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Speaker 1: Thanks for making time to listen to this podcast, English Lesson.

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I'm so happy that you've made up your mind to

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improve your English. Yeah, everyone's really busy these days, but

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somehow you make it work. That's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode eight sixty nine.

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Fun and casual phrases with make. Hello and welcome and

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thanks for joining me for another episode of the English podcast. Today,

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we're gonna look at some everyday fun and totally practical

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phrases using the verb make. Now make is a super

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flexible verb. We all know that you can make coffee

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or make dinner, but in casual conversation we use make

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in a bunch of idioms and expressions that go way

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beyond the kitchen. So today we're gonna break down five

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super useful and natural phrases make it work, make time,

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make up your mind, make a mess, and make do.

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And I'll give you a few examples of each, all

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woven into real life situations. So you can see how

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native speakers actually use them sound good. Let's dive in.

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First up is make it work. Make it work. When

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you say you're gonna make it work, it means you'll

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find a way to succeed or fix a situation, even

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if it's not ideal or perfect. Like yesterday, I was

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supposed to record another podcast in the morning, but my

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internet was down, so I recorded it on my phone

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in the car. Not perfect, but hey, I made it work.

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Or my friend Josh told me that he and his

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girlfriend have totally different schedules, but they really care about

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each other, so they're trying to make it work. They

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do the best they can to see each other even

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though their situation isn't ideal. And when one of my

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students said I only have ten minutes a day to study,

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I told her that's fine. You don't need two hours

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a day. Just use the time you have and make

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it work. So, yeah, make it work means figure it

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out and get it done, even if it's not the

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perfect or ideal way to do something, just do it.

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Make it work. In a similar way, we have make do.

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To make do means to manage with what you have,

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even if it's not ideal, Like when my friend Tom

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got laid off. He and his wife had to make

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do on her salary, so they ate it home and

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cancel things like their Netflix subscription until he was backworking.

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They made do. And I remember back when I was

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in college, I didn't have a blender, so when I

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I wanted to have a smoothie, I just mashed fruit

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with a fork. Not great, but hey, I may do.

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Or like last week, I forgot my umbrella and got

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caught in the rain, So I may do with a

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newspaper over my head. It wasn't pretty, but I didn't

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get completely soaked. Here's one more. We only had instant

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coffee at the airbnb, but we may do. So if

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things aren't perfect, but you find a way to survive,

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you make do. Next, you can make time. This is

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a really common phrase. To make time means to create

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space in your schedule or in your day for someone

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or to do something, even if you're busy. That's making time.

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Like one of my students ask me to help with tooek,

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So even though I'm a bit swamped this month, I'm

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gonna make time to check her homework. And I remember

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back in the day when I worked in the language

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school as the manager, I often needed to make time

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to help students and even staff when they needed help.

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Like if someone fits you into their busy schedule, you

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can say something like, hey, thanks for making time to

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meet me for coffee today. That's a polite yet friendly

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way to say I appreciate you fitting me into your schedule.

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So when something matters to you, you make time. I

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have a really busy work week, but on the weekend

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I always make time to study Japanese and to play

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the guitar. Yeah, I decided to do that. I made

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up my mind to do that. Make Up your mind

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This phrase means to decide something or to decide to

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do something. If someone says, come on, make up your mind,

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they're telling you to stop thinking and just choose something.

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Like the other day, I spent like five minutes in

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front of the vending machine trying to decide between iced

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tea and black coffee. Finally I was like, oh, just

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make up your mind. I went with the tea. Or

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My friend Emma was going back and forth about whether

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to quit her job. One day she said yes, the

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next day no, so I told her, look, it's your life.

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But at some point, you've got to make up your mind.

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And here's one more. Have you made up your mind

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about where you're going on vacation? Yet? This is how

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we ask someone if they've made a decision. So if

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you hear this phrase make up your mind, you know

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someone's talking about choosing something. The last one is make

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a mess. Now, this one does have a literal meaning,

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but we also use it for non physical things. Yes,

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of course, you can say like the kids made a

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mess in the kitchen, or my dog Rosie made a

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mess when she destroyed a sofa cushion. But you can

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also say something like I really made a mess of

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that presentation. It means I screwed up it didn't go well.

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Or Danny made a mess of his relationship by not

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being honest and cheating on his girlfriend. He made such

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a mess she left him. So in casual conversation, make

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a mess doesn't always mean spilled milk. It could be

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a situation that got messy. So remember physical mess, emotional mess,

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job mess, Make a mess works for all of it. Well,

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there you have it. Five fun and casual make phrases

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that Native speakers use all the time. Let's recap when

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you make it work. You find a solution, even if

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it's not ideal. When you make do you manage to

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get by with what you've got. When you make time,

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you create space in your schedule for someone or to

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do something like to study English. When you make up

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your mind, you decide something, and when you make a mess,

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you create disorder, either physically or emotional. And now you

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can use these phrases and sound more natural. Well, thanks

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for making time to listen to this podcast English lesson.

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Keep in mind the best way to remember English like

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this and any other word or phrase in English, is

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to take that word or phrase, write it in a

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sentence that's true for you or true in your world,

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