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Reporting Speech
Direct and Indirect Speech
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Warda Kloub
Introduction -
- Grade Level (Learners)
Tasks -
- Teaching Process
- Educational Resources
- Evaluation
- Summary
- Educational References.
Introduction:
We often have to give information about what people say or think. In order to do this you can use direct or quoted speech, or indirect or reported speech. The using of either requires following some rules are these rules? You will find the answer in this Webquest . The use of reported speech is especially important at higher English levels. Students, at this point, are fine tuning their communication skills to include expressing the ideas of others, as well as their own opinions. Students usually need to focus not only on the grammar involved, but also on production skills. Reported speech includes some rather tricky transformations that need to be practiced a number of times before students feel comfortable using them in every day conversations.
Grade Level : Eleventh Grade.
Aims: The aims of this Webquest are
- To improve student's grammar skills for using direct and indirect speech.
- To develop reported speech student's grammar and productions skills.
- To make students to practice oral presentation skills.
- To make students to say exactly what someone has said.
- To ask them to make notes on change of tenses, pronouns and expressions of time schematically and with examples.
- To ask his / her partner some questions making sure to take good notes. After he / she have finished the questions, find a new partner and report what he / she have learnt about your first partner using reported speech.
Process:
Ask student to go to watch this video to find the right answers of these questions what is direct speech? What is indirect speech? What do we change when transforming direct speech into indirect one?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXN0bbX7IIE
Introduce/review reported speech by making simple statements and asking students to report what you have said.
Explain theoretical material, and then ask student to make notes on change of tenses, pronouns and expressions of time schematically and with examples.
Ask students to do the exercises on worksheet
Correct worksheet as a class.
Have students divide into new pairs and ask them to work with his / her partner. Each of them should make up five sentences in indirect speech for his /her partner to transform them into direct speech.
Ask students to ask his / her partner some questions making sure to take good notes. After he / she have finished the questions, find a new partner and report what he / she have learnt about your first partner using reported speech.
Evaluation:
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Summary:
We often have to give information about what people say or think. In order to do this you can use direct or quoted speech, or indirect or reported speech.
Saying exactly what someone has said is called direct speech (sometimes called quoted speech) .Indirect speech (sometimes called reported speech), doesn't use quotation marks to enclose what the person said When reporting speech the tense usually changes. This is because when we use reported speech, we are usually talking about a time in the past (because obviously the person who spoke originally spoke in the past). The verbs therefore usually have to be in the past too.
As a rule when you report something someone has said you go back a tense and make notes on change of tenses, pronouns and expressions of time..
Educational resources:
Educational References: Student's Book ( Action Pack 11) , Workbook ( Action Pack 11) , Dictionary ( Oxford). Teacher′s board , Worksheet.
Educational References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXN0bbX7IIE
Student's Book (Action Pack 11)
Workbook (Action Pack 11)
Dictionary (Oxford)
Last Modified: December 18, 2016 01:20 P.M