I would recommend ___ to people who ___.
Write a Useful Recommendation
Write a useful recommendation that identifies the reader, gives a clear verdict, supports it with specific evidence, and includes one relevant limitation.
Your goal
By the end of this lesson, you can write a balanced recommendation with supporting reasons.
Progress focus: WRLC
Engduo Audio: Licensed voices prepared for this lesson. Audio never starts automatically. Use the transcript after the first listening attempt.
1. Look, listen, and notice
Use the visual and model audio to understand the situation, viewpoint, or communication problem before studying the language.
- reader and purpose
- clear verdict
- specific evidence
- limitation and fit
Engduo Audio • American English
Transcript — open after listening
I would recommend this short science podcast to learners who enjoy practical questions. The examples are clear and each episode is under fifteen minutes.
Engduo Audio • Australian English
Transcript — open after listening
One limitation is the fast delivery, so it may not suit a beginner without a transcript. Overall, it is worth considering for regular listening practice.
How to run Stage 1
Confirm the observable outcome and connect it to one realistic learner need.
2. Build useful language
Choose the phrases that help you complete the task; do not memorise a full script.
The strongest feature is ___.
For example, ___.
One limitation is ___.
It may not suit someone who ___.
Overall, ___ is worth considering if ___.
How to run Stage 2
Use the visual and first audio or text for meaning before explaining language.
3. Rehearse with support
Practise the decisions, evidence, listening, or language moves that make the final task successful.
- Replace generic praise with one observable feature.
- Keep the recommendation tied to a named reader need.
- Include a limitation that changes who the recommendation suits.
How to run Stage 3
Select only the useful-language items needed for this learner and this task.
4. Complete the communication task
Exchange information, solve a problem, create a text, or reach a decision with a real outcome.
Choose a fictional book, app, local place, or learning resource card and write a 120–150 word recommendation for a specific reader profile.
How to run Stage 4
Run the supported rehearsal without reading every instruction aloud.
5. Perform, receive feedback, and retry
Complete the task with keywords only, receive focused feedback, and repeat the weakest part.
Exchange drafts, underline verdict–evidence–limitation, revise the weakest link, and read the final recommendation aloud.
Retry: Repeat once with clearer meaning, stronger evidence, more accurate listening, or less support.
How to run Stage 5
Run the main task: Choose a fictional book, app, local place, or learning resource card and write a 120–150 word recommendation for a specific reader profile.
Exit check
Complete this without reading a model: Write a concise recommendation with a clear audience, two specific supporting details, and one relevant limitation.
Success looks like: A reader can decide whether the item fits their need without relying on empty praise.
Evidence: writing · Repeat the weakest part once after one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most.
WR · Writing Control
2: Produces reader-focused writing that completes the stated purpose.
1: Demonstrates the skill after one focused prompt, correction or self-repair.
0: Cannot yet demonstrate the skill clearly enough to complete the stated outcome.
LC · Language Control
2: Controls the target language well enough to keep meaning clear.
1: Demonstrates the skill after one focused prompt, correction or self-repair.
0: Cannot yet demonstrate the skill clearly enough to complete the stated outcome.
Use these scores after the independent attempt. Record one recurring need in the Engduo app when lesson-result fields become available.
How to run Stage 6
Record focused evidence, give one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most, repeat the weakest part, and complete the exit check.
คำอธิบายภาษาไทย — เปิดเมื่อจำเป็นเท่านั้น
recommendation ที่มีประโยชน์ต้องบอกว่าเหมาะกับใคร เพราะอะไร และมีข้อจำกัดอะไร ไม่ใช้ amazing, perfect หรือ the best โดยไม่มีรายละเอียด
Teacher guide
30-minute must-do route
- Confirm the observable outcome and connect it to one realistic learner need.
- Use the visual and first audio or text for meaning before explaining language.
- Select only the useful-language items needed for this learner and this task.
- Run the supported rehearsal without reading every instruction aloud.
- Run the main task: Choose a fictional book, app, local place, or learning resource card and write a 120–150 word recommendation for a specific reader profile.
- Record focused evidence, give one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most, repeat the weakest part, and complete the exit check.
60-minute extension
- Write for two different reader profiles and change the verdict appropriately.
- Change the role, information, listener, or constraint so the learner transfers the skill rather than repeating the same answer.
- Compare the first and second performance and record one specific improvement.
Make it easier
Use a four-paragraph frame with 80–100 words.
Make it harder
Write for two different reader profiles and change the verdict appropriately.
Likely difficulty
The learner may write a summary instead of a recommendation or use only positive adjectives.
Correction priority
Prioritise reader fit, evidence, and balanced verdict before sentence-level polish.
Thai support rule
Keep the Thai panel closed unless examples, visuals, replay, reformulation, and simpler English do not allow progress. Explain only the key distinction, then return to English.
Progress record
Score WR, LC from 0–2 and record one recurring need from: reader-focus, evidence, balanced-writing.
Retry
Give one meaning-focused correction and one language-focused correction at most, then ask for a second attempt with fewer visible prompts.
Continue your learning path
- Council of Europe — CEFR Companion Volume — Supports B1 communication through connected speech, descriptions of experiences, opinions with reasons, travel situations, goal-oriented co-operation, written interaction, and action-oriented outcomes.
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