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I do the shopping on Fridays usually.
Could you do a job for me next week?
Who does the cooking in your house?
Nouns which combine with make
They made me an interesting offer of a job in Warsaw.
Not many building firms will make a profit this year.
I have to make a phone call.
Do as a main verb
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In presentations, “make” refers to creating a presentation from scratch, whereas “do” means delivering a presentation someone else prepared. Here is an example: You’ll need to prepare a presentation for your sales team tomorrow, which involves creating it from scratch.
I would say either give a presentation or do a presentation although the latter is more informal. I've got to do a presentation. Using 'give' is better english but the use of 'do' is fine.
make/give/do a presentation - suggests all are possible but indicates preferences for make/give with do being considered informal. I would give or make a speech.
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If you say 'I have to make a presentation' it is about the creation/preparation of the material for the presentation. If you say 'I have to do a presentation' it is talking about the actual presenting itself, although 'give a presentation' or 'deliver a presentation' are perhaps better alternatives. ...Read more.
from English Grammar Today. When we use do and make with noun phrases, do focuses on the process of acting or performing something, make emphasises more the product or outcome of an action: When I was [action] doing the calculations, I [outcome] made two mistakes.