Hazal Hazal

Direct-Indirect Speech
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students will practise functional language for talking about people indirectly. They will listen a dialogue to highlight the examples and to decide whether the statements are correct. They will follow up with matching exercises and producing their own direct sentences for pair work activity.

Materials

Abc CD track
Abc Student's book hand outs

Main Aims

  • To practise functional language for talking about people indirectly

Subsidiary Aims

  • To listen to a conversation to guess the meaning of the phrases from contextual clues.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Teacher tells a story about two people who are close friends. They plan to go to a party and one of them has got an ugly dress. Students write indirect meaning sentences to ask the made up character to change the dress.

Pre-Reading/Listening (10-12 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

Teacher hands out a worksheet showing a picture and statements. Teacher tells them to think about what they see in the picture and elicit some guesses for the unkonwn words. Then, tell them that they are going to listen a dialogue.

While-Reading/Listening #1 (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

The teacher asks students to be careful with the intonation and word stress while listening and ask them follow the dialogue from the hand outs.

While-Reading/Listening #2 (14-16 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

The teacher asks students to pay attention of the highlighted phrases as they are the examples of indirect meaning sentences.

Post-Reading/Listening (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

The teacher asks students to match the highlighted phrases with their more direct meaning ones as mentioned below the dialogue.

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