Hi friends I'm Sonia and I'm back today with a new lesson for you. So what are we going
to do today? Well, I thought of talking about a very simple word in English. The word make,
because English is such a language which has so many small words which are really useful.
So today let's talk about phrases with the word make. Now normally when someone says,
“make" the only meaning that comes to my mind is to create something. Like I could
say, "I made a cake yesterday" which means I created or I prepared or I cooked a cake,
Right? However, with the word make there are a lot of phrases as you can see that we can
use in our day to day conversation and that is what we are going to discuss today. Alright so are you ready?
Well my first phrase for you is, “to make
a difference" so what does making a difference mean. It means to make a change or to bring
about a change in something. Okay so for example I could say, “exercising and eating healthy,
actually makes a difference to one's body in a positive way." So make a difference means
to make a change or to bring about a change in something or in someone or maybe in a situation.
The next example is, “make a promise" Okay now you want to promise something to someone
when you want to assure someone. So what is meaning of assure? Assure means you are definitely
going to do something for someone. You are going to make a promise. So for example, I
could tell one of my friends that “I make a promise that I will definitely attend your
party tomorrow and I assure you I will definitely attend your party I won't be late and I will
be on time.” The next one is, “to make a fortune" Now
what does this one mean. This is quite an interesting phrase. To make a fortune means
to make a great amount of wealth by your own effort. Ok, so let me write that down, to
make a huge amount of wealth by your own effort. So if you know someone you know who has really
struggled a lot in life and who has put in a lot of effort and now is really wealthy
and is doing extremely well financially, you could say that the person has made a fortune
because they made a huge amount of money by their own effort and hard work. The next one
we here is quite common but it is quite interesting to use also. It says to make a toast. Now
what do I mean when I say make a toast? Am I talking about making bread into a toast
for breakfast? No, I'm not talking about that, we are not talking about cooking at all. But
what we are talking about when we use the word toast over here is an expression of honor.
An expression of goodwill for someone. So imagine if you are at a friend's wedding party
alright, you are his best friend, okay? And you want to express how happy you are, how
glad you are that he is getting married to the love of his life. So what you would so
is when everyone is sitting at the table, you would raise a glass of may be wine or
champagne and you would give a small speech for your friend and talk about how nice a
person he is, how happy you feel for him on that wedding day of his, that is what it means
to make a toast. Okay, so it is an expression of goodwill or honor that is called making
a toast. Not the other one where you take bread and make into a toast and have it for
breakfast, alright, remember that. The next one is very simple, very easy to
do, to make friends. Okay, so that basically means to form a friendship. So if you have
a child who is going to school, it is really important to encourage the children at that
age to make friends and mingle with everyone. So that is when you can tell your kid," well
hey make sure that you make friends in your school so you always have someone to play
with and always someone to take care of you.” So making friends means to form a friendship.
The next one is, “to make the bed" so what does this mean, what comes to your mind? Do
you think it means that you just need to prepare a bed or make a mattress? No it does not mean
that at all. Now if you are someone who sleeps a lot okay and hence is getting late to work
every day. You rush up and you just throw around your bed sheets and everything else
and get ready to come to work. That is not what you should do. You should always make
your bed meaning you should arrange your bed. After you have woken up in the morning, you
should make sure that your bed is proper, the bed sheet and everything is put correctly.
That is when you are making your bed so that it looks neat and tidy. So to make a bed means
to arrange the bed. The next one is to make a discovery. Now what
is a discovery, a discovery is something which is new so when you use a phrase like to make
a discovery, it means to invent something or to find something new. For example you
could use a sentence like, "Well Newton made a discovery that we till date remember and
we are still so very happy that he did make that particular discovery. So to make a discovery
means to invent or to find something new. The last and final one is something that we
should avoid doing but it talks about to make an excuse. Why do we make excuses now? For
all those people who tend to get late to work, for people who forget birthdays, forget anniversaries,
such kind of people really need to make excuses all the time. Making an excuse means to give
a reason for not doing something most of the time. To give a reason for example you could
say my friend Chris he is always late whenever I invite him to a party and somehow or the
other he makes an excuse so that I forgive him. So that is what it means to make excuses,
to give a reason for what you have not done or what you couldn't manage to do in the given
time. So guys these are some of the phrases that we have on the board where you could
use the word make okay, it is common in all of them, but look at the different meanings
that you could actually use them in , the different ways when you speak in your day
to day conversation. Well I do hope that you guys use these phrases in your everyday conversation
and it will really make things so much simpler because remember like I said in the beginning
the English language has so many simple words that we can use and we can use them in different
ways to mean different things. Okay now this brings me to the end of the lesson, I hope
you guys enjoyed watching. I'll be back soon with another lesson, till then keep practicing,
keep watching and do take care of yourself, bye.