Teaching online for me is about creating digital content to engage learners and motivating them. I usually start by asking myself what kind of extra material I would like to get. Last night I was watching my favorite show when I decided to prepare a listening task for my online students. Are you teaching reported speech? Would you like to send students a fun task? If so, take a look at the quiz I made for mine.
Showing posts with label Reported speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reported speech. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Reported Speech
1. In this movie the main actress plays the role of a movie stars who falls for an ordinary guy. There is a scene in which he tells her that he couldn't marry her because she lived in Beverly hills, and he lived in Notting Hill. What movie is it?
2. Watch the scene and answer the questions below.
What happens in the scene?
What does he say to her?
How does he react?
What would you do if you were in his shoes?
3. Complete the sentence below with the right form of the verbs in parenthesis.
a. I know she can deliver a line, but she said that she ______ (BE) just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her.
4. Watch another short scene and correct your sentence.
Friday, July 15, 2011
A Song Activity to Teach Reported Speech
- Reported statements and questions
- Worksheet
1. Write on the dotted lines. Look at the reported speech and decide what the
singer actually says. Write it down. Listen to the song and check.
A: He told me to listen
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B: He asked me if I wanted to know a secret
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C: He asked me if I promised not to tell
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D: He told me to get closer
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E: He told me to let him whisper in my ear
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F: He told me he was in love with me
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G: he said he had know this secret for a week or two.
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a time when you...
Swore someone to secrecy
Confided in someone
Revealed a secret
Betrayed a confidence
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Teaching Reported Speech to Teens
I have prepared many activities for practicing reported speech, but this time I was teaching a group of teens, and I wanted to bring a topic that would be interesting for them on its own. During this activity, students were super engaged and all of them had something to say.
1. Discuss the following questions in pairs.
Have you ever had a difficult conversation with your parents?
What would you tell a friend if she got pregnant? Why?
In the movie scene you’ll watch, the girl will tell her parents she is pregnant.
How will they react? How would your parents react?
Can a teenager girl raise a child? Why? Why not?
2. Write the following sentences in the direct speech. Watch the scene in which Juno breaks the news to her parents in a face to face conversation and check your answers.
She said she wasn’t really sure how she was gonna spit it out.
She said the school would contact the parents in the event of her expulsion.
Her friend said she thought it was best to just tell them.
She said she was pregnant.
She said she was gonna give it up for adoption.
She said she was really sorry.
3. Write a conversation you had with your parents in the reported speech and share with your partner. What does he/she think? Would his/her parents react the same way? Why? Why not? Who has had the most difficult conversation in class?
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Answerkey
I'm not really sure how I am gonna spit it out.
The school would contact you in the event of her expulsion.
I think it is best to just tell them.
I am pregnant.
I am gonna give it up for adoption.
I am really sorry.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Eat Pray Love - Reported Speech - Digitalizing Homework
This movie provides teachers with the great opportunity of dealing with cultural differences in a light, fun way. When the main character goes to Italy, she starts comparing the customs and the way of life to her own, and she learns from it. I hope our students get to learn a bit more about themselves too.
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Topic Cultural differences
Language Reported speech
Type of activity Practice
Level Intermediate
Age group Adults
webtool ESL video
Materials Movie scene, worksheet, ESL video (downloadable)
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Before you watch the scene complete the sentences with your own ideas.
a) In Italy you should…
b) To learn Italian one must …
c) In Italy, body language is...
Watch the scene and take notes of any unfamiliar words you see.
Read the transcript and find seven mistakes. Who is the most
attentive student in class?
I feel so guilty. I’ve been in Rome for two weeks, and all I’ve done is learn a few Italian words and eat.
You feel guilty because you are Portuguese. You don’t know how to enjoy yourself.
I beg your pardon?
It’s true. Americans know entertainment, but don’t know pleasure.
This is Luca pizza, by the way, you know.
Your name is Luca spaghetti?
Yes, that’s what our family is called. We invented it. I’m serious. Listen to me. You want to know your problem? Americans.You work too hard. You get burned out. Then you come home and spend the whole weekend in your shorts in front of the TV.
That’s not far off, actually.
But you don’t know pleasure. You have to be told you earned it. You see a commercial that says, “ It’s Miller time” and you say, “ That’s right. Now I’ll go to buy a ten-pack.”And you drink the whole thing and you wake up the next morning and you feel wonderful. But an Italian doesn’t need to be told. He walks by a sign that says. “You deserve a break today.” And he says “yeah, I know! That’s why I’m planning a break at noon to go to your house and sleep with your wife.”
We call it “Dolce far niente.” It means the bitterness of doing nothing. We are masters of it. He ‘s right. “ You can’t learn Italian like this.” You don’t speak the language just with your mouth, speak it with your hands.
Like this?
Complete the questions using the reported speech.
a) She woman said she ________( be) In Italy for three weeks.
b) The Italian man told her she ______ ( feel) guilty because she
_______ ( be ) American.
c) The Italian man told she ________( not know)how to enjou herself.
d) The Italian man said that his family ____ ______ ( invent) spaghetti.
e) The Italian man said Americas ______ ( work) too hard and
got burned out.
f) The man said that an Italian ________________( need) to be told.
g) Her friend told her that it _______( mean) the sweetness of life.
h) The Italian guy said that they ____________ masters of it.
