Duration: 60 mins Lesson

Subject : English Class: Time:

132
Theme : World of Self, Date:
Focus skill: Speaking CCE : Language
Family and Friends Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Language / Grammar Focus: Reported speech tense shift
Topic : What’s your opinion? (e.g. ‘Sugar is bad for your teeth’ – She said sugar was bad for
your teeth’)
21st Century Learning: Class discussion, group/pair work,
Teaching aids: Textbook, worksheet
dictation
Differentiation strategy (DS) : Type and amount of
Assessment: Task
support
CONTENT STANDARD

1.2 – Understand meaning in a variety of

M 2.1-Communicate simple information intelligibly C familiar contexts

LEARNING STANDARDS

2.1.1 Give detailed information about 1.2.5 Understand more complex supported
M themselves and others C questions

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

M By the end of the lesson, pupils should be to report what someone said.

C By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to listen and respond to at least two questions correctly.

SUCCESS CRITERIA

Pupils can:
a. report their partner’s answers to another partner.
b. ask and answer at least two questions about a topic.

1. Pupils A and B work in pairs to dictate sentences about sugary foods to each other using the worksheet (A
Pre-lesson
and B version).

2. Activity 1:
a. Refer the pupils to the picture in the Graphic Grammar box. Ask Where are they? What's the boy
doing?
b. Read out the pairs of sentences and elicit which in each pair is direct speech and which is reported
speech.
c. Refer the pupils to the blue boxes in the sentences and elicit the tense of each verb.
d. Elicit the difference between direct speech and reported speech.
Lesson delivery e. Ask how the tenses differ.
f. Confirm and write on the board: present simplepast simple; present continuouspast continuous.
g. Draw attention to the purple boxes and explain that the pronoun sometimes needs to change too in
reported speech.
h. Have the pupils look back at the reading texts on pages 108-109 and find examples of sentences
which use the same structure.
i. Have them raise their hands when they find one and share it with the class.
3. Activity 2:
 a. Have pupils identify the sentences that have speech marks.
b. Ask Are these sentences in direct or reported speech?
c. Look at the example with the class.
d. Elicit what has happened to the verb and the pronoun.
e. Have the pupils complete the reported speech sentences.
f. Check answers as a class.
4. Activity 3:
a. Have pupils work with a different partner from Step 1, also in an A-B pair.
b. They tell their new partner what their previous partner said. (Assessment)
c. Pupils can check the sentences with their new partner at the same time.
5. Activity 4:
a. Ask a pupil the first question. Then report his/ her answer to the class. (Activity 3)
b. Refer the pupils to the picture of the girl with the speech bubble and have a volunteer read it out.
c. The pupils ask and answer the questions in pairs. (Assessment)
d. They can write down their partner 's answers or just remember them.
e. Pupils could report in groups, rather than as a whole class to allow more pupils to practise reported
speech.
f. Pupils work in groups of three (A, B, C).
g. Pupil A gives Pupil B a question to ask Pupil C. Pupil B asks Pupil C, who replies to Pupil B. Pupil
B then reports the answer to Pupil A. (Assessment)
h. Example: Pupil A (to B): What kind of food does she like?
Pupil B (to C): What kind of food do you like?
Pupil C (to Pupil B): I like fruit.
Pupil B (to Pupil A): She said she liked fruit.

6. Play Telephone (see Games Bank, pages 14-17) using a mixture of direct speech and reported speech
Post lesson
sentences from the lesson.

REFLECTION
a. ___ /___ pupils are able to achieve the stipulated learning objective.
b. ___ /___ pupils are not able to achieve the stipulated learning objectives Lesson postpone:
and they are given remedial activities / enrichment activities.
a. Course c. CRK

b. Sick leave d. Meeting

Other :

Pre-lesson activity

Worksheet A:
1. Sugar is bad for you.
2. Everyone eats too much sugar.
3. You are eating too much chocolate.
Worksheet B:
1. A healthy diet is important.
2. Many foods are full of sugar.
3. You aren’t eating enough vegetables.

Name:
Activity 2: Complete the reported sentences with the correct form
of the verb.

1. ‘I'm doing a project about food,' said Zara.

Zara said she was doing a project about food.

2. ‘I sometimes disagree with the media,' said Andy.

Andy said he sometimes _________________________________
with the media.

3. ‘We're worried about children's diet,' said the doctors.

The doctors said they ________________________ worried about
children's diet.

4. Mum said, ‘I'm cooking vegetable soup for dinner.'

Mum said she _______________________________ vegetable soup
for dinner.

5. Penny said, ‘Soup often has extra sugar in it.'

Penny said soup often ________________________ extra sugar in it.

Activity 3: Ask a partner. Then report his/ her answers to the class
1. What's your favourite snack?
2. What do you want to do when you leave school?
3. What are you doing right now?
L Name:

Complete the reported sentences with the correct form of the verb

1. ‘I read a book per month,’ said James.

James said he _____________ a book per month.

2. Peter said, ‘I go to the cinema on Saturdays.’

Peter said he _______________ to the cinema on Saturdays.

3. Maria said, ‘I’m not well.’

Maria said she ______________ not well.

4. ‘The pupils are very hardworking,’ said Mr Tan.

Mr Tan said the pupils ___________ very hardworking.

5. Chong said, ‘I like your present very much.’

Chong said he _____________ my present very much.
M Name:

Complete the reported sentences with what the following people

said.

1. ‘I read a book per month,’ said James.

James said he
________________________________________________________
______________

2. Peter said, ‘I go to the cinema on Saturdays.’

Peter said he
________________________________________________________
_______________

3. Maria said, ‘I’m not well.’

Maria said
________________________________________________________
_________________
4. ‘The pupils are very hardworking,’ said Mr Tan.
Mr Tan said the pupils
________________________________________________________
______

5. Chong said, ‘I like your present very much.’

Chong said he
________________________________________________________
_______________

H Name:

Complete the reported sentences with what the following people

said.

1. ‘I read a book per month,’ said James.

James said
________________________________________________________
_________________

2. Peter said, ‘I go to the cinema on Saturdays.’

________________________________________________________
_____________________________

3. Maria said, ‘I’m not well.’

________________________________________________________
_____________________________

4. ‘The pupils are very hardworking,’ said Mr Tan.

________________________________________________________
_____________________________

5. Chong said, ‘I like your present very much.’

________________________________________________________
_____________________________