I. Teaching Aims

1. Knowledge aims

1) words: copy , own, get over.

2).Sentence pattern:

She asked me if she could copy my homework.

I asked her why she wanted to do that.

I said it would start a bad habit.

3) Continue to learn Direct Speech and Reported Speech. 

2. Ability aims

Practicing more to improve the students' four skills and to understand it very important for us to complete our own tasks by ourselves. 

II. Importances

   Continue to learn to report what someone said (More kinds of Reported Speech), and how to use it (As formal subject).

III. Difficulties

1. Practice more about the grammatical structures in different ways and summary about these.

2. Help the students find out the right idea to study English in the future.

IV. Teaching Procedure

Step 1 Greetings

Step 2 Warming up

    Ask a few students how they can report someone said, and to give some examples about daily life.

    Let the students pay attention to the changes of their speech, and say: Now let's learn about more kinds of Reported Speech.

Step 3 Vocabulary's study

1. Ask the students to fill the blanks on their own.

(Complete ten sentences, Self-check 1 and my design)

2. Check the answers.

1) Can you bring some music CDs to the party?

2) My friend does well in English so she often helps me with my projects.

3) He didn't know what was happening outside.

4) I'm so cold. Can I borrow your jacket?

5) I'm seeing Sue this afternoon. Do you want me to pass on any messages?

6) How shall we get over this difficulty?

7) It is a bad idea for her to copy my homework.

8) I think you should finish your own work first.

9) Last week I had a big fight with my best friend.

10) The smoke started him coughing.

In some cases, students need to use another form of the word, for example, adjusting for tense or subject / verb agreement.

3. Ask the students to make their own sentences with the words, preferably sentences that are meaningful.

eg: I want to know, "Copying homework is right or wrong?"  etc.

This activity can help the students think more about how to study the vocabulary in future, and find the right way to enlarge their vocabulary.

Step 4 Just for fun!

    Let the students read and talk about it, why the cartoon is funny. (Neither person can hear what the other person is saying.)

    This activity provides reading practice with the target language. And with the topic's help, we can start the new text.

    Can we hear what the author want to tell us?

Step 5 Reading (Self-check 2)

    With the CAI to show the whole story (Notice: turn off sound) , and give the chance to the students, let them dub for the pictures.

    After several times, play the recording for help to correct their voice. And then let all the students dub for the story.

    It is very important to understand the whole story before they learn the details.

Step 6 Text's study

1. Find main idea

    Ask the students to read silently, quickly through to the end without stopping to find the main clues.

    We had a big fight last week in school.→ She said she had forgotten to do hers.→ I said I didn't think it was a good idea for her to copy my homework.→ She said it was much better if she did her own homework.

    Help the students recite the passage with the sentences.

2. Sentences' study

    There are more than 10 Reported Speech in this text that is only 153 words. Find all the sentences to study the direct speech and reported speech. And continue to study sentences' changes for reported speech.

Step 7 Pair work

1. Ask a few pairs of students to rewrite the story as a conversation. Pretend you (as author) are talking about the fight with other person.

    eg: A: Who's your best friend?

         B: My best friend is Xiao Li, but last week we had a big fight and now she isn't talking to me.

         A: How did it start?

         B: ...

This activity practices in understanding the target language in spoken conversations.

2. Ask the students change their identity to talk about the fight. For example, pretend you (as author) and "Xiao Li", etc.

    This activity develops the students' ability to use reported speech correctly. And it is very important for the students to enjoy the experience of learning English. If we can do this, they will be motivated to learn and improve.

Step 8 Practice

    That is Sentences' changes, the fourth part to study the reported speech.

Delarative Sentences………………………that-clause

1. She said, "Our bus will arrive in five minutes."

→She said that their bus would arrive in five minutes.

2. Mr. Smith said, "Jack is a good worker."

→Mr. Smith said that Jack was a good worker.

General Question, Disjunctive Question……whether/if

3. He asked, "Can you come to my party?"

→He asked me if I could go to his party.

4. Mr. Hu asked, "Do you go to school by bus or by bike?"

→Mr. Hu asked me if I went to school by bus or by bike.

5. She asked me, "You have seen the film, haven't you?"

→She asked me if I had seen the film.

Special Question………………………………wh-clause

6. He asked, "Where are you going, Lana?"

→He asked Lana where she was going.

7. He asked, "Marry, when is the next train?"

→He asked Marry when the next train was.

Imperative Question…………………Verbs' change; don't→not

8. The teacher said to the boy, "Open the window."

→The teacher told the boy to open the window.

9. My sister said to me, "Don't be mad with me."

→My sister asked me not to be mad with her.

10. He said, "Let's go to the movies."

→He suggested going to the movies.   ①

→He suggested that they should go to see the movies.    ②

Interrogative Sentence ………………What/how/that

11. She said, "What a lovely day it is!"

→She said what a lovely day it was.   ①

→She said that it was a lovely day. ②

(With the CAI to show the whole practice, all the answers are italic, they each will be shown after the students’ discussing.)

Step 9 Have a test

Direct Speech →Reported Speech

1. The teacher said, :"The earth goes round the sun."

→The teacher said that the earth goes round the sun.

2. The girl said to us, "He isn't a teacher, isn't he?"

→The girl asked us whether/if he was a teacher.

3. They said to us, "How do you go to school?"

→They asked us how we went to school.

4. The mother said to the son, "Never throw your things about."

→The mother told the son never to throw his things about.

5. He asked the boy, "What does your mother do?"

→He asked the boy what his mother did.

6. Mother said to my boyfriend, "where do you live?"

→Mother asked my boyfriend where he lived.

7. The policeman asked, "What's wrong?"

→The policeman asked what was wrong.

8. The old man says, "The road is too bad."

→The old man says that the road is too bad.

9. "I was born in 1984." said my fried.

→My best friend said he was born in 1984.

10. They said at last, "We'd better start out at once."

→They said at last that they'd better start out at once.

11. "Don't make any noise," she said to the children.

→She told /ordered the children not to make any noise.

12. "Why don't you take a walk after supper?" he asked.

→He advised me to take a walk after supper.

13. The teacher said to me, "You must pay more attention to your pronunciation."

→The teacher told me that I must /have to pay more attention to my pronunciation.

14. He says, "I have finished my homework."

→He says that he has finished his homework.

Reported Speech →Direct Speech

(This part come from self-check 2.)

15. She asked me if she could copy my homework.

→ She asked me, "Can I copy your homework?"

16. I asked her why she wanted to do that.

→ I asked her, "Why do you want to do this?"

17. She said that she had forgotten to do hers.

→ She said, "I have forgotten to do mine."

18. I said that she should do her own work.

→ I said, "You should do your own homework."

19. She said she didn't want to be my best friend anymore.

→ She said, "I don't want to be your best friend anymore."

20. I said that I was sure she would get over it.

→I said, "I am sure you will get over it.”

    (With the CAI to show the whole practice, all the answers are italic, they each will be shown after the students’ discussing.)

    (Steps 8~9 summary of reported speech with practicing more.)

Step 10 Homework

    Read the story again and write it as a conversation. If possible, make a soap opera play please.

Design on Blackboard

Unit 4 He said I was hard-working.

Period 3

Vocabulary    copy    own   get over it

Grammar