Lesson PLAN WITH MOLL Flanders Quotes from famous movies written in Direct Speech. PDF

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1. Read these sentences from Moll Flanders.
Do you think that they are written in direct or reported speech?

I sent my gentleman a short letter, saying that I had obeyed his orders in all
Things.

She desired my gentleman to go away to London

She to...

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1. Read these sentences from Moll Flanders. Do you think that they are written in direct or reported speech? I sent my gentleman a short letter, saying that I had obeyed his orders in all Things. She desired my gentleman to go away to London She told me who was in the house, and how his wife was.

2. Take a look at these sentences and determine how reported speech is

structured.

3. Check how direct speech transforms into reported speech:

4. Indicate how verbal tenses change from direct to reported speech:

DIRECT SPEECH

REPORTED SPEECH

Present Simple Present Continuous Present Perfect Past Simple Will Can May Must Have to

Past Simple … … … … … … … …

5. Indicate how adverbs change from direct to reported speech:

DIRECT SPEECH

REPORTED SPEECH

Now Today Here This Tomorrow Next Week Yesterday Last Week Ago Tonight

Then That day

6. Watch the video and try to understand the general meaning of sentences.

7. Dialogues from the video. Transform the next sentences found in the video from Reported Speech to Direct Speech.

1. GHOSTBUSTERS - What did you say that your name was? 2. WESTWORLD - He said that they would set me free. 3. INCEPTION - No one said that it is getting worse. 4. INCEPTION - Arthur told me that she passed away. 5. INCEPTION - They think that I killed her. 6. INCEPTION - Who did you say that you were? 7. MOLL FLANDERS - I confess that I am dissapointed in my expectations of a fortune. 8. MOLL FLANDERS - I learnt that she was first taken by gipsies but run away from them at Cochester. 9. MOLL FLANDERS - I heard that she has a fortune of 15.000 pounds.

SOLUTIONS 10. GHOSTBUSTERS - What did you say that your name was? - He said: “My name is ……” 11. WESTWORLD - He said that they would set me free. - He said: “They will set you free”. 12. INCEPTION - No one said that it is getting worse. - No one said: “It is getting worse”. 13. INCEPTION - Arthur told me that she passed away. - Arthur told me: “She passed away” . 14. INCEPTION - They think that I killed her. - They think: “You killed her”. 15. INCEPTION - Who did you say that you were? 16. MOLL FLANDERS - I confess that I am dissapointed in my expectations of a fortune. - I confess: “I am dissapointed in my expectations of a fortune”. 17. MOLL FLANDERS - I learnt that she was first taken by gipsies but run away from them at Cochester. 18. MOLL FLANDERS - I heard that she has a fortune of 15.000 pounds. - I heard: “She has a fortune of 15.000 pounds.”

8. Quotes from famous movies written in Direct Speech. Student A reads the sentence. Student B tells Student C that sentence in reported speech. For instance. “I’ll be back”: He/She said that he/she would be back.

a. I’ll be back. TERMINATOR He said… b. I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse. THE GODFATHER He said… c. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. DEAD POETS’ SOCIETY He told them… d. There can only be one! HIGHLANDER He said… e. This message will self-destruct in five seconds. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE The message said… f.

The woman asked: “Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs Robinson?” THE GRADUATE The woman asked…

g. (To a man) Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. THE GODFATHER He advised… h. I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. THE WIZARD OF OZ She said… i.

I’m the king of the world! TITANIC He shouted…

j.

Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you are going to get. FORREST GUMP He said…

SOLUTIONS

k. I’ll be back. TERMINATOR He said that he would be back. l.

I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse. THE GODFATHER He said that he would make him an offer that he couldn’t refuse.

m. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. DEAD POETS’ SOCIETY He told them to seize the day and to make their lives extraordinary. n. There can only be one! HIGHLANDER He said that there could only be one. o. This message will self-destruct in five seconds. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE The message said that it would self-destruct in five seconds. p. The woman asked: “Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs Robinson?” THE GRADUATE The woman asked if he was trying to seduce her. q. (To a man) Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. THE GODFATHER He advised him to keep his friends close, but his enemies closer. r.

I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. THE WIZARD OF OZ She said that she had a feeling that they were not in Kansas anymore.

s. I’m the king of the world! TITANIC He shouted that he was the king of the world. t.

Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you are going to get. FORREST GUMP He said that life was a box of chocolates; that you never knew what you were going to get.

9. Say or tell? EXAMPLE: My dad told me that he wanted me to tidy my room. a) The teacher _________ us that we could go home early. b) I _________ that I was going to phone you when I got home. c) The weatherman _________ that it would be sunny later. d) She _________ him that she hadn’t forgotten his birthday. e) They _________ that they were visiting their grandparents on Saturday. f)

He _________ that he had left the books at the front desk for me.

g) Dad _________ us (that) we could stay at the party until eleven. h) He _________ that someone was following him but I _________ him he that he was imagining it.

10. "Apologize” by Timbaland featuring One Republic Locate the 2 lines that are written in reported speech and the 2 lines that are written in direct speech. I'm holding on your rope Got me ten feet off the ground And I'm hearing what you say But I just can't make a sound You tell me that you need me Then you go and cut me down, but wait You tell me that you're sorry Didn't think I'd turn around, and say That it's too late to apologize It's too late I said it's too late to apologize It's too late I'd take another chance Take a fall, take a shot for you Ooh I need you like a heart needs a beat But it's nothing new, yeah, yeah I loved you with a fire red Now it's turning blue, and you say Sorry like an angel Heaven let me think was you But I'm afraid

It's too late to apologize It's too late I said it's too late to apologize It's too late It's too late to apologize It's too late I said it's too late to apologize It's too late I said it's too late to apologize, yeah I said it's too late to apologize, yeah I'm holding on your rope Got me ten feet off the ground

11. Transform these Reported Speech sentences into Direct Speech (from the novel Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe). EXAMPLE:  He told the madame, very respectuflly, that he supposed that the greatest part of her state lay secure enough. 

He the Madame, very respectfully: 'I suppose the greatest part of your estate lies secure enough'.

a) She told me who was in the house and how his wife was. b) She told me the doctors said there were very little hopes of him. They did not expect that he could live over the next night. c) I sent my husband a short letter saying that I had obeyed his orders in all things except going back to Manchester. d) I concluded, that if he would send me #50 more to facilitate my going away, I would promise never to disturb him more with any importunities. e) I asked him how long we should stay at Chester. f)

My spouse asked me if I had no affairs to solve at London before we went off.

g) I told him that I did not know what he meant and that I had no money in the Bank of England.

12. What did Steve say?...