Objective Advanced Unit 4: Acting on advice

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Objective Advanced Unit 4: Acting on advice

Objectives: 

• You know how to value different types of advice.
• You understand what modals are and when to use which one.
• You know what prefixes and suffixes are and are able to transform words (Reading and Use of English Part 4)

 

ADVICE

• To whom do you turn for advice? Why?
• Do you often ask for advice?
• Do you appreciate being advised without having asked for it?

Advice vs advise

• Advise is a verb meaning: to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following.
• Advice is a noun meaning: an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct, etc.

Let me give you a piece of ...

advice

advise

"Never give ... unless asked" is a proverb that issues a warning against giving unsolicited ...

advice

advise

Patients should be ...... to report symptoms of hypocalcemia.

adviced

advised

Nothing is given so freely as ...

advice

advise

You're going to watch a video on advice.

Assignment:

In 5 sentences write down why you would advise others to watch the video or not by referring to the video contents.

Share your answers:

• Exchange your answer (your advice) with your neighbour's.
• Give each other feedback on both the contents and the form (the English formulation) of the advice given.
• Then, turn to another neighbour and do the same.

Do you need more practice?

• Modal Verbs
  
• Gap-fill exercise
  
• Choose the correct modal verb phrase.
  

To do:

Reading ex. 2-3 (page 29)

Grammar Modals ex. 1-5 (page 30)

Negative prefixes

With a suffix you can transform nouns, verbs and adjectives into ...

adjectives, adverbs and nouns.

Use of English Practice:

1. We had to fire the new member of staff for acting ________ (PROFESSIONAL).

2. Your ________ (ABLE) to recall all of the events leads me to believe that you are lying.

3. The ________ (SEVERE) of the situation seems to have escaped your grasp.

4. We will not only be testing your ________ (ENDURE), but also your overall fitness.

5. Now that the quarentine is over, we have the ________ (FREE) to move around.

6.  I often suffer from ________ (BORE) when I am unemployed.

7. The ________ (STABLE) of the tourism industry is quite concerning.

8. All the students in the class show an ________ (EAGER) to progress academically.

9. The COVID-19 ________ (BREAK) has been a stressful situation for us all.

10. I have worked ________ (TIRE) to build up my business.

Use of English Practice (answers):

1. We had to fire the new member of staff for acting unprofessionally.

2. Your inability to recall all of the events leads me to believe that you are lying.

3. The severity of the situation seems to have escaped your grasp.

4. We will not only be testing your endurance, but also your overall fitness.

5. Now that the quarentine is over, we have the freedom to move around.

6.  I often suffer from boredom when I am unemployed.

7. The instability of the tourism industry is quite concerning.

8. All the students in the class show an eagerness to progress academically.

9. The COVID-19 outbreak has been a stressful situation for us all.

10. I have worked tirelessly to build up my business.

Need/want more practice?

https://www.intercambioidiomasonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/word-formation_-advanced-1.pdf

https://www.intercambioidiomasonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/word-formation-advanced-2.pdf 

Time to work on your week task:

• Vocabulary: 

       Exercise 1 -3 and Vocabulary spot (page 31)

• Writing Folder: 

       Exercise 1 - 5 (page 32-33)