anyone learning English. Make and Do. When do we use these words and
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why do we use them? Today, we are going to find out.
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Ok, let's start with do. Now we use do when we are talking about indefinite activities.
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Words such as something, anything, nothing. For example 'I did nothing at work today'.
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Another example 'Did you do anything at the weekend?' So we are using anything there.
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I'm not sure what activities we are talking about here so I have used anything and with
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anything I use do. Or you might say to someone 'Hey let's do something this weekend.' Let's
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do an activity, I don't know what but something. So something, nothing, anything we are using
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do. We also use do with tasks or work. For example 'I did the shopping yesterday.' This
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is a task, something that I have to do. Or you might do the washing up. Which is to clean
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your plates, your knives, your forks etc. So to do the washing up. So we are using do
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with some kind of work or some kind of task. Ok, let's look at make. With make we are constructing
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or creating something. So for example 'Let's make a cake'. Let's build it, let's create
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it together. Now there are lots of fixed expressions that fall outside those definitions. So those
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are useful to guide us but they are not going to help us with every example. There are many
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phrases you just have to learn by heart, ok? You just have to learn them as you go and
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remember them. I'm going to throw up a word onto the screen and I'm going to give you
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about two seconds to decide whether you use make or do with this word. Ok, are you ready?
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Let's go. Yoga.
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Alright, we do yoga. 'I've been doing yoga since I was a teenager.'
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Friends.
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Alright, we make friends. 'Going to an English class is a great way to make friends.'
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A mistake.
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Ok, we make a mistake. 'Everybody makes mistakes'
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An exam.
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Ok, yes we do an exam. This one is
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often mistaken. I remember lots of my students making this mistake. There we go make a mistake.
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This one is to do an exam. You can take an exam as well, of course but you can do an exam.
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'I'm doing an exam this Friday.'
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Somebody a favour.
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Ok, we do someone a favour. That
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means you do something that is helpful for them. So maybe it's babysit their child or
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hold something or go and pick up something from the post office I don't know but you
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do something helpful for them. 'Can you do me a favour and give me a lift to the airport?'
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Fun of someone.
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Yeah, we make fun of someone. This is to tease them, to make a joke about
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them. So 'My mates always made fun of my hair.' I used to have very bad hair, it's true. Ok,
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love
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That's right. We make love. This is to have sex with your partner. To make love. 'They made love
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while on honeymoon.'
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The shopping.
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Ok, we do the shopping. This is to go to the supermarket.
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We are not talking about buying clothes or an expensive car or whatever. This is about
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buying food from a supermarket. To do your shopping. Maybe it's also cleaning products
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and just things you need for the house. 'I do the shopping every Saturday.'
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A suggestion.
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It's make a suggestion. Yep, we make a suggestion so to put forward an idea. To give your idea
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about something, a recommendation or something. 'Can I make a suggestion guys that we take
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umbrellas because I think it's going to rain.'
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Ok, so those are some examples of do and make.
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Now on the screen I'm going to throw up several more examples. I want you to have a look,
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try and remember them and then I'm going to give you a little test, ok? I know how much
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you guys love these little tests. I'm going to put up a sentence with a gap and you have
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to decide is it make or do? Now be careful, it could be in the past tense or the present
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perfect tense so you have to be careful. Remember do in the past is did and the past participle
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done. So do did done. With make it's make, made, made so make in the infinitive, made
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in the past and made in the past participle. Ok, so first of all here are some other examples
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of when to use make and when to use do.
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Ok, now you've looked at that. Let's do a test.
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How was that guys? How did you do? If you didn't get them all correct, don't worry.
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Go back revise what we have learned today and then do the test again. And then when
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you are ready in the comments below I want you to write some practice sentences with
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the phrases that maybe you didn't know so well. So if you haven't seen make a mistake
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then in the comments below write a sentence with make a mistake. I hope you enjoyed that
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guys. Give this video a big thumbs up, share it with anyone you know that is trying to
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learn English. If you are an English teacher. Please use this video in your class. I would
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love that. I would love to hear how it was. My voice is going. Yeah, it's disappearing
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disappearing on me so I better go. This is Tom the Chief Dreamer saying goodbye.