advice, recommendations and suggestions/ past modals
Share and ask about good advice for your present and past, try to find things in common with your partner or partners, and write sentences like those on the next page when you find things which are true for both of you/ all of you.
Possible topics
- arts and media (TV, etc)
- communication
- education/ studies/ qualifications
- exercise
- food and drink/ diet
- free time
- friends and family/ relationships
- health and safety
- home (housework, etc)
- image/ style
- money/ finance
- personal information/ privacy (on social media, etc)
- possessions
- skills/ abilities
- sleep
- technology
- the environment
- time
- work/ career
- work-life balance
When your teacher stops you, share some sentences that you wrote and comment on anything which other groups say and is also true for you.
Ask about anything you aren’t sure about, working together to link sentences below and topics above each time.
Match one of the forms below to these forms:
- I ought to…
- I ought to have + PP
- I wish I didn’t…
- I wish I had + PP
- I wish I hadn’t + PP
Check as a class.
Change groups. Make similar present and past “should” sentences about the topics above, this time without looking at the next page.
Should and should have sentences to discuss and complete
We should both/ all ______________ more (_________________)./ We should both/ all have ___________ more (_________________) when ____________________.
We shouldn’t _______________ so much (when ____________________). / We shouldn’t have ________________ so much when ____________________________________.
We should _____________________________ in the morning./ We should both have _____________________________________________________ this morning.
We shouldn’t _____________________________________ in the evening./ We shouldn’t have ________________________________________________________ last night.
We shouldn’t waste _________________________________./ We shouldn’t have wasted ____________________________________________________________________.
We should choose ______________________________./ We should have chosen ____________________________________________________________________.
We shouldn’t _______________________ our families’ __________________./ We shouldn’t have _________________________ our families’ ___________________.
We shouldn’t spend _______________________________________________./ We shouldn’t have spent _________________________________________________.
We should _____________________________________________./ We should have ____________________________________________________.
We shouldn’t _________________________________________./ We shouldn’t have ________________________________________________________.
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