Facing Problems 3 Report Speech.

Learners face difficulties while reporting speech due to they confuse auxiliaries and verbs tenses.

Report Speech

Learners watch a video about reporting speech in order to understand how this structure works. Through the usage of several slides learners reading others people’s words and they practice report speech by saying what other people have just said. Grammar Exercises.

English Grammar in use. Raymond Murphy. Third Edition. Slides:  http://busyteacher.org/13276-the-polite-robber-reported-speech.html Video about a polite robbery. Learners watch the video and report other’s people words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4xL3AjSLvM Video with explanation regarding to report speech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9hBSF154HE

You are going to wacth the following video on Youtube.

Polite Robber

Try to retell the story to your teacher.

Now you have completed this. 

Here is a nice explanation about Report Speech.

Try to use passive voice to say what Jhon and Gregory Said. Can you do it?

Take a look of this nice slides.

Facing Problems 2

Learners face problems while understanding passive voice and do not recognize grammar patterns regarding to this structure.

Passive Voice

Learners are exposed to passive structures and are taught how to apply and recognize passive and active structures.

How English Works, Book, Michael Swan. Board-game. Passive Voice. Source: isl.collective worksheet. https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/board_game_-_passive_voice/passive-voice-boarg/11400

Now Practice this simple and fun exercises!

 Now you've completed the first part, Try to write questions with the sentences in exercise A.

Finally, Have Fun By Playing This Game, Try to be the first to get all sentences!

Facing Problems 1. Suffixes and Prefixes

Students may have problems at the moment of understanding some words. Lack of Vocabulary

Suffixes and Prefixes

Learners complete sentences according to the prefixes and suffixes learnt in classes. Spelling Bee. Reading and writing where they see in context the vocabulary previously learnt.

Learners are going to reading an article about Good Luck, