Name : _____________

Class : _____________
Date : _____________

Suggestion and Advice

A. Look at the picture below!

Answer these questions:

1. Who is in the picture?
2. Where is he?
3. How is his feeling?
4. Why?
5. What should he do?

B. The expressions of suggestion and advice. Study it.

Asking suggestions and advice Giving suggestions and advice

a. Do you suggest we …….. (V1)
b. Would you like to ……. (V1)
c. Do you want to ……… (V1)
d. Can we …….. (V1)
e. What do you recommend for
a ……… (NP)
f. Could you recommend a …….
(NP) around here?
g. Where do you fancy ………
(Ving) at the weekend?
1. Shall we …… (V1)?
2. Why don’t we …….. (V1)?
3. Would you like to …….. (Ving)?
4. Do you feel like …….. (Ving)?
5. Let’s …….. (V1)
6. I suggest you …….. (V1)
7. I advise you to …….. (V1)
8. You should …….. (V1)
9. You ought to …….. (V1)
10. You had better ……… (V1)
 Accepting suggestions
 Yes, good idea.
 Yes, that’s a marvelous
idea.
 Yes, that would be nice.
 Yes, that seems all right.
Rejecting/ refusing suggestions
 No, I can’t.
 No, I don’t think so.
 No, I don’t really feel like …….
(Ving)
 Well, I’m not sure. I don’t
really like …. (Ving) very much.
 I’d rather not, if you don’t
mind.

Example
Rudi : What shall we do tonight?
Susi : Why don’t we go to the cinema?
Rudi : Well, I’m not sure. I don’t really like it very much.
Susi : Well, what do you suggest then?
Rudi : How about going to the beach?
Susi : I don’t think that’s a good idea.
Rudi : All right. How about going to the bookstore?
Susi : OK. That’s a good idea. Why don’t we go to a restaurant afterwards?
Rudi : Yes, that’s a marvelous idea.

C. Do these exercises!

Activity 1: Match the situation in column A with the suggestions or advice in

column B.

A B
1. I have to withdraw my savings
2. It is going to be a cold day
3. The boy comes late to school
everyday
4. It is too far to walk
5. I have a bad fever
6. Some students do not pass the
exam
7. My brother has a cough
8. I want to send some letters for
my uncle
9. The workshop is very dirty
10. The cables are alive
a. You should see a doctor
b. He should not smoke
c. You ought not to touch them
without wearing safety gloves
d. You ought to take a taxi
e. We should clean it
f. I think you’d better go to the
post office
g. They ought to study harder
h. You’d better wear an overcoat or
a sweater
i. I think you should go to the bank
j. I think he ought not to get up
 late

Activity 2: Look at the picture below and give your suggestions and advice
based on each picture.

1. 2. 3.
Answer: ___________ Answer: _____________ Answer: ___________

4. 5.
Answer: ______________ Answer: _________________________

Activity 3: Choose the best answer by crossing a, b, c, d, or e.

1. Rika : I feel too fat. I want to lose my weight

Budi : You ….. to eat between meal.
A. should D. ought
B. should not E. ought not
C. should be

2. Sandi : I’m feeling cold and have a headache.

Robin : You should ………
A. take an umbrella D. call a police
 B. go to the bathroom E. wear a sweeter
C. see a doctor

3. Romi : shall we …… tomorrow morning?

Yelva : Yes, we won’t miss the first train.
A. get up early D. to get up early
B. get up late E. getting up early
C. to get up

4. Soni : I’m very ……

Lala : you’d better go to bed.
A. hungry C. sleepy
B. angry D. happy
C. thirsty

5. Poppy : I’m worried that Anton will suffer from heart attack and lungs cancer.
Jimmy : Why don’t you tell him …….. smoking?
Poppy : I did.
A. stop D. stops
B. to stop E. stopping
C. stopped