Teacher: Schoo l: Room: Level/Class: Date: Time: Nº of students:

Mehdi Attabaa Sidi Hajjaj 16 First Year April, 2015 50 min 48

Baccalaureate
Text book: Unit:5 Lesson: Skill focus:

Gate Way To English Society and social problems Reported Speech(1) Grammar

Material : text book ,handout made by the teacher, the blackboard. Seating arragement:orderly rows

Learning objectives: Personal objective: Anticipated problems: Contingency plan:

By the end of the lesson students will be Time management: in this lesson Students may find difficulties to I’ll give more explanations.
able to: I’d like to make sure that I respect practice the form of reported speech.
-Practice the use of reported speech. the time as planned.
Stage Time Activity What I do / say What I expect students to do/say Interaction
patterns

Warm up 3 min Short discussion. -Teacher greets students and asks about -Students greet their teacher as well. T--------Ss
the weather. -It’s too hot. The weather is fine…. Ss--------T

-Teacher asks students the following T----------Ss

question. Ss---------T
What do you think of life in big cities?

Teacher elicits answers from students. -“Life in big cities is very exciting”.
“I think that life in big cities is better than
life in small cities”…
Presentation 15 min -Teacher picks up one of the students
answers

-Teacher puts in a table as follows

Direct speech Indirect speech

Samira said: “ life Samira said life in
in big cities is big cities was
very exciting.” very exciting.
My mother said: My mother said
“I am going to she was going to
prepare some take prepare some
cakes now .” cakes then.
They said: “we They said they
will travel to Paris would travel to
this summer.” Paris that
 summer.

-In the direct speech we have quotation

-Teacher asks students to compare
between the two sentences and figure out
the changes.
Isolation and
explanation. -Teacher elicits the changes from
students and classify them in charts as
follows.
 Changes in terms of tenses.
marks in the indirect speech we don’t.
T--------Ss
- In the direct speech the verb is in the Ss--------T
simple present and in the indirect speech
the verb is in the simple past
- the present continuous in the direct
speech becomes past continuous in the
indirect speech.
- will becomes would.

Changes in the tenses

Direct speech Indirect speech
Simple present Simple past
Present Past continuous
continuous
Will (future) Would

 Changes in terms of time

expressions

T--------Ss
Changes in time expressions Ss--------T
 Direct speech Reported speech
Now Then
Today That day
Next week Next week
Tomorrow The day after
This That
These Those

-Teacher writes the two following

sentences on the board and asks students
to say whether they are correct on
incorrect then correct the mistakes.
Concept checking
My brother said: “ I am taking an exam
tomorrow.” ----- My brother said he is
taking an exam tomorrow.

He said: “he speaks good English..-------

He said he spoke good English.

Key answers: 1/ incorrect. He said he

was taking an exam the day after.
2/ correct.
-Students correct their answers.
Class correction.
 -In this exercise students are asked to
choose the correct answer.

Key answers: 1/a 2/ b 3/ b 4/a 5/b -Students do their exercise.

Practice
Multiple choice Class correction.
exercise
-In this exercise students are asked to
report some statements. Students correct their answers.

Key answers : 1Omar said that he was -Students do their exercise.

Exercise 2 writing an email at that moment.
2 Steve said that associations didn’t
participate in educational programmes
in that rural area.
3 Jamila said that their school would
receive five computers as donation from
a company.

4 Pamela said that Laura volunteered

with associations to sensitize women to
the importance of contraceptives in
family planning.

Class correction.

Students correct their answers.

 Teacher gives students the following
questions: what is your favorite sport?
And how often do you practice it?
Production
What will you do tomorrow?
What are we doing now?
Pair work / Ss--------Ss
Teacher asks students to ask their Ss--------Ss
Writing and
speaking activity
partners those questions, take notes of
the answers then report them to the
whole class.

Homework: Due time: Teacher’s notes:

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Exercise “E” page 115.
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