Do your ESL students say ‘I do a phone call‘ or ‘she makes a photo’? They are making these mistakes because they do not have a good understanding of English collocations. Any experienced TEFL teach knows that students particularly make a lot of mistakes with he difference between ‘make’ and ‘do.’

Collocations are verb + noun or verb + adjective combinations that make an expression. They are one of the keys to learning to speak English well and if you teach them in your lessons your students...