Making Suggestions

lessons for kids learning everyday English expressions

Learn English through pictures, sounds and sentence examples! In this lesson you will learn some useful phrases for making suggestions in English.

We make suggestions when deciding what to do with our friends, or giving them advice on what they might do in a certain situations.

There are many different ways of making suggestions in English. Here are some examples.
Click on the pictures below to hear the sounds.

Let's go to the zoo.

Why don't we go to the library?

How about going to the shop?

What about going to the park?

Look at the pictures below. Make sentences, for example: Let's go shopping on Wednesday.

We often make suggestions using let's. So, let's chant with Wordies!

Play with these rhymes. Try to mime or make funny motions with your hands.

Let's go, let's stay,
Let's sing, let's play.
Let's learn, let's count, let's say
Hooray, hooray, hooray!

Let's go swimming now.
I can't. I don't know how.
I can teach you how.
Let's go swimming now!

Let's play the ABC game! It works well at home, in the classroom, or with a team. You could also use it on birthday parties :-)

Here is how to play it.

Let's start! A, B, C, ..., M.
Banano, name an animal that starts with the letter M.

M... M is for Monkey!
Now it's my turn. A, B. Name a toy that starts with B.

Let's sing the ABC Song!

There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. Name each of them »