After this lesson, students will be able to report others’ words using indirect speech in oral and written work.
3.Teaching steps:
Step 1 Warming up
（1）Let students watch a cartoon. Students pay attention to how the reporter reported the actress’s words and write down the sentences on the worksheet.
（2）Ask students to share their answers and report to the class.
（3）Introduce the grammar item: indirect speech.
Step 2 Observation and discovering
（1）Ask students to read Observation 1 and try to identify the sentences using direct speech or indirect speech. Ask students to do some exercise.
Observation 1:
“I don’t want to set down a series of facts in a diary,” said Anne. (direct speech)
Anne said that she didn’t want to set down a series of facts in a diary. (indirect speech)
“Why did you go to bed so late last night?” Father asked Anne.
Father asked Anne why she had gone to bed so late the night before.
（2）Let students find out the basic changes that should be made while reporting people’s words in indirect speech. List the changes on the blackboard.
（3）Ask students to read Observation 2 and do some exercise. Let them report the answer and figure out the rules of changing tenses while using indirect speech. List the rules on the blackboard.
Observation 2:
“My parents are very well,” says Tom.
Tom says that his parents are very well.
（4）Ask students to read Observation 3 and do some exercise. Let them report the sentences in indirect speech and find out what changes should be made about the adverbials while using indirect speech. List the changes on the blackboard.
Observation 3:
“Why did you go to bed so late last night?” Father asked Anne.
Father asked Anne why she had gone to bed so late the night before.
Anne said, “I haven’t written my diary today.”
Anne said that she hadn’t written her diary that day.
（5） Ask students to read Observation 4 and do some exercise. Let them report the answer and point out the connecting words while reporting yes/no questions in indirect speech.
Observation 4:
“Does a friend always have to be a person?” the writer asks us.
The writer asks us if/whether a friend always has to be a person.
（6）Ask students to read Observation 5 and do some exercise. Let them report the answers and find out what necessary changes should be made about the verbs in the main clauses while using indirect speech.
Observation 5:
He said, “Are you interested in English?”
He asked (me) if I was interested in English.
She said, “Who did you see last night?”
She asked (me) who I had seen the night before.
（7） Ask students to summarize other necessary changes while reporting people’s words in indirect speech. List the rules on the blackboard.
（8） Ask students to read the two tables on page 88 of Students’ Book and review the changes.
Step 3 Practicing: reporting game
（1）Divide the students into groups of four. All the group members stand in a line. Give the first student of each group a piece of paper. Ask the students to report the information on the paper one by one using indirect speech. The last student of each group must write down the information on another piece of paper and hand it in. The group who does the work quickly and gets most accurate information wins. Each group reports their information and corrects the mistakes.
（2）Group work. Ask each group to choose one situation from the four given letters and try to retell the information in the letter in indirect speech.
Step 4 Application
（1）Ask students to look at the pictures on their worksheet and read the words in bubbles, which are some messages from the callers. Let students use indirect speech to report all the messages and finish the note to mother.
（2）Let students swap their writing and check the answers.
（3）Show a student’s writing to the whole class and ask the other students to help improve it.
Step 5 Consolidation
Review direct speech and indirect speech.
Step 6 Assignment
Ask students to read the Job Interview on the worksheet and write a letter to a pen pal about an imaginary interview using indirect speech to report interviewer’s questions.
