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GRAMMAR: Giving advice

Consider these sentences from the text you have just read.

Don’t worry too much about the exams

You should relax

You need to be careful with what you eat

Eat more fruit and vegetables

You should reduce the amount of sugar you eat

you could do some exercise

All these sentences give advice or recommendation. Read the text below carefully and complete the empty slots with the sentences above.

4 ways of giving advice
Affirmative Negative
The imperative Don’t worry too much about the exams
Should + Infinitive
Could + Infinitive
Need to + Infinitive

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Advice

Exercise 1

Complete the gaps with should or need:

 

  1. To lose weight, you to eat less fat
  2. You not smoke, it’s bad for your health
  3. You avoid junk food
  4. You not drink too many fizzy drinks
  5. You to do more physical exercise
  6. You to enjoy your hobbies
  7. You not get stressed

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Exercise 2

Choose the correct option.

  1. more water. 3 glasses a day is not enough!
  2. You sleep 8 hours a day
  3. You not eat so much chocolate
  4. You rest, you’ve worked too many hours today
  5. too much salt; it’s bad for your health
  6. You take an umbrella with you, it’s raining a lot
  7. You do pilates, it’s great for your posture

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Exercise 3

Rewrite these sentences using the imperative as in example 0.

0. Example. You should study more - Study more.

  1. You should eat fish every week
  2. You shouldn’t eat red meat every day
  3. You should not spend so many hours in front of the computer.
  4. You should be more responsible
  5. You should drink an orange juice every day
  6. You should learn to cook