The lesson plan discusses teaching direct and indirect speech to 8th grade English students. It includes objectives, subject matter, and procedures for a lesson involving differentiating between direct and indirect speech through examples, activities, and exercises where students practice changing sentences between the two forms of speech. Students will apply their understanding by writing about a speech on the role of media in society using direct or indirect speech.

1. 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

2. Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity
A. Routine Activities
Good Morning Class!
Please keep silent in one minute and say
your 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.
Good Morning ma’am!
(students will pray)

3. Are we clear?
Okay. Let us begin.
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!
“Yes ma’am”
Group 1:
Ma’am said, “I am definitely fine.”
Group 2:
Ma’am said that forever do exist.
Group 3:

4. So class, what have you observe with
So class, what have you observe
with these statements?
Very Good!
So now, we are going to tackle about
Direct and Indirect speech.
C. Presentation
Everybody read the statement.
That statement is from Inquirer News
with regards of the earthquake in
Surigao as of February 11, 2017, 1:33pm.
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.”
The first and second statements are quoted
while the others uses the word “that”.
“The shaking was so strong I could hardly
stand,” coast guard personnel Rayner Neil
Elopre told The Associated Press by telephone.

5. Analyze the statement.
So what form of speech is this one? Is it
Direct or Indirect?
How can you say that?
Prove your anwer.
Very Good!
So class, let us first define Direct speech.
Okay, from your observation, how can we
define now a Direct speech?
Very Good!
Please read the definition.
Yes, _____.
In Direct speech, what a person says
appears within quotation marks and
should be word for word.
Ma’am, the statement is in direct form of
speech.
It is a direct speech because it is quoted and
those were the exact words of the coast guard
personnel.
Direct speech gives the exact words of the
speaker.
Direct speech is usually placed inside
quotation marks and accompanied by a
reporting verb.

6. Have you seen it in the example?
Now, let’s have this example.
Everybody read.
Okay, what have you observed now?
Yes, _____.
Very Good!
What do we call that form of speech?
Yes, _____.
Very Good!
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."
Yes ma’am!
Police officer Jimmy Sarael said that he, his
wife, and their children embraced each other
until the shaking eased.
Ma’am I have observed that the statement
doesn’t use quotations.
Ma’am it is called indirect speech.

7. Try to convert it class.
(the teacher will convert it through paper
strips)
D.S: Present continuous
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."
D.S: Present perfect continuous
She said, "I've been teaching English for
seven years."
D.S: Past 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.
Indirect speech: Past simple
She said it was cold.
I.S: Past continuous
She said she was teaching English online.
I.S: Past perfect simple
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.
I.S: Past perfect
She said she had taught online yesterday.

8. D.S: Past perfect
She said, "The lesson had already started
when he arrived."
I.S: Past perfect
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
D.S: Past continuous
She said, "I was teaching earlier."

9. 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: 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.
Indirect speech
He said he might go to the cinema.
I.S: could
She said she could teach English online.
D.S: shall
She said, "What shall we learn today?"
D.S: may
She said, "May I open a new browser?"

10. 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.
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.
None ma’am.
Yes ma’am!

11. Okay, Very Good!
Group 2, it’s your turn.
Okay class, we often give information
about what people say or think.
To do this, we either use direct or
indirect speech.
Now, I want you to get ½ crosswise.
Write about the author’s thoughts about
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 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 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 people have to think about the role of
media in our life.
(Group 2 will read the speech)

12. 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 about social media?
Very Good!
What else?
Yes, _____.
Very Good!
D. Generalization
So now, again, What is a direct speech?
Yes ma’am!
For me, Social media has definitely made us
closer to other parts of the world.
Social media gives us the latest information
about what’s happening in the world.

13. Yes, _____.
Very Good!
How about the indirect speech?
Yes, _____.
Very Good!
IV. Evaluation
Get ½ crosswise.
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”.
5. “I took it home with me”, he said.
B. Change the following sentences from
indirect speech to direct speech.
1. She said that she didn’t like fish.
2. He said that he was going to away for a
few days.
Direct speech repeats, or quotes, the exact
words spoken. It uses quotation marks.
It is used to talk about the past, so we
normally change the tense of the words
spoken.
Answers:
He explained that he never ate meat.
He said that he was waiting for Ann.
She said that he found a flat.
He said that he had been waiting for ages.
He said that he had taken it home with her.

14. 3. She said she had seen Helen in June.
4. She said she would tell him.
5. He said he might be late.
V. Assignment
Read “The Changing Morals of Korean
Students” Excerpts.
You may use this site:
http://docslide.us/documents/the-changing-
morals-of-korean-students-2.html
Answers:
“I don’t like fish”, she said.
“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.