AVOIDING REPETIONS IN A TEXT

 

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO THIS WEEKEND?

Expressing arrange plans for the near future with BE GOING TO+infinitive.

What are you going to do this weekend?

ENGLISH AUXILIARY VERBS

Remember English needs auxiliary verbs to make the negative and interrogative forms. Here are the three main auxiliary verbs in English: BE for the Continuous/Progressive and Passive forms, HAVE for the Perfect forms and DO for the Simple forms. BE and HAVE are used also in the affirmative of those forms. Other auxiliary verbs are MODAL verbs.

COLLOCATIONS WITH "DO"

Examples in context:
- They are doing business with foreign countries.
- Do your best in the exam.
- He's doing nothing at the moment. He can go now.
- He hardly ever does the cooking, he eats out a lot.
- She does the housework in the morning: makes the bed, cleans, puts on the washing machine...
- I do the shopping every Friday afternoon at the local supermarket.
- We don't do the washing up now, we bought a dishwasher.
- She does her hair at the hairdresser's, she never washes it at home.
- After school, I always do my homework in the afternoon.
- Could you do me a favour? Can you make me a cup of tea, please?

+ info: DO

IDIOMS & PHRASAL VERBS WITH DO

Two charts today with idioms with DO (above) and phrasal verbs with DO, too (below).

VERB COLLOCATIONS

NEGATIVE & QUESTION FORMATION IN ENGLISH

Two charts to show you the structures of negative sentences and questions in English. Remember that in English you need AUXILIARY VERBS to make negative sentences and questions. Each auxiliary verb is different depending on the VERB TENSE the sentence is. Check below in each chart with the auxiliary verb forms of each verb tense and the examples.

1) NEGATIVES

2) QUESTIONS

More about making questions HERE.

THE VERB 'TO DO'

The verb TO DO is an ordinary verb with its own meaning as many others, but on the other hand its an auxiliary verb for the SIMPLE TENSES (PRESENT AND PAST). So as an ordinary verb it works just like any other and as an auxiliary we use it to make questions and negative sentences in those two tenses. Check these two charts.

Video-lesson about DO:

SPORTS (+verbs GO, DO or PLAY?)

Some names of sport in English and below a chart to know which verb to use with them: GO, DO or PLAY:

Link to SPORT VERBS.

DO OR MAKE? SPOT THE EXPRESSIONS...

Once again, we're back with common expressions with DO & MAKE. Watch these videos and discover which expressions are mentioned. If you want to get more information on these set expressions before you watch the video, have a look to a previous post about DO OR MAKE in this blog.

Video 1:

Video 2:

DO OR MAKE?

Expressions in English with the verbs DO and MAKE sometimes can be mistaken. In the picture above you see the expressions that go with each verb. Watch the videos below for some explanation.

Video DO vs MAKE (1)Explanation:

Video DO vs MAKE (2)Practice in use:

+ practice.