![]() ![]() This is a great and much neglected way of organising roleplays that naturally includes a lot of reported speech. ![]() You can play a similar game to Did It Actually Happen? above by students reporting advice, warnings etc they were given and their partners guessing whether they followed it or not. ![]() predictions about future technology and promises by politicians, as some of the ones that were never going to come true are quite amusing. With some research, you can also do the same thing with predictions, promises etc famous people made, e.g. The other person then guesses whether it came true or not. Students report things they or other people said about what was the future at that time but has now passed, such as New Year resolutions, promises, arrangements and predictions. The other students then write replies giving them advice and the people who wrote the problems decide which reply contains the best advice and what that reply said (hopefully using Reported Speech in that stage too). The first parts of these sentences can be given to them as sentence stems to help them write the letters. “My boyfriend said that (I was too fat)” or “My husband promised to (buy me a car 10 years ago but he never has and now he has bought a new one for himself)”. Students write letters to newspaper agony aunts or their best friends including something someone said that perturbed them and that they don’t know how to react to, e.g. This is another commonly used activity for another language point (in this case the language of advice) which can be easily adapted for Reported Speech practice. Examples for either game would be “And then I said that you were to blame because you had forgotten to turn to oven off”, “That’s true, but I reminded you that you had forced me to cook breakfast that morning when I suggested just having cornflakes”. Alternatively, you can get them to do that competitive conversation as a roleplay and then report back to the class how they won. two people arguing, blaming the other, boasting, two people complimenting a third person, offering more and more help or bigger and bigger presents, or insults. You can then add to the competition element by making the person or team who manages to use all the cards the winner.Īnother way you can use competition is to get students to take turns reporting a conversation that it is possible to say someone won, e.g. You can add to the amount of Reported Speech produced in a storytelling activity by giving them cards they must use within the story with words like “apologise”, “promise” and “threat”. Storytelling with reported speech verb prompts This is especially useful if you have recently done narrative tenses, especially the Past Perfect, as they come up both in telling the plot of the story and in the Reported Speech.Ģ. Not anymore! After sitting down for some serious brainstorming the last time I got stuck with my lesson planning for this point, I came up with 45 fun games, of which this is the second batch.Īny storytelling activity should include people speaking to each other, and so can be used in a class on Reported Speech just by telling them to use backshift etc when telling the story. I always used to get stuck for interesting games that involved Reported Speech and so tended to skip through that unit of the book quite quickly and then spend far too much time on the First Conditional just because it is so much fun. ![]()
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