Mini+Lesson+Idea+1

**Whole Class Demonstration Activity** Ask three students to come up the front of the class. They stand in a line. Student 1 tells student 2 a secret while student 3 pretends they can’t hear.

Teacher than writes down exactly what student 1 said on the board: e.g.

// “I’m very sick and only have two weeks to live” //

Person 2 then tells person 3 person 1’s secret. // Johny said he is very sick and only has two weeks to live. //

Teacher writes this up on the board. Teacher asks the class to have a good look at the two sentences on the board. Then asks the question: Is the content of the information in the two sentences the same? Class answers yes. Teacher asks: But is the wording the same? Class Answers No. Teacher: Why isn’t it the same what has changed? (Have the class try to come up with some rules to explain.)  Will > Would, Can > Could, Have > Has, Shall > Should  
 * Indirect speech does not have to be in quotation marks or said word for word
 * The tense changes (present continuous to past continuous)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Sometimes the verb changes (modal verb which is a degree of obligation or certainty)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 35px;">These don’t change: could, would, should, might
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%;">Pronoun changes I’m > Johny