Making Suggestions ESL Activities, Worksheets, Role-Plays and Games
In this useful holiday suggestions activity, students suggest suitable places to go on different types of holidays, including where to stay and things to see and do. Students begin by reading a holiday suggestions dialogue and categorising key phrases in bold according to their functions. In pairs, students then make suggestions for four types of holidays and decide on a suitable place to go, a place to stay, and things to see and do for each one. Finally, each pair discusses their holiday suggestions with another pair.
In this free making suggestions speaking activity, students role-play making, accepting and rejecting suggestions about things to do on a Saturday. Students imagine it's Saturday, and they are at home together feeling bored. The aim of the activity is to make suggestions on things to do until they find something they all agree on. In groups, students begin by turning over the first situation card and making appropriate suggestions according to the prompt. Students suggest, reject and accept suggestions based on the preferences on their role cards until they come up with something they all want to do. When the students have reached an agreement, they write the activity on the situation card and turn over the next card. The role-play continues until the students have completed all the situations and agreed on a suggestion for each one.
In this fun making suggestions game, students race to put words in the correct order to form suggestions about different things. There are ten suggestions in all and each suggestion uses a different phrase. One student from each pair comes to your desk, picks up the first suggestion strip, takes it back to their partner, and together they put the words in order to form a suggestion. Students write the suggestion on the strip, capitalizing the first word and adding in punctuation. When a pair has completed the suggestion, a student from the pair brings the strip back to you. If the suggestion is correct, the student takes the next strip and continues. If the suggestion is incorrect, the student takes the strip back to their partner to find and correct the mistake. The first pair to successfully complete all ten suggestion strips wins the game.
In this communicative making suggestions activity, students make, accept and reject suggestions and give excuses using prompts on cards. Students hold their cards so the picture prompt is facing towards them. Students then go around the class, making and accepting suggestions with as many different partners as possible using the picture prompts. Next, students exchange cards and repeat the activity, but this time, they hold their cards with the picture prompt facing away and make a different suggestion each time they speak to a classmate. Afterwards, students exchange cards again and write an excuse on the blank side of the card. Students hold their cards so that the picture prompt is facing away and the excuse is facing towards them and go around making and rejecting suggestions and giving excuses. Finally, students exchange cards one more time and go around the class with the excuse facing away, making the same suggestion several times but giving a different excuse each time.
In this productive making suggestions worksheet, students practice phrases to make suggestions by completing and writing suggestions from prompts. Students read each statement on the worksheet, look at a picture prompt and complete or write a suggestion. For prompts 1 to 6, students complete the suggestion. For prompts 7 to 14, students write a suggestion using one of four phrases.
This comprehensive making suggestions worksheet helps students learn how to make, accept and reject suggestions related to holidays. First, students read how to make suggestions followed by an infinitive, a verb in the -ing form and a noun. Students then complete suggestions with the correct form of the verb in brackets. Next, students read phrases to accept and reject suggestions and categorize them accordingly. After that, students complete a suggestions dialogue with words from a box. Students then move on to suggest going on holiday to their classmates using places in a table, e.g. 'Why don't we go to Hawaii?' When a classmate agrees, the two students write down each other's name and suggest an activity to do together, writing the activity in the table. Students then move on to speak to someone else. Afterwards, students give feedback to the class on their holiday plans.
Here is a handy making suggestions role-play activity to help students practice phrases for suggesting, raising objections, suggesting alternatives and accepting suggestions. First, students read three short dialogues and choose the correct words to complete the phrases in the conversations. Each dialogue consists of phrases for making suggestions, raising objections, suggesting alternatives and accepting suggestions. Next, in pairs, students create a dialogue where they suggest where to go and what to do tomorrow using the phrases and a set of prompts. Finally, pairs role-play their dialogues to the class.
In this free making suggestions worksheet, students practice making, accepting and rejecting suggestions using various phrases. Students begin by identifying phrases to make suggestions in sentences. Students then match sentence halves to form responses that accept or reject suggestions. Next, students write six suggestions using the phrases from Exercise A. After that, students take turns making suggestions to a partner, who accepts and rejects the suggestions using the responses. In small groups, students then discuss everyday problems and make suggestions. Students accept or reject ideas as needed and decide on the best solution for each issue. Finally, students share their decisions with the class, explaining their reasoning.
In this insightful making suggestions lesson, students learn how to make, accept and reject suggestions. First, students look at pictures of eight presents and write the names of the presents below the pictures. Students then rank the presents from the most to the least expensive and answer questions about which present they would most and least like to receive for their birthday and which would be the best and worst present for their dad. After that, students complete a gap-fill dialogue where two people are suggesting presents for their dad's birthday. Students then identify and write down the phrases used for making, accepting and rejecting suggestions from the dialogue. Next, students answer questions about the dialogue and discuss their answers in pairs. Finally, students create a conversation where they make, accept and reject suggestions for a friend's birthday present using a set of prompts. Afterwards, students present their conversations to the class.
In this detailed making suggestions worksheet, students learn and practice phrases for making, accepting and declining suggestions. Students start by reading a suggestions dialogue and identifying phrases for making a suggestion, accepting a suggestion and declining a suggestion. Students then circle phrases that are not appropriate responses to suggestions. Next, students underline all the phrases for making suggestions in Exercise C. After that, students write their own suggestions using a different phrase and activity each time. Finally, in pairs, students take it in turns suggesting their ideas and their partner responds using one of the phrases from the worksheet.
In this communicative making suggestions speaking activity, students give suggestions for a set of problems and then work together in a group to reach an agreement on a solution for each one. To begin, students come up with one or two suggestions to deal with each problem on the worksheet. In groups, students then discuss each problem in turn, give their suggestions and try to reach an agreement on a solution for each one. Afterwards, groups share their solutions with the class who decides on the best solution for each problem.
In these engaging making suggestions activivites, students make, accept and reject suggestions by completing gap-fill dialogues and role-playing different suggestion scenarios using prompts on cards. First, students complete two gap-fill dialogues with words and phrases for making, accepting and rejecting suggestions. In pairs, students then read the dialogues with their partner. Students then use the language from the two dialogues to role-play different scenarios where they make, accept and reject suggestions. Students turn over cards and role-play various conversations where they make, accept and reject suggestions and try to come up with a plan of things to do based on the topic on the card. Afterwards, pairs take it in turns to role-play one of their dialogues in front of the class.
In this creative making suggestions speaking activity, students suggest the best way to do different things. In groups, students take turns picking up a topic card and asking, 'What's the best way to (topic)?', e.g. 'What's the best way to find a job?' Next, each group member suggests the best way to do the thing on the card. Students then discuss the topic and come to an agreement on the best suggestion, writing the idea on the back of the card. This continues until all the cards have been used. Afterwards, the class discusses the best suggestions for each topic.
