The teacher asks each student to share one short fact about their weekend.

The teacher creates a comminicative need and asks the students how they would tell about their groupmates’ weekend. For example: 'What did Annie say about her weekend?' And later teacher presents the topic of the lesson - reported speech.

The teacher explains reported speech using information about how the students spent their weekend. The teacher writes sentences in direct speech and then converts them into reported speech. For example, Tom plays computer games > Tom said that he played computer games; Annie went for the walk > Annie told me that she had gone for the walk. The teacher explains the rules of reported speech to the students. Using this method, the teacher makes a table with tenses. Students write it down in their books or copybooks.

The teacher gives to the students sentences in direct speech, they need to change the sentences to the reported speech and then to discuss their answers in pairs or mini-groups.

The teacher gives to the students cards with their roles, for example: You love snakes and have three. They need to talk with each other and write their groupmates' names and facts at the lists. Then teacher asks students to tell something about their groupmates.

The teacher asks the students to convert two or three senteces into reported speech. These should be the sentences in which several students made mistakes during the practice and production.

The teacher presents to the students their homework, where they need to practice reported speech. In the first exercise they need to convert sentences from direct speech to reported speech. In the second exercise students need to translate sentences into English.