A Detailed Lesson Plan for Grade-8 English

Direct and Indirect Speech

I. Objectives

At the end of the discussion, the students are expected to:

1. read and listen to a speech excerpt “Role of Media in the Society” by
Amarendra Kishore,
2. differentiate direct speech from indirect/ reported speech;
3. use direct and indirect speech in journalistic writing; and
4. change sentences from direct speech to indirect speech and vice versa.

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Using Direct and Reported Speech

Materials: Visual aids, chalk, handouts

References: English 8 Learning Material,

http://www.dimdima.com/forumnw/message.asp?
Tid=1043&q_title=Role+of+media+in+the+society

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/870536/death-toll-in-surigao-earthquake-rises-to-
6#ixzz4YN6BK6ZR

III. Procedure

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity

A. Routine Activities

Good Morning Class! Good Morning ma’am!

Please keep silent in one minute and say your (students will pray)
personal prayers.

B. Motivation

Okay class before we proceed to our lesson,

we will play a game called “Pass the
message!”

Your groupings will depend on what line you

are in.
The first line will be the Group 1, second line
will be the Group 2 and the rest will follow.
Choose one representative who will be the
first one to receive the statement from me.
Mechanics:
I will tell a phrase and you will pass it
backwards. The last person will be the one
who will tell me the exact word that I have
said.

Are we clear?

Okay. Let us begin.

Yes ma’am!
Group 1: “I am definitely fine”
Group 2: “Forever do exist”
Group 3: “Things happen for a reason”
Group 4: “Positivity is beauty”
Group 5: “Be who you wanted to be”

I will give you 3 minutes to pass the message

and then the speaker will proceed here in
front to tell me the exact line.

Are we clear?

(After 3 minutes)

“Yes ma’am”

Group 1:
Ma’am said, “I am definitely fine.”
Group 2:
Ma’am said that forever do exist.
Group 3:
So class, what have you observe with Ma’am said “Things happen for a reason”
Group 4:
Ma’am said that positivity is beauty.
Group 5:
Ma’am said, “Be who you want to be.”

So class, what have you observe

with these statements?
 Very Good!
So now, we are going to tackle about The first and second statements are quoted while
Direct and Indirect speech. the others uses the word “that”.

C. Presentation

Everybody read the statement.

That statement is from Inquirer News with

“The shaking was so strong I could hardly stand,”
regards of the earthquake in Surigao as of
coast guard personnel Rayner Neil Elopre told The
February 11, 2017, 1:33pm.
Associated Press by telephone.

Analyze the statement.

So what form of speech is this one? Is it
Direct or Indirect?

How can you say that?

Prove your anwer.
Ma’am, the statement is in direct form of speech.

Very Good!

It is a direct speech because it is quoted and those

So class, let us first define Direct speech.
were the exact words of the coast guard personnel.

Okay, from your observation, how can we

define now a Direct speech?

Very Good!
 Direct speech gives the exact words of the speaker.

Please read the definition.

Yes, _____.

Direct speech is usually placed inside quotation

In Direct speech, what a person says appears marks and accompanied by a reporting verb.
within quotation marks and should be word
for word.

Have you seen it in the example?

Now, let’s have this example. Yes ma’am!

Everybody read.
Police officer Jimmy Sarael said that he, his wife,
and their children embraced each other until the
Okay, what have you observed now? shaking eased.
Yes, _____.

Very Good! Ma’am I have observed that the statement doesn’t

use quotations.
What do we call that form of speech?
Yes, _____.

Very Good!
Ma’am it is called indirect speech.
In Indirect speech, we don’t use quotation
marks to enclose what the person said and it
doesn’t have to be word for word.
There are rules when changing the tense of
verb when converting a direct speech into
indirect speech.

Direct speech: Present simple

She said, "It is cold."

Try to convert it class.

(the teacher will convert it through paper

strips)
Indirect speech: Past simple
D.S: Present continuous She said it was cold.
She said, "I'm teaching English online."

(the student will be the one to convert it in

front)

D.S: Present perfect simple

She said, "I've been on the web since 1999." I.S: Past continuous
She said she was teaching English online.
D.S: Present perfect continuous
She said, "I've been teaching English for I.S: Past perfect simple
seven years." She said she had been on the web since 1999.

