

The role-plays are prepared in a way that encourages students to use reported statements. They also need to find a solution to the problem. They are presented with three situations and need to talk to their partner about the misunderstanding in each of them. In the final part of this reported statements lesson plan, students do a role-play activity. At the end, they think of four things the people might be saying. Next, they look at one more photo and think about possible misunderstandings the people in it had. First, they look at two photos from the beginning of the lesson and complete some reported statements that people in the photos might have produced. Finally, students do some reported speech practice. They also need to match structures in directed speech with structures in reported speech. They need to find a difference between the reporting verbs say and tell. After that, they do a guided discovery task.

Then, they look at the reported statements again and choose what the people originally said. The second part of this lesson focuses on reported statements, students match what some people said with a misunderstanding. They also discuss some questions about misunderstandings in general. Then, they watch the first part of the video again and check their answers. Students also look at what the characters said in the second part of the video and decide what the original statements were. They need to explain what the misunderstanding was about. Then, they watch the video which presents a misunderstanding between two characters of the TV show Friends. Students also read a definition of the word misunderstanding and hypothesize about the reasons for the misunderstandings in the photos.

They look at two photos and say what the people might be fighting about. In the first part of this lesson, students do a warm-up activity. Unlock Printable & Digital worksheets with the Premium subscription WARM-UP & VIDEO
