The student with the most correct sentences is the winner. Somebody told me that Students start by moving around the classroom asking questions and completing their worksheets with yes answers. In groups, students then take it in turns to report back the information they found out about their classmates using reported speech.
Students do this without saying the classmate's name. Instead, they use the phrase 'Somebody told me that The student with the most points at the end of the game wins.
You said Here is a free reported speech game to play in class. In the activity, students play a miming game where they guess what their classmates were told to do using reported speech. One student begins by picking up an imperative card and whispering the command on the card to their partner.
Their partner mimes the command to the other pair of students. The other pair watches the mime and tries to guess what the student told their partner to do. The pair then uses reported speech to say what they think the command was, e. The pair has one minute to guess what the student told their partner to do.
If they manage to do this and make a suitable sentence with reported speech, they score a point. The pairs then swap roles and the process is repeated. The pair with the most points at the end of the game wins. Report This. In this reported speech speaking activity, students interview a partner and then report the questions and answers from the interview to a new partner.
Students take it in turns to ask a partner the questions on the worksheet and write down their answers in note form next to the questions. When the students have finished, they work with a new partner and take it in turns to report the questions and answers from the interview to their new partner using reported speech, e.
Afterwards, students give feedback to the class on their interviews. Reporting Modal Verbs. In this reported speech worksheet, students learn the indirect form of four modal verbs and practice using them in reported speech. First, students read a short dialogue and underline all the modal verbs. Students then write the modal verbs in the order that they are found in the dialogue and match them to their indirect forms. After that, students complete reported speech with the indirect form of the modal verbs in brackets.
Next, students change direct speech into reported speech. In the last exercise, students think about a time when someone influenced them to do something new. The students then report what was said using at least four modal verbs in their response.
Run and Report. Here is a reported speech running dictation activity in which students change two phone dialogues into reported speech. One student is the 'reader' and the other is the 'writer'. The readers run to the text and read each numbered line, remember it, run back, and say it to their partner who writes it down.
When pairs get halfway through, they swap roles. Once the students have written down the two dialogues, they read the two conversations and change them into reported speech. The first pair of students to successfully change the text into reported speech wins.
Telephone Messages. In this free reported speech speaking activity, students play a game where they relay telephone messages to each other using reported speech. Tell the students that they are going to practice giving the contents of telephone messages by transforming the messages into reported speech, but first they have to find the person who has each message. In groups, students take it in turns to choose a question card and ask a group member if they have a message from the person or place indicated on the card, e.
If the group member says no, the student has to wait until their next turn to ask the other group member. The first student to collect all their message cards wins the game. Trip around the World. In this reported speech activity, students role-play an interview between a traveller who is planning a trip around the world and a journalist who is interviewing them about their trip. The two students then write a short magazine article about the interview using reported speech.
In groups, the travellers think of answers to questions about their trip and write them on their worksheets. The travellers also think of two more things they can say about their trip.
The journalists make questions from the prompts on their worksheet and create two questions of their own at the end. When everyone is ready, each journalist pairs up with a traveller. The journalists then interview their partner the traveller using the questions on their worksheet, noting down their answers on a piece of paper. Give students snippets of things that famous people have said about their lives and experiences.
Students read them out loud and then take turns reporting what someone said: Einstein said peace could not be kept by force. He said it could only be achieved by understanding. Hand out several copies of entertainment magazines or the showbiz section of the newspaper.
Students must read through them and find at least one juicy bit of celebrity gossip to report to the rest of the class: Miley Cyrus said she was officially engaged to her boyfriend.
She asked him who the fairest of them all was. Any budding reporters will have the chance to show off their reporting skills with this fun activity. One student will be the reporter and the other will be someone worthy of an exclusive interview:.
Students get their original problem letters back and report to the class on what Dear Abby said: Dear Abby told me not to be afraid to tell my parents how I feel. With this activity you are giving your students two opportunities to use Reported Speech. One student whispers something to a classmate: I love chocolate more than anything else.
This student whispers it to another: Juan said he loved chocolate more than anything else. The whispering continues through the grapevine, until it reaches the last student who must then say the original statement in direct speech.
If there are differences, they must find out who made the mistake: Karen said Juan loved chocolate more than life itself. To prepare for this activity cut out comic strips from a newspaper or print some you find online. Then use some liquid paper to white out what some of the characters say in their speech bubbles. Write these lines down on separate cards. Students pick up a card and try to match it to a character: Garfield said he wanted to eat lasagna.
Each of the activities suggested above should establish a situation, a context that should help your students see just how useful Reported Speech really is. If you enjoyed this article, please help spread it by clicking one of those sharing buttons below.
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