HOW TO MAKE SUGGESTIONS

Tutor:

Marketing Department meeting dialog-> Choosing a celebrity spokesperson for a new productCelebrity: Famous personHere spokesperson: who gets paid to be in an advertisement for a productTarget market: The place you want to sell your productTarget customer: Type of customer you want to sell your product to-> Product in this case: Special kind of new sports shoe made especially for overweight peopleOverweight: nice way of saying too heavy or not fit

How does Sven make his suggestion?-> “On possibility would be to…”-> Use “would” instead of “will”Þ “Would”: Just suggestionÞ Past modal verbs ( would, could, should) are often used in this

suggestions

Miguel makes a suggestion-> “Perhaps we should…”: another polite way of making suggestion. -> Just: shows what he is suggesting is no change from the normal way of doing thingsÞHe says: “ if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it” ( idiom: don’t change something

if it is already working fine”)

Charles:• Shows he has a suggestion: “I’ve got a suggestion.”• Use a careful, polite ways to introduce the suggestion (Since

he’s talking to boss and not sure everyone will agree with him)

-> “ It’s just an idea, but how about…”: Normal way of making a suggestion-> “It 'just an idea. But…” make s it extra polite

Instead of “ how about”, you can say “ what about”. “How about”/”what about” + V-ing• How about washing the dishes• It’s just an idea, but what about eating lunch toghether?These sometimes followed by a phrase ( or sentence.) More common with “how about”• How about you wash the dishes and I dry?• How about we have lunch together?

Shall we try to find someone in golf? You can say “what if…”• What if we cut costs by finding a new officeWith Karen team, practice ways of making suggestions that we have learned so far:• Well, one possibility would be to…hire more staff.• Perhaps we should have more vacation?• It’s just an idea, but how about leaving a little early today?• Shall we try to look at this from another point of view?• Well, what if we try to open a new store in Germany?

Practice. Use information supplied in the cue to make suggestion.

Practice. Use information supplied in the cue to make suggestion.

REVIEW AND PRACTICE PHRASE USED TO MAKE SUGGESTION