-I'll start with 4 pictures of scenes from a famous Arabic movie and ask them what these pictures were about. (the scenes are about twisting someone's words and falsely reporting them). -In pairs, students will talk about a time when they heard or witnessed something similar. ( 3 mins) -Open class discussion.

-Hold up speech bubbles and exercise paper. -Tell the ss they have 3 speech bubbles and 3 sentences below. (3 mins) -ICQs: how many sentences ? 3 how many speech bubbles? 3 -Ask them to read the sentences in the speech bubbles (direct speech) and change them into indirect speech in the sentences below. They have only the beginnings. -How will you complete the sentences ? from the speech bubbles -Will you keep them the same? No -Set time frame (2 mins) -Monitor their work -Pair check -Answer key

-Hold up exercises B and C -For exercise B, ask ss to circle the right answer i.e "past" or "present" -ICQs: what will you circle? past or present -For exercise C, I will refer back to HO1 and ask them to do the same.They will complete the sentences below by reporting the questions in the speech bubbles. -ICQs: what will you report? The questions will you use direct speech or indirect speech? indirect speech -Set time frame (2 mins) -Monitor their work -Pair check -OC feedback -Divide the board into 2: direct speech and indirect speech. -Under direct speech, I'll write the questions in the exercise and under indirect speech I'll write the students' answers with correction highlighting the "one step back" part. -I'll draw their attention to the changes that happened when reporting and highlight them in a different color. -I'll refer back to the sentences in the exposure to highlight how to report sentences,too. -I'll provide more examples (mixed tenses) quickly to prepare them for the controlled practice.

-Hold up sender cards and message cards. -Ask the ss to report the messages they get mentioning who sent them. -T passes by to show them one card and demo. -Set time (3 mins) -Distribute cards -Monitor their work -Ask them to write their answers on the board and correct with the ss.

-Arrange the ss so that they're in 3s. -Tell the ss to imagine that they're friends. Two of them had had a fight and the one in the middle will be a mediator, but instead of resolving the conflict they make it worse. The 2 friends that had a fight will whisper to the mediator and he will report. -The ss will take some time to plan and decide what they're going to say. -ICQs: what will you plan now? the fight what will the mediator do? make it worse -Demo -Set time (5 mins) -content/language feedback -Extra activity(in case there's a lot of time left) : in pairs, they gossip about a common friend they have.