Helping a friend/ Giving advice

Activities - Helping a friend/ Giving advice

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Part 2

Helping a friend/ Giving advice

Collocation/ Possible new words/ Vocab

• be at a loss for + N: not knowing what to do or say. Ex: She is at a loss for words.

• offer (v) : to provide or give out something

• as arrogant as it might have sounded: a way of saying sorry for sounding arrogant. Ex: As arrogant as it might sound, I am really the best student in Thai Binh City.

• troubled (adj): having troubles or difficulties

• inability (n): not being able to do something

• fellow (adj): be in the same situation, or problems. Ex: As a fellow student, I offered to help.

• Give a straight answer: Answer directly

Collocation/ Possible new words/ Vocab (cont)

• Sacrifice (v) (n): give up something valuable for a better result. Ex: I sacrificed my time to finish my homework.

• in the long run: in the future

• To be perfectly honest: being honest to someone. Used at the beginning or at the end of a sentence

• whether or not: saying that it is not important which is true. Ex: Whether or not he cleaned the floor, we still need to clean it again.

• sincerely (adv): being honest

Multiple Choice

Q: When it was?

A: I will tell you a time when I helped a friend by offering my advice to them.

It happened during my junior year of college. This was during the time when everyone was trying to .... their way through university.

• work

• study

Open Ended

Q: When it was

Multiple Choice

Q: How you helped them/ To whom you gave the advice

A: One of my oldest friends, Tam, was at a .... for what to do, which subject to pick for her next year of college. Thus, I decided to offer her an advice, as arrogant as it might have sounded.

• loss

• broke

• lost

Open Ended

Q: How you helped them/ To whom you gave the advice

Q: Why you helped them/ Explain why you gave the advice

A (Sample): From what I could see, Tam was very troubled with her inability to decide on what she should do. As a friend, and a fellow university student, I gave her an advice on her situations and helped relieve her worries somewhat.

Open Ended

Q: Why you helped them/ Explain why you gave the advice.

Q: What the advice was

A (Sample): Rather than giving her a straight answer, though, I gave her some possible futures that could happen due to her decisions. Either she could choose subjects with low requirements to make her life easier at the moment, but sacrifice her potential in the long run. Or she could go for what she felt like doing, in order to give herself a chance to do what she loved, and thus accepting challenges. In the end, it was her choice.

Open Ended

Q: What the advice was.

Multiple Choice

Q: How you felt about the help

A: To be perfectly honest, I am still not sure whether or not I truly helped with her problem. But I sincerely hope Tam understood that her future is her ...., and only she would know which path is the best for her to move forward. For now, all I can do is wait for the result.

• idea

• problem

• choice

• path

Part 3

Helping

Collocation/ Possible new words/ Vocab

• In a typical situation: Usually

• a certain task: a particular mission. Ex: I have a certain task that only I know.

• various (adj): many (when talking about types)

• contribute (v): to give/provide something together along with other people

• be limited by +N (V-ing): be restricted within a limit

• be willing: be happy to do something

• donate (v): give money or goods to help someone

Collocation/ Possible new words/ Vocab (cont)

• physical interaction: Ex: When you meet someone and talk/play/sleep... with them directly

• be scammed: be tricked into losing something (mostly with money). Ex: I was scammed 12 million Dongs by this company.

• essential (adj): necessary

• end up: to reach a situation/place/condition without planning. Ex: I ended up in this street my chance

• in one way or another: no matter what

• individual (n): a single person

• clueless (adj): know nothing about something

Collocation/ Possible new words/ Vocab (cont)

• minimal (adj): in the smallest amount

Multiple Choice

Q: How do people usually help each other?

A: In a typical situation, people would help each other whenever they believe they can do a certain task. Therefore, there are various ways that one can do to help, such as ....... advices, contributing goods or services, or even giving out money to support the task. As such, people are only truly limited by what they are willing to give out to each other. For example, a person can donate money to a charity, or directly work for that charity to help more people.

