Hi and welcome back to Love English. Today we are looking at collocations, in
fact I'll be doing a series of lessons with you looking at various verbs and
the nouns that they collocate with. Why? Because this is going to help you sound
more natural more native and no matter what level you are this is gonna help
you sound much better in English even advanced speakers of English make
mistakes with this verb and sometimes this verb and even this verb these are
such common verbs in the English language but still we make mistakes
now why what is a collocation and why do you make these mistakes well a
collocation is when two words go together, often you have verb +noun
collocations, adjective +noun, verb +adverb all these different kinds of
collocations exist in English but the most common and ones that you frequently
make mistakes with our verb noun collocation z' so to give you an example
homework homework make or do make or do that's right it's do you do your
homework to be honest make is not a verb that
usually collocates with homework unless we're talking about a teacher but even
then I'd say that I'm creating the homework for the students not really
making the homework for the students but there are many verbs that collocate with
homework the most common is do do your homework complete your homework finish
your homework correct your homework hand in your homework get your homework have
homework or for me mark your homework so these are fantastic examples of a verb
noun collocations with homework but remember that if you do say that I made
my homework people will understand you it won't be a problem but they will know
that you are not native it is such a simple mistake to correct and help you
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right let's get started collocation z' with make now remember
make is about creating something that didn't exist before so when you do get
confused between make and do just think about that when you do something it
means it already existed before but make is to create essentially that's why you
would do your homework but you wouldn't make your homework because you don't
create it it's there for you to do in the same way you would of course make a
cake you don't do a cake you create it so make a cake do your homework create
do something that already existed okay number one let's go super fast and in
fact in the comments section below I will copy the whole list if you're brave
enough copy and re paste it into a comment section below and give me some
examples with these collocations number one make a break for it make a break for
the door now this is a great collocation expression in English meaning to run to
go really fast so quick let's make a break for it before she sees us
meaning leave run away number two as I said before you would make a cake make a
cake now of course you can also say bake a cake but you don't do a cake make bake
eat make a cool make a cool make a comment make a comment make a complaint
make a complaint I made a complaint about the noise make
a confession make a confession or make an admission make an admission it was me
I did it I hate your chocolates make a contract make a contract make a cup of
tea make a cup of tea of course you can also make a coffee make a deal make a
deal make a decision of course you could also say it take a decision but this is
generally a little bit more formal and often used in business
situations we need to take a decision quickly make a discovery make a
discovery make a difference make a difference it really made a difference
when she bought some flowers and was so nice to me I felt so much better after
make a dress make some kind of clothes why not make a fool of yourself this
means to do something stupider that you basically you embarrass yourself so to
make a fool of yourself make a fortune make a fortune meaning make lots of
money make a fuss make a fuss meaning to give a lot of tension to
somebody this could be positive or negative so it could be that just that
you're getting stressed about something as well so for example my grandmother
always makes a fuss of me when I go over to see her she loves to give me sweets
cakes chocolates or stop making such a fuss just get your shoes on and let's go
meaning stop being annoying and stressing about doing something make a
habit make a habit don't make a habit of biting your nails make a joke ha ha ha
did I make her loss this is talking about profit obviously you can make a
profit in terms of money with a business but you can also make a loss meaning you
lose money make for love but remember you have sex so make love
have sex different collocations you don't make sex that sounds really
strange make a mess as I frequently do make a mistake make a mistake make a
move this is referring to basically when maybe a guy tries to show that he's
interested in a woman and maybe invite her out for dinner or ask her if she'd
like a drink he was always trying to make a move on me but it really wasn't
interested make money as I said before make money now this is about earning
money not creating money forged money although technically that could also be
the same thing I am referring to the legal kind of making money make a note
of something make a note of something make a point
I made a point of telling him he needs to be on time and future he's always
late make a prediction make a prediction I think you'll have five children make a
presentation make a presentation make a profit make a profit like loss profit
make a recovery she made a quick recovery after the operation we were all
very happy make a reservation hello table for two yes window seat would be
lovely make a rude gesture make a salad make a salad make a sales call make a
sales call hello would you be interested in buying windows with us make a
sandwich make a snack make a sound make a speech
ladies and gentlemen yeah that's it make a statement make a statement make a
suggestion make a takeover bid lots of these can be super useful in business
make a threat I'm gonna punch you in the nose if you eat any more of my chocolate
make amends make amends this is actually a great collocation and much more
advanced meaning to kind of make a situation better when you've had an
argument with someone so if you make amends it basically means that you
forgive each other or you forgive someone and you've solved a problem the
arguments make an agreement make an appearance make an arrangement make an
attempt make an effort come on could you please make an effort
with my new boyfriend I know you'll like him just make a bit of an effort make an
inquiry make an exception make an excuse I didn't do my homework sorry my dog ate
it make an impression hopefully a good one make an objection
I totally object make an observation did you see she looked like she had a
bump do you think she's pregnant make an offer make
Eve make-believe is talking about creating an imaginary situation children
often make believe they create little dream worlds where they are fairies or
princesses or something like this make-believe or you can make someone
believe something if you've told them a lie make them believe it make breakfast
lunch and dinner a meal make changes we need to make some
changes around here make contact make food make friends make
fun of someone what are you wearing you look silly today make furniture make
noise make peace a little bit like make amends make peace with somebody stop
arguing make plans make progress make room in
this case you're saying make some space excuse me could you make some room for
me I really need to sit down makes sense meaning to understand something or to be
understood more clearly I'm sorry I don't understand you you're not making
sense make someone angry make someone sad make someone happy make someone glad
make someone cry make someone mad make something easy it's come on make the
homework easy make sure to be certain make sure making the bed make time make
time for me please make tracks nice expression meaning to go to leave we'd
better make tracks it's getting late make trouble meaning to cause a problem
make war don't do that better to make love not war and of course a great
expression to make up your mind to comment to a decision to choose
something and there we have it a lot of collocations with a make and of course
if there's anything that I've missed comment below share those collocations
that you're not quite sure about and I will confirm and check them and then
I'll add them to my long list in the comment section on collocations with
make thank you so much for watching and we'll be seeing you very