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Make or do?
Task 1. WORDS USED WITH MAKE OR DO
Look at the sentences below and decide whether they should be completed with the verb
make or the verb do. The form of these verbs will need to change in most sentences. Use the
words in bold to help you.
1. Has your mother ________ a will yet?
2. She ________ her piano exercises every morning.
3. The storm ________ a lot of damage last night.
4. Who will be ________ the speech at her wedding?
5. We ________ a large profit when we sold our house.
6 There's a lot of work still to be ________ .
7. At the moment he's ________ great efforts to learn Spanish.
8. They ________ a lot of business with European countries.
9. I'm not ________ the washing today.
10. When we got to the hotel, the beds hadn't been ________ .
11. The workmen are ________ so much noise we can't use the telephone.
12. We are ________ good progress towards finishing the house.
13. He didn't mean to ________ any harm.
14. His wife usually ________ all the housework.
15. The milk boiled over and ________ a mess on the stove.
16. I can't ________ today's crossword - it's too hard.
17. Are you going to ________ a Christmas cake again this year?
18. How much money did you ________ last year?
19. It took us hours to ________ the washing up after the party.
20. He ________ an inquiry about trains to Edinburgh.
21. I need to ________ a quick phone call before we leave.
22. Don't ________ such a fuss - it's only a little scratch.
23. She ________ a mistake in typing the address.
24. We ________ friends with some French people on holiday.
25. Our company is small but it's ________ well.
26. She ________ a few notes before her speech.
27. She was ________ the ironing when I came home.
28. Companies often ________ a loss in their first year of operations.
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Make or do?
2. IDIOMS AND COLLOQUIALISMS USING MAKE
Replace the words and expressions in bold with an expression using make from the box.
make the best of • make a break with • made a meal of • make do with
make time • made off with • make-believe • make up my mind
1. The burglar stole all their silver.
2. She forgot her pyjamas and had to use a T-shirt because there was nothing else available.
3. They say it will rain this afternoon so we'd better take advantage of the sunshine while it's here.
4. I can't decide whether to take the afternoon off to do some shopping or stay in the office and work.
5. She spent a lot of unnecessary time and went to a lot of effort repainting the kitchen.
6. His stories about his love affairs are just not true, although he pretends they are.
7. We must arrange to visit the new sports club even though we are short of time.
8. I've tried to forget my last girlfriend, but it's not always easy to move away from the past.
3. IDIOMS AND COLLOQUIALISMS USING DO
The words in bold are all in the wrong sentences. Decide which sentences they should go in.
1. If the computer doesn't work, hit it - that should do the sights and get it working again.
2. Will you do the turn, John, and pour us all a drink?
3. He never uses violence himself. He just gets other people to do the yourself work for him.
4. He looks a bit unhappy. An evening out would do don'ts to cheer him up.
5. She's very good at painting, decorating and other do-it-trick jobs.
6. You don't have a car? How can you do turn one? You must have a good public transport system in
our area.
7. This chicken is cooked perfectly. It's done to a dirty.
8. She told him all the do's and without about working in the office, and helped him to settle in.
9. He did me a good honours by writing a job reference for me, so I helped him in return.
10. When we went to Barcelona, we did all the wonders and took hundreds of photographs.
You will find more expressions using make and do in the phrasal verbs section on pages 27 and 29.
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Materials
Task 1. ADJECTIVES AND NOUNS
The words in bold are in the wrong sentences. Put them into the correct sentences. In several
cases, more than one word is possible.
1. He was wearing a pair of timber trousers.
2. We put the glasses into polyester boxes.
3. We used an old piece of wool as a roof for the hut.
4. She keeps her collection of precious Chinese rubber in a glass case.
5. After the rain, the dry satin on the football pitch suddenly turned wet and sticky underfoot.
6. He was wearing a pair of old corrugated iron shoes.
7. The house is surrounded by a high silk wall.
8. The carpet in our living room is made of leather.
9. Why are cork bedsheets so cold?
10. He was wearing a porcelain jacket.
11. She placed little stained glass mats on the table to stop the wine glass marking it.
12. He bought two plastic shirts in the sale.
13. She was wearing a beautiful cardboard scarf.
14. Canterbury Cathedral is famous for its corduroy windows.
15. She was wearing a thick stainless steel coat.
16. We take fur plates when we go for picnics on the beach.
17. She wore little red iron slippers.
18. She bought a white wooden tablecloth.
19. He was wearing a pair of blue turf shoes.
20. I bought her a set of cotton saucepans.
21. The roof is made with denim from an old ship.
22. I wore a pair of suede overalls when I painted the living room.
23. Car tyres are made of canvas.
24. There's an old linen table in the kitchen.
25. The old gates are made of nylon.
26. My new shoes have got brick soles.
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