November 12-15

Lesson Plan in English 7

Duration: 60 minutes
I. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
 Identify direct and indirect speeches.
 Compose a dialogue with direct and indirect speeches.
 Appreciate the importance of direct and indirect speeches in journalistic
writing.

II. Content
Direct and Indirect Speeches

III. Learning Resources

A. Reference/s: English grammar Website, English module (Grade 7)
B. Material/s: Manila paper, pentel pen, ballpen, bond paper, chalk

IV. Procedure
A. Preliminary Activities
 Prayer
 Greetings
 Attendance
 Review the past lesson

B. Activity
 Ask the students what ambitions they have in life. Write their answers on
the board.
C. Analysis
Guide Questions:
1. What were the messages all about?
2. How were the sentences constructed?
3. What were the differences of the sentences?
Values Focus: Dreams/Ambition in life

D. Abstraction
Direct and Indirect Speech
• Direct Speech- the original words of a person are narrated and are enclosed in quotation
mark.
• Indirect Speech- is a report on what someone else said or wrote without using that
person's exact words.
Rule 1: When the quoted one is declarative, it is transformed into a “that clause.”
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Rule 2: When the quoted part is interrogative, it is transformed according to the following:
• If the quoted part is a “yes or no” question, it is transformed into an “if-clause” or
“whether clause.”
• If the quoted interrogative part is any of the WH-questions, it is transformed by switching
the places of the subject and the verb.
• Rule 3: The verb in the quoted part should be consistent in tense with the verb in the
introductory part.
• Rule 4: The verb in the quoted part remains present even if the verb in the introductory
part is past tense when the quoted part says or asks for a fact or truth.
Direct Speech:
Clinton said, “The computer is a wonder machine.”
Reported:
Clinton said that the computer is a wonder machine.
• Rule 5: If the quoted part is an imperative sentence, it is changed into infinitive phrase to
make a reported declarative statement.
Direct Speech:
Our adviser told us, “Take a short-term computer courses in college for six months.”
Reported:
Our adviser told us to take short-term computer courses in college for six months.
• Rule 6: The pronouns in the quoted part are replaced accordingly:
a. You with I or we if it is used as a subject.
Direct Speech:
Jimmy asks, “What course do you take up in college?”
Reported:
Jimmy asks what course I take up in college.
b. You with me or us if it is used as an object.
Direct Speech:
Tom asks, “What inspires you in your studies?”
Reported:
Tom asks what inspires me in my studies.
c. Me with her or him.
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Direct Speech:
Mely asks, “Why have you forsaken me?”
Reported:
Mely asks why I have forsaken her.
E. Application
 Role Play with the use of direct and indirect speech with the theme, Never
Give up on your Dream.
Rubric:
Content-15
Use of direct and indirect speeches-15
Drama-10
Total- 45
V. Evaluation
Find a pair and create a 15-line dialogue about your ambitions in life.
(1/2 crosswise)

Rubric
Organization-5
Grammar and spelling-5
Use of direct and indirect speech-5
VI. Assignment
A. Rewrite the following sentences into indirect speech.
1. He said, “Are you afraid?”
2. She said, “I wake up early.”
3. They said, “We are busy.”
4. He said, “Who are you?”
5. She said, “I like flowers.”
B. Rewrite the following sentences into indirect speech.
1. John said, “I like to teach.”
2. “What is your name?” he said.
3. She said, “Do you like me?”
4. “I never give up,” she said.
5. “I love you,” she said.

Prepared by: Approved by:

PAUL CHRISTIAN Y. EYAS RANDY B. ALONZO, EdD

English Teacher Principal I