Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my channel, Sparkle English,
where I teach you how to improve your level of English. In today's lesson, I'm going to teach
you about 35 of the most common collocations with make. Collocations are common expressions.
At the end of this lesson, we will have a quiz to test your knowledge. So, what are collocations?
A collocation is a group of two or more words that are put together to create a
specific meaning. Essentially, a collocation is a common expression. Using a different combination
of words sounds strange or unnatural. We use the verb make when we are talking about constructing,
building or creating something. For example, you need to make your bed or you need to make the bed.
You can't say you need to do your bed. The expression we use in English is make
the bed. So first, let's talk about collocations with make that are related to food: make
breakfast, make lunch or make dinner. Now the difference between make breakfast and
have breakfast is when we're talking about making something, we're talking about the preparation.
For example, this man is making soup. And having breakfast means we are eating breakfast.
We can say make something for breakfast, lunch or dinner. For example. I'm making pasta for lunch.
Make a cake. Make a sandwich, make a salad. Make a cup of coffee or tea,
make a coffee or make a tea. Let's look at some sentence examples. What are you making for dinner?
Let's make tacos for lunch. I'm going to make coffee for our guests.
Now let's talk about collocations with make related to home or communication. Make the bed.
You can say: you have to make the bed or you have to make your bed or his bed.
Make a phone call. Make a reservation. Make an appointment. Make a decision.
Make a mistake. Make an offer. Make a choice. Make a promise. Make a suggestion. For example.
I have to make an important phone call. She made a doctor's appointment for next Friday.
Can you make a reservation for dinner tomorrow night? She made a mistake on her Spanish test.
Now let's look at collocations with make related to relationships. Make
friends. If you make friends with someone, they become your friend.
You can make somebody happy or angry or sad. For example, this movie is making me angry.
Make plans. Make time for someone or something. Make an exception. Make an effort. Make an excuse.
Make noise. Make trouble. Make a mess. Make sense. For example, we made new friends
at Lauren's party. Let's make plans to see each other on Friday evening.
Uncle Joe makes Aunt Beth really happy. This movie doesn't make sense to me, which means I don't
understand it. Now let's look at collocations with make related to fun or finances. Make a wish. Make
love. Make money. Make a fortune. Make a profit. Make an investment. Make progress. For example,
Emily made a wish when she blew out the candles on her birthday cake. We need to make more money. We
are making progress on the bathroom renovations. So now we're going to do a short quiz.
And you have to fill in each sentence with the correct collocation. We have make plans,
make an excuse, make noise, make a wish, make the bed, make time for someone or something.
And make sure to put the collocation in the correct form. Maybe it's the present tense
or the past tense. Number one. I didn't want to go to the party, so I had to _______. Number
two. Would you like to _______ to go to the museum next Monday? Number three. You should _______ for
studying English. Number four. The children were _______a lot of _______ at the table beside us.
Number five. I always _______ when I wake up in the morning. Number six.
We told the birthday girl to _______ when she blew out the candles on the cake.
So number one, I didn't want to go to the party tomorrow, so I had to make an excuse.
For example, oh, I'm sorry, I already have plans. That would be an excuse. Number two,
would you like to make plans to go to the museum next Monday? Number three, you should make time
for studying English. Number four, the children were making (because we are using the
past continuous tense)... were making a lot of noise at the table beside us.
Number five. I always make the bed, I'd say make the bed or make my bed,
when I wake up in the morning. And finally number six, we told the birthday girl to make a wish
when she blew out the candles on the cake. Okay, so let me know in the comments section how many
you got correct out of six and try to practice writing some sentences with collocations using
make. Thank you guys for watching. Make sure to subscribe to Sparkle English for
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