GRADE 7 Third Quarter (Week 5-7)

UNIT TOPIC: DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH

UNIT STANDARDS

PERFORMANCE STANDARD: The learner transfers learning by: showing ways of asserting
one’s identity; comprehending informative and short narrative texts using schema and
appropriate listening and viewing strategies; expressing ideas, opinions, and feelings through
various formats; and enriching written and spoken communication using direct/reported speech,
active/passive voice, simple past and past perfect tenses and connectors correctly and
appropriately.

CONTENT STANDARD: The learner demonstrates understanding of: Philippine literature in the
Period of Emergence as a tool to assert one’s identity; strategies in listening to and viewing of
informative and short narrative texts; word relationships and associations; informative speech
forms; and use of direct/reported speech, passive/ active voice, simple past and past perfect
tenses, and sentence connectors.

LEARNING COMPETENCY: EN7G-III-e-3, EN7G-III-f-3 & EN7G-III-g-3: Use direct and

reported speech appropriately in varied contexts
Learning Targets

The students can:

 differentiate the direct and indirect speech;

 change direct speech to indirect speech;
 utilize appropriately direct and indirect speech;
 effectively determine the direct and indirect speeches from a news article; and
 demonstrate cooperation as they work in groups or pairs.

EXPLORE

ACTIVITY 1: Message Relay!

Directions: The class will be divided into five groups. The first representatives of each
group will receive a message from their teacher, then relay it to his group and the last person in
line will be the one to send the message to his teacher to check if the statement is being
delivered correctly. However, the direct statement from the teacher should be relayed reportedly
by each representative.
 Example

Teacher: “I am the author of my own story.”

First Representative to the next person: Ma’am said she is the author of her own story.

Statements

1. “Love is priceless.”

2. “The world needs educated individuals.”

3. “Challenges make us stronger.”

4. “I love reading novels.”

5. “I saw a lovely bird earlier.”

Questions:

1. What have you observed from our activity?

2. Why do you think I let you use reported statement rather than the direct one?

FIRM-UP

ACTIVITY 2

Direct Speech Reported Speech

Doctor to me: ―You must take care of your The doctor advised me to take care of my
health. health.
Security guard to student: “I cannot let you The security guard said he cannot let me
enter the campus because you did not wear enter the campus enter because I did not
you school ID.” wear my school ID.
Friend to you: ―I forgot to bring my umbrella. My friend told me she forgot to bring her
umbrella.

Given the example above, differentiate direct and reported speech based on how a
sentence is being constructed. Make at least three sentences to support your claims.
DEEPEN

DIRECT SPEECH AND INDIRECT SPEECH

1. Direct speech shows a person‘s exact words. Quotation marks (“) are signs that the words
are EXACT words that a person used.

Examples:

Jennifer said, “Where are you studying?” Pedro replied, “I‘m studying at Luis Palad National
High School.”

~~It is used when we simply repeat what someone says, putting the phrase between speech
marks: Paul come in and said, “I’m really hungry.”

2. Reported speech puts the speaker‘s words or ideas into a sentence without quotation marks.
Noun clauses are usually used. (In reported speech, the reader does not assume that the words
are the speaker‘s exact words; often, they are a paraphrase of the speaker‘s words.)

Examples:

Jennifer asked Pedro where he was studying. Pedro said he was studying at Luis Palad
National High School.

~~When we want to report what someone said without speech marks and without necessarily
using exactly the same words, we can use indirect speech (also called reported speech).

Example:

Direct speech: “We’re quite cold here.”

Indirect speech: They say that they’re cold.

Note: Use of the word “that” is optional in reported speech. Both of the following sentences are
correct:

The student said that he was sick.

The student said he was sick.

Direct to Reported Speech:

“I am hungry.”---- Andrea stated that she was hungry.

“I saw them leave”---- Janna said she had seen them leave.

“Where have they gone?”---- Dorothy wondered where they had gone.

“I can‘t remember your name.”---- Daniel said he couldn‘t remember my name.

