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ESL Lesson Plan: Reported Speech

Reported Speech

Lesson Overview

This ESL reporting speech grammar worksheet is perfect for your intermediate students. It includes a theory explanation and multiple, fun exercises.

This ESL reporting speech grammar worksheet begins with an explanation of the grammar point, detailing how to form the grammar point and when to use it. That is followed by a fun exercise which allows students to put the theory into practice. 

Next, is another exercise where students have to correctly report a quote, using reported speech. They are given a quote and a selection of verbs to choose from. Through this exercise, participants will be encouraged to use reported speech in a clear way, increasing their understanding of the grammar point. 

Afterwards, you will find an activity that will challenge students to report questions. They will do this by reading a variety of quoted questions, then they will have to use their new acquired knowledge to structure their answers correctly. Finally, this ESL reporting speech grammar worksheet ends with multiple discussion questions which encourage students to use the words in a natural way. 

Activities:

  1. Theory. 
  2. Reporting Speech: 1
  3. Reporting Speech: 2
  4. Reporting Speech: 3
  5. Questions. 

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