"to make exercises" vs "to do exercises"

[Inga]

Hello everybody,

are there any situation when to make exercises is possible?
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[Milanya]

I think that to make exercises is about as possible as to make dishes.
(People usually do (wash) dishes, but one can make dishes when he/she is a potter.) You can make (create) exercises for your students. Students will have to do them.
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[Inga]

Thank you, I thought so, but my students confused me .
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