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swoodman
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Location: Reading, United Kingdom
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 Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:30 pm Post subject: Reported Speech Demo Lesson |
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Hi all,
I have a demo class to give on reported speech. It's for a good job, there are 4 students and the focus is on present and simple past reported speech. ts only 45 mins. Any ideas on how to get this going?
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edwardcatflap
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Is that just speech in the simple present reported in the simple past or present simple and past simple tenses reported into the past simple and past perfect? |
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swoodman
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Just speech in the simple present reported in the simple past |
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edwardcatflap
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Just speech in the simple present reported in the simple past |
Pretty strange as every course book I can think of teaches reported speech at intermediate level after the students already know most of the main tenses. Present simple is problematic as we often don't change the tense of statements that are always true. E.g. I like beer, he said he likes beer. Don't know if you want to mention this. I'd just put it in your lesson plan but don't go into it during the lesson.
For just simple present into simple past I'd present it with two dialogues the first someone asking filling in a form type questions like age, married or not, etc... the second with the same person telling a friend about the person they interviewed. you could create a context like someone interviewing for a job and then two people talk about him etc or a friend meets someone on a blind date and reports what happened to a friend.
Before they listen ask them a question like which dialogue takes place first plus one or two comprehension questions. Then give them the text and an exercise to notice the difference in tenses and other stuff like ...yesterday - the day before, this - that etc... They can then do a tense changing exercise with sentences from a different dialogue and then practice reading it out as it would be reported in pairs. To finish with, if you have 4 students you can do a role play with two people on a blind date asking simple questions with prompts and the other two students role playing what the girl said to her friend the next day.
e.g. A: Where do you live?
B: Itaewon
C He said he lived in Itaewon
D Shows surprise/interest |
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swoodman
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Location: Reading, United Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks the class went pretty well |
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