He said I was hardworking

t:what are you going to do after school?
s1:i’m going home.
t:ok.and what are you going to do?
s2:i’m going to do my homework.
then write the words he said and she said on the board.
t:these students talked about what they are going to do after school.how would you tell a friend in another class what each student said?can you use the words he said or she said?what did sarah say?
s2:she said,“i am going home after school.”
t:that’s correct.the words she said were,“i am going home after school.”but when we tell someone else these words we sometimes say it this way:she said she was going home after school.class repeat.she said she was going home after school.
ss:she said she was going home after school.
repeat this process with the sentences of several other students.then write these two sentences on the board one under the other:i am going home after school.she said she was going home after school.circle the words going home after school in both sentences.point to what is left and say,in this unit we’re going to learn to use words like this to report what someone said.
step ⅳ 1a groupwork
this activity introduces some key vocabulary and provides oral practice using the target language.
first ask a student to read the four questions in the box.
s:what is a soap opera?
do you ever watch soap operas?
what are some soap operas you know?
what are some things that happen on soap operas?
then write the words soap opera on the board.explain what a soap opera is.
(a soap opera is a tv show that is on every day and that shows the good things and the bad things that happen to a group of friends and family members.)
for example,i love my family.
encourage students to say some soap operas in english or in chinese.
point to the tv screens in the picture.ask one student to read what marcia (the blond woman on the tv screen) says in the first picture:i’m having a surprise party for lana on friday night.then ask other students to read what the girls watching tv say:what did marcia say?she said she was having a surprise party for lana on friday night.
point to the other tv screens in the picture and have other students read the words in those tv screens.
s:i’m mad at marcia.
i’m not going to her house on friday night.
lana thinks she’s coming to my house to study.
t:now,answer these questions and talk about some soap operas.(point to the four questions in the box.)
help students form small groups.students begin to talk about the questions.
focus on the ideas the students are talking about.when a student starts to tell what another student said,help that student make a sentence,such as:anna said she didn’t watch soap operas.bill said people get mad at soap operas.