Objectives Course: Independent 4 Skills: grammar, speaking and

Unit: Lesson: Date: November 28th 2018

 Reporting news
Number of Students: 17 Lesson Plan by: Byron Giovanni
Marmolejo Diaz
Materials: warm up news, boyfriend girlfriend exercise, news.
Grammar copies

Stage Activity Description Time

Introduction or Hand out the class some short stories to have them speculate about them. The idea to activate 15 min
warm up knowledge on how they can speculate or probably use modal verbs. Hand out each student one story
and read it in front of the class and have everyone participate saying their speculations.
Tell students that we are simply speculating, this is a good time to review some modal verbs and their
meaning.
transition Tell students to imagine 1min
Extension Divide the class into pairs. Tell students we are going to do an easy exercise. One of them is acting as 20
activity a reporter on Colombia-Brazil. They tell if they know or speculate if they don’t know how the match
was. Then ask some students to report back. What did the reporter say?

As some students give their responses I will take notes of some of them to make corrections later on.
Go on with teaching reported speech, say and tell, verb tense backshifting and modalverbs.

Using the lecture on age130. Students are going read the lecture carefully and highlight all the possible
reported speech tenses they find.
Extension Make small groups of three. Tell them we will play a boyfriend girlfriend game with one intermediary.
Activity The intermediary will sit down between the boy and the girl. The intermediary will have a story about 20 min
something that happened to the couple, but scenically every time the boy wants to tell something her
girl, he has to tell the intermediary and the intermediary will tell the other person. At the same time the
intermediary will complete in the blanks with whatever they say. Encourage students to use modal
verbs, so that they have to backshift them.
Wrap-up or Students are going to speculate and report news on something that happened. In this exercise we will 30
closure activity. sue passive voice, reported speech + modal verbs.
Hand out the worksheet and have them choose a topic to report about.
feedback
homework Exercise 8 and 9 on page 131.

Excellence is key

Students think about 10 things they want to know about their teacher and ask the
questions, which are written on the board. The class is divided into 2 groups. The first
group leave the class and wait outside. The first group members take turns in asking
the teacher the questions and write down the answers. Now, they leave and the
second group does the same thing. However, what they do not know is that the
teacher is honest and gives correct answers to only one group, but lies to the other.
It’s a good idea not to tell them beforehand. Then, students pair off as 1st and 2nd
group partners. The activity goes like this and one of the students tells his partner “I
asked the teacher how old she was and she told me she was 16.” Then the other
partner goes “I asked the same question, but she told me she was 36.” etc…until all
the questions are reported. Here they have to pay attention to the usage of the
reporting verbs and have fun in finding which group the teacher lied to.