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Make a copy of this letter. Once my dad and I made a boat.
Dad makes wonderful omelettes. Shall I make a cake?
Do something! She’s always making crazy plans.
Could you do the ironing? He did something really funny.
He likes doing nothing. Time to do some work.
I love making model aeroplanes. We did a lot of walking.
I must do the accounts What shall we do now?
1) Do we use do or make ...
- to talk about work?
- to talk about building and creating things
- when we don’t indicate exactly the activity
- before determiner +ing form, for longer or repeated activities e.g. jobs and hobbies?
Learn these fixed expressions.
do: good, harm, business, one’s best, (someone) a favour, one’s hair, one’s duty, 100kph/mph
make: an attempt, an effort, an offer, an excuse, a suggestion, a decision, an exception, enquiries, a phone call, a mistake, a fuss, a noise, arrangements, a journey, progress, money, a profit, a fortune, love, a bed a fire, war, peace
2) Complete these sentences.
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