LESSON PLAN

Unit2: Our findings show

Sequence 2: Reading and writing
Level: 1st year

Personal Goals:
* Set tasks that foster team work, and help weaker students
* Provide a communicative focus in the lesson
* Set tasks that go from easy to difficult

Lesson focus:
Grammar

Competencies:
* Linguistics
* Interpretive
* Productive

Objectives/Assessment:
SWBAT By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
* Report questions, statements and orders in the present tense

Required materials and/or resources:

The white board
Time Rational Intera Procedure
e ction
Patter
n
5min To T–S A Presentation:
activate T starts by asking the Ls to remind him of the direct and
the S-T indirect speech, and after a short discussion s/he asks them to
students’ do the following
Find in the text the indirect speech of the following
schemat
1) Statements :
12mi a 1. All the teenagers said: “We have one at home.”
n 2. “We regularly use the computer to play games,” they
all answered.
1. 28 teenagers told me: “We do some word processing at
To
home.”
introduce
2. “Our computer helps us with our studies,” 4 of them
reporting
said
statemen
Key:
ts
1. All the teenagers said they had one at home.
S- T 2. They all answered that they regularly used the computer to
play games.
3. 28 teenagers told me that they did some word processing at
home.
4. 4 of them said that their computers helped them with their
T- S studies.
* T asks Ls what do they notice and what are the changes that
happened from the direct to the indirect speech.
Ls are given two minutes to think before sharing their answers
with the T
12mi Note:
n S- T When reporting from the direct to the indirect speech, and the
reporting verb is in the past, we notice the following changes:
* The punctuation is not the same.
To get * The pronouns are not the same
the * The verb tense changes from present to past
students If the reporting verb is in the present “tell, say, etc” , the verb
to tense does not change.
extract IMPORTANT: If the reporting verb is in the present tense, the
the rules reported verb’s tense does NOT change

T- S Find in the text now the reported speech of the following

2)Questions:
a. Wh- questions:
1.“How many of you have computers?”, I asked
12mi 2. I asked them: “How much time do you spend on your
n computer in a week?”
 3. The researcher asked the teenagers “What do you use your
computer for?”
To S- T
introduce Key:
1. I asked how many of them had computers
reporting
2. I asked them how much time they spent on their computers
questions 3. The researcher asked the teenagers what they used their
computers for.
Once again the teacher asks the Ls to extract the changes from
direct questions to indirect ones and explains
Ls share their answers
Note:
When reporting wh-questions, we change the sentences back to
T- S the form of a statement.
b. Yes/ No questions:
Try to report the following yes/no questions
1. The reporter asked the girl: “Can I ask you a few
12mi questions?”
n 2. He asked me: “Do you use the computer?”
S-T Key:
1. The reporter asked the girl if he could ask her a few
questions.
2. He asked me whether I used the computer.
T goes through the same process with the Ls to find the
changes after helping them with the transformation of the
sentences
Note:
When reporting yes/ no questions, we add “if” or “whether”
T-S and change the question back to the form of a statements.
Now try to change the following orders:

3. Orders
Try to change the following orders to the reported speech
S-T 1. The teacher ordered us: “ Present your projects next week!”
2. “ Don’t eat here!” my mom ordered me.
To Key:
1. The teacher ordered us to present our project the following
12mi introduce
week.
n reporting 2. My mom ordered me not to eat there
orders Note:
If the order is in the affirmative form, we just add “to” before
the ordering verb and make some changes if necessary. If the
order is in the negative form, we add “not to” before the verb

Other changes:
 Direct speech Indirect speech

Present simple Past simple

Today That day
Yesterday The day before
The day after
7min Tomorrow
then
To Now
provide The previous
Last
additiona The following
Next
l rules that night
Tonight
before
Ago
there
Here
that
This
those
These

B) Practi
T- S ce:
Task1:Re-write sentence (a) so that it means the same as
sentence (b)
a. James said: “ I read a book per month”
b. James said that………………………………………..
15mi a. The doctor asked me: “Where do you feel the pain?”
n b. The doctor asked
me……………………………………
a. “ Are you happy?”, my friend asked me
b. My friend asked
To check me……………………………………..
the a. The teacher tells us “ You need to concentrate to
students’ understand”
compreh
ension b. The teacher tells
us………………………………………
S- T
T asks the Ls to do the task
Ls do the activity in pairs
T corrects on the board
Key:
1. James said that he read a book per month.
2. The doctor asked me where I felt the pain
3. My friend asked me if I were happy
4. The teacher tells us that we need to concentrate to
T-S understand

Task2: Re-write sentence (a) so that it means the same as

sentence (b)
 a. The teacher asked us not to run in the hallway.
b. The teacher asked us…..
15mi a. I always tell my students that concentration in class is
n the key to understanding their lessons.
b. I always tell my students….
a. She asked me what I wanted to eat the day after.
b. She asked you….
a. I admitted that eating healthy was better than eating
junk food
S- T b. I admitted….

Key:
1. The teacher asked us: “Don’t run in the hallway.”
2. I always tell my students: “Concentration in class
is the key to understanding your lessons”
3. She asked me: “What do you want to eat
tomorrow?”
4. I admitted: “Eating healthy is better than eating
junk food.”