School of Rock: Reported Speech


School of Rock rocks! This is a great movie and teachers will enjoy it a lot. The teacher has to learn how to deal with these students. He does it in a very unusual way. I used the scene for reported speech.



Discuss the following questions with a partner:


1) What should the ideal school be like?


2) Tell your partner about a class you will never forget.


3) Who is your favorite teacher? Justify your answer with examples.


Watch the following video segment and decide who said each of the following lines:












The Teacher

A Student



1) My dad won’t let me. __________


2) What’s your name? ___________


3) I only play piano. ____________


4) This is a bass guitar. __________


5) Are there any drummers in the house? _____________


6) I play percussion. ____________


7) Is this a school project? _________


8) What’s the prize? ________


9) Can we tell our parents?__________


10) Who can sing? ________


11) I can sing. _________




Now rewrite the sentences, using reported speech:


EX:

1) A student said that his dad wouldn’t let him.


2) The teacher asked what his name was.


3) A student said he only played piano.

Prepare your own video activity on Reported Speech:

• Choose an attractive movie segment with several characters

• Decide which verb tenses you want to assess

• Select a few lines from the segment with the target structures

• Students check which characters said them in the segment

• Students come up with indirect speech statements




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