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hello everyone my name is seema and i'm
here to teach you a new lesson on some
smart expressions with the word
make
now i know this is a very common word
right
so how many of you can tell me
what is the meaning of make
well i'm sure you know
make
generally is used to
explain the word
create you make something you make a
cake right or you produce something
but the great thing about english is
that you don't need to know really big
words to speak good english
even if you know this word you can speak
a lot of english and speak really well
you know how
you simply have to
pair
this word with a preposition
or an adverb
and you will come out with some
really smart expressions by using this
simple word
now in grammar
these smart expressions are also called
as
phrasal verbs
and believe me when you use phrasal
verbs you are gonna sound like a really
fluent speaker in fact a lot of native
speakers frequently use phrasal verbs or
smart expressions with many verbs but
today i will take you through
the expressions with the verb make
the first expression is
make
up
now we have paired
this word make with
the preposition up
okay but now
make will no longer mean create
because now that we've paired these two
words together they come together to
mean something totally different
they mean
to forgive
each other so when i say to make up it
simply means to forgive each other so
how do we use that in a sentence
the couple
decided
to make up
after last night's fight so uh you as
you can see they're
not looking very happy they're quite
angry at each other i'm guessing
the guy probably burned dinner last
night and they had a big fight
so
it's fine now because they have decided
to
make up or they've decided to forgive
each other
we can use it in another sentence by
saying
why don't we just make up and forget
everything that happened
okay so
another couple or maybe just friends
they're obviously going through a
disagreement of some sort
but
they want to just make up
they want to forgive each other and
forget everything that happened they
want to make it right right so that is
make up for you
okay we have another expression which is
make
up
for
now
please note that we have make up
but we also have another preposition so
we've got two prepositions and the
expression is make up for
it means to
compensate or it means to repay
or it means to reimburse now what do you
mean by these words they all mean the
same thing right i mean each of these
words they mean the exact same thing but
what does it mean to compensate or repay
or reimburse
so compensate means
to make sure
that a loss
is kind of
not going to affect you so much so let's
say for example you are in a business
and the business is not doing too well
but you want to compensate
by kind of working extra or maybe making
better investments so you are going to
make sure that you repay or you
compensate by reducing the loss okay
let's look at it in a sentence
so you say i didn't exercise
last week
but this week i made up
for it
so what happened here last week you
didn't exercise so there was some loss
what was the loss the loss was that your
diet plan did not really go
in the direction that you wanted it to
do
but you made up for it uh i have
mentioned the word made up because it
happens to be the past tense
of the word
make okay so you've got to also pay
attention to the tense if you are saying
a sentence in the past tense or
referring to something
in the past like last week then you will
use made up you will change the form but
the expression essentially stays the
same
okay then we have another sentence to
help you ex understand this a little
better you could say we need to
make up
for the loss due to negligence so over
here we've got some gentlemen sitting in
an office in a board meeting discussing
their work
and i'm assuming that they're probably
going through a certain financial loss
in their company but they want to
make up for
the loss due to their negligence they
wanna compensate they wanna repay they
wanna reimburse and see how they can
make it right
okay our next expression is
make
off
another preposition used with the word
make to give you another smart
expression so what does that mean it
means to understand
or to make
sense of something
both of these
expressions mean the same thing when you
understand something
you kind of see things more clearly when
you can make sense of something you kind
of see things more clearly and how to
use that in a sentence
you could say i don't know what to make
of
his behavior
so this guy out here is quite
strange he's quite erratic and he's
probably not behaving like he usually
does so you're simply saying
i don't know what to make of his
behavior i don't understand his behavior
it just means that you're not able to
make sense of his behavior okay so you
must use the sentence very often and
this expression
you can also say
miss rhea is quite strange
what do you make of her
so
we've got this lady here and she's
obviously very different she's very
unconventional
and
you don't understand her personality and
when that happens you can always say oh
did you see that girl she's a little
different what do you make of her that's
one way of expressing that you don't
understand something so make off is
basically used to say that you
understand or you can make sense of
something
and that's how you use it in a sentence
we have another expression which is make
out
okay what does that mean it means to see
things clearly it means to
see things for what they really are
now i want to ask you a question
can you see that gentleman over there
i can't i mean he could be anybody he
could be a friend he could be
you know a movie star he could be
