Reported Speech pt.2
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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Students will be able to report questions using appropriate reporting verbs and word order.
Subsidiary Aims
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Use reported questions in communicative activities.
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Report yes/no questions using if or whether.
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Report WH questions accurately.
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Remove auxiliary inversion.
Procedure (107-120 minutes)
Write a list of random word pairs on slips. For example: banana + clinic penguin + dentist socks + helicopter vaccine + sandwich carrot + nightmare Students must create a grammatically correct and imaginative sentence using both words in past simple and past continuous. "Yesterday, I dreamed that a penguin was working with my dentist." "She brought a banana to the clinic while I was working."
Ask students to give you the vocabulary cards of the day. Teacher checks them in case of spelling mistakes or wring definition. Put participation on the Excel.
Present direct questions. Demonstrate reported versions. Highlight differences between yes/no and WH-questions. Explain word order changes. Model several examples.
Provide a worksheet containing mixed questions. Students rewrite them. Review answers as a class.
Assign interview roles. Students collect information. Students present reported findings. Class discusses accuracy.
