SHOULD / SHOULDN’T

Complete the sentences with should or shouldn’t. Give advice with the expressions from the box. Use
you, he, she, we, they should or shouldn’t.
1 If someone doesn’t speak your language very well,
take medicine / take up swimming / worry about it
you ____shouldn’t________ speak fast; you
eat so much sweets / do little jobs or go babysitting /ask
____should_______ speak slowly and carefully.
your teacher to explain it again / study harder / watch too
2 If you need a pen, you __shouldn’t__________ much television / practise a lot / get up earlier
say ‘Give me that pen’; you ___should__ say ‘Could I
borrow your pen, please?’ We are often late for school.
_______________________________________
3 If people want to live until they’re very old, they
My friends laugh at me because I don’t have expensive
__should_________ eat a lot of fruit and clothes.
vegetables; they ______shouldn’t_____ eat a lot of _______________________________________
cakes and chocolate. My mother has got a terrible headache.
_______________________________________
4 In a big city you ____should______ be careful I don’t understand how to give advice in English.
with your money; you ___shouldn’t________ leave _______________________________________
your bag on a chair in a restaurant. My brother gets very bad marks at school.
_______________________________________
5 When you’re driving, you _______shouldn’t_____
We’re going to write a Maths test tomorrow.
drive for hours and hours without stopping; you _______________________________________
_____should_____ stop and walk round every two My sister can’t swim and she wants to go to Greece next
hours. summer.
_______________________________________
6 When people are travelling by plane, they
I always feel tired.
_____should_____ drink lots of water; they _______________________________________
___shouldn’t_______ wear uncomfortable clothes. My friends love eating and they’re very fat.
_______________________________________
I want to buy some new clothes but I haven’t got any
money.
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Make sentences using should or shouldn’t.

people / watch / less TV - ______________________________________

boys and girls / go / to different schools - ______________________________________

men and women / get / the same pay for the same job - ____________________________

people / be / free to smoke in public places - ____________________________________

we / stop / testing medicine on animals - ______________________________________

we / destroy / nuclear weapons - ______________________________________