Name of lesson plan activity: Teaching Collocations with Do and Make

Skill focus: Grammar

Level: pre- intermediate , intermediate

Teacher name: Y.U. Kaminskay-Kletskova

School name: Gymnasium « Erudite», Kyiv

Collocations Lesson Plan

This  lesson plan introduces collocations with do and make. The aim of this lesson is to help students understand what collocations are,  do some exercises to practice collocations with do and make, and use these collocations to talk about themselves.

Introduce collocations

Ask students to complete the following sentence:

1. I am …. a cake.
2. I am …. an exercise.

• Elicit possible answers: make, eat,  do…
• Focus on the fact that a cake collocates with verbs like make and eat but not with the verb do.
• Likewise, the noun exercise collocates with do and not with the verb make.
• Tell students that phrases that contain words that usually go together are called collocations.
• Tell them that they are going to do an exercise about collocations with do and make.

Collocations with do and make

Ask students to complete this table using the nouns in the box below:

Here is the table they have to complete:

The table should look like this:

Do or make?

Help students to understand that generally speaking:

• we use do to describe indefinite activities and to talk about duties, jobs or (leisure) activities;
• we use make when we are talking about constructing, creating or performing something.

Write the following examples on the board to make the point clear:

• I always do my homework in the evenings.
• I like spaghetti. I make spaghetti everyday.

Practicing collocations with do and make

Match the numbers with the letters

Keys:

Make:1,2,3,5,8,9,10,

Do:4,6,7,11,12

Choose the right words: do or make

1. I ______ the shopping every Friday afternoon.
2. Please, can you ______ a reservation for me?
3. She doesn’t ______ much money.
4. Nobody helps my mother to ______ the housework.
5. Will you ______ me a favor? Help me carry this table.
6. Let’s ______ the appointment for 10:00 in the morning.
7. Try not to ______ any grammar mistakes in your writing.
8. Oh, dear! There is so much laundry to ______ !
9. She always ______ the the dishes late at night.
10. I’ll ______ spaghetti for dinner. Do you like it?

Keys:

1. I dothe shopping every Friday afternoon.
2. Please, can you makea reservation for me?
3. She doesn't makemuch money.
4. Nobody helps my mother to do the housework..
5. Will you do me a favor? Help me carry this table.
6. Let's makethe appointment for 10:00 in the morning.
7. Try not to make any grammar mistakes in your writing.
8. Oh, dear! There is so much laundry to do !
9. She always does the the dishes late at night.
10. I'll make spaghetti for dinner. Do you like it?

Personalizing

Ask students to talk about their daily activities  using the above collocations