Recommend

Lead-in

  • What would you recommend: Shark diving, bungee jumping or skydiving? Why?

Presentation

Pre

  • Are you a good “People reader”?
  • What is the first thing you notice about a person?

Top Down

  • What is an appropriate title for this text? Read the text and find out!
  • Forget recommendations!
  • Recommendation letters.
  • If you work, nothing else matters.
  • Forget recommendations!
  • Recommendation letters.
  • If you work, nothing else matters.

How do you write a short letter of recommendation?
– Always start with the date.
– State who you are recommending and what you are recommending them for.
– Describe how long you know the person and in what capacity.
– State their best qualities.
– Give details about the person’s character, morals, and values.

How do you thank someone who wrote a letter of recommendation?
Thank you very much for your kindness in writing a letter of recommendation to support my application for Waterhouse Associates. You have spent your effort and time assisting me, and I greatly appreciate it.

How do you write a professional letter of recommendation?
– Keep it positive. Your letter should confirm that you believe the person is a strong candidate for the job with no reservations.
– Use a standard business letter format and tone.
– Focus on the most important qualifications.
– Follow the request instructions.

Can family members write recommendations?
Under no circumstances should you submit a letter of recommendation from a family member. Most universities will not look at the letter favorably, and it will not make your application stronger

What is the proper format for a letter of recommendation?
– Date.
– Dear Sir/Madam.
– State who you are recommending and for what.
– Describe the capacity in which you know them.
– List their most applicable qualities/traits.
– Conclude by confidently recommending them.
– Yours sincerely.

What should a letter of recommendation include?
A recommendation letter should include information on who you are, your connection with the person you are recommending, why they are qualified, and the specific skills they have. Specifics. Whenever possible, it’s helpful to provide specific anecdotes and examples that illustrate your support.

Modified from Source.

Bottom Up

  • True or False.
  1. There’s no need to add the date when writing a recoomendation letter.
  2. You should use a standard business tone.
  3. The goal of writing a letter is to write both the good and the bad traits of the person.
  4. You should keep it positive.
  5. Never describe how long you know the person.
  1. There’s no need to add the date when writing a recoomendation letter. False
  2. You should use a standard business tone. True
  3. The goal of writing a letter is to write both the good and the bad traits of the person. False
  4. You should keep it positive. True
  5. Never describe how long you know the person. False

Post

  • Following the tips given by the text, what would you write in your recommendation letter?

Target Language

Reported Speech

When reporting what other people said, we can use verbs other than ask, say and tell.

Verb + to infinitive

  • They offered to babysit my son.
  • I decided to study more.
  • We agreed to make less noise.
  • She promised to never let go.
  • He refuses to take his meds.

Verb + Object + to infinitive / of object

  • Clara invited me to travel with her and her friend Marcela.
  • My mom warned me not to take so long to do my chores.
  • You remind me of a girl that I once knew.
  • They advised him to stop insisting.

Verb + verb (ing) / object

  • My son recommended buying that toy.
  • She suggested not giving up now.

Controlled Practice

  • Read the sentences and choose the best option to each one. There is one example.
  1. A friend of mine offered to help.
  2. My boss warned me to do / for doing a better job.
  3. She reminds me to study / studying every day.
  4. Mary recommended jogging / to jog every evening.
  5. Kris Jenner decided to make / making the Kardashians a bigger family.
  1. A friend of mine offered to help.
  2. My boss warned me to do a better job.
  3. She reminds me to study every day.
  4. Mary recommended jogging every evening.
  5. Kris Jenner decided to make the Kardashians a bigger family.

Freer Practice

  • Use reported speech to tell your classmate about the following:

Example: One should always keep his face glowing with a smile. (Dr. Seuss) > Dr. Seuss advised us to always keep our face glowing with a smile.

  1. Always know that the charm that you are looking for is actually equal to that tenderness of your heart. (Jane Austen)
  2. If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. (Michel de Montaigne)
  3. Where there is love there is life.  (Mahatma Gandhi)
  4. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.  (Franklin Roosevelt)
  5. Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. (Cary Grant)

Production

Talk about 3 useful things people told you. Remember to use the target language.

Homework

Fill the gaps with the correct conjugation of the verbs in parentheses.

Example: I ____ eating healthy. (Suggest) > I suggested eating healthy.

  1. Catarina ____ me and my mom to go with her. (Invite)
  2. We weren’t ____ about the danger. (Warn)
  3. No one ____ going to the wedding. (Suggest)
  4. He ____ her a wedding ring. (Promise)
  5. We highly ____ it but they didn’t listen. (Recommend)
  1. Catarina invited me and my mom to go with her.
  2. We weren’t warned about the danger.
  3. No one suggested going to the wedding.
  4. He promised her a wedding ring.
  5. We highly recommended it but they didn’t listen.

Put the sentences in the interrogative form.

Example:  She invited me to drink some coffee. > Did she invite me to drink some coffee?

  1. Suggest means “to express or say indirectly”.
  2. Loren admitted to making a mistake.
  3. Jonas warned you about talking to that woman.
  4. Mariah told me to stop procrastinating.
  5. Thais invited me to go to a party.
  1. Does suggest mean “to express or say indirectly”?
  2. Did Loren admit to making a mistake?
  3. Did Jonas warn you about talking to that woman?
  4. Did Mariah tell me to stop procrastinating?
  5. Did Thais invite me to go to a party?

Put the sentences in the negative form.

Example: She invited me to drink some coffee. > She didn’t invite me to drink some coffee.

  1. Does suggest mean “to express or say indirectly”?
  2. Did Loren admit to making a mistake?
  3. Did Jonas warn you about talking to that woman?
  4. Did Mariah tell me to stop procrastinating?
  5. Did Thais invite me to go to a party?
  1. Suggest doesn’t mean “to express or say indirectly”.
  2. Loren didn’t admit to making a mistake.
  3. Jonas didn’t warn you about talking to that woman.
  4. Mariah didn’t tell me to stop procrastinating.
  5. Thais didn’t invite me to go to a party.

Put the words in the correct order to make sentences.

Example: traveling / suggested / plane / to / by / Europe / He / to > He suggested traveling by plane to Europe.

  1. on / trip / I / suggested / remember / that Cora / going / a.
  2. answer. / He / an / demanded
  3. Walter / help / asked / get / for / but / any. / didn’t 
  4. about / He / talking / his / problems. / refuses / always 
  5. decided / creator / to / stop / comic / writing / books. / Marvel’s 
  1. I remember that Cora suggested going on a trip.
  2. He demanded an answer.
  3. Walter asked for help but didn’t get any.
  4. He always refuses talking about his problems.
  5. Marvel’s creator decided to stop writing comic books.

Find and correct the mistakes.

  1. No one cares if you sugested changing the schedulle.
  2. Do your boss ask for something that can’t be done?
  3. He tolds me to got my head out of the clouds.
  4. Tristan advized Khloe Kardashian to stop teling jokes all the time.
  5. If I was you, I would listen to what she suggested.
  1. No one cares if you suggested changing the schedule.
  2. Does your boss ask for something that can’t be done?
  3. He told me to get my head out of the clouds.
  4. Tristan advised Khloe Kardashian to stop telling jokes all the time.
  5. If I were you, I would listen to what she suggested.

Writing

Write a short text about things that were said to you. Use the target language.

Example: My fiancé suggested working until november…