Make or Do

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"Make" and "do" are two verbs that are often confused by students. Their meanings are similar, but there are differences. I hope that this video will help you to see how we use "do" as a main verb, rather than as an auxiliary verb, for activities that produce no physical object, for general ideas, and in many common expressions. I hope, also, that it will show you how the verb "make", which is only ever used as a main verb and never as an auxiliarly verb, is used when we create something that you can touch and with many common expressions.

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[ximenadel61]

It's possible you can a video about the situation at the airport?, when you travel it's a little difficult to understand whay they say on it, in special when they change the fly and when they call you in order to abording the plane.

I'm improving my english with your videos

Thank you very mucho

See you

Ximena from Chile

[EnglishSocialNetwork]

@ximenadel61 Have you seen my video, At the Airport, at my Linguaspectrum channel?

[open6open]

This is wonderful!!

Thank you so much!!

[ameshabyebye]

Brilliant!!

[2010bettyrodriguez]

Very creative !! 

[MyComicalRomanc]

@Linguaspectrum // Okay, thanks anyway! I think I'm going to try erasing the captions... I dunno how to do it, but I think I would figure it out!

[Linguaspectrum]

@MyComicalRomanc That's the best I can do.

[MyComicalRomanc]

@EnglishSocialNetwork // Thanks for posting the video (again), but don't you have a version WITHOUT text balloons (I mean, not hidden but WITHOUT them.)

[CrownKyuwizard]

Hi professor! ^^

The vid is very helpful and interesting, but I do have some questions and hope you can make it clear for me. (Is the usage of "make it clear" here correct?)

-"That might do it": Can we replace it with "That might work" ?

-That would "make time" for me to do all the things I need... I read somewhere and I met "make the time", could you differentiate the two expressions ?

Thank you so much ^^

[EnglishSocialNetwork]

@MyComicalRomanc I have uploaded a version without the text balloons - well, they're hidden anyway.

I hope you find it useful. You will find it in the video response.