B1-B2 Power Point

1. Giving Advice

2. Giving Advice
Should, Ought to, Had Better
• Patient: I feel so tired all the time. I can’t
breathe and I have a terrible cough
• Doctor: You should exercise more. You
shouldn’t smoke. You ought to take your
medicine. You had better lose weight.
You’d better not eat fast food.
• Patient: That is very difficult to do.
• Doctor: Well, perhaps you should think about
getting a new doctor.

3. Should and Ought to
• Use should and ought to give advice.
• You should get more exercise.
• You ought to take your medicine

4. Had Better
• Use had better for strong advice. We
usually use a contraction with had better.
• You had better lose weight.
• You’d better not eat fast food.

5. Had Better- BE CAREFUL!
You’d better take the bus now.
You’d better study tomorrow.

6. Use should for questions. We don’t usually use
ought to or had better in questions.
Questions
Should I go to the doctor?
Where should I go?

7. Polite Advice
To give polite advice, you can use maybe,
perhaps, or I think….
Perhaps you
ought to eat
more fruit.
Maybe you
should stop
giving me
advice.