Last update: Apr 16, 2025

LESSON OVERVIEW

The main objectives of this updated lesson are to:

• revise different ways of giving advice;
• learn and practise phrasal verbs;
• role-play situations which require making suggestions. 

With this lesson, students practise giving advice and making suggestions in a semi-controlled and free way. The lesson has been updated with a fun role-play and a warm-up activity. 

WARM-UP AND GIVING ADVICE

The lesson starts with a warm-up activity in which students read three quotes about giving advice and choose one. The quotes explore pros and cons of giving and taking advice. Students need to explain why they agree or disagree with the quote they picked. Then, students look at six different ways of giving advice and making suggestions (e.g. You could…, You might want to…, If I were you…) and complete gaps with correct forms of verbs. After that, students do semi-controlled practice. They read seven problems and come up with a piece of advice for each using words in brackets. 

PHRASAL VERBS AND ROLE-PLAY

In this part of the lesson, students read some problems and underline correct words to create phrasal verbs (e.g. put off, run out of). They also say how they would respond if a friend told them about these problems and whether they would give them any advice. Next, students create some collocations with the target phrasal verbs (e.g. work out a solution, work out a compromise, work out what something means). They also use the collocations to think of five problems or challenges. Then, their partner listens to the problems and practises giving advice. Finally, students do role-play. They get three situations and need to make several suggestions to their partner. The partner’s task is to only accept certain suggestions described in the role-play card.