Eileen Eileen

Reported Speech pt.2

Description

Students will learn how to report both yes/no questions and WH-questions. They will practice removing question inversion and changing questions into statement word order while maintaining accurate tense changes.

Materials

Abc Board
Abc Exercises
Abc Printed materials
Abc Projector

Main Aims

  • Students will be able to report questions using appropriate reporting verbs and word order.

Subsidiary Aims

  • Use reported questions in communicative activities.
  • Report yes/no questions using if or whether.
  • Report WH questions accurately.
  • Remove auxiliary inversion.

Procedure

Activation (25-30 minutes) • Let the students wake up and start the day with more energy and enthusiasm.

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."

Vocabulary (3-5 minutes) • Gain more vocabulary.

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.

Presentation (38-40 minutes) • To introduce reported questions and their structure.

Present direct questions. Demonstrate reported versions. Highlight differences between yes/no and WH-questions. Explain word order changes. Model several examples.

Controlled Practice (18-20 minutes) • To practice transforming direct questions into reported questions.

Provide a worksheet containing mixed questions. Students rewrite them. Review answers as a class.

Production (23-25 minutes) • To practice reporting information gathered from classmates.

Assign interview roles. Students collect information. Students present reported findings. Class discusses accuracy.

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