Group discussion
- What do you think about the movie?
- Do you agree with what the Italian guy said?
- How do you feel when people stereotype people from from country or city?
- How do you enjoy life?
- Is your life well balanced? Why? Why not?
Homework
Find a movie scene and prepare a quiz using reported speech to challenge your classmates.
Movie scene, worksheet, ESL video (downloadable)
Answerkey
I feel so guilty. I’ve been in Rome for three weeks, and all I’ve done is learn a few Italian words and eat.
You feel guilty because you are American. You don’t know how to enjoy yourself.
I beg your pardon?
It’s true. Americans know entertainment, but don’t know pleasure.
This is Luca spaghetti, by the way, you know.
Your name is Luca spaghetti?
Yes, that’s what our family is called. We invented it. I’m serious. Listen to me. You want to know your problem? Americans. You work too hard. You get burned out. Then you come home and spend the whole weekend in your shorts in front of the TV.
That’s not far off, actually.
But you don’t know pleasure. You have to be told you earned it. You see a commercial that says, “ It’s Miller time” and you say, “ That’s right. Now I’ll go to buy a six-pack.”And you drink the whole thing and you wake up the next morning and you feel terrible. But an Italian doesn’t need to be told. He walks by a sign that says. “You deserve a break today.” And he says “yeah, I know! That’s why I’m planning a break at noon to go to your house and sleep with your wife.”
We call it “Dolce far niente.” It means the sweetness of doing nothing. We are masters of it. He ‘s right. “ You can’t learn Italian like this.” You don’t speak the language just with your mouth, speak it with your hands.
Like this?
Complete the questions using the reported speech.
She woman said she had been in Italy for three weeks
The Italian man told her she felt guilty because she was American
The Italian man told she didn’t know how to enjoy herself
The Italian man said that his family had invented spaghetti
The Italian man said Americas worked too hard and got burned out
The man said that an Italian didn’t need to be told.
Her friend told her that “ Dolce far niente.” meant the sweetness of life
The Italian guy said that they were masters of that.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Invictus - Movie activity - What Mandela said
As all our attention goes to South Africa today because of the world cup, using Invictus in class might enrich our students understanding and appreciation of this great country. Invictus is based on a true story; One of those stories that sound so impossible that one can find it difficult to believe. Nelson Mandela decided to support a white team to help him unite a country that was on the verge of a civil war. Let's hope that once again sports will help people connect and see the beauty in a rainbow.
1. Talk about the movie, if they have seen it, what it is about. - Make sure students know words to describe a movie. see ideas here.
2. Have an odd one out activity to activate students backgroung knowledge.3. Have students decide - true / false -historical background information.
4. Have students rewrite true sentences in the direct speech to practice grammar and learn a little about the historical background when Mandela stepped into office.
5. have students watch the scene below and check their answers.
Download the worksheet and movie scene here.
Download the worksheet and movie scene here.
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Answer the questions below in pair.
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Have you seen the
movie Invictus?
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What do you know
about the political and economical background?
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What do you know
about Nelson Mandela?
2. Look at the sentences below and write true of false
about the movie Invictus.
a) In the beginning of the movie Invictus the newsman
said that he was in a position to announce that Nelson Mandela would be
released from prison. ( )
b) The recent release of Nelson Mandela triggered a power
struggle.
c) There were reports that the government had been
secretly providing guns and that South Africa appeared to be on the verge of a
civil war.
d) Mandela told 100.000 angry young man to take their
knives and throw them into the sea.
e) Black people did not cast a vote in the election.
f) During his opening speech as the new president Mandela
vowed that never again South Afrika would experience oppression.
3. Rewrite all the true sentences in the direct speech to
learn what was really said in real time. Watch
the movie segment on http://tryingoutweb24ed.blogspot.com/2010/06/invictus-movie-activity-what-mandela.html and check your answers.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Shrek 3 - Practicing Reported Speech
I will be teaching the reported speech again. I took a course by Michael Lewis many years ago during a LAURELS conference, the audience was discussing how many times reported statements appear on Corpus and why coursebooks put so much emphasis on teaching this grammar point. But we EFL teachers have to do it and we want to do it well. Meaning, form, pronunciation and...Use!
Here is a presentation to practice the reported speech and engage students in an interesting conversation about favorite movie scenes... He said that, he insisted, she said he said... and so on...
Here is a presentation to practice the reported speech and engage students in an interesting conversation about favorite movie scenes... He said that, he insisted, she said he said... and so on...
- Students take a movie quiz.
- Practice the reported speech. Download PDF -http://www.scribd.com/doc/32926553
- Ask and answer questions about a movie of their choice and describe a favorite scene.
E- writing takesplace as my students will leave comments on movieclip and write about the movies they talked about on our class blog. Enjoy!
A movie segment on movieclip
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