Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris XI 2 : Offers and Suggestions

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Good morning students, welcome to the eleventh grade.

In this chapter you are going to learn about the expressions of suggesting. Before we start this lesson let’’s pray to Allah so that we can understand the materials in this chapter well.

As the materials I gave you last week, we know that suggestion is an idea or plan put forward for consideration. In our life, sometimes we need to ask for other’s suggestion. On the other hands, we sometimes give our suggestion to other as well. Do you know how to ask for and give suggestion ? You will find out about some expressions you can to ask for and give suggestion in this chapter.

Now, pay attention to this situation. When your friend wants to go home but the sky is dark and it seems like it will rain soon. If you are in this situation, what will you suggest to your friend whose house is quite far from school ? Yes, you may say, “You’d better go now.” or “ You’d better use the umbrella or raincoat.” Those are expressions of giving suggestion. When someone gives a suggestion to you, you can either accept the suggestion or reject it politely. You will also find some more examples of how to accept and reject suggestion in this chapter.

Well, lets’ begin the lesson now !

Expressions of Suggesting

Suggestion is an idea or plan put forward for consideration or act of suggesting.

Here are some more expressions of asking and giving suggestions and their responses ( I already gave other expressions last week) .

1. Asking for suggestion

• What should i do ?
• Do you think i ought to….?
• What do you think i should ….?
• Do you have any ideas about ….?
• Should i try to talk him about this matter again ….?
• If you were me, what would you do ?
• If you were in my situation, would you ….?
• Do you have any suggestions for me ?
• Can you give some more suggestions ?
• Do you have any suggestions/recommendation about ….?
• Can you recommend….?

2. Giving Suggestion

• Try…..
• How about ….?
• Why don’t you ….?
• If i were you, I'd …..
• I suggest that we …..
• I think you’d better…..
• I recommend you to …..
• I’d say that you’d better …..
• My recommendation is that …..
• It would probably be a good idea to…..

3. Responding to Suggestions

a. Accepting Suggestion

• WHAT a good idea
• That’s a good suggestion
• That sounds good/great
• That sounds like a good idea
• That hadn’t occurred to me
• That never entered my mind
• I hadn’t thought that
• I’ll do so. Thank you for your suggestion

b. Rejecting Suggestion

• I don’t think it’s good idea
• That’s a bad suggestion
• I can’t do that
• Thanks for your suggestion, but i’d rather not do so
• That would be difficult to do
• Oh, that’s a little too…..
• I don’t know …

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Example :

Andre     : We still need money to make proposal, Do you have an idea to have money ?

Rohman : How about trying to sell pop ice to our friend ?

Siska      : That’s good idea, Let’s try it.

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