anybody well why can't i not see him
because he's standing out there in the
dark so i would say it's hard to
make out who's standing in the shadows
so when you cannot see things clearly
it means that you cannot make out things
very well
or
if your handwriting is like mine this is
actually very close to the way i write
which is why we've now used the digital
screen as you can see
you can say something like no one can
make out which means no one can clearly
see or
figure out my handwriting in fact the
other phrasal word
for this would also be figure out
so
you have another one for you as well
okay all right then let's move on to the
next one which is make up things
now here
we've used make with the preposition
but the word things happens to be a noun
now why have we used this because we're
making up what we're making up things
and what does that really mean it means
to tell lies it means to cook up stories
you know we cook food but there are some
people in fact a lot of people who love
to cook up stories in fact cook up is
also an expression to say that you're
just making up things you're just
telling lies you're not telling the
truth so let's see how we can use that
in a sentence
okay so
he made up things
when he was questioned for being late
okay so as you can see
here's the boss and here's the employee
and this employee seems to have a
problem with coming on time to work
and i'm assuming that this is not the
first time he was questioned right so
what does he do he makes up things he
cooks up stories
one day he might tell the boss that he
had to run an errand the other day he
might just tell his boss that you know
he met with an accident but in reality
i'm pretty sure he just woke up late
he's making up things he's making up
stories
okay and we have another sentence here
which says
stop making up things
i know it was you
now when you want to you know call out
people for
something that they are doing especially
when they're telling lies you can
straight off tell them that stop lying
stop
making up things
i know it was you as you can see that
the mother over here is reprimanding her
child because she obviously believes
that the child was telling lies about
something
we now have another expression which is
make
off
what does that mean it means to
hurry up
or to escape with something obviously
when you're escaping or hiring off it
means that you are
running away from something right and
that is pretty much what the expression
make off means
so we have a sentence here which says
the pick pocket
made off with the wallet
there's no way we can find them now
which is true
if you are on a you know on the street
late at night possibly you shouldn't
really go alone because
this is something that could happen to
you
a pickpocket will take your wallet and
it he will make off which means he will
just
run away
or just
hurry off with your wallet and you will
never ever find him or her right so
that's the meaning of make off
and then you have another sentence which
says let's make off before anyone finds
out so i love this picture because there
are these are two siblings i guess and
they're kind of doing something very
naughty here they're possibly
pranking someone but they want to make
sure no one finds out so they want to
make off
they want to run away they want to hurry
away before anyone finds out what
they've been up to which is not a very
good thing that they've been up to
okay then we have another expression
which is
make for
another preposition which is for
and the meaning of make four is to move
two words to move in a certain direction
uh it could also mean to head for a
certain direction so they both mean the
same thing and they are
the meaning for this expression
in a sentence you could say
please make for
the door to your left to find your room
i think this is a really good expression
to use in a formal situation so if you
are kind of showing a visitor in your
office
where to go and how to go if you're
giving instructions about where they
have to go you can use this expression
by saying sir why don't you make for the
room on your left that's the conference
room so this is a very good expression
as you can see there is a hotel manager
who is explaining
directions to his guests
or
if you are at work and you want to head
toward your home or you want to go home
you will say i have to make for home or
my mom will be worried well i have to
say this all the time because i always
get laid at work so i want to make for
home
okay the other expression is
make do
okay now what does this expression mean
do is actually another word
but we are pairing it with make to give
you a great phrasal verb which means to
adjust
or to compromise
so what does that really mean when i say
to adjust it basically means i have to
make do
with or use whatever little i have so
and then in a sentence you could say
we have to make do
with whatever little we have
so i'm assuming that they're not going
through a great time financially
they have a very tight budget
but they have to possibly use
a little of what they have
and do the best that they can with what
they have so maybe they are just earning
like maybe 200 a week but they have to
do everything with what they have so
they've got to make do with just that
much of money okay so these are the
various expressions with
make and i'm sure if you use these
expressions your english will sound so
much better so i would urge you to keep
practicing and to keep learning in fact
i will want all of you to put in your
comments and show me how you can use
each of these expressions or maybe at
least two of them to see how much you
know okay so i'll be back with some more
lessons until then this is me saying
keep practicing and keep learning