1.6.-How to Teach Reported Speech – Review – Practice & Lesson plan
Teaching students reported or indirect speech can be complicated by the all the changes that are required when moving from direct speech into reported speech. First off, students should understand that reported speech is quite useful in conversational English as relating what someone has said using "quote" and "unquote" is awkward at best. A further aspect of reported speech is encouraging students to use other reporting verbs beyond "say" and "tell".
Introducing Reported Speech
Start with Tenses
I find it best to start off with simple examples in which changes are only made in tense. For example:
Write on the Board:
Direct Speech
Tom said, "I enjoy watching action
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Both Jack and I commented that Peter was a lucky person indeed.
Exercise 2: Ask you partner the following questions making sure to take good notes. After you have finished the questions, find a new partner and report what you have learnt about your first partner using reported speech.
What is your favorite sport and how long have you been playing/doing it?
What are your plans for your next vacation?
How long have you known your best friend? Can you give me a description of him/her?
What kind of music do you like? Have you always listened to that kind of music?
What did you use to do when you were younger that you don 't do anymore?
Do you have any predictions about the future?
Can you tell me what you do on a typical Saturday afternoon?
What were you doing yesterday at this time?
Which two promises will you make concerning learning English?
As students become familiar with the reported speech, introduce a wider range of reporting verbs to help students move past "say" and "tell".
There are a number of other reporting verbs which can more accurately describe what someone has said. These verbs take a variety of structures. The following list gives you reporting verbs in various categories based on sentence structure. Notice that a number of verbs can take more than one form. verb object infinitive verb infinitive verb (that)
Another area that I could have improved on is tailoring the talk to the student’s knowledge level because when she advised that she had very little experience of the skill I still used all the technical terminology I had learnt, sometimes without sufficient explanation. This has to be improved because Jarvis and Gibson (1997) advise of the importance of using the correct language to bridge the gap between people with
However, the spoken word is not the only way in which we communicate; in schools it is important
I'm a loner, I have never had a best friend, but you could call these two people friends of mine. Skyler Robbins and Drake Steinbrock. I try to know little about people, but these two I know a moderate amount about them.
Music is my life when I was little my dad introduced me to all types of music. We listen to hip-hop, reggae, old school, country, and jazz. We believe that as long as it has a good beat and a message that what makes that a great song.Being that my dad is from New Jersey I have this Northern flavor to my lifestyle. It is truly present in my taste in music. Many people say that I'm a little weird when they listen to the type of music I listen too.
Turn to page 114 of your textbook. Read “applying the power of public speaking” and Type your answer below.
I enjoy a lot of hip hop, pop, and a little country. I loved anything that had a nice beat or smooth sound. I never really thought if any of that meant anything. I just seemed to like what I liked. I had very minimal thought processes or conscious of how or why I was picking the music I liked.
1. What kind of music did you listen to when you were younger and has your music style changed over the years?
They must engage in a fight to help the student confront and reject the verbal formulas and stock responses, to convert passive acceptance into active, constructive power. It is a fight against illiteracy and for the maturation of the mental process, for the development of skills which once acquired will never become obsolete”(par.13). This quote explains the important role teachers play in order to properly assist students with becoming more active in breaking the barrier of verbal formulas and assisting students in being well-spoken with quality.
When I was in fifth grade I started to play basketball, and I loved it. At that time basketball was the first sport I ever played in, and now that is my most favorite sport ever. I also play lacrosse and soccer. In the summer I like to sometimes do water activities at my cabin and lounge in the sun on the lake, on a paddle board, at the end of the dock, or on the pontoon or speed boat with a friend. My first ever vacation was to Arizona when I was in seventh grade. Me and my family hiked the grand canyon, went to Scottsdale, and did other things that I don’t remember. But that was during valentine's weekend and during basketball season so we bought a basketball and at night I would practice while my aunt and uncle were in the hot tub with my
In terms of education, talk can be defined as everyday uses of spoken language and it refers to the act of both speaking and listening (Bearne, 1998). (Mercer, 1995)categorised talk in three ways; cumulative, disputational and exploratory. Cumulative talk is when pupils work together in pairs to gain a shared knowledge about a subject, disputational talk is mostly short controversial utterances in the form of a debate and exploratory helps people work together by using each other’s ideas critically. Mercer’s three categories of talk are examples of the types of talk that can be found in the classroom environment. This essay will consider will examine the importance of the talk in the classroom and the challenges of it, with specific reference to storytelling.
I like all music, except for rock. My favorite music is hip hop, it is basically modern poetry just with a rhythm or a basic beat. Music calms me down, but some music makes me want to go crazy! Rock is also poetry, but it don't make much since, the beats really weird and the lyrics are exotic. My favorite hip hop artist is Kendrick Lamar, or Kid Cudi. They make music about things you need to know, or catchy songs. I also like Reggae music, my favorite singer out of that culture is Bob Marley. Yeah al the music is alike, but something about the beat and lyrics makes it totally
One of my favorite types of music would be rock music. I listen to rock because it is loud and it has a lot of bass. My favorite artist would be AC/DC, and they have a lot of great songs but the two I like the most would be “TNT” and “Thunderstruck.” I listen to rock music when I am working out, and it also gets me motivated, and when I am motivated my workouts tend to be better than when I’m not as motivated. Rock
The music type that I listen to is a little bit combination of everything, and also it depend on my mood for example, if I was sad I would listen to Rock and heavy metal type of songs and etc. Sometime I become a picky person and start looking for an old song that I like the tune it has.
| After the story has been told several times the children willpantomine the story as the teacher tells it again. You can carry this “physical storytelling” further, as the teacher recombines previouslylearned TPR commands with familiar storymaterial as the children act out to create a new story. Activities that explore multiple intelligences are incorporated by the teacher (Gardner, 1998), or different methods of language needs for the students (Vogt, & Echevarria, 2008; Echevarria, Short, & Vogt. 2008).
Most of the music influence I have was harvested back when I was eleven. I listened to a wide variety of genres of music from pop, to rock, to rap, to country, to concert band music, even to Bollywood music as that’s what would be playing in my home as my mom cooked food for all of us.