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.

Group 1: “I am definitely fine” Yes ma’am!

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

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

Everybody read the statement.

That statement is from Inquirer News with regards

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

So class, let us first define Direct speech. It is a direct speech because it is quoted and those 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, _____.

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

Have you seen it in the example?

Now, let’s have this example.

Everybody read. Yes ma’am!

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

Very Good!
Ma’am I have observed that the statement doesn’t use
What do we call that form of speech? quotations.
Yes, _____.

Very Good!

In Indirect speech, we don’t use quotation marks Ma’am it is called indirect speech.
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)

D.S: Present continuous

She said, "I'm teaching English online." Indirect speech: Past simple
She said it was cold.
(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."

D.S: Present perfect continuous

She said, "I've been teaching English for seven I.S: Past continuous
years." She said she was teaching English online.

D.S: Past simple I.S: Past perfect simple

She said, "I taught online yesterday."
I.S: Past perfect continuous
She said she had been teaching earlier.
Try to convert an indirect speech into a direct
speech.
She said she had been on the web since 1999.
I.S: Past perfect continuous
She said she had been teaching English for seven
years.

D.S: Past perfect I.S: Past perfect

She said, "The lesson had already started when She said she had taught online yesterday.
he arrived."
I.S: Past perfect
NO CHANGE - She said the lesson had already
started when he arrived. D.S: Past continuous
D.S: Past perfect continuous She said, "I was teaching earlier."
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
She said she had to have a computer to teach
English online.

Convert the following into Direct speech. I.S: could

She said she could teach English online.
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,

should, might and ought to.

Direct speech
"I might go to the cinema", he said. D.S: shall
Indirect speech She said, "What shall we learn today?"
He said he might go to the cinema.

Are we clear with Direct and Indirect speech?

Is there any question? D.S: may

She said, "May I open a new browser?"
Very Good Class!

C, Application

Now let us proceed to your activity.

I will group you into 2 groups.

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. None ma’am.

Are we clear?

Group 1 please proceed in front.

 Yes ma’am!

Role of Media in the Society

Okay, Very Good! 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 more popular and to
Group 2, it’s your turn. 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
Okay class, we often give information about what ethics of the people and land whom they serve to, with
people say or think. their immense power to influence the masses they just
To do this, we either use direct or indirect speech. make judgment like a true dictator rather than a good
advice of a true friend as they previously used to do. If it
Now, I want you to get ½ crosswise. will be going in the future then we people have to think
Write about the author’s thoughts about the role of about the role of media in our life.
media in the society.
(Group 2 will read the speech)
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 about

social media?

Very Good!

What else? Yes ma’am!

Yes, _____.

Very Good!

For me, Social media has definitely made us closer to

D. Generalization other parts of the world.

So now, again, What is a direct speech?

Yes, _____.

Very Good! Social media gives us the latest information about what’s
happening in the world.
How about the indirect speech?
Yes, _____.

Very Good!

IV. Evaluation Direct speech repeats, or quotes, the exact words

Get ½ crosswise. spoken. It uses quotation marks.
A. Change the following sentences from direct
speech to indirect speech.

1. “I never eat meat”, he explained. It is used to talk about the past, so we normally change
2. “I’m waiting for Ann”, he said. the tense of the words spoken.
3. “I have found a flat”, she said.
4. He said, “I have been waiting for ages”.
5. “I took it home with me”, he said.

B. Change the following sentences from indirect

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

“I saw Helen in June”, she said.

“I will tell him”, she said.
“I may be late”, he said.