• giving

• providing

• offering

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Q: How is online help different from real-life help?

A: As far as I'm aware, helping people online carries fewer physical interactions compared to real-life helping. Futhermore, online help can come almost

from anywhere, unlike real-life help, which requires the helper to be physically close. However, online help is also easy to be scammed, as seen recently by some famous celebrities who scammed lots of money from the people.

Multiple Select

Q: Should school be responsible for teaching students how to co-operate?

A: As school is the place for learning, I believe that teaching students to co-operate with each other is essential. As people grow up and get out to the larger world, they will always end up working in teams in one way or another, as there will be time when one individual would not be able to do the required task. With that, by educating students when they are young, schools can make sure that students will be able to work with each other ......... and safely.

• effectively

• terrifyingly

• creatively

• efficiently

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Q: What are the differences between help from friends and from family?

A: To me, the biggest difference between these two types of help is how throughout each of these can be in solving your problems. Friends will always try to help you, but their

 will be limited, mainly because they might be just as clueless as you with the issue, and thus, most of their advices and help would just be minimal at best. With family however, they include your parents and/or grandparents, meaning that they are certainly more capable of helping solve certain issues than younger people.

Open Ended

Q: How do people usually help each other?

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Q: How is online help different from real-life help?

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Q: Should school be responsible for teaching students how to co-operate?

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Q: What are the differences between help from friends and from family?

Part 3

Giving advice

Collocation/ Possible new words/ Vocab

• on short notice: very quickly with no notice

• work with certainty: work with clear actions and results

• malice (n): the wish to harm someone

• be regulated (adj): be controlled

• misleading (adj): causing someone to believe that something is not true

• patient (adj): being able to wait

• aspect (n): a part of something

Collocation/ Possible new words/ Vocab (cont)

• give undivided attention: focus entirely on someone or something

• turn into: become

• impossible to make out: be unable to deal with something

• benefit (n): advantage

• flaw (n): a mistake or problem that makes something not perfect

• sort through: put thing in order or in correct places

• a dozen of: 12 of something (amount). Ex: a dozen of eggs= 12 eggs

Multiple Choice

Q: Should people prepare before giving advice?

A: To me, it depends greatly on the situation. Is the advice absolutely needed on short notice? If so, then preparation might not be required, and one should just give whatever advice they can think of. But in the opposite situation, the advice would need to be considered in ....., so that it will work with certainty.

• completion

• detail

• details

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Q: Is it good to ask advice from strangers online?

A: In my opinion, absolutely not. The Internet is not well-regulated, and therefore, people will be very various in behaviors and personalities, including malice and evilness. Many people will offer no advice, and some would even offer misleading or dangerous advice, that might cause harm to people. Thus, unless one is good at understanding the Internet, asking strangers advice online is not

.

Multiple Choice

Q: What are the personalities of people whose job is to advise to others?

A (sample): In order to advise to others efficiently, a person must be patient in listening to problems, so that they can understand what the issue really is, and from there, offer an advice or a solution to the issue. Another ....... of giving advice to others is attention. By giving total undivided attention to those asking for advices, the person can show that they are willing to help out the other.

• possibility

• aspect

• side

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Q: What are the problems if you ask too many people for advice?

A (sample): Everyone has their own opinions and ideas, so when you ask too many people for advice, you will receive too many advices. It will turn into a situation where no matter how much you try, it will be impossible to make out which advice would work best for you, since every advice has certain

and flaws to it, and finding out the best would take too much time. After all, sorting through 5 advices is better than sorting through a dozen of them.

Open Ended

Q: Should people prepare before giving advice?

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Q: Is it good to ask advice from strangers online?

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Q: What are the personalities of people whose job is to advise to others?

Open Ended

Q: What are the problems if you ask too many people for advice?

Multiple Choice

Q: Do you find these questions helpful in anyway to your preparation for speaking?

• Yes

• No

• Maybe

Open Ended

Q: If you said "maybe", please explain. If you said either "no" or "maybe", please provide feedback for improvements