D.S: Past simple

She said, "I taught online yesterday." I.S: Past perfect continuous
I.S: Past perfect continuous She said she had been teaching English for seven
She said she had been teaching earlier. years.

Try to convert an indirect speech into a direct I.S: Past perfect

speech. She said she had taught online yesterday.

D.S: Past perfect

She said, "The lesson had already started
when he arrived." D.S: Past continuous
I.S: Past perfect She said, "I was teaching earlier."
NO CHANGE - She said the lesson had
already started when he arrived.
D.S: Past perfect continuous
She said, "I'd already been teaching for five
minutes."
I.S: Past perfect continuous
NO CHANGE - She said she'd already been
teaching for five minutes.

Modal verb forms also sometimes change:

Direct speech: will

She said, "I'll teach English online
tomorrow."
Indirect speech: would
She said she would teach English online
tomorrow.

Try to convert the following:

D.I: can
She said, "I can teach English online."

D.S: must
She said, "I must have a computer to teach
 English online."
I.S: had to I.S: could
She said she had to have a computer to teach She said she could teach English online.
English online.

Convert the following into Direct speech.

I.S: should
She asked what we should learn today.

I.S: might
She asked if she might open a new browser.

Note: There is no change to; could, would, D.S: shall

should, might and ought to. She said, "What shall we learn today?"

Direct speech
"I might go to the cinema", he said.
Indirect speech
He said he might go to the cinema. D.S: may
She said, "May I open a new browser?"
Are we clear with Direct and Indirect
speech?

Is there any question?

Very Good Class!

C, Application
Now let us proceed to your activity.

I will group you into 2 groups. None ma’am.

This side will be the group 1 and the other
side will be the Group 2.

Group 1 will read the speech in front and the

Group 2 will serve as the audience. Later,
you will exchange roles.

Are we clear?

Group 1 please proceed in front.

Yes ma’am!

Role of Media in the Society

by Amarendra Kishore

Today television channels and newspapers are

making fast money by cashing on the news in
wrong sense and wrong way. In the race to become
Okay, Very Good! more popular and to make money they have broken
 all the limits media must follow while serving to
build a healthy and progressive society. They have
no respect for the sentiments and ethics of the
people and land whom they serve to, with their
immense power to influence the masses they just
Group 2, it’s your turn. make judgment like a true dictator rather than a
good advice of a true friend as they previously used
to do. If it will be going in the future then we
Okay class, we often give information about people have to think about the role of media in our
what people say or think. life.
To do this, we either use direct or indirect
speech. (Group 2 will read the speech)

Now, I want you to get ½ crosswise.

Write about the author’s thoughts about the
role of media in the society.

I will give you 10 minutes to do that.

Are we clear?

(After 10 minutes)

You have written about Amarendra’s

thoughts about the role of social media.

So now, how would you say your own ideas Yes ma’am!
about social media?

Very Good!

What else?
 Yes, _____.

For me, Social media has definitely made us closer

Very Good! to other parts of the world.

D. Generalization Social media gives us the latest information about

what’s happening in the world.
So now, again, What is a direct speech?
Yes, _____.

Very Good!

How about the indirect speech?

Yes, _____. Direct speech repeats, or quotes, the exact words
spoken. It uses quotation marks.
Very Good!

IV. Evaluation It is used to talk about the past, so we normally

Get ½ crosswise. change the tense of the words spoken.
A. Change the following sentences from direct
speech to indirect speech.

1. “I never eat meat”, he explained.

2. “I’m waiting for Ann”, he said.
3. “I have found a flat”, she said.
4. He said, “I have been waiting for ages”. Answers:
5. “I took it home with me”, he said.
 He explained that he never ate meat.
B. Change the following sentences from indirect He said that he was waiting for Ann.
speech to direct speech. She said that he found a flat.
He said that he had been waiting for ages.
1. She said that she didn’t like fish. He said that he had taken it home with her.
2. He said that he was going to away for a few
days.
3. She said she had seen Helen in June. Answers:
4. She said she would tell him.
5. He said he might be late. “I don’t like fish”, she said.
“I’m going away for a few days”, he said.
V. Assignment
Read “The Changing Morals of Korean “I saw Helen in June”, she said.
Students” Excerpts. “I will tell him”, she said.
You may use this site: “I may be late”, he said.
http://docslide.us/documents/the-changing-
morals-of-korean-students-2.html