Unit 1 Friendship
Period 3

Grammar
Direct speech & Indirect speech
Listen to Anne’s story. The teacher will repeat each sentence after her. Pay attention to how your teacher retells what Anne said. Notice the difference between Anne’s story and your teacher’s retelling of it.
I Warming Up
Pay attention to how your teacher retells what Anne said!
S: My name is Anne Frank and my family is Jewish.
T: She said that her name was Anne Frank and her family was Jewish.
Direct speech
Indirect speech
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Warming Up
Pay attention to how your teacher retells what Anne said!
S: My family and I are hiding in Amsterdam.
T: She said that she and her family were hiding in Amsterdam.
Direct speech
Indirect speech
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Warming Up
Pay attention to how your teacher retells what Anne said!
S: My only true friend is Kitty — my diary.
T: She said that her only true friend was Kitty — her diary.
Direct speech
Indirect speech
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Warming Up
Pay attention to how your teacher retells what Anne said!
S: After hiding here for a long time, I’ve become crazy about nature.
T: She said that after hiding there for a long time, she had become crazy about nature.
Direct speech
Indirect speech
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Warming Up
1. Look at the sentences in Exercise 1 of your Student’s Book on page 5. Work in pairs and identify the difference between direct speech and indirect speech in the sentences.
Differences:
Verb tenses
Pronoun forms
Word order
Adverbials of time
II Grammar Study
Grammar Study
2. Now, observe the changes between direct speech and indirect speech in the chart, and then try to summarize the rules !
She said that she had passed that exam.
John told me that he couldn’t finish the job that afternoon.
Grammar Study
Sam asked Mary if she was going to buy the coat.
Grammar Study
Jane asked me how she could solve the problem.
Work in groups of four, study all the examples provided and read the grammar appendix on page 89-90. Finish your task of summarizing the rules.
Grammar Study
Group Work:
Group 1
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Group 2
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Group 3
Group Work:
Group 4
Summary
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Grammar Study
Try to change direct speech into indirect speech :
He said that the earth goes around the sun.
He said that the train leaves at 7:30p.m.
He said that Rome isn’t built in a day.
Tom said he was born in July, 1978.
Summary:
Grammar Study
There are some cases in which we don’t need to change the tense in indirect speech.
When direct speech is about:
a) a truth 真理
b) a timetable 时间表
c) a saying/proverb/quotation 格言/引用语
d) An adverbial indicating the past 过去的时间状语
Try to do SB P.5 Ex.2
Change the sentences either into direct speech or indirect speech:
1. Anne said that she didn’t know the address of her new home.
2. Anne told her father that she had got tired of looking at nature through dirty curtains and dusty windows.
3. The girl said that she needed to pack up her things in the suitcase very quickly.
III Practice
4. Her father asked her why she chose/ had chosen her diary and old letters.
5. “Are you very hot with so many clothes on?” Mother asked/said to her.
6. “What else have you hidden under your overcoat?” Margot asked her.
7. “ When shall we go back home?” Anne asked her father.
8. “ Why did you talk so much to that boy?” Father asked Anne.
Practice
Practice
Act out
GM: What’s the weather like in…tomorrow?
I can’t hear the man clearly on the TV.
GS: That’s all right. I can help. The man said it
was going to rain.
GM: What did he say about Shanghai?
GS: ….
1. Do WB P.42 Ex.1
2. Review the rules of the changes
from direct speech into indirect speech.
IV Homework