Department of Education

Region IV- A Calabarzon

Tanauan Institute Inc.
J. Gonzales St. Brgy. 4 Tanauan City Batangas
A Detailed Lesson Plan for Grade-8 English
Direct and Indirect Speech

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.
Subject Matter
Topic: Using Direct and Reported Speech
Materials: Visual aids, chalk, handouts
English 8 Learning Material,
http://www.dimdima.com/forumnw/message.asp?Tid=1043&q_title=Role+of+m
edia+in+the+society
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/870536/death-toll-in-surigao-earthquake-rises-to-
6#ixzz4YN6BK6ZR
 Procedure
Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity
Routine Activities

Good Morning Class! Good Morning ma’am!

Please keep silent in one minute and say your (students will pray)
personal prayers.

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”

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? Yes ma’am!

(After 3 minutes)
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.

Presentation

Everybody read the statement. “Yes ma’am”

Group 1:
Ma’am said, “I am definitely fine.”
Group 2:
That statement is from Inquirer News with Ma’am said that forever do exist.
regards of the earthquake in Surigao as of Group 3:
February 11, 2017, 1:33pm. Ma’am said “Things happen for a reason”
Group 4:
Analyze the statement. Ma’am said that positivity is beauty.
So what form of speech is this one? Is it Direct or Group 5:
Indirect? Ma’am said, “Be who you want to be.”

How can you say that?

Prove your anwer.

Very Good!

So class, let us first define Direct speech. The first and second statements are quoted
while the others uses the word “that”.
Okay, from your observation, how can we
define now a Direct speech?

Very Good!

Please read the definition.

Yes, _____.
“The shaking was so strong I could hardly
stand,” coast guard personnel Rayner Neil
Elopre told The Associated Press by telephone.
In Direct speech, what a person says appears
within quotation marks and should be word for
word.

Have you seen it in the example?

Ma’am, the statement is in direct form of
Now, let’s have this example. speech.
Everybody read.
 It is a direct speech because it is quoted and
Okay, what have you observed now? those were the exact words of the coast
Yes, _____. guard personnel.

Very Good!

What do we call that form of speech?

Yes, _____.
Direct speech gives the exact words of the
Very Good! speaker.

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 Direct speech is usually placed inside
verb when converting a direct speech into quotation marks and accompanied by a
indirect speech. reporting verb.

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."
Yes ma’am!
Police officer Jimmy Sarael said that he, his
wife, and their children embraced each other
until the shaking eased.

(the student will be the one to convert it in

front) Ma’am I have observed that the statement
doesn’t use quotations.
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 Ma’am it is called indirect speech.
years."

D.S: Past simple Indirect speech: Past simple

She said, "I taught online yesterday." She said it was cold.
I.S: Past perfect continuous
She said she had been teaching earlier.

Try to convert an indirect speech into a direct

speech.

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

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
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.
teaching for five minutes. I.S: Past perfect
She said she had taught online yesterday.
Modal verb forms also sometimes change:

Direct speech: will

She said, "I'll teach English online tomorrow." D.S: Past continuous
Indirect speech: would She said, "I was teaching earlier."
She said she would teach English online
tomorrow.

Try to convert the following:

D.I: can I.S: could

She said, "I can teach English online." She said she could teach English online.

D.S: must D.S: shall

She said, "I must have a computer to teach She said, "What shall we learn today?"
English online."
I.S: had to
She said she had to have a computer to teach
English online.
D.S: may
Convert the following into Direct speech. She said, "May I open a new browser?"

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.

Are we clear with Direct and Indirect speech?

Is there any question? None ma’am.

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? Yes ma’am!

Group 1 please proceed in front.

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
Okay, Very Good! 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)

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 the
role of media in the society.

I will give you 10 minutes to do that.

Are we clear? Yes ma’am!

(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? For me, Social media has definitely made us
closer to other parts of the world.
Very Good!

What else?
Yes, _____.
Social media gives us the latest information
about what’s happening in the world.
Very Good!
Generalization
Direct speech repeats, or quotes, the exact
So now, again, What is a direct speech? words spoken. It uses quotation marks.
Yes, _____.

Very Good!
It is used to talk about the past, so we
How about the indirect speech? normally change the tense of the words
Yes, _____. spoken.

Very Good!

Evaluation
Get ½ crosswise.
Change the following sentences from direct Answers:
speech to indirect speech.
He explained that he never ate meat.
“I never eat meat”, he explained. He said that he was waiting for Ann.
“I’m waiting for Ann”, he said. She said that he found a flat.
“I have found a flat”, she said. He said that he had been waiting for ages.
He said, “I have been waiting for ages”. He said that he had taken it home with her.
“I took it home with me”, he said.
Answers:
Change the following sentences from indirect
speech to direct speech.
“I don’t like fish”, she said.
“I’m going away for a few days”, he said.
She said that she didn’t like fish.
He said that he was going to away for a few
“I saw Helen in June”, she said.
days.
“I will tell him”, she said.
She said she had seen Helen in June.
“I may be late”, he said.
She said she would tell him.
He said he might be late.

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