Teaching aims:

1. Students can explain the difference of direct speech and reported speech.

2. Students can list the changes when transform the direct speech into reported speech.

3. Students can use reported speech or indirect speech to report things.

4. Students can express others’ ideas more properly.

5. Students can be more confident in learning English.

Teaching key points and difficult points:

Key points:

How to change direct speech into reported speech.

Difficult Points:

The changing points when change direct speech into reported speech.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

Present a short video. It is a joke about XiaoMing. He misuse I, she and he and can’t introduce his family members to others properly.

Then lead in today’s topic how to change direct speech into reported speech.

(Justification: By showing the video, students can be more curious about learning this lesson.)

Step 2 Presentation

1. Ask students to watch several advertisements. In every videos there is a person to talk about the merits of his or her products. Then list several sentences to ask students to choose which advertisement it refers to. For example:

The girl said that she was praised by her boyfriend.

The boy introduce that the little guys can be found wherever they are.

A lot of mums encourage others to use it to protect babies skin.

2. Show the original sentences(direct speech) of the advertisement and the listed sentences before together. Ask students to observe the sentences and try to think about what is the direct speech and what is the reported speech. Then conclude how to change direct speech into reported sentence: we can change direct speech into reported speech by using an object clause or an infinitive phrase.

3. Present several reported speech chosen from the advertisements. Ask students to pay attention to the form of different reported speech including statements, questions and imperative statements.

4. Show some sentences using direct speech and ask students to try to change the direct speech into reported speech. Then underline personal pronouns, tense, time and place, pronoun and ask students to check their deskmates’ sentences and pay attention to the underline parts. Present the sentences students made and ask them to conclude the important points of changing a direct speech into reported speech from the following aspects: personal pronouns, tense, time and place, pronoun and other special cases.

(Justification: Using the advertisement can lead in different sentences using direct speech and reported speech naturally and help students accept the new grammar rules more easily. Inductive method and deductive method are combined in this part to achieve students’ mastership.)

Step 3 Practice

Set an situation of the advertisement department. Every students is a member of the department. Ask them to finish the following tasks:

1. There is a report made by their colleague and ask students to correct the sentences on the blackboard.

2. Show the advertisement of the text book and ask students to complete the letter written by Wang Yilin to Mr Fan Zhenbin. Then check the answer with their classmates.

3. Show a list of tips given by an advertising expert and ask them to report the advice to the manager and finish the Exercise B in P11.

(Justification: This step can help students get a deeper understanding of the grammar and the key point and difficult point will be solved in this step.)

Step 4 Production

Four students in a group finish the following tasks.

1. Show a short video and encourage students to talk about the story of the video with each other.

2. Set an situation that there is an advertisement order about useful English learning method. Invite students to discuss in groups and list the opinions of every group members and then change the opinions with the group beside by using reported speech. Teacher will invite some volunteers to share their opinions.

(Justification: Students can fully cooperate with each other and learn how to use what they learned into their daily life. Also, they can develop critical thinking and speaking ability.)

Step 5 Summary and homework

1. Summary: invite students to conclude what they have learned in this lesson and emphasize the key points of changing a direct speech into reported speech.

2. Homework: Ask students to choose one of their favorite films and try to retell the most excellent episode of the film by using reported speech.

Blackboard design: