Lesson Plan

Teacher:
Date: May 22nd 20
School:
No. of students: 13
Grade: 8th
Textbook: Snapshot Intermediate
Unit: 18
Lesson: Reported speech
Lesson type: teaching-learning
Lesson aims:
At the end of the lesson students will be able to:
- report what other classmates’ week was
- use the reported speech in their current speaking
- ask and answer questions using the reported speech
- complete the sentences in the reported speech
Skills: speaking, reading, writing
Materials: notebooks, blackboard, worksheets

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Activity 1: How was your week?
The T asks Ss if anybody is missing and then she checks their homework.
Warm-up: the T asks Ss how their week was like – each S has to write a sentence
describing it.
e.g. It was boring/It was exciting/It was tiresome/very long etc.
The T asks Ss to write down the colleagues’ experiences and then to report them to the
T.
e.g. Adriana said her week was fun.
Oana said her week was tiresome.
Then the T writes some of their examples on the board in comparison.
e.g.
Direct speech Indirect speech
Adriana: My week was fun. Adriana said her week was fun.
Oana: My week was tiresome. Oana said her week was tiresome.

After that the T asks Ss what these sentences stand for? [Direct speech/Indirect speech.]
Aim:to introduce grammar structures by asking Ss to report what other Ss’ week was
like.
Interaction: T-S, S-T
Time:10 minutes
T’s role: to help Ss with questions when necessary so that their answers might come
easier.

Activity 2: Reported speech

The T discusses the table from page 107 underlining the tenses used in each sentence.
Then the T asks Ss to make a similar table but with their own examples.
Direct speech Indirect speech - Questions
statements
Pres. Simple Past simple
e.g. I am happy. e.g. She said she was happy.
Are you happy? e.g. He asked if I were
happy.
Pres. Continuous Past continuous
e.g. I’m doing my homework. e.g. She said she was doing
her homework.
Are you doing your e.g. He asked if I was
homework? doing my homework.
Past simple Past perfect simple
e.g. I went to the theatre e.g. She said she had gone to
yesterday. the theatre the day before.
Did you go to the theatre e.g. He asked if I had
yesterday? gone to the theatre the
day before.

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Present perfect simple Past perfect simple
e.g. She has done her project. e.g. She said she had done
her project. e.g. He asked if she
Has she done her project? had done her project.
WILL WOULD
e.g. It will be all right. e.g. She said it would be all
right. e.g. He asked if she
Will you be all right? would be all right.
CAN COULD
e.g. I can’t learn this poem. e.g. She said she couldn’t
learn that poem. e.g. He asked if she
Can you learn this poem? could learn that poem.
MAY MIGHT
e.g. She may be at school. e.g. She said she might be at
school.
May I open the window? e.g. He asked if she
might open the
window.
MUST/HAVE TO HAD TO
e.g. I have to watch this film. e.g. She said she had to
watch that film.
Do you have to watch this e.g. He asked if she
film? had to watch that film.
THIS THAT
HERE THERE
YESTERDAY THE DAY BEFORE
WE THEY
YOU HE/SHE
After they write down the rules they do ex. 9/107 individually and then they discuss it in
pairs.
Aim: to give practice to grammar structures by giving examples of their own using the
reported speech.
-to give practice to grammar structures by completing the sentences in reported speech
Interaction: T-S, S-S, S-T
Time: 25 minutes
T’s role: to help Ss with questions when necessary.
-monitoring the activity helping them when necessary.

Activity 3: What did they ask you?

In pairs Ss do ex. 10/107.
They are divided in Ss A’s and Ss B’s; SA has to stay on page 107 and SB has to go on
page 122. They imagine they have just been interviewed for a street survey about
teenagers. SA asks SB questions and SB answers them using the information given and
vice-versa.

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HW – the worksheet the T has prepared for them; ex.3/77 (APPENDIX 1)
Aim: to practise grammar structures by making a mini-dialogue
-to develop speaking skills discussing the questions.
Interaction: T-S, S-S, S-T
Time: 10 minutes
T’s role: monitoring the activity helping them when necessary.