"To be or not to be?"
that is the qu-... No, it's not the question. You are here to learn a lesson. Hi. I'm James from engVid, and today's
lesson is going to be on "do" or "make". Well, why am I
doing this lesson? Many students make a mistake
with these two verbs. Okay? And the problem is native speakers almost
never make this mistake, and as soon as you make this mistake we will know that you are
just learning English or low-level English. So this lesson will help you fully understand
how to use it so that you can start speaking like a native
speaker right away. Now, in order to do that we have to clearly know
what the difference is between "do" and "make", and then give examples
of how we use them. I'll also give you collocations. Collocations are words that go with "do" and
"make" regularly so you know even if you're having a difficult time, when you say something
like: "cake", you're going to say "do" or "make". Let's find out in five
seconds, shall we? Let's go to the board where I'll break down
what "do" is and give you examples; what "make" is, give you examples; then I'll give you
those collocations and a short quiz. All right. E, what is it, "do" or "make"? When I makes me a cake, do I do
me a cake or make me a cake? Well, let's find out. If an action is repetitive, something you
do on a regular basis, we're going to use the verb "do". Now, I should note very quickly here I am
not going to talk on the auxiliary, like: "Do you like that?" I'm not going to ask
these questions. We have other videos, so please go to engVid,
go check them out, and they'll clearly do... Do, [laughs]. Show you the uses of "do"
as the auxiliary. Okay? This is specifically
how you understand it. If something is done repetitively, we use "do",
which is true for most simple present verbs. When we talk in the simple present
it's about repeated actions. So, "do" is no
different from that. Okay? Obligation. An obligation might be something
like I do homework every night. It's a thing I must do. Okay? So we use it for obligation. Multiple actions. Now, listen to me carefully. "I do the dishes." I'll give you a visual representation or a
visual picture of it in a second, but I want you to understand the concept. A lot of times in English we
use what's called "shorthand". Instead of saying every verb that I'm
going to do, what I do is I use... Or I even said it here,
replacing verbs. We put the verb "do" in and it talks
about several actions in one go. Here's an example for you: When I do the dishes,
I wash them, I dry them, I put them away. Notice there are three verbs. I don't want to say when someone says,
like E goes: "Did you do the dishes?" Go: "Yes, I wash the dishes, I dry
the dishes, I put the dishes away." They'll go: -"You new
to Canada, correct?" -"Yes, very correct." Okay, so I said: "I'll do the
dishes" or "I do the dishes". So, even under obligation I said: "I do the
dishes every night", that's my obligation. And it's these actions
I'm talking about. Repetitive because I do it
every night, I repeat it. Okay? Multiple actions, so I've just went
through, and replacement of verbs. This is similar to multiple actions, but you
can use the verb "to do" to replace one verb, like: "Hey, man. I got
to do my hair tonight." That means "fix", that might be cut my hair,
it might be wash my hair, but when I got to do my hair, I got to do
my hair, and do my nails. That means cut and clean. It's not saying multiple verbs. It's just replacing one verb, but we can put
"do" in there and it replaces that verb, and we understand what it means. Is there something
you have to do? Okay, I've killed that. Right? So why don't we go to "make"? "Make". "Make" is create, when
you create something. Creation comes from it didn't
exist and now it does. You create. That's making. And when I say "create", there's a
big difference between the two. Okay? Notice when we talked about "do" we talked about
repetitive, obligation, multiple actions, dah-dah-dah-dah. It's a verb of action and so is "make", but
the difference is this: When I talk about "do", you can't see it. Sorry, you can see it,
but you can't touch it. You can see me washing, but you
can't touch me washing the dishes. It doesn't make sense. You can see me washing the dishes, but you
can't touch and go: "Now I have dry." It's like: You can't have dry. It's the action that I'm
actually doing. Okay? So when you keep these... This in mind, yes, they're verbs of action and
that's why you get confused, I understand, but just keep in mind generally speaking with
"do" you can see it, but you can't touch it. And why am I bringing
that back up? Because with "make" it's
almost the opposite. When you create something it's in your
hand, I can touch it, like this pen. I made this pen, you can see it. If you said: "Do
you do this pen?" It doesn't make sense to me. I'm like: "It's in my hand, man. I made it. It's done." Right? How do you make a pen? That's different. All right? Something you choose. Huh? You choose. Make a decision already! Right? You got to choose it. Right? Make a decision. I have to put this one in here because you go:
"Ah, well, you make a decision, I don't see it. I don't see any decision." But yeah, I have made up my mind, I've made a
decision to make one path instead of another one, and that will
follow through. Right? Produce, well, similar to "create", but you
know, when you make cars, it's regularly doing it but you can see products
coming out, like we make pens. Okay? So it's not... "Create" is like the first
time you created something. The guy who made the
first Apple computer. Right? He created it. It was the first one, created. But now he's producing them, he's making them,
