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Week: Two
Date:
Class: Basic Six
Subject: English Studies
Duration: 40 minutes
Topics: A. Speech Work: Making verbal report and Statements
- Reading: Teaching of new words, meanings and comprehension
- Structure: Writing e-mail text messages
- Grammar: Comparison of verb
- Writing: Biography writing: Describe a person or Thing so that everybody will readily recognize Him/her/it
Behavioural objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to;
- Describe a person or thing so that everybody will readily recognize him or it.
- Change a direct speech to reported speech.
- Write an email or text message to their friends or family.
- Make a sentence with the new words
- Write the meaning of new word/word bank in the passage.
Instructional material/Reference material: Nigeria Primary English book 6 by F. Ademola- Adeoye, Q Adam et al.
Building Background/ Connection to prior knowledge: Pupils are familiar with the topics in their previous classes.
PERIOD 1:
MAKING VERBAL REPORT AND STATEMENT
Reported speech When a speech contains the exact words of a speaker, we call it direct speech. When the speech is reported by someone in his own words, it is called reported speech. As a general rule, the changes in the tense of the reported speech depend upon the tense of the reporting verb in the direct speech. Thus when the reporting verb is in the past tense, the tense of the reported verb also changes to past tense.
Example
- He said, ‘I want to go.’
- He said that he wanted to go.
While reporting statements use a verb like tell.
- Direct: He said, ‘I may meet you tomorrow.’
- Indirect: He said that he might meet you tomorrow.
- Direct: He said, ‘I will marry you only if you mend your ways.’
- Indirect: He said that he would marry her only if she mended her ways.
- Direct: He said, ‘I have decided not to buy the house because it is off the main road.’
- Indirect: He said that he had decided not to buy the house because it was off the main road.
- Direct: He said, ‘Ladies and gentleman, we must make this decision here and now.’
- Indirect: He told his audience that they must / would have to make that decision there and then.
- Direct: He said to his friend, ‘I have been worried about my daughter for some time. She is getting thinner and thinner.’
- Indirect: He told his friend that he had been worried about his daughter for some time and that she was getting thinner and thinner.
Reported/indirect speech
Work with a partner. Act out this conversation between Oghome and Funmi.
Funmi: ‘I’d like to, but I must help my mum first. What time does it start?’
Oghome: ‘At 2 o’clock. I really want you to come’.
Oghome: ‘Can you come to my party on Saturday?’
Funmi: ‘I’m sure I’ll have finished by then. See you at the party. Bye!’
Write the conversation telling someone else what the two girls said. Example: ‘Oghome asked Funmi if she was coming to her party the following Saturday. Funmi told her that …’
ASSESSMENT
Change these sentences into reported speech. Remember to use the past tense.
1 ‘Why will our teacher be late tomorrow?’ Bola asked.
2 ‘How often do you say your prayers?’ Maryam asked her friend.
3 ‘What’s your name?’ the policeman asked the man.
4 ‘Would you like to play at my house next Saturday?’ Tayo asked Hauwa.
5 ‘When can you get the parts for my car?’ Dad asked the mechanic.
6 ‘Where is the Internet café, please?’ the stranger asked me.
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