WebQuest
reported speech
Task
1. Display an image on the board with empty speech bubbles and ask yourstudents to think about what the people could be saying. Then ask fourstudents to come up and fill in the speech bubbles.
2. Explain to the students that all these speech acts happened yesterday andthat they overheard them. Elicit reported speech by asking how they wouldtell someone what they had heard. Convert the first speech bubble as anexample.
3. Students work in pairs to convert the rest of the boarded examples intoreported speech. Elicit feedback without correction (but allow peer correction).At this stage you can observe how much your students already know.
4. On the board, illustrate how reported speech is structured differently followingsay and tell and correct the examples if necessary. Elicit the verbs whisper,warn, ask and threaten. Only go into greater depth of the rules if necessary.
5. Writes weak form of that in phonetic script on the board and checkunderstanding of the schwa. Drill pronunciation of the examples with that onthe board.
6. Explain to the students that they are all going to attend a cocktail party andthat they are going to write down what they are going to say. Give students aminute or two to complete their sentences.
7. Invite learners into the middle of the room and ask them to mingle, saying toeach other what is on their cards.
8. Invite learners to report on what each other said at the “party”. If there is time,students can speak in pairs first about what they heard and can remember.As a class go through each class member and report what they said, eliciting the correct reporting verb in each example. Check your students’ use andunderstanding of reporting verbs and correct (if necessary) form andpronunciation.
Follow up:
9. Start with one learner saying anything they like, the next learner says “he/shesaid that…” The next learner says: “He said, she told me that…” etc. roundthe whole class.
10. Brainstorm in pairs, what rules do you know?
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