4: WRITING | Tiếng Anh 9 (Friends Plus) | UNIT 4: FEELINGS - Lớp 9 - Giáo Dục Việt Nam

OK, well this is a slightly annoying situation, isn't it? But quite common, IMO. Let's think. What could you do? For a start you should probably ask these people why it's 'sad' to do well. They might be having problems with some of the work. Hey-you could even offer to help them. What do you reckon?

What else? Are you meeting a lot of new people at the moment? I bet that there are LOADS of other people that you can be friends with if you want. Just be yourself, 'cos then I can guarantee that people will respect you. If you like studying, that's cool. You're obviously popular and you don't have to change who you are.

And one more thing. You did the right thing asking for advice. It's never a bad idea to talk to other people about it. Like they say, 'a problem shared is a problem halved'. Anyway, good luck and I hope that things work out for you. 😊Kim

IMO = in my opinion

Conversational phrases

A TASK

Choose one of the situations and write a post (100-120 words) giving advice to the person with the problem.

B THINK AND PLAN

1 What do you think of the situation?

2 Is this a common problem?

3 Who should the person talk to first?

4 What other advice can you think of?

5 What can you say to support and sympathise with this person?

C WRITE

Paragraph 1: Talk about the problem and say who to speak to.

Paragraph 2: Give more ideas and advice.

Paragraph 3: End the post and reassure the person.

D CHECK

• modal verbs

• conversational tone