Giving Advice – Modal Verbs
Giving advice – vocabulary
Can you match the heads and tails of these sentences?
1. I really think you should…
2. If I were you…
3. If you want to stop smoking you
should…
4. You ought to study…
5. You shouldn’t…
6. You don’t have to wear…
7. You mustn’t wear..
8. If you don’t…
1d 2b 3h 4e 5a 6c 7f
a) … go to work if you have the flu.
b) …I’d listen to your mother’s advice.
c) … a tie if you don’t want to.
d) …try to stop smoking.
e) …hard if you want to pass the
exam.
f) … a ring if you work in a factory. It
could be dangerous.
g) … brush your teeth then they will go
yellow and fall out.
h) …get some help from your doctor.
8g
 Advice Vocab
1. What’s the difference Advice is a noun
between ‘advice’ and Advise is a verb
‘advise’? He gave me some good advice.
He advised her to stop smoking.

2. Can you explain the Mustn’t is very strong.

difference between Don’t have to is very weak.
‘mustn’t’ and ‘don’t have
to’
3. What is the Must is an obligation that comes
difference between from inside ‘you’.
‘have to’ and ‘must’? ‘Have to’ is an obligation that
comes from outside.
Pre-Listening
- What advice would you
give to someone who was
going to get married?
- What advice would you
give to someone who
won a lot of money?

- Listen to man giving his

brother some advice.
What has happened to
him?
Listen again and answer the questions

1. How much money did Half a million dollars.

Uncle Tom leave?
2. What does mum say Put it in the bank.
you should do?
3. What would dad have Spend (blow) the whole lot.
told you to do?
4. What does your brother Give some money to poor
say you ‘must’ do with the people.
money?
5. Where did granddad In a suitcase under his
keep all his money? bed.
6. What happened to the It was lost in a fire.
money?
 Talk about these advice questions
with a partner.
1. Who was the last 5. Please give some advice,
person who gave you I’ve got an exam
some advice? tomorrow!
2. How would you advise 6. If you could talk to the
someone to stay
healthy? president or prime
minister of your country,
3. What’s the best kind of
computer, a laptop or a what advise would you
desktop? give them?
4. What advice would you 7. What was the worst piece
give to someone who of advice you ever got?
was going for a job
interview?
 Writing – Agony Aunt
Dear Auntie Lynn,
I’ve been with my boyfriend
for three years now. He
asked me to marry him last
week and I’m not sure what
to say. I do love him but he
doesn’t have good job. He
works as a chef in a dirty
restaurant and I really want
to be rich. Please help me.
Thanks
Sarah
Dear Auntie Lynn,
Please help me. I lost my job as
the manager of a big bank last
month and I haven’t had the
courage to tell my wife and
family about it. My wife and two
children spend a lot of money
everyday and if they found out
that they were poor they would
be so upset. I hope I can find a
job soon, but lately I have been
pretending to go to work
everyday. What should I do?
Thanks Answer one of these letters
- Use paragraphs
James
- Give two good pieces of
advice
-Write 100 words