Reported Speech: Shifting Perspectives

Reported Speech: Shifting Perspectives

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to transform direct speech into reported speech at three different levels of difficulty.

What do you already know about changing direct speech into reported speech?

Understanding Direct Speech

Direct speech repeats the exact words spoken, enclosed in quotation marks.

Basic Reported Speech

Reported speech conveys the speaker's words without quoting them directly, often with a change in tense and pronouns.

Intermediate Reported Speech

At this level, reported speech involves more complex changes in tense, time expressions, and pronouns.

Advanced Reported Speech

Advanced reported speech includes the transformation of imperative sentences, questions, and modal verbs.

Practice: Basic Level

Given direct speech sentences, convert them into reported speech using simple tense changes.

Practice: Intermediate Level

Convert direct speech sentences into reported speech with more complex tense and pronoun changes.

Practice: Advanced Level

Transform direct speech sentences into reported speech, including imperative sentences, questions, and modal verbs.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.