Asking For and Giving Advice — English Bac Éco

ضمن برنامج بكالوريا Éco

English has a coefficient of 2 in the Bac Sciences Économiques stream, the same weight as Philosophy and Law. It sits behind the professional subjects (General Economics and Accounting, coefficient 6; Business Organisation, coefficient 3; Applied Mathematics, coefficient 4). The stream's grounding in institutions and collective behaviour makes the English themes on citizenship, organisations and development familiar ground.

في الامتحان

Three parts: Reading Comprehension, Language, and Writing (about 180 words). Economics candidates are used to analysing collective phenomena and institutions, which helps on essay prompts about international organisations, brain drain or sustainable development — provided the answer stays in plain English, not economics jargon.

أهداف التعلم

Produce this function at the right register in a dialogue-completion task on the Bac Éco English paper (coefficient 2)
Ask for advice: What should I do? / What would you do (if you were me)? / Do you think I should…?
Give advice with should / ought to + base form
Give hypothetical advice with If I were you, I would…
Use softer suggestions: Why don't you…? / How about + -ing? / You could…

المفاهيم الأساسية

Asking for advice

What should I do? / What do you think I should do? / If you were me, what would you do? / Do you have any advice on…? — direct questions that invite a recommendation.

Giving advice with should / ought to

should / ought to + base form, for a clear recommendation: “You should talk to your teacher.” / “You ought to apologise.” The negative is shouldn't (“You shouldn't wait any longer.”).

Hypothetical advice: If I were you

If I were you, I would + base form — a common way to give advice by putting yourself in the other person's place: “If I were you, I would revise the grammar chapters first.” (second conditional structure).

الأخطاء الشائعة

Using should + to: “You should to rest” is wrong — should is a modal, followed by the base form without to.

Saying “If I was you”: in advice, the fixed form is “If I were you” for all subjects.

Giving advice with must (obligation) when a recommendation is meant: should / ought to are softer and more appropriate for advice.

مثال محلول

نص السؤال

A friend says: “I have failed two English tests in a row.” Give one piece of advice using should and one using If I were you.

التصحيح

Advice with should. A direct recommendation: “You should ask your teacher which points you keep getting wrong.”

Advice with If I were you. The same idea from your own standpoint: “If I were you, I would focus on one grammar chapter a week and practise it in writing.”

Result. Two well-formed pieces of advice, one with a modal, one with the second-conditional structure.

افهم الدرس، ثم تدرب.

ينشئ Orka تمارين غير محدودة وامتحانات تجريبية مصححة تغطي برنامج اللغة الإنجليزية في بكالوريا Éco، مع تتبع تقدمك درساً بعد درس.

تابع مجاناً مع Orka

3 تمارين للتدرب

التمرين 1

Easy

Complete: “You look exhausted. You ___ take a break.” (should / must / would)

عرض التصحيح

should — a recommendation, softer than the obligation must.

التمرين 2

Medium

Rewrite as advice with If I were you: “Talk to your parents about it.”

عرض التصحيح

“If I were you, I would talk to my parents about it.” — note were (not was) and would + base form.

التمرين 3

Hard

Correct: “If I was you, I will study harder and you should to see a tutor.”

عرض التصحيح

Three errors: “If I were you” (not was), “I would study” (not will) in the second conditional, and “you should see” (should + base form, no to). Corrected: “If I were you, I would study harder, and you should see a tutor.”

تعمق أكثر في هذا الدرس

أكثر من 50 تمريناً تفاعلياً في هذا الدرس

تمارين يولدها الذكاء الاصطناعي ويصححها خطوة بخطوة حسب مستواك.

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اختبار ذكي متكيف

أسئلة تتكيف تلقائياً مع إجاباتك الصحيحة وأخطائك.

تسجيل الدخول مطلوب

تصحيح امتحانات سابقة مرتبطة بالدرس

مواضيع من الامتحانات الوطنية والجهوية السابقة.

تسجيل الدخول مطلوب

خطة مراجعة شخصية

ترتب أولوية هذا الدرس حسب تقدمك الحقيقي في الشعبة.

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بطاقات مراجعة الدرس

الصيغ والتعريفات الأساسية لمراجعة سريعة.

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مدرس ذكي بالدارجة

اطرح أسئلتك حول الدرس واحصل على شرح فوري.

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الأسئلة الشائعة

Is “If I were you” really more correct than “If I was you”?

In the fixed advice phrase, yes — “If I were you” is the form expected in Bac writing. “If I was you” is heard in casual speech but is marked as incorrect here.

What is the difference between should and had better?

should is general advice; had better is stronger and hints at a bad consequence if the advice is ignored: “You'd better leave now or you'll miss the train.”

How do I give advice more gently in a dialogue?

Use a suggestion form: “Why don't you…?”, “How about talking to her?”, “You could try…” — less direct than should, useful when the register calls for tact.

How do I fit English revision around the economics and accounting subjects?

A short weekly session: one chapter (rule or word list, two examples), then a short paragraph. Focus especially on the society themes — citizenship, international organisations, development — which are close to your other subjects, and keep a model introduction and conclusion ready. A mark above your average is within reach.

Why learn a spoken function for a written Bac Éco exam?

Because it is tested in writing: dialogue-completion tasks ask for exactly these phrases at the right level of politeness. Keeping two or three set expressions per function, sorted by register, covers the task reliably.