Suggestion and Offering

Hi English Talkers!

  

        What would you do if your friends told you about their problem, then asked for advice? Maybe you will be confused about how you can respond to it, especially if you didn't listen to their story with all your soul. However, English Talkers have to be a good listeners by giving good suggestions or offering help. Because this will happen the other way around, you will also ask for advice or help any time. Especially, if that person is your crush, show your sympathy as someone who is really willing to be a place to lean on. Plus, you can make a "suggestions and offerings" which will indicate that you are a fun person to talk to.

        English Talkers, do you know that suggestions and offers are also a marketing trick? but it's not always like that. Suggestion and offering is an expression to give advice and offer something. For more details, let's study together about the suggestions and offerings!😊

 

 OFFERS 

        1. What is offer?

            Offer is an expression of the desire by people in front of the other people to do something or not to do something. Offer means to give something physical or abstract to someone which can be taken as a gift or a trade. Offer can be given in terms of food, money, solution, friendship or a bargain. It can be taken or refused.

 

        2.     What is the purpose of offer?

         a.      To present, introduce or propose a help or an assist for consideration

         b.     To propose a help. It can be accepted or refused

         c.      To facilitate interpersonal communication between people. 

 

        3.     How to express offer?

When making offers, we often use the following expressions:

·       May I...?

·       Can I...?

·       Shall I…?

·       Would You...?

·       How about I...?

 

Examples of making offers.

·       May I give you a hand?

·       Can I help you?

·       Shall I bring you some tea?

·       Would you like another piece of cake?

 

        4.     Responding to Offers 

       ACCEPTING AN OFFER:

·       Yes. Please. I really appreciate it.

·       Thank you. That’s very kind of you.

·       Yes,. Please. That would be lovely.

·       Sure. Thank you.

·       Oh,thanks. That would be very nice.

·       Thank you. I appreciate your help.

·       Yes,please. That would be very kind of you.

·       I’d love to

        DECLINING AN OFFER:

·       It’s okay, I can do it myself

·       No. thank you

·       No, thanks. I don’t want another helping

·       Don’t worry, I will do it myself.

·       That’s alright, I will manage on my own

·       Thank you for the offer.

·       I’d love to, but...:

 

 SUGGESTION 

 

        1.     What is suggestion?

        Suggestion is about say or write our ideas about what people should do. Suggest means to give a suggestion that is to introduce or propose an idea or a plan g for someone's consideration.

 

        2.     What is the purpose of suggestion?

·       Suggest means to present a suggestion that is to introduce or propose an idea or a plan for consideration. It can be accepted or refused. Suggestions are abstract and can be in form of solution, advice, plan, and idea. Suggestion is yo facilitate interpersonal communication between different people.

 

        3.     How to express suggestion?

When making suggestions, we often use the following expressions:

·       Lets...

·       Why don't we?

·       We could...

·       What about...?

·       About...?

·       Suggest that you might want to change...

·       I think...

·       I don't think...

        4.     Asking for Suggestion.

·       Do you have any suggestions for me?

·       Would you mind giving me your suggestion?

·       Can you tell me what I should do?

·       What should I do?

        5. Giving Suggestion.

·       You should + V1

·       You had better + V1

·       You ought to + V1

·       I suggest you to + V1

·       How about + Ving

·       Let’s + V1

·       Why don’t you + V1

·       Couldn’t you + V1

·       What about + Ving

 

Ø Giving suggestion with “let’s”

"Let's" comes from the word "let us", which means: "I have a suggestion for us" (saya punya suatu saran untuk kita)

Example: I’m bored.

Suggestion:

Ø  Let’s go to a movie

Ø  Let’s not go to beach.

Ø  Let’s stay home instead

 

Ø Giving  suggestion with “could” 

"Could” can be used to give suggestion to others

Example: "What should we do tomorrow?"

Suggestion:

·       We could go on a picnic.

·       We could go to Julia’s party. ·

“Could” can be used to give offer or possibility to others

Example: I’m having trouble in math class

Suggestion: You could talk to your teacher. You could ask Anna to help you with your math lessons.

 

6. Responding to Suggestion.

Ø  Accepting Suggestion

o   Sure

o   Ok. Yes, let's.

o   Yes, I'd like to.

o   Yes, I'd love to.

o   What a good idea!

o   Why not?

 

Ø  Refusing Suggestion

o    No, let's not. ·

o    No, I'd rather not. ·

o    I don't feel like it. ·

o   I dislike your suggestion.

o   What an awful / bad idea! ·

o   I don’t think it’s a good idea.

o   Sorry

o   That’s boring.

o   Let’s do something else. 

 

Nah, that's all about Offering & Suggestions. We hope all of you guys already know about that. In order to make you more understand this material, we have already given the example in the video. Wish you have a better understanding after this, and enjoy watching!✋

  https://youtu.be/eUbuQxpqGAY  

 

 

PRACTICE TIME!😃

 
And noww... let's get a little practice to train your understanding!

1. Look at these pictures, choose one of them, then make a dialogue based on the picture containing asking and offering for help. Write your answer in the comment section, we would like to read your amazing answer fresh from your brain😎

 

      2. Work with your friend, make a dialogue about these:

1.     Offering help and response

2.     Asking for help and response

3.     Offering suggestions and response

4.     Asking for suggestions and responses.

 Then try to practice it by making a video of you and your friends having a conversation and sharing it on youtube, then also share the link of the video practice with us. 

 

Well, hope you guys enjoy this recent meeting. If there is any question, we are very happy to answer it in the comment. Don't forget to wait for our next content. See yaa! <3