Next, students change direct speech into reported speech. In the last exercise, students think about a time when someone influenced them to do something new. The students then report what was said using at least four modal verbs in their response.
Run and Report. Here is a reported speech running dictation activity in which students change two phone dialogues into reported speech. One student is the 'reader' and the other is the 'writer'.
The readers run to the text and read each numbered line, remember it, run back, and say it to their partner who writes it down. When pairs get halfway through, they swap roles. Once the students have written down the two dialogues, they read the two conversations and change them into reported speech. The first pair of students to successfully change the text into reported speech wins.
Telephone Messages. In this free reported speech speaking activity, students play a game where they relay telephone messages to each other using reported speech. Tell the students that they are going to practice giving the contents of telephone messages by transforming the messages into reported speech, but first they have to find the person who has each message. In groups, students take it in turns to choose a question card and ask a group member if they have a message from the person or place indicated on the card, e.
If the group member says no, the student has to wait until their next turn to ask the other group member. The first student to collect all their message cards wins the game. Trip around the World. In this reported speech activity, students role-play an interview between a traveller who is planning a trip around the world and a journalist who is interviewing them about their trip. The two students then write a short magazine article about the interview using reported speech.
In groups, the travellers think of answers to questions about their trip and write them on their worksheets. The travellers also think of two more things they can say about their trip. The journalists make questions from the prompts on their worksheet and create two questions of their own at the end. When everyone is ready, each journalist pairs up with a traveller.
The journalists then interview their partner the traveller using the questions on their worksheet, noting down their answers on a piece of paper.
After the interview, the journalist and traveller work together to write a short magazine article in reported speech, based on what the traveller said in the interview. Finally, pairs read their articles to the class. Political Science. Read More From Owlcation. Kondratieff Waves of Innovation. Have you ever been stopped by the police?
Do you watch too much T. Are you frightened of any insect or animal? Describe your personality. Are you going to do your homework tonight? Are you reading a book at the moment? Do you like watching soaps? Can you curl your tongue? Do you think you are a positive person? What is your a favourite food? Where did you go on holiday last summer? Can you knit? What are you doing this weekend?
What did you do last weekend? Who is your favourite singer? What did you have to eat yesterday? Do you like football? What do you think is a boring activity and why?
Tell me about your family? Stop the music and ask students to open the ball of paper and report the things written on it. Remember, the bigger the ball, the easier it will be to catch it! Not so funny, maybe, but still worth doing! Now, this activity requires some preparation on my part, namely writing on one side of a card reported speech and, on the other side, direct speech of the same sentence.
Show the students the reported speech side of the card. The student who guesses the direct speech sentence, gets the card and the point. The idea is: Students listen to the song once and write down whole sentences. My name is Luka, I live on the second floor… Students in pairs share with their partners. Students listen a second time and pair again one last time. For ex. Sometimes the words are direct, or quoted. Other times they are coming through an intermediary. A tells B what C said. Though individuals go through plenty of changes as they age, many suffer hearing loss.
Your students will have fun with this role play in which one person plays a grandparent with hearing loss and another plays the grandchild who must repeat everything for the grandparent.
Choose a scenario that ties in with what you are currently teaching in class, for example sports, food, travel, etc. Assign someone to be the grandparent and another to be the grandchild. Then add a third person to the role-play who fits into the theme — a waiter, a sports announcer, a travel agent, etc. The grandchild must repeat everything for the grandparent using reported speech. Encourage your students to have fun and be creative and, of course, raise their voices so they can be heard.
I heard that she said that…those words normally mean trouble for anyone associated with them, but not so when you are practicing reported speech. As students mingle and spread fictional gossip in this activity, they will get the chance to practice using reported speech in English.
To prepare for the activity, make up quotations for each member of your class — words that they have supposedly overheard in social settings.
If you like, have them all center around a mystery such as who stole the school mascot. Divide the cards and give one to each member of the class.
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