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Lesson Plans: Direct & Indirect Speech

ESL lesson plans for teachers of the English language. Check out our collection of lesson plans filed under the 'Direct & Indirect Speech' grammar topic.

Direct & Indirect Speech

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Business English- Reporting Verbs

Using reporting verbs in polite business communication
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Business English- Reporting Verbs in Taking Minutes

Reported speech to report on meetings
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Direct, Indirect and Taboo Small Talk Questions

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

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
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Indirect Speech- Reporting Verbs Sentence Completion Games

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.
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Prepositions with Reporting Verbs Activities

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.
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Reported Questions Games

Two fun reported questions speaking games, starting with small talk and with a grammar presentation in between.
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Reported Speech Discussion Questions

Conversation questions for free speaking practice of indirect speech, including both personal questions and opinion questions.
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Reported Speech Memory Challenge

Students try to remember and report back a conversation that their partner really had - good for controlled communicative practice, personalisation, and students getting to know each other.
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Reported Speech- Bluffing Game

A lying game for fun oral practice of indirect speech, with an optional grammar presentation, with suggested typical conversations to report.
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Reported Speech- Extended Speaking

Mini-presentations for indirect speech free speaking practice, with suggested presentation topics and suggested follow-up questions for the people listening.
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Reported Speech- Same or Different

Typical confusions with reported speech review through labelling diffences in meaning and synonyms, including backshift and no backshift, and different reporting verbs.
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Reported/Indirect Speech Practice- Festivals and celebrations vocabulary

Typical phrases, names of events, reported speech, reporting verbs and cultural differences practice, starting with a guessing game and with an indirect speech grammar presentation.
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Reporting Verbs- the Same or Different

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

Five card games to practice reporting verbs plus gerund, plus infinitive, etc, with both controlled practice and freer speaking practice activities.
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