collocation · informal
do gardening
UK/duː ˈɡɑːdənɪŋ/US/duː ˈɡɑrdənɪŋ/do GAR·den·ing
Band 5-6speakingtask2
to work in a garden, growing and looking after plants
Examples
“I relax by doing gardening on weekends.”
“Doing gardening helped me feel more patient.”
“He does gardening every morning before work.”
Band 8 sentence
“Since moving to a house with a yard, I started to do gardening regularly to create a small vegetable patch.”
Collocations
- tend the garden
- plant flowers
- weed the beds
Word family
garden noun/verbgardener noungardening gerund/noun
Common mistakes
do the gardening→do gardening
make gardening→do gardening
Say it for a higher band
5work in the garden→6tend the garden→7+do gardening
Synonyms
tend the garden
Easily confused
grow plants
“She likes to grow plants on her balcony.”
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