he's making many of them, more of them and you can see them. Speaking. Are you like a dog? "Roof, roof". No. Speaking. It's been a little while, but there
was a guy called Obama, Barack Obama. Don't know if you've
heard of him. Anyway, he made a speech, and he
said: "Yes we can" in the speech. Notice how I said: He didn't
do a speech, he made a speech. Okay? Because he produced ideas. There comes that word again,
another word going back. As he spoke, these ideas were produced
and people could understand them. He even created a
new environment. So when we use "make" we
can use it for speaking. "Hey, don't make a noise." See? Okay? Or: "Did you make a comment?" In each of these cases you cannot say "do",
you have to say "make" because something is created or something
is produced. In this case, a sound. So that's why we talk about "make" as in creating
something for the first time; choosing something, make your mind up,
make a decision. Producing, continually
making something. So after you've created the first one, we
keep producing them, keep making them. And speaking because noise is a sound
and make it, and is a product. It may not be physical you can touch,
but it's something that's there. Cool? All right, and that's difference from
just seeing the actions from "do". Generally speaking, when you
make something you can touch it. I have to say generally because when I'm speaking
like making a speech now, you can't touch my words, but you can
catch the sound. Right? That's how we record things. So, when we look over here, you
can touch it, you make a cake. Birthday cake, you make one. You don't do it. You make money. I got no money. I was looking for some. I haven't make any money. I might have to do something
to make some money. Right? Notice how I used that? Do something, several actions in order to
get money, make it so I can show it to you which I can't right now. I need you to remember this before we go to
the next board where I'm going to show you some common collocations. Okay? And collocations are
basically words that go together. There are words that go with "do" and there are
words that go with "make", and this will help you. Remember I said I want
you to understand? This will help make it easier for you
that when you hear this word, you go: "This is the word that goes with 'make'", or
"This is the word that goes with 'do'", okay? And you'll soon
master our language. So give me a sec and
we'll get up there. And don't forget native speakers always get this
right, and so will you in about two seconds. [Snaps] And time to do collocations. Collocations, as I mentioned before-remember?-it's
words that usually go together. In this case I picked a few that I know you'll
hear once you learn English or if you're in an English-speaking country, you'll
hear people use these words a lot. So let's go to the board. I'll start off with
"do" and housework. Another word for
"housework" is "chores". You might hear a young kid say:
"I got chores to do tonight, man. I can't come out and play." Or you go: "My household
chores takes so long." Chores is basically a job you have
to do and you don't get paid for it. So if you hear about chore, it's in your house
or something you do, and you don't get paid for. You don't have chores at work. Keep that in mind. Okay? Just a new vocabulary
word for you. And let's go to the board. "Do the dishes". Do you remember when I said that if you do
something and you repeatedly have to do it, repetitive manner, you do the dishes
and I showed you wash, dry, put away? That's an example
of multiple verbs. "Do the laundry"
is the same thing. You put the clothes in the washing machine,
you wash them, you put them in the dryer or you hang them up, then you
fold them and put them away. You'll notice that I said: "put", "fold",
different verbs, another replacement. "Do the yard work". Yard? Yarrr. I'm not a pirate. Yard, we call it the
yard as in the backyard. When you have a house... I'm sure it's the same most places,
but we can't say it's everywhere. You have your little
house here, okay? You have some land
here and here. This is in the front,
this is in the back. Each part is called the yard. Front yard. Right? Where you usually
have grass, maybe a tree. If you're lucky, an apple tree
if you're George Washington. But you'll have a tree, some
grass, and you can play. The children can play soccer
or football, or what have you. Okay? When you do the yard work sometimes it's cutting
the grass, or it's playing with the flowers, or you know, playing... You know, you're playing with the flowers,
pulling out weeds, you know, things from the plants. Doing yard work means to clean
this area to make it look good. It's like getting
your hair done. You know what I'm saying? Okay, anyway, so you clean your house, the
front and the back is to "do the yard word". This is for housework, but you don't
just live in your house, you also work. And when we work... Oh, sorry, I've got one before
I forget, I put it in orange. This is not for
"Robin and Batman". This is for "Ronnie". Here's one we got called "make the bed", this
usually goes with housework, but it actually sits on the "make" side. I'd love to go into
great detail on it. Actually, I'll give you my simple explanation
in a second, but what I want to point out is if you need further information on some of
these, go check out Ronnie's video on housework, and "do" and "make", okay? My idea for make the bed I'll tell
you when we get here with "make". Now we go back to work. Remember work? Okay, work. You "do homework",
that's for school. Right? I do my homework. It means I write, I read, I think, I remember,
