Lesson Plan: Reported Speech: Statements English

Students will be able to

• use reported speech to talk about what someone has said,
• understand how to change direct speech to reported questions by
  • backshifting verbs from present tense to past tense (e.g., eat  ate, is eating  was eating, has eaten  had eaten) and from past tense to past perfect tense (e.g., ate  had eaten),
  • using that between the reporting verb (said) and the reported speech,
  • changing pronouns from first (or second) person to third person (e.g., “I like dogs,” said Maged.  Maged said that he liked dogs),
  • changing time references (e.g., today  that day, now  then, yesterday  the day before),
• use a range of reporting verbs.