This lesson plan aims to teach reported speech to intermediate level English students. The main goals are for students to be able to use reported speech correctly and develop their reading and speaking skills. The teacher anticipates that students may struggle with remembering English tenses in reported speech and completing reading tasks. To address these issues, the teacher will provide a handout on reported speech rules and example questions. Monitoring and help will also be provided during reading activities. A card game is planned to consolidate grammar in an engaging way. The lesson will use handouts, a projector, audio, and cards over 50 minutes.

1. Lesson Plan
Name:
Veronica
Herrera
Date:
09/12/10
Level:
Inter
Lesson Type
Reading and
Grammar
Lesson No
4
Lesson Length
50 min
Main aims: (What do you want the students to be able to do by the end of the lesson)
By the end of the lesson students will be able to use reported speech correctly and develop
their reading and speaking skills.
Subsidiary aims:
To review and practice verb tenses.
Personal aim(s) (What do you want to improve in your own teaching)
I would like to improve my timing and be able to give clear instructions. I would very much
like to engage students from the start of the lesson, I think this will be a challenge because
the content of this lesson is quite challenging even for me.
Timetable fit and presumed student knowledge: (What do you assume the students already know to be
able to cope with your lesson)
By now students have learnt most of the English tenses i.e. Present and Past simple, Future
and Present and Past perfect. They will use these tenses when practicing reported speech.
Students have also practiced gist and intensive reading before in a wide range of topics.
They have used many regular and irregular verbs along the course.
Anticipated problems: (What problems do I think the students will have with this lesson?) Be specific and number your
points to correspond with your solutions in the next section
1 The students will probably find it difficult to remember all the English tenses and their
relationship when practising reported speech.
2 The students will probably find it difficult to complete the reading related tasks and maybe
they will take longer than expected.
3 Maybe the students will find this lesson a bit tedious and hard.
Possible solutions: (What am I going to do about these problems?)
1 I’ll give them a handout with the mains rules for the use of reported speech.
2 After giving the instructions of the activities I’ll complete the first two questions as
example. I’ll be monitoring and helping them if I see them confused.
3 I’ll try my best to keep them focused and I have also prepared a card game to consolidate
the grammar (reported speech).
Materials and/or teaching aids I will use in the lesson Handouts, Projector, Class CD, and
Cards.
Tutor evaluation of plan: satisfactory* or unsatisfactory* *for this stage of the course

2. Lesson Plan
For a language focused lesson, complete the first section.
For a skills lesson, complete the second section
If you include both components complete both sections
What is the form of the language you are teaching?
We usually change the forms of verbs when we report what was said in reported
speech:
Present forms change to Past forms
• Present Simple (subject + verb (-s)) → Past Simple (subject + verb -ed)
• Present Progressive (am/are/is + verb -ing) → Past Progressive (was/were +
verb –ing)
• Present Perfect (have/has + past participle) → Past Perfect (had + past
participle)
• Present Perfect Progressive (have + been + verb –ing) → Past Perfect
Progressive (had + been + verb –ing)
Past forms change to Past Perfect forms
• Past Simple (subject + verb –ed) → Past Perfect (had + past participle)
• Past Progressive (was/were + verb –ing) → Past Perfect Progressive (had +
been + verb –ing)
Some modal auxiliaries also change in reported speech
• Will → Would
• Can → Could
• May → Might
• Shall → Should
*must, ought to and used to do not change in reported speech.
What is the meaning of the language?
Reported speech refers to a sentence reporting what someone has said. It is almost
always used in spoken English.
What is important about the phonology of the language?
Contracted forms of auxiliary verbs such as is (‘s), are (‘re), have (‘ve), had (‘d).
Regular past verb forms finishing in –ed can have three different
• /t/ Verbs ending in voiceless consonants such as p, k, s, sh, ch, th
• /d/ Verbs ending in voiced consonants such as b, v, l, r, z, or a vowel
• /id/ Verbs ending in t or d
Which specific skills will students practice? (reading for gist, controlled speaking)
Gist and intensive reading and controlled speaking.

3. What new vocabulary/lexis? (include word stress/word class)
to be separated (verb): to be split up by someone or something else
a tattoo (tattoo): a mark in the skin of a drawing, picture, etc
an owl (noun): a bird
to phone in sick: to telephone your workplace to say that you will not come to work
because you are ill
Board work (you may want to include this on a separate sheet)