Today I'm going to talk to you about some common
words that are used with some common verbs.
And those verbs are MAKE and DO.
So stick around. That's coming up.
In today's lesson, I'm going to talk to you about collocations.
Now, you might be wondering...
That's a good question.
Collocations are just words that are frequently used together.
And these are words that you might read
in a story, or you might listen and hear these words just in everyday conversation.
But these are words that you will frequently find together.
And there's many different types of collocations.
You can have an adjective-noun collocation.
You could also have a noun-noun collocation.
Two nouns that are often found together.
Or you can have a verb-noun collocation.
Which is what we're going to discuss today.
Because I'm going to talk to you about the verbs MAKE and DO, and the words
that frequently follow these verbs.
And the reason why you should care is because
it is a fabulous way to build your vocabulary, and
become more comfortable using these words in everyday conversation.
Why just learn one word when you can learn two, three, or four.
And that's going to help improve your overall English fluency.
Collocations is just one way to do that.
Another way to improve your skills, maybe your listening skills, would be to listen to an audio book.
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So let's look at some common collocations, and I want to start with the verb MAKE.
And generally speaking, when we use MAKE, we're talking about things that we create.
Things that we might build.
Keep that in mind as we go through these different
categories, and I talk about these collocations.
First, let's start with food.
Because who doesn't love food.
Now when we're thinking of things that we make, things that we create.
In the morning, I usually make some coffee.
It's the first thing I do in the morning.
And then I make breakfast.
We can also make lunch, and we can make dinner.
Something else that we make...we might make a cake for dessert.
Mmm. Love cake. I'm starting to get hungry now
so I need to start...let's move on and talk about something else.
We can also use make if we're talking about stuff that has been built like a product.
It could be made of something.
Maybe it's made of gold.
That would be really nice, and it's probably expensive.
Or it could be made from something else.
If something is made from grapes.
Like this bottle of wine, that's...
That's already been opened by someone.
What did...when did you open this?
Also when talking about products, we can find out like where something is made.
On tags in our shirts, things will say made in...
I wonder where this one is made.
Can't...what?
Okay, that's not going to work.
I don't know where this is made.
We also use make when talking about plans.
Because you can, well...you can make a plan.
You can make a decision.
And, well maybe if you haven't made a decision somebody might tell you "Make up your mind."
Make a decision. Make up your mind.
Make also helps us talk about reactions.
So for example, something could make you happy.
Like this lesson.
And you can give it a thumbs up if it makes you happy.
I hope not. Maybe it makes you sleepy. I don't know.
Wake up! We're not done yet.
We use make to talk about money.
Yeah, make money. Make a profit.
And with your job we say that's how people make a living make.
Make money.
Some other common expressions with make...you can make a mistake.
You can also make a phone call. You can make a sound.
You can make a promise.
And if you end up breaking that promise, then you can just make an excuse.
There are actually many, many, many, many other collocations with MAKE.
These are just some of them.
A few of them that I think are really common.
So I recommend that you keep studying, keep learning,
and help build, build, build your vocabulary.
So let's have a look at DO and some of the common
collocations with this verb and the nouns that follow.
We use DO, generally speaking, when we're talking about some type of activity.
For example, maybe performing an action.
You can do the dishes
You can do some exercise.
You can also do the laundry.
That reminds me. I need to do some laundry.
We can also use do to talk about some kind of work.
Like you can do your homework.
Or you can do your job.
Or you can even do chores around the house.
Finally, we can use do to talk about nonspecific activities like do something.
Or do anything. Or maybe do everything.
So those are some common collocations with do.
Again, there are others out there, and I think they're
great to learn because it'll just help you expand and build your vocabulary.
So now we're going to do a quick practice, and I'm
going to quiz you on what we just learned.
I'm going to give you a sentence
and I want you to complete the sentence with either MAKE or DO.
So I want you to say out loud which verb would complete the collocation.
And I'm not going to show you the sentence, so this is going to be a bit of a listening exercise.
Which one? Which verb would complete this sentence?
If you're not positive just try and think think of what comes naturally.
And if it helps, try to repeat the whole sentence
and fill in either MAKE or DO.
I'll give you a few moments, and then afterwards I'll go over the answer with you.
Are you ready?
I hope that you do a good job.
Let's begin.
That was pretty cheesy.
So if we're talking about hair and nails
it would be more of an activity, and we would use DO.
Do hair. Do nails. Let's look at the next one.
If we're talking about money, money, money, money, money. We make money.
I hope to make money. I don't know if we'll make a lot of money some day.
Maybe. We'll see. Here's the next one.
Here we are talking about some kind of work.
Remember you do homework.
So in this example...
Do the assignment. Do work.
Here's another.
In this sentence we're talking about a nonspecific activity. Nothing.
So you would do nothing.
At the beach, I don't need to do anything. I just want to do nothing. And relax. Do nothing.
Here's another.
Talking about food...food that I want to eat.
Make. I want to make food. Make some food.
That's wasn't the sentence.
That's what you would. You would make soup. Make lunch.
And I need to make some lunch because I am hungry.
Probably won't make soup. Maybe I'll make a sandwich. Here's another one.
This is a reaction to something.
A reaction that causes a smile.
It's true because when you're on vacation you do nothing.
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So I hope that you'll remember some of these collocations.
And you will continue studying them because it is a great way to build your English vocabulary.
Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you next time.