Giving Concrete Advice

What is really important when giving advice?

• Making up long and creative stories to explain the problem

• Giving practical and specific suggestions

• Blaming the person for having a problem

• Using phrases such as 'life isn't easy' and 'don't worry, everything will be fine'.

When giving advice using money,

what does product, substitute and service mean?

• hiring a professional such as a chef or a tutor

• service

• an alternative such as switching regular milk for soy milk

• substitute

  activity

• an alternative such as cycling instead of private transport

• product

• things like medicine, sports equipment or electronics

• substitute

  product

Reorder the following: What are the steps to giving good advice?

• Think of a reason

• Identify the problem

• Think of some advice

Why is this advice poor?

If you hate Maths, try to change your feeling as Maths is an important DSE subject that you need to get into university!!!

• It is too specific

• It says what everybody already knows

• Nobody hates Maths!

Reorder the following so it follows the good advice structure.

Problem: Joe's letters are going missing.

• Joe lives in a bad neighbourhood.

• Also, Joe ought to talk to the local police.

• Someone is stealing Joe's mail.

• Joe should buy a security camera.

Reorder the following to follow good advice structure.

Ada can't fall asleep at night.

• Ada should listen to YouTube meditation music before sleeping.

• She can't fall asleep because she is stressed about her studies.

• Also, Ada ought to talk with a good counsellor such as Dr. Anna Lys at Healthy Heads Clinic on ways to manage stress.

• Ada wants to be in the top ten high achieving students in her year group.

Reorder the following so it uses the good advice structure.

Problem: Mary wants to go to Japan but can't.

• Also, she ought to watch Japan travel YouTubers such as Only in Japan.

• Mary is a fifteen year old student who loves Japanese culture.

• She should watch anime on Netflix such as My Hero Academia.

• Finally, she should get a part-time job if she wants to pay for a ticket to Japan. It's expensive!

• Mary can't afford to go to Japan.

How do you feel about giving advice?