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?

• things like medicine, sports equipment or electronics

• service

• an alternative such as cycling instead of private transport

• product

• hiring a professional such as a chef or a tutor

• substitute

  product

• an alternative such as switching regular milk for soy milk

• substitute

  activity

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

• Identify the problem

• Think of some advice

• Think of a reason

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 should buy a security camera.

• Joe lives in a bad neighbourhood.

• Someone is stealing Joe's mail.

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

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.

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

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

Reorder the following so it uses the good advice structure.

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

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

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

• Mary can't afford to go to Japan.

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

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

How do you feel about giving advice?