In this lesson, you will learn how to use DO and MAKE correctly.
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Transcript:

Hi and welcome to Learn English Lab. My
name is Ganesh and in this lesson I'm
going to teach you how to use make and
do correctly.

Before we begin
just remember if you have any questions
at all just put them in the comments
section below and I will talk to you
there.

Ok now with make and do if you're like
most students you might have wondered
why do we use make with some
actions and do with other actions.

Well unfortunately there's no single
rule in English that I can give you and
say in all of these situations use make
and in all of these situations use do.

There's no such rule in English. However
there is a simple guideline that you can
follow to make the right choice in most
situations, and that is that we use do
to talk about activities and we use make
to talk about creating, producing or
constructing something.

Let's talk about do first
Now when I say do this verb can occur in
any of these forms - it can occur as do in
the present simple tense, it can occur as
did in the past simple, done is the past
participle form and doing is the -ing or
the continuous form.

One very common use
of do is to talk about jobs or tasks
such as homework. Children have to do
their homework. They don't make their homework
- that doesn't really mean anything,
children do their homework. OK or you
might have to do your housework.

Housework means things around the house -
cleaning washing etc. For example with
dishes or laundry we use do. Let's say
your friend calls you
and your friend asks "Hey what are you
doing?" and you might say "Hey I can't talk
now, I'm doing the dishes" or "I'm doing
the laundry."

Can I call you back later? That means
you're washing the dishes or you're washing
your clothes. You can also do a job or if
you're a businessperson you do business.

We don't use make with any of these. We
also use do to talk about exercise and
physical activities.

It's very important to do exercise
regularly or you might do yoga for
example. You will also find do in
this sort of structure.

You'll have do
and then you'll have a quantity expression like some,
a lot of, a little
bit etc. and then you will have a verb
with -ing like walking, shopping or
sightseeing.

For example, yesterday
evening I had some free time so I did
some walking around the neighborhood. I
did some walking around the neighborhood

Tomorrow if I have time, I might do a
little bit of shopping. When I went to
Spain on vacation with my family,
we did a lot of sightseeing. We did a
lot of sightseeing

So this is a very useful form that you
can use - do and then a quantity
expression like some, a lot of etc. and
then an -ing form. Number three is a very
common expression in English - Can you do
me a favor? Some people make mistakes
with this - they use make sometimes.
That's wrong.

Can you do me a favor? Favor is basically
a way of asking for help
but a favor is a little bit stronger;
the other person might have to make a
lot of effort to do you a favor, and
usually this means that you will return
the favor in some future time.

That is you will help them in return
sometime in the future. The expression is
Can you do me a favor? And finally with
any of these words and all of these talk
about activities in general without
being specific: anything, nothing
something, everything etc. With all of
these we only use do. For example let's
say you meet a friend and you ask that
friend

Hey what are you doing on Saturday? and
your friend says "Oh I'm not doing
anything or I'm doing nothing on
Saturday/" and then you might ask "Oh do
you want to do something?"

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