Giving avice to your classmates

Read all the letters that your classmates have written telling their problems, choose four and write them letters of advice.
"You should... You shouldn't...."
"If I were you, I would...."

Agony column

First, read these examples:

A problem page letter

Agony aunt  letters


Then, write a letter to Carla giving her your advice.

Strict parents

My parents are very strict. They don't let me go out with my friends in the evenings or accept invitatins to parties or discos. They say my friends are irresponsible, but they've never met my friends. I don't know what they are afraid of. I can go out on Saturday afternoon, but only if my cousin comes with me. I love my parents, but they don't understand that I'm 16. I need to have some independence -- I feel like I'm in prison. what should I do?


Finally, write a letter asking for advice about a problem you have.

Live well

1. How do you stay happy and healthy?  (2 paragraphs)

2. Have you ever had any sporting injuries? Which sport were you practising? What happened? How? Which event did you miss because of that?  (2 paragraphs)

Dead man's island

(Graded reader for non-bilingual students)

Mr Ross lives on an island where no visitors come. He stops people from taking photographs of him. He is young and rich, but he looks sad. And there is one room in his house which is always locked. Carol Sanders and her mother come to the island to work for Mr Ross. Carol soon decides that there is something very strange about Mr Ross. Where did he get his money from? How can a young man buy an island? So she watches, and she listens - and one night she learns what is behind the locked door.

Persuasion

(Graded reader for bilingual students)

At nineteen Anne Elliot refuses an offer of marriage from Frederick Wentworth, persuaded to do so by Lady Russell, a friend of her dead mother. Wentworth is a sailor, with no money and an uncertain future, says Lady Russell -- just a nobody, certainly not worthy of a baronet's daughter.

Eight years later Wentworth returns, a rich and successful captain, looking for a wife. Anne is still unmarried, but Captain Wentworth clearly prefers the company of the two Musgrove girls...

Jane Austen's tale of love and marriage is told with humour and a sharp understading of human behaviour.

Debates: expressing opinions

Useful vocabulary for expressing opinions 1

Useful vocabulary for expressing opinions 2


We have been talking about the most important things that make people happy.
Choose the most important thing for you, and write a conversation/debate with your partner, who has chosen a different thing. Try to convince each other that your choice is the best one.

For example, for you the most important thing is LOVE, and four your partner it is MONEY.

Don't forget to use the connectors in the links above.