Learn English – what is the difference between ‘all the time’ and ‘all time’

This is a hard question, and there is a lot of idiom involved.

The cases where you can be reasonably sure that "make" is right is

• when you are creating something: "make a salad", "make a home", "make a mess", "make a film".
• when you are causing somebody or something to do something: "make somebody listen", "make him stop", "make the book stay open"
• when you are causing somebody or something to be a certain way: "make him late", "made me happy".

"Do" tends to be more general, and tends not to be used in the cases above (and is rarely used with a direct object except for a word like "job" or "task" - but see below).

"Do" is also used as "pro-verb" in questions and replies, standing for almost all verbs, including "make": "What did you do?" "I made a cake".

But there are many idiomatic cases which are not obviously predictable. We "do" the shopping, the washing ("do the laundry" in the US, I believe), the dishes, the windows (i.e. clean them), our homework, our tax return; but we "make" the bed (i.e. arrange the bedding neatly).

Superb refers to excellence (the best) whereas super refers to something above normal, like size or effort, but not necessarily something excellent.

So super man is not by definition a superb man.