LESSON PLAN

Date: 24.04.18
Class:11 B
Textbook: …
Level: Upper-intermediate
Topic: DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH
Title: “He told me he was angry!”
Time: 45

Structures: I am- I was;

I was – I had been;
I have been – I had been;
I will be - I would be, etc.

Vocabulary: actions

Competences: At the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
1. Recognize patterns of indirect speech
2. Use correctly the verbs in indirect speech
3. Make the necessary transformations from direct to indirect speech

Aims:
1. To develop students’ ability to recognize different tenses
2. To raise students’ awareness of the transformations involved in indirect
speech
3. To develop students; imagination by creating their own sentences

Teaching aids: blackboard, flashcards with tenses, textbooks

Teaching techniques: conversation, explanation, exercises, discussion, dialogue
Methods: brainstorming, direct method, pattern practice
 Procedure of the lesson
1. ORGANISATION OF THE CLASS
The teacher greets the pupils and asks them a few ordinary questions: How are you
today? Who is on duty today?
INTERACTION: T-Ss
TIMING: 3’

2. WARM-UP: Asking children about the previous lesson

INTERACTION: S-s
TIMING: 5’

3. HOMEWORK:
PROCEDURE: The teacher verifies if all children have done their homework;
writing on the blackboard the sentences
INTERACTION: T-Ss
TIMING: 7’
4. LEAD-IN:
The teacher asks a student what she did during the break and then she transforms
the sentence into indirect speech, without specifying exactly what she did.
Example:
Q: What did you do during the break?
A: I ate my sandwich.
The teacher reports to the students: Your classmate had eaten her sandwich last
break.
Let’s see another student, etc.

5. ANNOUNCING OBJECTIVES:
PROCEDURE: The teacher says that today they are going to learn how to report
other people’s sentences. Also, she announces the main steps to be followed in the
lesson: presentation, practice, production.
INTERACTION: T-Ss
TIMING: 3’

ACTIVITY 1: PRESENTATION
AIM: 1. To develop students’ ability to recognize different tenses

PROCEDURE:
1. The teacher makes a table on the blackboard writing “Direct / Indirect speech”.
She explains the difference between them and gives examples which she writes on
the blackboard.
2. Brainstorming the tenses they already know (writing them in short sentences in
the Direct column)
3. Making the transformations (by the teacher), writing in the Indirect column in
the same sentences.
4. The teacher also explains the other transformations that need to be made besides
tense: time, persons, using additional words like “ask, say, explain”, and the usage
of “that”.
Note: Students pay attention and write only after the teacher has finished
explaining.
SKILL: Listening
INTERACTION: T-Ss,
TIMING: 10’

ACTIVITY 2: PRACTICE
AIM: - To raise students’ awareness of the transformations involved in indirect
speech
PROCEDURE: The teacher instructs students regarding the exercises that they
have to solve. These exercises are the following:
1. Make the necessary transformations for the following sentences
a. Mark says that he is watching TV now.
b. “Are you studying?” asked Mary.
c. John told me”will you be there tomorrow?”
d. She was at the countryside last summer.
e. “You must shut down the TV!” shouted my mother.
2. Fill in the gaps with the correct tense transformation.
3. Transform the verbs into indirect speech tense.
SKILL: Writing
INTERACTION: S-Ss,
TIMING: 12’

ACTIVITY 3: PRODUCTION
AIMS: To develop students’ imagination by creating their own sentences
PROCEDURE:
1. The students are asked to write five sentences, they choose the topic. They are
required to use different tenses. (Individual work)
2. Students practice by reporting to the other classmate what the sentence was
about. (Student a reads the sentence; student b – reports; student c – listens); they
take turns.
SKILL: Writing, Speaking, Listening, Reading
INTERACTION: T-Ss; Individual, S-S, Group work
TIMING: 5’
ENDING THE LESSON:
PROCEDURE: The teacher revises the important aspects of the new lesson
together with the students
INTERACTION: T-S
TIMING: 2’

FEED-BACK:
PROCEDURE: The teacher makes remarks regarding the pupils’ activity during
the lesson, gives “+”s for the active students.
TIMING: 1’

HOMEWORK:
The teacher assigns the homework and explains it.
TIMING: 2’