GIVING

ADVICE

SPEAKING
TASKS
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Giving advice – speaking tasks

Giving advice

Typical mistake:

Mind you that advice is an uncountable noun (N) while (to) advise is a verb (V).

I need your advice. (N)

The advice you gave me was useless. (N)

I need you to advise me what to do. (V)

I advised her to break up with her boyfriend. (V)

These are my favourite ways to give advice.

You should do ….

You ought to do …

You had better do …

If I were you, I would do…………

Why don’t you do …

I advise you to do ….

So the examples of the sentences are as follows:

You should go to the doctor.

You ought to go to the doctor.

You had better go to the doctor.

If I were you, I would go to the doctor.

Why don’t you go to the doctor.

I advise you to go to the doctor.

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Giving advice – speaking tasks

Try drilling:
eat more fruit and
practise sport stay at home
vegetables
learn the irregular verbs
go to the dentist talk with your parents
by heart
borrow the book from
go to sleep visit a psychologist
the library
take a nap take some medicine quit smoking
spend less time on your play less computer
have a break
phone games
divorce your husband take care of yourself clean after your dog

feed your cat drink too much alcohol try marriage counseling

Fill in the gaps:

1. You ought …………….. listen to your parents.
2. If I were you, I ………………… not go there alone.
3. She …………… better not leave her dog with her friends.
4. If I …………….. you, I would study more for the test.
5. Why ……….. you play with your little brother to kill the time?

Answers [to, would, had, were, don’t]

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Situations for children and teenagers

Your friend have got a problem, what would you do if you were in his or her place? React in these
situations. Your friend says:

I’m being bullied. I didn’t pass the test. My hand hurts.

My boyfriend dumped I want to dye my hair

I forgot my homework.
me. pink.
My class wants to go on
My friends don’t want
I’m allergic to milk. a trip, and I suffer from
to play with me.
travel sickness.
I don’t have enough
I haven’t packed my
money to pay for the My nose is bleeding.
pencil case.
camp.
I would like to have a I don’t understand
pet, but ma parents I hate studying. when the teachers
don’t agree. speaks to me in English.
I’ve been sunbathing I had an accident and I
and I’ve got sunburnt. It drank alcohol before I want to try drugs.
hurts a lot. that.
I want to skip English
I don’t like my body. I’m poor at sports.
lesson today.
While I was playing My friends posted a
My eyes hurt a lot when
football, the ball hit the video with me making
I do something on the
window. The neighbor silly things, and my
computer.
is very angry now. teacher saw it.
My parents are getting My parents don’t let me
My cat died.
a divorce. go to the parties.
My parents want to My parents make me I want to buy a new
emigrate to another study all the time, and bike.
country. I’m tired.
My clothes are out of My teacher caught me I didn’t sleep at all last
fashion and shabby. cheating during the test. night.

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Situations for adults

Your friend have got a problem, what would you do if you were in his or her place? React in these
situations. Your friend says:

I love my friend and she

I don’t like my studies. is marrying somebody My wife cheated on me.
else.

My colleagues are
My car broke down in
I’m broke. always teasing me at
the middle of the street.
work!

All the friends rejected

I need to pay in cash for
I feel dizzy. my invitation to the
something.
party.

I lost my wallet. I work too much. I’m alone.

I have an affair with my I found drugs in my

I lost my job.
boss. son’s room.

I’m coming late, and I’m

My partner has been I have trouble with
afraid to take a taxi
cheating on me. falling asleep.
from the airport.

I need to go to the
My tooth hurts. doctor, and I can’t take I’m pregnant.
my children with me.
My mother-in-law
My girlfriend dumped doesn’t like me, and we I miss my husband a lot,
me. quarrel a lot because of and he works abroad.
her.
I’ve started an online
I’ve got a fear of
I’m afraid of spiders. business, but I still
heights.
haven’t got any clients.

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I threw up on my
I’ve been ill for a week,
I need to give a speech, friend’s sofa during the
and I missed a lot of
and I’m stressed. party yesterday, and I
classes and lectures.
feel ashamed.
I can’t use the
I want to learn how to I want to learn a new chopsticks, and I’ve got
drive a car. skill. a business meeting in
the sushi restaurant.

I compare myself to I think I’ve got a job

My dog is dying.
others too much. burnout.

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