Study the phrasal verbs. Lead-in.
The thief is making for the door.
He is trying to make off with the stolen staff.
“I am sorry, I want to make up for the damage to your car. I’ve made up a cheque for you,” Brian said to the driver of the car.
Alice has a date at 8pm. It’s 8:55 now.
She is still making up. “I’ll make up an excuse,” she thinks. “So, Jack won’t be angry with me.”
More phrasal verbs with MAKE …
| make away with sth = make off with sth | steal sth and leave a place hurriedly with it: The robbers made away with all their savings that they had been putting aside for years. |
| make for | move in the direction of sth: They made for the door. |
| make of | have an opinion about, think of: What do you make of your new boss? |
| make off | leave a place hurriedly: The children made off immediately as their mother could change her mind. |
| make off with sth | steal sth and leave a place hurriedly with it: They made off with the jewellery leaving no evidence behind. |
| make out | understand (usu. in negative and interrogative): Is it that difficult to make out that she doesn’t want to be with Mike? |
| be able to read sth: I can’t make out your handwriting. | |
| write a document: make out a prescription, a form Jake made out a cheque for £300 for our services. | |
| make up | (with sb) end an argument with: Eventually, they made up after a 3-year disagreement. |
| put cosmetics on your face: It took her ages to make up as she had no previous experience. | |
| create a story or a dialogue: The granddad would often make up bedtime stories about pirates for his grandchildren. | |
| be, consist of: Students make up 50% of our audience. | |
| make up for | compensate damage: The mayor promised to make up for the damage caused by heavy rains this summer. |
| make up to | do sth good after you have done sth bad to make the situation/ relationship better: I decided to make it up to her for the way I had been treating her for years. |