I bring the work back to school and give it to the teacher. Me. Okay? "Do business". Huh? "Do business", it's
not what you think. It's not do a business. When you do business it means
you work with someone. I really want to do business with
Elon Musk, I think that's his name. He's the guy who makes the cars. Right? I really want to do
business with Bill Gates. It means work with them. I don't do business
a lot in England. Okay? It means I don't work
with people in England. So, it's work with. Right? So we're using "do" to replace
this verb "work with", "work". Okay? Same example here, but we're
going to replace a verb "write". "Do a report". "Johnson, that trip you
went to Africa was amazing. We loved the papers. Can you do a report on that?" I want you to write a report. In this case, "do" replaces
"write", write a report. Okay? And your body. Remember I said earlier:
"Got to do my hair"? Right? "Got to do my nails". In this case it
means clean or fix. Clean or fix my nails,
and that's "do". These are all actions
that you see people do. You'll see me cutting them. Right? Cleaning my nails or cutting my hair, but you won't
actually be able to hold on to these things. So now let's go to "make". Right? So there's common collocations for this here, and
let's look for some common collocations-hard to say "common collocations"
over and over again-for "make". "Make". We can communicate with "make". I told you about making a noise before, but
there are some more practical ones, such as: "make a call". You're going to be on your
cellphone: "Excuse me a second. I have to make a call,
talk to a friend of mine." Okay? Perhaps Mr. E. "Make excuses". You know when you're late or you don't do
something and somebody asks you a question, you're like: "Uh, the dog ate my
homework", that's making an excuse. It means to give a reason for not doing something,
but people don't believe it's a true one or a good enough one. Okay? So when you make an excuse, I or someone
else doesn't think it's good enough. It's not a good reason. "Make a complaint". Have you ever gone to a restaurant, and you're eating
something and you don't know what it is, and you say: "Hey. I asked for the chicken in my Chinese
food, and I don't know what this is." Right? You can make a complaint to the manager or
the waiter, and they will have to fix it. I don't know what you're
eating either, don't ask me. "Make a complaint", that's
to say something is wrong. "I don't like it. I'd like
it fixed in some way." Make a complaint. Next ones... Or, oop. Food, "make dinner". But
"make dinner" is easy. We make dinner, we make lunch, we make breakfast,
that's just to create a meal, produce a meal. "Make some coffee". In the morning I know when I get up and
I'm really tired, I'm just going to go: "Hey, dude. Can you
make me some coffee?" Right? That means I want a cup of
coffee produced for me. Plans. You can ask somebody to "make
up your mind", decide. Make a decision. Give me something, one way or
another, A or B, up or down. "Make a list". -"So what do you want to
do on your vacation?" -"Oh, blah, blah, blah." -"Hey. Why don't you make a list?"-that
means write it out for me- "And then I can look at it later
on and make a decision on that." My favourite one here is "make an
exception" or "make an example". Hmm? Okay, everyone's going into
the nightclub tonight. Okay? Everyone's going
to dance, have some fun. Doo-doo-doo-doo. And what happens is... Did you hear that? Doo-doo-doo-doo, I think you
got lucky, you get to come in. Okay? So you get to come to the
nightclub and we invite you in. Your friend comes and go: "Hey, sorry.
He's not allowed." You go: "Hey. He's my brother.
I love this guy." They go: "Okay, we'll
make an exception." It means you're going to be able to do
something that nobody else is allowed to do. We're going to let you do this, but no one
else can do it because you're an exception. So, if you come to a school and you want to
go to Harvard let's just say and your... Was it IELTS score is really low
or your TOEFL score is low? But you're really good looking and you're
really, you know, pretty and you're dressed well, they might go: "We'll make an exception
for you, you can come to our school. Normally we wouldn't let people in if they
have low marks, but you're good looking." Like me. Okay, not like me. Brad Pitt. Here's the better one,
though, you might like this. Sometimes you've got a classroom situation where
there's one student who's talking, talking, talking, talking, and they're taking what
we call all the airtime, not letting anyone else say anything. And half the times they're wrong
and the teacher doesn't like it. So the teacher might
make an example of them. What do you mean? Well, they might just say: "Hey,
Harris, you seem to know everything. Why don't you teach
the lesson today? I'll make an example of you and everybody
will know not to do that in my classroom." To make an example of someone... A better one might be this. When the policemen sees four of you and you're
all drinking on the street, and you're smiling and laughing, and one guy
says: "Unh the police." The police go:
"Okay, no problem. I'm going to make
an example of you. You're going to jail tonight. Not your friends. Just you." To make an example of someone means to put
them in a bad situation so everyone can see it, and they will go: "I
don't want to do that. That's way too much trouble. I don't want that
kind of problem." Okay? That can happen with the law, that can happen in
the classroom, that can happen in any situation in which you're doing something people don't
like and they want to make sure everybody sees what they do to you, which
is usually something negative. You got to be careful. To have someone make an exception
