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Week 16: Giving Advice

IELTS Warm-up Questions: Giving Advice

Warm-up Questions: 

• Who do you usually ask for advice?
• When do you normally ask for advice? (Work / Study etc.)
• Do you think the internet is a good place to get reliable advice?
• Do you trust medical advice you read online?

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High-Band IELTS Part 2 Answer

Vocabulary, Collocations & Phrases

As you can see the main verbs involved about giving advice are:

• Share advice / wisdom / ideas / insights
• Give advice / wisdom / ideas / insights
• Follow advice / instructions / steps
• Take advice / ideas / on board
• Get advice / ideas / information

Some other useful expressions and collocations are:

• get around to doing smth. – finally being able to do something you want to
  • E.g. “We finally got around to buying new curtains for the living room after so many months”
• every single detail – common grouping of words
• little room for error – mistakes are easy to make / everything should be perfect, or it won’t work
  • E.g “The doctor will perform a very complex heart surgery, with little room for error.”
• go with the flow – be relaxed and accept a situation, rather than trying to alter or control it.

make spontaneous decisions – make decisions is the core collocation here. You can often change the adjective in the middle.

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IELTS Vocabulary and Collocations

Part 3 – Collocations, Vocabulary and Phrases: 

This week we’re going to try something a little bit different. Collocations are crucial to creating natural-sounding English. So here is an exercise where you can spot the collocations and hopefully remember them!

IELTS Question #1: What kinds of advice do parents give to their children?

“I suppose parents usually try to give life advice to their children, like to be respectful of others, that sharing is important and they should try to make the world a better place. On top of that, they could give their kids some career advice if they’re confused about which career path to follow. So I think those are some common tips that parents give to their children.”

______ (v.)  life advice

______ (v.) the world a better place.

______ (v.) their kids some career advice

______ (v.) a career path (you have to rearrange this sentence)

______ (v.) tips to their children (you have to rearrange this sentence)

IELTS Question #2: Whose advice is more helpful? Parents’ or friends’?

I suppose both can be useful in different ways. Parents’ advice usually comes from experience and wanting what’s best for their children in the future, like their future job prospects, for example. On the other hand, a child’s friends can have a better understanding of what it’s like to be a kid so they can empathize. So perhaps their advice is a little bit more relevant and valuable. So I think they’re both important, but in different ways.

Their advice ______ (v.) from experience

_______ (v.) what’s best for their children

_______ (v.) a better understanding

Links and Resources

You can find even more IELTS-appropriate vocabulary, collocations and phrases about Advice here:

• http://www.freecollocation.com/search?word=advice

Unfortunately, despite some digging, there isn’t much else out there online that seems newsletter-worthy. Sorry!

IELTS Practice Questions

Part 2 Questions 

Can you try and use some of the collocations from this newsletter as you answer these questions?

• Describe a time when you gave advice to someone else. You should say:
  • Who you gave advice to
  • What the advice was
  • Why you gave the advice
  • And how you felt about the advice

• Describe a time you taught something new to a younger person. You should say:
  • When it happened
  • What you taught
  • Who you taught to
  • Why you taught this person
  • And how you felt about the teaching

Part 3 Questions 

• What advice do parents give to their children?
• Should parents give advice to help you decide what friends you make?
• Do you prefer getting advice from family or friends?
• Which do you think is better, advice from young or old people?
• Why do so many young people not accept advice from older people?
• In general, what kind of person is most suitable for giving advice to others?

Happy learning!