Lesson Plans: Direct & Indirect Speech

Using reporting verbs in polite business communication

Reported speech to report on meetings

Common small talk questions, taboo small talk questions, and ones in between that need to be made indirect, with embedded questions presentation and practice.

A fun dice game and grammar presentation to show the different meanings and uses of different embedded questions, including suggested topics for indirect questions speaking practice

Three fun reporting verbs activities with students guessing, spotting lies and finding things they share with the help of suggested sentence starters, including verb patterns after reporting verbs presentation.

Four fun prepositions that collocate with verbs to report speech practice games, including pairs/ the memory game/ pelmanism, a faster card game of snap, and two storytelling tasks.

Verbs for reporting speech with the same and different meaning, including common mistakes with reporting verbs.