English · Feelings and Emotions
Production — letter of advice
Acknowledge the problem, then give clear advice
6 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Letter of advice responding to a personal problem (agony-aunt style), 80-120 words
- Process: first draft → error-checking → final version
The method
- Acknowledge the problem, then give 2-3 concrete pieces of advice using should/ought to
The common mistakes
- Advice with no acknowledgement of the stated problem
The kind of exercise that comes up at the BAC
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Agony-aunt letter of advice medium
a personal-problem letter → reply letter of advice
From the lesson
Someone writes to you with a real problem. Before you write anything back, read what they actually feel.
The vocabulary
- letter of advice (رسالة نصيحة)