Last week I talked about the usage of "Do" today I'm going to talk about "Make" check out the text bellow.
"What do you make of this?" Asks a detective as he looks down at a crime scene. Here make is a synonym of think, but make usually means to create or construct: Italian make Ferraris and your mother makes cakes. It also means to do something: you make a phone call. Do you remember the 1960s slogan Make love, Not War? No one knows the exact origins of this phrase, though some people credit the philosopher Herbert Marcuse. In any case,hippies first useed the slogan in protest against the Vietnam war. At home, someone makes, or prepares, dinner and everyone makes the beds. The children, of course, make a mess: they leave clothes and their possessions all over the house. This makes their parents mad, or angry, and they may shout at their children, but it makes no difference - it changes nothing. The children make faces and then ridicule or make of their parents.
SUCESS STORY
In the world of business, when we make money, we're not manufacturing counterfeit bank notes; here make is a synonym for earn, we make appointments or arrange a time for a meeting. Punctuality is important, so we want to make it. or arrive at the appointment. On the other hand, when someone makes it, they are a big success - this is used in the world of show business when an actor becomes famous.
There's a lot of confusion over the verbs Make and Do, but do the housework? Why do we make an excuse, but do someone a favor? There are no real answer to these question; we just have to make do. That means to survive with whatever we have in front of us.
GLOSSARY
What do you make of this? O que você pensa disso? O que você acha disso?
Make a mess: Fazem bagunça.
All over: Por toda...
Make faces...Fazem caretas.
Counterfeit bank notes: Notas de dinheiro falsificadas.
Earn: Ganhar.
Arrange: Estabelecermos, marcarmos.