for you is a good thing. To be made an example
of is a bad thing. And these are common collocations
that go with "make". Cool? All right, so before I go I want to talk about
make the bed, and the reason why I said I'd come back to this and I mentioned Ronnie's
video is this is a really weird one. Really, it's repetition, it's obligation,
it really should be on the list of here, on the "do" side. Right? Under housework, but for some reason in
English we say "make" goes on the... Sorry, "make the bed"
goes on the "make" side. First off, I don't know why. It's English. Welcome to English. That's... I don't know. Anyone who tells you differently,
they don't know either. They're just making it up. But I'm going to give you my best
guess as to why we put it over here. Do you remember when I
said produce and create? Well, when you sleep in your
bed, you get out, it's a mess. It's all over the place and
it just doesn't look good. So then you take the sheets and you
put them up, and you organize them. Okay? And then... So you got the sheets on, then you
put the pillow up and it looks nice. You've produced something nice. I'm thinking that's the reason. And the reason why I'm explaining it and
even saying it, because you're going: "Why are you telling me?" because I need you to
know something: Even though I told you that English people almost never make this mistake, it
doesn't mean we didn't make mistakes when we created the language. Okay? It doesn't make sense that it's
there, but we say it like that. And this is a collocation you've got to be
really careful on because it's commonly said every morning, like:
"Did you make the bed?" Right? So you got to know it. And if you go: "Yes,
I do the bed." They're going to go: "You
did what with the bed? I'm going to clean
the bed right now. I don't know what
you did in there." Okay? But before I go, the common collocations,
because we have one more, a little quiz, you know I like doing quizzes at the end - we
have a resource page, and I'd like you to go to the resource page where you'll find
these ones plus many more examples of common collocations that you could learn, memorize,
and sound like native speaker right away. Yeah? Anyway, two seconds
we do the quiz. You ready? [Snaps] Okay, quiz time, as you
know I love to do quizzes. And we're going to do a quick quiz
of five questions, but before I do, let's go to Mr. E because I haven't used him
enough and he wants to give you a reminder. So, what do you got to say, E? "Remember", okay. "Do" generally talks
about the action itself. Remember I said earlier when we talk about "do"
you see me doing it, but it doesn't actually produce anything. When we want to do that,
we go to the verb "make". "Make" talks about the result. So when you think about the actions of, you
know, doing something, at the end you will make something. That's how they're related and
that's why they're verbs of action. Okay? But when you think "make", think of: "I should
have something in my hand I can touch", and "do", I can see you doing
it, see you with my eyes. Are we good? So we put our senses
with our verbs. That should help us
remember, right? See for "do", "make"
you can touch. Time for the quiz. Are you ready now? I'm sure you are because now you're going
to be an expert at English and speak like a native, right? So let's do number one: "I usually
_______ the dishes after dinner." Would you say "do" or "make"? Think: Is it repetitive? Is it an obligation? Are you producing? Are you
actually making dishes? You know, making, creating? "Do", "I do the dishes". Right? And I helped you by telling you
it was repetitive and obligation. We do the dishes. Are you ready for number two? "Can you _______ a lot
of money at your job?" Did I hear you say: "I want
the dollar, dollar, dollar"? Want dollars? Yeah. You can "make" money, because
money is good in your hand. Right? Remember we talked about looking
and touching, that's a physical thing. You get the money. What about number three? I didn't make it easy. I changed the tense, but
let's see how good you are: "I _______ the
laundry yesterday." That's right, I used that
example earlier on, didn't I? Do you remember when I talked about household
chores and I said chores are jobs and these are things you have to do? I knew you'd get it. "I did the laundry yesterday." Right? I didn't make it. That means you'd have to sew the
clothing, that's different. How about number four? Tricky one, remember. "I _______ my bed
every morning." That's right, I made that special speech and
I told you: Go see Ronnie's list, and she'll explain it a bit
more to you about making the bed. It's the weird one,
the exception. Right? "I make the bed every morning", it's
something you repeat, but we use "make". And finally, this is for you
experts out there, okay? We're using both of the verbs and I
want to see if you get it right. Good luck. "I _______ everything I can
to _______ you happy!" Careful. Remember native people would
never get this wrong. That's right: "I do everything
I can to make you happy!" And: "Why?" you might ask. "Do", okay? Actions. You can see all of my actions. "Make" is the final result. Remember I talked about result? The result is you are happy. So even though I can't touch this one,
what is the result of all my doing? You will be happy. Hey, listen. You've done a very good
job and I'm impressed. Actually I'll be more impressed
when you go to our website, engVid. Remember? www.engvid.com. And I'm sure right now you're going to touch
that screen, click it, or whatever you got to do to go and do the quiz. And then you can show me
you're a really good student. Thanks a lot.
