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Make a Mistake or Do Your Best? Collocations with Make and Do

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A complete Grade 7 ESL vocabulary pack on collocations with make and do: make a decision, make a mistake, make friends, make an effort, make progress and make a phone call, and do homework, do the dishes, do exercise, do your best, do research and do someone a favor. Students learn the general rule and the exceptions, sort, correct common errors, complete a story and talk about their week. Includes slides, a lesson plan, worksheet, quiz, homework, flashcards, a rubric and answer keys.

Overview

Students learn that some words in English naturally go together, and that make and do are two of the most common verbs in these collocations. As a general guide, we use make when we create or produce something (make a cake, make a plan, make noise) and do for tasks, jobs and activities (do homework, do the shopping, do exercise). Students also learn the important collocations that do not follow the guide, such as make a decision, make a mistake and do someone a favor. They sort phrases, correct typical learner errors, complete a short story and use the collocations to talk and write about their own week.

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Subject
ESL
Topic
Collocations with Make and Do
Category
Vocabulary
File Type
PDF
File Size
355.2 KB
Published
09 Nov 2026
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Grade 7 ESL (ages 12–13), A2–B1 50 minutes Vocabulary collocation error correction speaking writing

Learning Objectives

  • Use at least twenty common collocations with make and do correctly.
  • Explain the general difference between make (create) and do (tasks and activities).
  • Correct common errors such as do a mistake and make homework.

How to Use This Resource

  • Start with the slides: show "I did a mistake" and "I made my homework" and ask students what sounds wrong.
  • Teach the collocations with the slides and flashcards, then do worksheet activities 1 and 2 together.
  • Students complete activities 3 to 6, then use the quiz and send the homework page home.

Classroom Activity Ideas

  • Make or do race: call out a noun (a mistake, the dishes); teams hit a MAKE or DO card.
  • Collocation bingo: students fill a grid with phrases and cross them off as the teacher reads sentences.
  • Find someone who…: students ask classmates questions such as "Did you make any new friends this year?"

Differentiation

Support: give a two-column reference card with ten make and ten do collocations. Challenge: students learn extra collocations such as make a difference, make sense, do damage and do business, and use them in a short paragraph.

Assessment

Use the worksheet and quiz to check choosing make or do and correcting errors. Use the rubric to assess the homework diary entry.

Teacher Tips

Many languages use one verb for both make and do, so errors are common. Treat the collocations as chunks to learn, not rules to work out, and recycle them often in later lessons.

What's Included

  • 10-page printable PDF lesson pack: teacher lesson plan with timings, materials and differentiation
  • Key vocabulary list (8 words with meanings and examples)
  • Student worksheet (6 activities)
  • Quiz / assessment (3 parts)
  • Homework practice page
  • Printable flashcards: 8 A5 picture cards (separate PDF)
  • Assessment rubric (4 levels)
  • Lesson slides (editable PowerPoint)
  • Editable Word version of all student pages
  • Complete answer key (also as a separate PDF)

Additional Files

  • Lesson Slides (PPTX)
  • Editable Student Pages and Lesson Plan (DOCX)
  • A5 Flashcards (PDF)
  • Answer Key (PDF)

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