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Make or Do (collocations) – Worksheet 1

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This worksheet helps A2 learners choose between make and do in common everyday collocations such as make a cake, do the shopping and make a mistake. Learners practise the verb forms (make, makes, made, doing, did) in context. It suits classroom use or self-study at home.

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Exercise 1: Make or do?

Complete the sentences with the correct form of make or do.

Example: She ___ (make/do) her homework every evening. → does

  1. I always (make/do) my homework after dinner.

  2. Yesterday Ana (make/do) a cake for her brother's birthday.

  3. Please don't (make/do) a noise. The baby is sleeping.

  4. Tom is in the kitchen. He is (make/do) the dishes.

  5. Last summer we (make/do) a lot of new friends at the camp.

  6. Can I (make/do) a phone call, please?

  7. My dad (make/do) the shopping every Saturday.

  8. Sorry, I (make/do) a mistake with your name yesterday.

Exercise 2: Complete the collocations

Complete each sentence with a word or phrase from the box. There are two extra words.

Example: I need to do ___ before the shop closes. (the shopping) → the shopping

Word box breakfastthe bedyour bestexercisea plana decisionthe houseworkhomeworka photoa shower

  1. I make for my family every morning at seven o'clock.

  2. After I get up, I make and open the window.

  3. Don't worry about the test. Just do .

  4. She does in the gym three times a week.

  5. We need to make for the weekend. Where do you want to go?

  6. It's hard to make . Should I buy the red bag or the blue one?

  7. On Sundays everyone in our family does : cleaning, washing and ironing.

  8. Have you done your ? It's for tomorrow's lesson.

Exercise 3: What do you do?

Match each situation with the best phrase from the box. There is one extra phrase.

Word box make a mistakemake a noisedo the dishesmake a phone calldo the shoppingmake friendsdo a coursemake money

  1. There is no food in the fridge.

  2. The plates and cups are dirty.

  3. You want to talk to your grandma, who lives in another city.

  4. You are new at school and you feel alone.

  5. You want to learn to cook, so you go to classes.

  6. You write "Tuesday" as "Tusday".

  7. You want to buy a new bike, so you get a job.

Exercise 4: Find the mistake

Each sentence has one mistake with make or do. Write the correct sentence.

Example: I do a cake every Sunday. → I make a cake every Sunday.

  1. I made my homework last night.

  2. Can you do a cake for the party?

  3. She always does a lot of mistakes in her tests.

  4. We are making the housework now.

  5. He did a phone call to the doctor.

  6. My brother makes exercise every morning.

  7. They did a lot of noise at the party.

Exercise 5: Put the words in order

Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

Example: does / he / the / shopping / on Fridays → He does the shopping on Fridays.

  1. did / you / do / the / dishes / ?

  2. mother / my / makes / every / the / bed / morning

  3. made / an / important / decision / I / yesterday

  4. doing / is / she / her / homework / now

  5. friends / easy / it / to / is / make / new / not

  6. best / always / does / Leo / his

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A2 worksheet on make and do collocations: make a mistake, do homework and more. Gap fill, word box, matching, error correction and word order.

Topics covered

make vs docollocationshousework and daily routinesverb formseveryday vocabulary

Notes for teachers

Start with a quick sort: write make and do on the board and ask learners to place nouns such as homework, a cake and a mistake under the right verb. A useful rule of thumb is that make often means creating or producing something, and do is often used for tasks, work and activities. Learners often say 'make homework' or 'do a mistake', so point these out. As a follow-up, ask learners to write five true sentences about their weekend using make or do collocations.

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