High School - Suggestions and Advice

[prime]

great post.. now i hope i can download the lesson..

[AlexZacharias]

I did a very similar lesson with my conversation class. It went really well and my students were happily talking in English.

[btpham13]

This is a lesson plan on giving advice.  I first used the PPT file and talked about some potential problems and introduced some key phrases.  Then the students worked in groups and worked on the worksheet.  They had to talk about the problems and give advice based on the problems.  During the last part of class, I assigned each group a problem and they had to give me solutions to the problems using the key phrases and some of their imagination.

[cassidyrose]

On the PPt, give students some examples of common problems. Elicit answers from students. If someone answers, give their team a point.

Go over the difference between would, should, and must.

Introduce the sentence formulas for giving advice:
   If I were you, I would,
   You should,
   You must.

Pass out the giving advice ws. Have the students get into pairs. Student A asks Student B the first seven questions, then Student B asks Student A the second seven questions. Both students must write down their partner's answers in English. Have some students volunteer to read out their answers. Points for volunteering.

Give groups a few minutes to brainstorm as many problems facing students their age as they can in five monutes. Go around the room and ask groups for a few of their answers. Teacher writes them on teh chalkboard.
Pass out the Creative Problems and SOlutions ws and have each group come up with ten problems and their solutions. Groups volunteer to share. Points.

[SBracken]

here's another ppt I made for my kids- giving advice plus a little intro with optical illusions.

[lizardflix]

Is this from the 1st grad HS textbook?  I ask because it is the same topic.  Are your students high level?  My students are very low level.  Thanks for the lesson!

[cassidyrose]

No, it's not from a textbook; I did this lesson from scratch last semester which is why it's a little rusty. I did it again with my low level first graders this week and it went okay--it's too repetitive to hold their attention so I would suggest changing one of the activities a bit.

[rahzel]

Giving advice lessons are probably one of the more interesting and important lessons in English you can give. However, the discrepancies in English between high and low level high school students really determine if the lesson will be fun or dull.

[nickcamann]

So I stole a PPT file from this thread and made some changes for my lower-level high schoolers for "Giving Advice." The lesson went well.

PPT Lesson, Activity (15m)
Practice - Problems and Solutions (15m)
Expansion - Dialog Activity (15m)