A Detailed Lesson Plan for Grade-8 English

Direct and Indirect Speech

I. Objectives

At the end of the discussion, the students are expected to:

1. read and listen to a speech excerpt “Role of Media in the
Society” by Amarendra Kishore,
2. differentiate direct speech from indirect/ reported speech;
3. use direct and indirect speech in journalistic writing; and
4. change sentences from direct speech to indirect speech and
vice versa.

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Using Direct and Reported Speech

Materials: Visual aids, chalk, handouts

References: English 8 Learning Material,

http://www.dimdima.com/forumnw/message.asp?Tid=1043&q_title=R
ole+of+media+in+the+society

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/870536/death-toll-in-surigao-earthquake-
rises-to-6#ixzz4YN6BK6ZR

III. Procedure
Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity
A. Routine Activities

Good Morning Class! Good Morning ma’am!

Please keep silent in one minute and (students will pray)

say your personal prayers.

B. Motivation

Okay class before we proceed to our

lesson, we will play a game called
“Pass the message!”

Your groupings will depend on what

line you are in.
The first line will be the Group 1,
second line will be the Group 2 and
the rest will follow.
Choose one representative who will
be the first one to receive the
statement from me.
Mechanics:
I will tell a phrase and you will pass it
backwards. The last person will be the
one who will tell me the exact word
that I have said.

Are we clear?
 Yes ma’am!
Okay. Let us begin.

Group 1: “I am definitely fine”

Group 2: “Forever do exist”
Group 3: “Things happen for a
reason”
Group 4: “Positivity is beauty”
Group 5: “Be who you wanted to
be”

I will give you 3 minutes to pass the

message and then the speaker will
proceed here in front to tell me the
exact line.

Are we clear? “Yes ma’am”

(After 3 minutes) Group 1:

Ma’am said, “I am definitely fine.”
Group 2:
Ma’am said that forever do exist.
Group 3:
Ma’am said “Things happen for a reason”
Group 4:
Ma’am said that positivity is beauty.
Group 5:
Ma’am said, “Be who you want to be.”
 So class, what have you observe with

So class, what have you observe The first and second statements are
with these statements? quoted while the others uses the word
“that”.

Very Good!
So now, we are going to tackle
about
Direct and Indirect speech.

C. Presentation

Everybody read the statement.

“The shaking was so strong I could hardly
stand,” coast guard personnel Rayner Neil
Elopre told The Associated Press by
telephone.

That statement is from Inquirer News

with regards of the earthquake in
Surigao as of February 11, 2017,
1:33pm.

Analyze the statement. Ma’am, the statement is in direct form of

speech.
So what form of speech is this one? Is
it Direct or Indirect?
How can you say that?
Prove your anwer.
It is a direct speech because it is quoted
and those were the exact words of the
coast guard personnel.

Very Good!

So class, let us first define Direct

speech.
Direct speech gives the exact words of
Okay, from your observation, how the speaker.
can we define now a Direct speech?

Very Good!

Please read the definition. Direct speech is usually placed inside

Yes, _____. quotation marks and accompanied by a
reporting verb.

In Direct speech, what a person says

appears within quotation marks and
should be word for word.
Yes ma’am!
Have you seen it in the example?

Now, let’s have this example.

Everybody read. Police officer Jimmy Sarael said that he,
his wife, and their children embraced
each other until the shaking eased.
Okay, what have you observed now?
Yes, _____.
Ma’am I have observed that the
Very Good! statement doesn’t use quotations.

What do we call that form of

speech?
Yes, _____.
Ma’am it is called indirect speech.
Very Good!

In Indirect speech, we don’t use

quotation marks to enclose what the
person said and it doesn’t have to be
word for word.

There are rules when changing the

tense of verb when converting a
direct speech into indirect speech.

Direct speech: Present simple

She said, "It is cold."

Try to convert it class.

Indirect speech: Past simple
She said it was cold.
(the teacher will convert it through
paper strips)

D.S: Present continuous

She said, "I'm teaching English online."

(the student will be the one to I.S: Past continuous

convert it in front) She said she was teaching English online.

D.S: Present perfect simple I.S: Past perfect simple

She said, "I've been on the web since She said she had been on the web since
1999." 1999.

