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Teaching file n°4
School year : 2022-2023
Teacher’s name : School : Class : 3ème
Size : ( Boys : ; Girls : )
Learning situation n°1 : Youth problems
Sequence n°3 : Youth duties
Lesson : Structure : Reported speech
Duration: 55 minutes
 Competences : CD1 , CD2,CT1, CT2, , CTD2

 Skills : Listening, speaking, reading , writing.
Strategies: The direct instruction strategy, the indirect instruction strategy, the
independent learning strategy and the experiential learning strategy.
Techniques : Individual work, pair work , collective work.
Objective: At the end of this lesson, learners should be able to report what
someone else has said .
Materials : Visual aids, chalk, chalkboard, student’s book.
Reference books : The student’s book, the teaching guide, the study
programme , Sunshine, English for BEPC, English dictionary.
Procedure :
Warming up : Saying the and writing it (2min)
Revision: Review of the previous lesson (orally or by written)/Controlling and

correction of the homework. (4min)
Introduction: Today, we are going to study how to report a speech.
Brainstorming: (2min)
 How many types of speech do you know?
 How can we also call the reported speech?
I-Presentation :
Activity1 : Read these sentences and answer the questions(IW→6 min ;

PW→4min ; CW→10min )
1) “Wash your father’s car”, Peter told Abib.

2) Peter told Abib to wash his father’s car.
3) “I am on time for school”, Pauline said.
4) Pauline said that she was on time for school.
5) “Do you see our English teacher today?”, Akim asked his classmates.
6) Akim asked his classmates if they saw their English teacher that day.
7) “What did Assiba buy three weeks ago?”, Bona wanted to know.
8) Bona wanted to know what Assiba had bought three weeks before.
9) “Don’t insult your father,” David told Rafatou.
10)David told Rafatou not to insult her father.
Questions :
1) Which sentences are in direct speech and which ones are in indirect
speech?
2) Compare these sentences and say what you notice about the direct
speech sentences and the ones in indirect speech?
3) Match the sentences in reported speech to their suitable types such as :
statement,imperatives(orders), questions.
4) Draw the tables of the different changes you notice in the reported
speech sentences.
Expected answers :
1) -The sentences in direct speech are “S1,3,5 , 7 and 9”.
-Those in indirect speech are “S2.4,6,8 and 10.
2) -There is a difference between the sentences in direct speech and those

in indirect speech.
-In direct speech ,we notice the presence of the labeled(“ ”), the
introductory sentences , the question mark(?), the comma(,) and the
full stop(.)
-In indirect speech, we have the presence of a full stop(.), the changes in
tenses, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs.
3) Matching:
-S1 and 9→Imperatives(orders);S3→Statement;S5 and
7→Questions(“Yes or No” and “Wh.”)
4)Tables of the different changes.
A-Change in Tenses
DIRECT SPEECH INDIRECT SPEECH

Simple present Simple past
Present continuous Past conrinuous
Present perfect Past perfect
Present perfect continuous Past perfect continuous
Simple past Past perfect
Past continuous Past (perfect) continuous
Past perfect Past perfect
Past perfect continuous Past perfect continuous
Simple future Present conditional
Future continuous Conditional continuous
Future perfect Past conditional
Present conditional Past conditional
Past conditional Past conditional
Can Could
May Might
Imperative Infinitive
B-Change in pronouns and adjectives

I he/she
Myself himself/herself
Mine his/hers
My his/her
You(Subject) I/we
You(Object) me/us
Yourself/Yourselves myself/ourselves
Yours mine/ours
Your my/our
We they
Ourselves themselves
Ours theirs
Our their
This/These that/those
C-Change in adverbs

Now then(at once for the imperative)
Soon shortly
Today that day
Tonight that night
Yesterday the day before/the previous day
Tomorrow the following day/ the day after
Ago before
Last week the previous week/the week before
Next week the following week/ the week after
Here there
5)Notes :
-When the introductory sentences verb is in the simple present, present
perfect , simple future, there is no change regarding the reported
sentences verb.Example: They say John doesn’t wash his father’s clothes.
-No change of the verbs in reported speech in the case of
proverbs/universal/absolute and scientific truths.
II- Practice :
Activity2 : Turn into reported speech these sentences( PW→5min; CW→5min)
1) “ I fetched drinking water yesterday”, Daouda said.
2) “Do your homeworks”, the teacher asked the students.
3) What will you do tomorrow?”, Aline wanted to know.
4) “Don’t ill-treat your children”, he told Arouna .
5) “The earth revolves around the sun”, the Geography teacher said.
Expected answers :
1)Daouda said that he had fetched drinking water the day before.
2)The teacher asked the students to do their homeworks.
3)Aline wanted to know what I would do the following day.
4)He told Arouna not to ill-treat his children.
5)The Geography teacher said that the earth revolves around the sun.
III- Production
Activity3 :Make two sentences in direct speech and turn them into indirect
speech(IW→3 ; CW→3)
Expected answers : Personal response
Assessment : (2min)
1)Can we have the labeled(“ ”) in reported speech ? Why?
2) How can we also call a reported speech?
Homework :
Write five sentences in direct speech and turn them into indirect speech.
Note taking : (9min)

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Teaching file n°4

School year : 2022-2023

Teacher’s name : School : Class : 3ème

Size : ( Boys : ; Girls : )

Learning situation n°1 : Youth problems

Sequence n°3 : Youth duties

Lesson : Structure : Reported speech

 Competences : CD1 , CD2,CT1, CT2, , CTD2

Techniques : Individual work, pair work , collective work.

Materials : Visual aids, chalk, chalkboard, student’s book.

Warming up : Saying the and writing it (2min)

Revision: Review of the previous lesson (orally or by written)/Controlling and

Introduction: Today, we are going to study how to report a speech.

Activity1 : Read these sentences and answer the questions(IW→6 min ;

1) “Wash your father’s car”, Peter told Abib.

10)David told Rafatou not to insult her father.

1) -The sentences in direct speech are “S1,3,5 , 7 and 9”.

-Those in indirect speech are “S2.4,6,8 and 10.

2) -There is a difference between the sentences in direct speech and those

4)Tables of the different changes.

DIRECT SPEECH INDIRECT SPEECH

DIRECT SPEECH INDIRECT SPEECH

DIRECT SPEECH INDIRECT SPEECH

Activity2 : Turn into reported speech these sentences( PW→5min; CW→5min)

1) “ I fetched drinking water yesterday”, Daouda said.

2) “Do your homeworks”, the teacher asked the students.

3) What will you do tomorrow?”, Aline wanted to know.

4) “Don’t ill-treat your children”, he told Arouna .

2)The teacher asked the students to do their homeworks.

3)Aline wanted to know what I would do the following day.

4)He told Arouna not to ill-treat his children.

Expected answers : Personal response

1)Can we have the labeled(“ ”) in reported speech ? Why?

2) How can we also call a reported speech?

Note taking : (9min)

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