Make sure the entire class knows the meaning of the word “advice” (and “advise”). Go over some phrases that can be used when giving advice (if I were in your shoes, etc.). Show a couple of short dear abby type letters written by teenagers, then give the class a few minutes to work in groups and come up with some advice for each teenager. Have some of the groups share them with the class.
Then hand out a small slip of paper to each student in the class (there should be four different colors). Don’t tell the students what you want them to do yet. Once you’ve handed them out, tell them what each color means—for example, if they were given a blue piece of paper it means a problem with school, red might mean love, yellow might mean family, etc.
Then ask each student to write down a problem (real or made up) on the paper (the subject depending on the color of paper they received). Make sure that they know that it doesn’t have to be real and that they shouldn’t write their names on the paper. Collect all of the papers and have students come up, pick a piece of paper (problem) randomly out of the box, and give advice on the problem. Then have other students say if they agree with that advice or not.
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