GIVING SUGGESTION/ADVICE AND WARNINGS

Giving Advice and Expressing Warnings

Objectives

• Learners are able to understand the expressions of giving advice.
• Learners are able to use expressions of giving advice.
• Learners are able to understand the expressions of giving warnings.
• Learners are able to use expressions of giving warnings.

Learn about it!
In this series, we are going to talk about how to give advice and warning to others. Listen to this video and try to tell what going happened is.

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EPISODE 3

Debbie	:	I hate gardening. I hope we don't have to do this every week.
Pete	:	Think of the Community Award. And it makes the garden look nice.
Debbie	:	I suppose so.
Joel	:	I'm really hungry. Is it time for lunch yet?
Debbie	:	"Is it time for lunch yet?" Honestly Joel, you're always eating.
Joel	:	So what?
Debbie	:	So, you're overweight.
Joel	:	You must be joking! I am not overweight, am I?
Pete	:	No. Definitely not... Not yet, anyway!
Joel	:	Hey!

“To be continue”

           

What did they do?
............
Who is disliked gardening?
...........
Can you give advice to her? what will you say to her?
...........

You might say
If were you, I would think for the community award scheme

You can use the following expression if you want to give advice to someone.

To make it clear watch this clip

Joel	:	That's not lunch. That's a snack.
Debbie	:	For me, Joel, it's lunch.
Joel	:	Oh, I know, you're on one of those stupid diets.
Pete	:	Joel!
Joel	:	Well, she must be crazy! She's not eating enough. And it's all salad.
Debbie	:	No it isn't. I decide what I eat and how much, thank you. I don't need your advice. Anyway, look what you've got there. It's gross.
Joel	:	What?
Debbie	:	You don't need crisps and bread. And you certainly don't need chocolate biscuits.
Jess	:	Hey, come on, guys. We don't have to argue about this. I think the important thing about eating is...
Debbie	:	I don't care what you think, Jess. I don't actually care what any of you think. I eat what I want to eat.
Joel	:	And that goes for me too.
Debbie	:	Yes, it does. I eat healthily. You eat unhealthily. Let's leave it at that.
Joel	:	No way! First you say I'm overweight...
Pete	:	It was a joke, Joel.
Joel	:	Then you tell me I eat unhealthily. That's out of order, Debbie.
Debbie	:	But when you say I'm on a stupid diet, that's OK - yes?
Jess	:	Oh, come on guys. Stop arguing you two. We've got a lot of work to do.
Debbie	:	You must be joking. I'm not doing any work with Joel around. I'm going home.
Jess	:	Debbie! Now look what you've done.
Joel	:	What I've done! I'm telling you, that's the last time I work with Debbie.

What has happened to Joel and Debbie?

What were they arguing about?

If you are as Pete what is the suit advise for them?

Do we need to give a warning for Joel and Debbie when they were arguing each other?

What is the difference between the advise and warning?

For further information about that, you should read the others example and explanation about advice and warning.

Pay attention to the following dialogue.

This is a discussion about flood in a biology class between the students and the teacher.

Now, pay attention to the underlined sentences:

• Make sure we dispose of the garbage in the proper places.
• Do not throw your garbage in the wrong place.

Those two sentences were used by the teacher to warn the students not to do something. The sentences are called warnings. A warning means giving information about something bad that may happen if someone does something.

The reason for giving warnings is the people who give warning wants the person become more careful. On the text, the teacher warns the students not to throw the garbage in the wrong place because the improper garbage disposal will cause flood.

The following are utterances generally used to give warning:

• Be careful of ....
• Don’t ....
• Beware!
• Beware of ....
• Look out!
• Watch out!
• Watch out for ....
• Make sure + subject + verb ....

Now pay attention to the underlined sentences. Those sentences were used by Wina to advise Tony that if Tony went through Diponegoro street, he would get trapped in the traffic jam due to the landslide happening in Diponegoro street. You can use the following expression if you want to give advice to someone.

Listen to the conversation one more time while looking at the script below.

Ari: Mom, I am going out for a bit.
Mom: Where are you going this early, son?
Ari: I need to visit Ani. Her house flooded when the river near burst last night.
Mom: Take my advice and tell her family to move to higher ground immediately, and they better not wait to gather belongings.
Ari: Okay, Mom. I’ll tell them.
Mom: And for you too, be careful. Take care when you drive!
Ari: Got it, thank you, Mom. I am off now.

What do you find from the dialogue?
Could you identify the expressions of suggesting and warnings?

In the dialog, Ari asked for permission to visit and help Ani, whose house got flooded out. His mom gave suggestion to Ani and family of what to do or how to react. Look at the bold italic clauses.

Take my advice and tell her family to move to higher ground immediately, and they better not wait to gather belongings.

Besides, his mom also warned Ari to be careful on his way.

....be careful. Take care when you drive!

So, what is the suggestion? And how is it different from warnings?

Giving suggestion means you mention some ideas or possible action for other people to consider. Meanwhile, when you want the other people to understand that there could be possible danger or problem in what they are doing, you give then warnings.

Here you are provided some expressions to use when giving suggestion and warnings

Do you understand?

To ease your understanding, listen to the following conversation and identify the expressions used.

What suggestion did Ana give to Bobi?
Could you identify the expression?

In the dialog, Ana suggested doing the clean-up as soon as possible to avoid more damage by the floodwaters. Yeah, here is the expression of giving a suggestion that A exactly said:

I would strongly advise you to do it as soon as possible if you do not want the floodwaters to damage your home furniture more.

Listen to the dialog one more time, and check the expression:

Ana : How is your home condition after the flood?
Bobi : Since my home has been flooded severely, I need to do a major cleanup.
Ana : I would strongly advise you to do it as soon as possible if you do not want the floodwaters to damage your home furniture even more.

Bobi : Yeah, you are right. 

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