Semi-detailed Lesson Plan in

Grade 7 English

I. Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

• Identify the direct and reported speech

• Change direct speech into reported speech and vice versa

• Appreciate how direct and reported speech are connected to each other

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Direct and Reported Speech

Reference: English in Perspective: Philippine Literature, Bustos-Orosa, Abiva Publishing, Inc.

Materials: Visual aids, Hand Out, Chalkboard

Values Integration: “Appreciate everything you have before it turns out to everything you’ve
lost”

III. Procedure

a. Preliminary Activity

i. Greetings

ii. Prayer

iii. Classroom Management

iv. Checking of Attendance

v. Review
- What was our topic last meeting?

- What do we mean by tenses of verb?

- What are the tenses of verb?

b. Motivation

The teacher will group the students into 3 groups. The teacher will play a video of a news anchor
and a news reporter reporting a news about the election. Students are instructed to observe the
exchange of conversation between the two and how they deliver the report to the people. Then
they will answer the following questions.

Motive questions:

• What is the video all about?

• What can you say about their way of delivering report

• Why proper reporting is important?

c. Lesson Proper

• The teacher will discuss direct and reported speech including the rules.

• Direct speech can be used in virtually every tense in English. You can use it to describe
something in the present tense to express something that is happening in the present moment.

Example:

- “While she’s on the phone, she’s saying to him, “I’m never going to talk to you again.”

• Reported Speech is used to report what someone may have said, and so it is always used
in the past tense. Instead of using inverted commas, we can show that someone’s speech is being
described by using the word “that” to introduce the statement first.

Example: “She said that she was not hungry.”

d. Generalization
The teacher will ask the following questions

• What is direct and reported speech?

• Are they connected to each other?

e. Application

In this activity, students will be divided by pair and each one will play important role.

Directions:

1. Each pair have to choose who will be the interviewer and interviewee.

2. They will decide what profession the interviewee would be.

3. The interviewer has to create 3 questions to answered by the interviewee.

4. After the interview, the reporter will present the result of his/her interview to the class.

5. The teacher will give 5 points per correct questions and answer that is total of (15) points
for their performance.

INTERVIEWER INTERVIEWEE

QUESTIONS ANSWER
1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

IV. Evaluation
Directions: encircle the letter of the correct conversion of the quoted statement.

1. “I read varied material,” Ana said. Ana said

a. To read varied materials

b. That she reads varied materials

c. That she has read varied material

d. That she read varied material

2. Mother said, “Learn to make your own decisions”. Mother told us

a. To learn to make our own decisions.

b. That we learn to make our own decisions.

c. Learn to make your own decision.

d. Whether we learn to make our own decisions.

3. “How would you describe me?” Tonette asked. Tonette asked

a. How would you describe me.

b. If how I would describe him.

c. How I would describe him

d. That I would describe him.

4. “Have you passed the examination?” I asked Cherry. I asked Cherry

a. Had she passed the examination.

b. Have she passed the examination.

c. If she passed the examination.

d. If whether she passed the examination.

5. “The car is waiting for us,” he informed her. He informed her

a. That the car was waiting for them.

b. That the car is waiting for us.

c. The car is waiting for us.

d. If the car was waiting for them.

V. Assignment

• Differentiate the direct from reported speech based on your own understanding. Write it on one
whole sheet of paper.