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Go, Do and Play

We use different verbs to describe sports and activities: - Play is used for ball sports and competitive games against others like tennis, poker, and computer games. - Do is used for non-team recreational activities and hobbies without balls like karate, crossword puzzles. - Go is used for activities that involve traveling to a location, such as going fishing, skiing, or swimming.

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Go, Do and Play

We use different verbs to describe sports and activities: - Play is used for ball sports and competitive games against others like tennis, poker, and computer games. - Do is used for non-team recreational activities and hobbies without balls like karate, crossword puzzles. - Go is used for activities that involve traveling to a location, such as going fishing, skiing, or swimming.

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GO, DO, PLAY

We use the verbs play, do and go with sports and activities. Here is the information you need
to know to use them correctly

PLAY

Play is used with ball sports or competitive games where we play against another person:

'How often do you play tennis?' - tennis is a ball sport.


'I play poker with my friends on Friday night.' - poker is a competitive game. We play to win.
'I don't like playing computer games.' - again, computer games are competitive so we use play

DO

Do is used for a recreational activity or a non-team sport that does not use a ball:

'I heard that you do karate.' - karate is a non-team activity.


'I do crossword puzzles in my free time.' - crossword puzzles are not competitive

GO

Go is used with activities that end -ing. We go somewhere to do something:

'I usually go fishing on Sundays.'


'Are you going skiing this winter?'
'She said she went swimming
DO VS MAKE
DO
Do: When we talk about an activity without saying exactly what it is, we use "do".

"Do something!", "I like doing nothing."

"Do" is usually the correct word when we are talking about work.

"I'm not going to do any work."

"I dislike doing housework. I hate doing the cooking and shopping and cleaning and washing
up. Let's get a maid to do all the boring jobs."

MAKE:

"Make" often expresses the idea of creation or construction.

"I've just made a cake." "Let's make a plan."

In other cases there are no clear rules. If you are not sure which word is correct, look in a good
dictionary or choose "make" - it is more likely to be right.

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