ACTIVITY 3: Convert Me!

Directions: Transform the direct speech to reported speech and vice-versa.

DIRECT SPEECH INDIRECT SPEECH

“I had a headache yesterday.” (refer to any 1.
gender)
“I am a little bit nervous” (refer to any gender) 2.
“We sang a song last night.” 3.
4. Kulas promised to her that he will never
gamble again.
5. They said they will have their vacation at New
York.
Castor to Kulas: “See you later.” 6.
He said “My father is playing cricket with me.” 7.
8. She said that she bought a book for me.
9. He said to me that he would not give me any
medicine without a prescription.
10. They said that it would have been snowing
since morning.

TRANSFER

Next war: Illegal gambling by Janvic Mateo (The Philippine Star) | Updated September 17, 2016
- 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - Gambling lords, you‘re next.

After a vicious campaign against illegal drugs, the government will next declare war on illegal
gambling, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa said
yesterday. “With the President‘s call for change in the country, there will yet be no end to wars
we are waging. Because after we are done with the war against illegal drugs, in six months, we
will shift our sights to eradicating illegal gambling in the country,” Dela Rosa said in his speech
at Camp General Simeon Ola in Albay.

“While this is already a part of police operations, we will be giving more life and energy to these
operations, the same way we did with our campaign against illegal drugs,” he added.

Dela Rosa also warned police officers to stop accepting money from illegal gambling operators.
“Your hands will be tied,” he said as he recalled his previous conversation with President
Duterte about the millions offered to him as payoff by gambling syndicates.

Dela Rosa said Duterte warned him that accepting the money would render him useless as it
would tie his hands and prevent him from doing his job.

Dela Rosa noted incidents in some regions where police officers who accepted illegal gambling
payoffs faced a problem implementing the campaign on illegal drugs as both syndicates use the
same network.

“They did not know that those behind the illegal gambling are also behind the illegal drugs,” he
added in Filipino.

Speaking to reporters following his speech, Dela Rosa expressed confidence that the campaign
against illegal gambling would not be as bloody as the war on drugs and may succeed in less
than six months.

“They are not drug-crazed who do not understand. Gambling lords will not fire at you,” he added
in Filipino.

The police official expressed hope that they will still get the support of the public once they
tackle illegal gambling, although he admitted that many earn their livelihood from such activities.

“Although that is illegal… many lives depend (on illegal gambling)… If you are involved in
gambling, your brain will not shrink. You‘re still sane. But your moral values (are compromised)
because that‘s illegal, against the law,” added Dela Rosa.

Winning the war

More than two months since the new administration took office, the PNP chief said the
government is slowly winning the war against illegal drugs.

“We are seeing tremendous gains and slowly but surely winning the streets from the illegal drug
menace while removing the fear and violence in the heart of our countrymen,” Dela Rosa said.

“The good news is that we significantly reduced the supply of illegal drugs in the country by
some 80 to 90 percent through project double barrel and Oplan Tokhang. We have visited more
than 850,000 houses resulting in the surrender of more than 720,000 drug personalities and
arrested more than 15,700 pushers and users nationwide,” he added.

He urged police officers to continue with the relentless campaign and ensure that the human
rights of those involved are respected.

“If we started strong in the past two months, let us continue even stronger in the next four
months… The President is confident that we will win this war in six months and we are one with
him in this effort,” said the PNP chief.

“Following the recent Davao bombing, we must be more vigilant and alert in all forms of
violence. Bear in mind that we are not only focusing on the illegal drug problem. Terrorism is
once more rearing its ugly head and we cannot afford to let our guard down now,” he added.
He also reminded the police not to overlook other crimes that threaten Filipinos, such as petty
street crimes, robbery and kidnapping.

ACTIVITY 4: In the Headlines!

Directions: Read the news article on illegal gambling. Pick out five (5) direct statements; write
five (5) reported statements as your reaction to the article.

Direct Statement Reported Statements