Practising both giving advice and the chosen grammar, vocabulary, etc of the day. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Just put up a new worksheet using this, one of my favourite ideas for practising tricky points which are different to think of other practice for, such as:
– collocations with words like “get” and “take”
– phrasal verbs
– word formation
– vocabulary on topics like health and love
It can also be used to practise grammar such as comparatives and articles.
You simply make some sentences describing problems like “I don’t get on with my eldest sister” and ask pairs of students to ask for, give and react to advice on how to solve those problems. Students can then make up similar problems to ask their partner’s for advice for. This activity is it a bit like making conversation questions with the language you want to practise, but I feel this makes the language more memorable – and it’s a nice break from students saying “I think…” at the start of every sentence… If your students also actually need the language of advice, all the better!
Here are some I prepared earlier:
Photocopiable classroom materials using advice/ recommendations to practise other language
Advice on problems with Present Perfect Simple and Continuous – NEW
Social English problems and solutions
Emailing problems and solutions
Asking for and giving advice on problems with meetings (in this bargain e-book)
Meetings vocabulary asking for and giving advice practice (in this top value e-book)
Medical problems and solutions Present Perfect practice
Verbs with back problems and solutions
Advice and recommendations future time expressions practice
Travel and tourism recommendations numbers practice
Recommendations and embedded questions
Recommendations with movie vocabulary
House and home likes, dislikes and recommendations
Clothes and appearance recommendations
Solutions to countable and uncountable problems
Language of trends and advice practice
HR vocabulary problems and solutions
Expressions with make and do giving advice speaking practice
Recommending arts and media (with lot of useful art and media language)
Comparatives and superlatives recommendations challenge
Recommendations with superlatives
Giving advice on personality problems
Love and marriage stories and advice (my lesson share winning LP and worksheet on Onestopenglish)
Relationships Advice and proverbs
Giving advice Vocabulary revision game
If I were you phrasal verbs Advice game
Language learning advice modal verbs practice
Advice on language learning problems (polished up version – good for learner training too)
Recommending countries to visit Version 1 (with tricky names of countries and cities)
Recommending countries to visit Version 2 (ditto)
Recommending places to visit Advanced version (with useful vocabulary for describing different kinds of people, vocab for describing places, and tricky country and city names)
Business English advice guessing game (including collocations with make and do)
Give advice using the presentations vocabulary
Advice for foreign travellers (zero conditional with imperative and modals)
Advice for parents (zero conditional with imperative and modals)
Third conditional and past modals advice
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Updated 16 December 2025
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