1. Your neighbour throws rubbish in your garden.Â
What would you like to do about that?
How do you feel about that?
Is there anything you can do about it?
Dictate the questions to you, or write them up as blank lines with first letters to help you remember, filling in word by word,eg.
H_d_y_f_a_t_
How do you help? Elicit that you do not offer suggestions or advice, just help people to see how you feel. Elicit that they do not offer suggestions or advice, just help people to see how you feel.
2. You are going to hear two of your friends discussing the same problem. Write down any other questions you hear. Play the recording three times.
Check their answers, and write to you on the web:
1. Is there anything you can do about it?
2. What would you like to happen?
3. How about asking them?
4. What would you like to do about that?
5. Why don’t you ask them round for coffee?
What is that Questions give advice (3 and 5).In English, advice is often in question form.
Elicit other forms of How about .? and Why don’t you … ?: What bout …?
and Why not …?
Main activity
1. You are going to give advice on difficult situations.
2. As an example, role-play just the start of A1 yourself, getting any Student B to respond
3. You should take it in turns to give advice. Ask Student A to start with A1.
4. Go around helping them towards solutions.
Follow up