Practice quoted speech and reported speech with an easy game. No materials needed except a board and chalk/markers.

1. ESL Commando English
“noun clause ‘board’ Game”
Mission: Students will be able to use noun clauses in both quoted and reported speech.
This activity helps students practice listening, speaking, and writing all at the same time.
Materials: Students, chalkboard, whiteboard, etc.
1. Divide students into teams of 3-4 if possible.
2. Have one student from each group come up to the board (No more than 4 at the board).
3. Have other students use grammar books with quotations that can be said to those at the board
(Or, you can just have a list of your own that you read, but speaking practice is good for the
other ESL learners)*.
4. Go around to each student and have them call out a quotation.
5. Students call out the quotations…. “I love hot dogs!”
6. Students at the board must write the reported speech – Hassan said (that) he loves hot dogs.
7. The first student with the correct sentence gets a point for their team.
8. Continue until all students have come to the board and tally points.
9. Reward winning teams with appropriate prizes (candy, etc. ).
*You may want to give the quotations sheet only to the student who will be speaking so that other
students cannot ‘cheat’ by looking at the other quotations before they go to the board. Alternatively,
you could have other students close their books while you call out the book examples.
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