Reported speech is used to talk about things other
people have said. Instead of introducing this topic using a range of different
tenses, stick with a very simple structure for this first lesson. “He said he
liked soccer.” where both verbs are past tense, would be ideal. A lesson on
reported speech is the perfect opportunity to review different structures and
vocabulary.
How to Proceed
1 Warm up
Use the warm up activity to get some simple sentences
on the board. You can elicit certain sentence structures if students need more
practice with something in particular. You can do this by asking students to
make groups and giving each group a different question to answer. This way you
will get three to six sentences for each structure and can cover a range of topics.
After giving students some time to discuss their questions and write individual
answers, have volunteers read sentences aloud. Write some sentences and the
names of the student volunteers on the board. Be sure to use at least one
sentence from each group.
2 Introduce Reported Speech
You may choose to have students stay in their groups
or return to their desks for the introduction. You can try to elicit the target
structure by asking a question such as “What did Ben say?” Try to use a
sentence that is written on the board. Most likely students will search for the
name Ben and then read the sentence exactly as you have written it but you can
then say “You’re right! He said he was very tired. Good job!” You have now
introduced the target structure. Write the sentence He said he was very tired.
on the board next to Ben’s original sentence I am very tired. Use a few more
sentences from the warm up as examples and encourage students to make reported
speech sentences. Now play a short game such as Crisscross with the remaining
examples to give students some practice.
3 Practice
In their groups, students should trade sentences with
group members and rewrite the sentences using the reported speech structure. Be
sure to allow time for the majority of students to present their sentences to
the class so that students can have lots of examples and some speaking
practice. If students have questions, this is an excellent time to address them
and review anything they are struggling with. Next use short video or audio
clips for an exercise where students listen to material and complete a
worksheet testing comprehension and practicing reported speech. You could also
use a written dialogue for this type of activity but it will be more
challenging if students have to listen to the material even if that means
reading the dialogue aloud to the class. Check the answers as a class after
several repetitions. If there is time, you can also play the material once more
after the answers have been checked.
4 Produce
Reported speech is a great opportunity for students to
do interviews with classmates, teachers or family members so this activity may
be best as a homework assignment. If students have never had the opportunity to
conduct interviews before, it would be good to provide them with several
questions to ask. It may also be helpful to provide the translations of these
questions for the interviewees.
5 Review
What students present depends on the amount of time
you would like to spend on this activity. Students could either use the
reported speech structure to talk about the response to one interview question
or summarize their findings. This activity allows you to ensure that students
are using the structure correctly. If students have difficulty with something, you
can review and practice that in the warm up for the next lesson.
Being able to talk about things they have heard allows
students to share more information. It is one thing to say what you think and
totally different to talk about what other people have said. This will
definitely be practiced further when you talk about giving advice because often
someone will prompt advice giving by saying something like “I want to/think ~
but my parents said ~.” Covering this topic thoroughly now will give students the
confidence to create this section of dialogue in giving advice dialogues and
role plays later on.
See our Reported
Speech worksheets here.
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