In this stage, I write three quotes from friends on the board (e.g. “I’m going to the cinema.”) and the students rephrase each quote as “What my friend said was…”, using their own words.

I will ask for two volunteers, student A describes his/her yesterday’s plan (“I met Ali.”) and student B reports to class (“He said he had met Ali.”). I will write the original and reported examples on the board.

In this stage, I will refer to the sentences that I wrote on the board and ask the students some CCQs (Do we move ‘can’ to ‘could’? / Does ‘I’ become ‘she’? / Did we use ‘said to’ or ‘told’? Do we need to keep ‘that’ here?). Then will clarify how the pronouns change in reported speech and how the tenses changed using the table on page 147 of SB.Moreover, I will clarify the difference between "say" and "tell” while using reported speech. Finally, I will point out the fact that the word "that" is optional.

The students are going to do some gap-filling tasks in pairs and we will discuss the answers together and I will give feedback on their performance.

The students are going to speak with their partner for 2 minutes about what they usually do on weekends and then they will change partner and tell the new partner about what their previous partner told them in their own words.