Confusable Words
Content
This work focuses on the typical difference between confusable
words:
 “Work” and “job”
 “Do” and “make”
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I’m a doctor. My job is to cure the patients
“It is not your job whether I want to buy it or not.”
“ Job ”
 A profession or occupation
E.g. She has a job as a waitress
A lots of people will lose their jobs if the company closes.
A task or a piece of work
E.g. The garage has done a bad job on our car.
I always have a lots of jobs to do in the house at weekend.
A duty or responsibility
E.g. It is not his job to tell us what we can and can't do.
The teacher asks the student to do the housework.
“I’ve cleaned all the building. It is really a hard work. ”
“Work”
 The place where you do your job
E.g. I’ll ask if I can leave work early tonight.
 Sth that requires physical or mental effort that you do to achieve sth
E.g. Her success is due to sheer hard work.
 Something that you are working on or have produced.
E.g. Is this all your own work?
E.g. The teacher marks their work.
 A book, painting, piece of music
E.g. An early work by Picasso
The complete work of Shakespeare
 (Works) The act of building or repairing sth
E.g. The road works are causing long traffic jams.
 (works) (in a compound noun) a factory
E.g. The steelworks is/are closing down.
In General
• Job:
individual tasks
 a profession or occupation
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• Wok:
a place of employment
 a mass of general or non specific activities
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I’m a housewife. I do the house work.
Never mind what will happen. Do your best.
“Do”
 To perform an action, activity or job.
E.g. What is the government doing about pollution?
 To make progress or develop, to improve sth.
E.g. How’s your daughter doing at school?
 To make or produce sth
E.g. The photocopier does 60 copies a minute.
 To be enough or suitable
E.g. If I haven’t got a pen, a pencil will do.
 To provide a service
E.g. Do you do eye tests here?
 To study sth or find the answer to sth.
E.g. I can’t do the answer 3.
 To travel a certain distance or at a certain speed.
E.g. I normally do about 5 miles when I go running
 To have a particular effect.
E.g. The storm did a lot of damage
They want to make cakes for their children
They’ve made an agreement.
He always makes noise at night.
“Make”
 To produce or create sth
E.g. This model is made of steel.
 (used with nouns) to perform a certain action.
E.g. to make a hole
to make a movie
to make progress
 To cause a particular feeling.
E.g. The film makes me cry.
 To force sb/sth to do sth
E.g. You can not make her come with us if she does not want.
 Used with money, number and time.
E.g. to make a lot of money
 To make sb/sth become sth; to have the right qualities to become sth.
E.g. You can borrow some money this time, but do not make a habit of this.
 To manage to reach a place or go somewhere.
E.g. I can’t make the meeting next week.
In General
• Make
create something new
• Do
perform with routines and duty
Common expression with
“Make and Do”
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• Make
Make an agreement with sb.
Make an arrangement
Make certain about sth
Make a comment about sth
Make an excuse
Make a good impression
Make friends with some one.
Do
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Do your best
Do business with some one
Do your duty
Do some one a
favor
Do harm to some one
Do a good turn
Do washing-up
Do right or wrong
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Make a lot of money
Make a mistake
Male love
Make a profit or a loss
Make progress
Make a reservation
Make sure about sth
Do your own things
Do cooking/ironing/ cleaning.
Do wonders for…
Practice
Complete the dialogue with job or work and appropriate form of do and make
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