Lesson 4 – Family Tensions

Warm up

1. Give your friend the following situation: Your neighbour throws rubbish in your garden. 

and ask the questions:

What would you like to do about that?
How do you feel about that?
Is there anything you can do about it?

Do not give suggestion or advice, just see how your friend feel about that. Then, tell that to another friend. For example: He/She feels . . . about . . .

2. You are going to hear two people discussing the same problem. Write down any other questions you hear. Play the recording three times.

When you are done, check your answers.

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?

Questions 3 and 5 is used for giving advice/suggestion. In English, advice is often in question form. What questions can you use for giving advice/suggestion?
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

• Write down one situation (problem)
• From this situation, type answers and suggestions for the problem, then collect the results of the answers in the form of a recording