| 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.
B2 / Upper Intermediate45 minStandard LessonPremium Plan
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.
WORKSHEETS
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Great lesson, mixing giving advice with Phrasal verbs. My students like it! However, slide 7 is a bit tricky and challenging without any definitions of the Phrasal verbs. I would suggest having another slide with some definitions to prepare them for slide 7.
Keep up the great work.
Peter.
Thanks for the feedback! We might add such a slide as a supplementary slide that teachers could use if their students need some support there.
It would be nice to have a lesson on how to use “recommend” and “suggest” at C1 level.
this is an old lesson. Your lessons have become sub par. Now I use Fluentize.com
Yes, it’s an old lesson that we have decided to update by changing and adding some tasks. We do it to fix some of the old lessons. I don’t know if you’ve had a chance to check what we have done there but I encourage you to do so. Also, I’d love to talk with you to learn what we could better to improve our lessons (I’ll email you soon if that’s okay with you).