D.S: Present perfect continuous

She said, "I've been teaching English
for seven years."
D.S: Past simple
She said, "I taught online yesterday."
I.S: Past perfect continuous
She said she had been teaching
earlier.
I.S: Past perfect continuous
She said she had been teaching English
for seven years.
I.S: Past perfect
She said she had taught online yesterday.

Try to convert an indirect speech into D.S: Past continuous

a direct speech. She said, "I was teaching earlier."

D.S: Past perfect

She said, "The lesson had already
started when he arrived."
I.S: Past perfect
NO CHANGE - She said the lesson
had already started when he arrived.
D.S: Past perfect continuous
She said, "I'd already been teaching
for five minutes."
I.S: Past perfect continuous
NO CHANGE - She said she'd already
been teaching for five minutes.

Modal verb forms also sometimes

change:

Direct speech: will

She said, "I'll teach English online
tomorrow."
Indirect speech: would
She said she would teach English
online tomorrow.

Try to convert the following:

D.I: can I.S: could

She said, "I can teach English online." She said she could teach English online.

D.S: must
She said, "I must have a computer to
teach English online."
I.S: had to
She said she had to have a computer
to teach English online.

Convert the following into Direct

speech.

I.S: should D.S: shall

She asked what we should learn She said, "What shall we learn today?"
today.

I.S: might
She asked if she might open a new D.S: may
browser. She said, "May I open a new browser?"

Note: There is no change to; could,

would, should, might and ought to.

Direct speech
"I might go to the cinema", he said.
Indirect speech
He said he might go to the cinema.

Are we clear with Direct and Indirect

speech?

Is there any question? None ma’am.

Very Good Class!

C, Application

Now let us proceed to your activity.

I will group you into 2 groups.

This side will be the group 1 and the
other side will be the Group 2.

Group 1 will read the speech in front

and the Group 2 will serve as the
audience. Later, you will exchange
roles.
Yes ma’am!
Are we clear?

Group 1 please proceed in front.

Role of Media in the Society
by Amarendra Kishore

Today television channels and

newspapers are making fast money by
cashing on the news in wrong sense and
wrong way. In the race to become more
popular and to make money they have
broken all the limits media must follow
while serving to build a healthy and
progressive society. They have no respect
 for the sentiments and ethics of the
people and land whom they serve to, with
their immense power to influence the
masses they just make judgment like a true
Okay, Very Good! dictator rather than a good advice of a
true friend as they previously used to do. If
it will be going in the future then we
people have to think about the role of
media in our life.

Group 2, it’s your turn. (Group 2 will read the speech)

Okay class, we often give information

about what people say or think.
To do this, we either use direct or
indirect speech.

Now, I want you to get ½ crosswise.

Write about the author’s thoughts
about the role of media in the
society.

I will give you 10 minutes to do that.

Are we clear? Yes ma’am!

(After 10 minutes)
 You have written about Amarendra’s
thoughts about the role of social
media.
For me, Social media has definitely made
So now, how would you say your own us closer to other parts of the world.
ideas about social media?

Very Good!

What else? Social media gives us the latest

Yes, _____. information about what’s happening in
the world.

Very Good!

D. Generalization Direct speech repeats, or quotes, the

exact words spoken. It uses quotation
So now, again, What is a direct marks.
speech?
Yes, _____.

Very Good! It is used to talk about the past, so we

normally change the tense of the words
How about the indirect speech? spoken.
Yes, _____.
 Very Good!

IV. Evaluation
Get ½ crosswise.
A. Change the following sentences from
direct speech to indirect speech.
1. “I never eat meat”, he explained.
2. “I’m waiting for Ann”, he said.
3. “I have found a flat”, she said.
4. He said, “I have been waiting for
ages”.
5. “I took it home with me”, he said.
Answers:
He explained that he never ate meat.
He said that he was waiting for Ann.
She said that he found a flat.
He said that he had been waiting for
ages.
He said that he had taken it home with
her.

B. Change the following sentences from Answers:

indirect speech to direct speech.
1. She said that she didn’t like fish.
2. He said that he was going to away
for a few days.
3. She said she had seen Helen in June.
4. She said she would tell him.
5. He said he might be late.
“I don’t like fish”, she said.
“I’m going away for a few days”, he said.
“I saw Helen in June”, she said.
“I will tell him”, she said.
“I may be late”, he said.

V. Assignment
Read “The Changing Morals of Korean
Students” Excerpts.
You may use this site:
http://docslide.us/documents/the-
changing-morals-of-korean-students-
2.html