Stacks of suggesting/ recommending/ advising PDFs and teaching ideas, plus lists of useful advice phrases. If you find anything useful here, please support TEFLtastic.
E-books with advice/ recommendations/ suggestions activities
Teaching English Functions: Interactive Classroom Activities e-book with 21 pages on advice, recommendations and suggestions – NEW
Teaching Social English: Interactive Classroom Activities Second Edition e-book with 40 pages on recommendations
Teaching advice articles/ blog posts
12 fun recommendations activities
How to teach recommendations, advice and suggestions
Giving advice activities to practice other language blog post
Tips and useful phrases blog post
Useful language for giving advice and recommending list
Useful language for advice and recommendations (list of phrases arranged by level for teachers and students)
Photocopiable advice, recommendations and suggestions classroom materials
Advice about visiting your country – NEW LINK
Sue or something else? – POLISHED UP
Teamwork strong and weak recommendations
Give advice on the problems with reports (with advice phrases and reports vocabulary)
Family gift suggestions too and enough practice
HR solutions strong and weak recommendations practice
Strong and weak medical advice
Guess the medical problems from the advice
Advice on language learning problems (polished up version – good for learner training too)
Longer advice phrases card games
Recommendations with movie vocabulary
Recommendations and invitations for foreign visitors review (with lots of vocabulary of places)
Advice and recommendations future time expressions practice
Recommending arts and media (with lot of useful art and media language)
Recommendations with superlatives
House and home likes, dislikes and recommendations
Clothes and appearance recommendations
Solutions to countable and uncountable problems
HR vocabulary problems and solutions
Language of trends and advice practice
Recommendations and embedded questions
Travel and tourism recommendations numbers practice
Expressions with make and do giving advice speaking practice
Comparatives and superlatives recommendations challenge
How questions and advice dice game (linking suggestions to easy small talk questions)
Giving advice on personality problems
Relationships Advice and proverbs
Giving advice Vocabulary revision game
If I were you phrasal verbs Advice game – LINK UPDATED
Language learning advice modal verbs practice
Recommending countries to visit (with tricky names of countries and cities)
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)
Should and should have things in common
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
Travel advice Guess the country (with cultural info on UK, Australia and New Zealand)
Verbs with back problems and solutions
Should have for past regrets and advice
Preparing presentations tips discussion (with lots of useful advice language)
Sentences with “in case” discuss and agree
Recommending music for particular situations
Give advice on emailing and other business communication (with useful phrases for advice) – LINK UPDATED
Presentations cultural differences (language of advice) – LINK UPDATED
Advice on business emailing (plus roleplay meeting to decide on company email policy)
Business Xmas card do’s and don’ts (imperatives for advice) – LINK UPDATED
Advice on business communications
Showing understanding and suggesting solutions
Related pages
Business advice worksheets page
Modal verbs page – NEW LINK
Updated 8 September 2026
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