conversation giving advice

Conversation Practice
Giving Advice
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If I were you...
You’d better...
At least you should…
You should…
Try to…
Instead of… try to…

Accepting the
advice completely
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That’a true. I hadn’t
thought about that.
Ok. I can do that.
Yes, you’re right. I’ll do
that.
Of course! I Should’ve
thought about that.

Hesitating
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You may be right, but the
thing is…
Well, you see…
I’m not sure. Maybe I
could…
I’m not sure if this is the
best thing to do now.

Now, create a conversation with these situations using the expressions above:
1. You need to buy a new car and your intention is to get a loan at the bank. Ask
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your friend for an advice.
You bought a flight ticket to England for your next vacation, which is going to
be on July. But you don’t speak English.

You saw your best friend’s girl/boyfriend with someone else and you don’t know
if you tell it or not.
You have an important event to go to next holiday and you can’t miss your
class/work.
You are married and you have two children. And now, your mother-in-law wants
to live in your house.
A job offer was sent to you. They’ll pay you a very good salary but this
opportunity is only for five months and you’ll also need to move to another
country. The salary you’ll receive in case you accept the offer corresponds to
two years of average work. You don’t know if you accept it because of your
wife/husband and kids.
It is your birthday and a friend of yours gave you a trip as a gift. But the date
for the trip is not coincident to your vacation time.
Your light and water bills are late but you have money to pay only one of them.
Last week you got the chance of your life: you won a lottery prize of U$
12.000.000,00. Ask a friend what should you do with the money.
Johnathan , who is your boss, offered you a new job position at your work
place. For this position you’ll get a higher salary but you’ll have to work on
weekends and holidays. Ask a friend for an advice.