In this lesson, you will learn how to use DO and MAKE correctly. See Also see - MOST COMMON MISTAKES IN ENGLISH & HOW TO AVOID THEM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dax90QyXgI&list=PLmwr9polMHwsR35rD9spEhjFUFa7QblF9 This video will also teach you common expressions including: do exercises, do business, do a favor, make a list, make the bed, do the shopping, make an effort etc. ★★★ Also check out ★★★ ➜ PARTS OF SPEECH (Verb, Noun, Adjective, Adverb etc.): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmwr9polMHwsQmAjoAxtFvwk_PaqQeS68 ➜ WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmwr9polMHwsogkc_bK76YwTmSUIumDBL ➜ PHRASE vs. CLAUSE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z45UdL0WTro&index=5&list=PLmwr9polMHwsogkc_bK76YwTmSUIumDBL ➜ WILL vs. SHALL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwfUXeO3AfU&index=1&list=PLmwr9polMHwsogkc_bK76YwTmSUIumDBL ➜ WHO vs. WHOM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX_E_p4tfW0&index=2&list=PLmwr9polMHwsogkc_bK76YwTmSUIumDBL ➜ SAY, TELL, SPEAK, TALK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90m3SbXQqQ&index=3&list=PLmwr9polMHwsogkc_bK76YwTmSUIumDBL For more FREE English lessons, SUBSCRIBE to this channel. 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?"