There are countless ways of preparing a lesson on giving advice. This is not just another one, for at least three reasons:

- It’s a lot more authentic, and it lets students look for possible solutions themselves.

- Its final focus is writing – by using the functional language in an e-mail, students gain extra practice.

- It is more compact – the whole lesson relies more on students “noticing” the phrases in use in website articles than on restricted practice activities.

The website used here is Ehow.com – which features lots of “how-to” articles available for free. For extended practice, wikihow.com lets students edit their own advice articles – which could become a whole project involving research, editing and publishing an article.

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