Make or do?

Teaching notes

Fourteen common collocations with make and do, each given as the noun phrase alone: a mistake, a decision, the bed and friends go with make; homework, the dishes, your best and a favor go with do. It's for B1 learners, teenagers or adults, who still say "do a mistake" or "make homework".

Ask the class to say the whole phrase aloud before each drop. Afterwards, pairs ask each other questions with the phrases ("When did you last make a mistake at work?", "Who does the shopping in your home?"). Play it again at the end of the lesson to beat the class's time, or switch it to Speed sort for a quicker review.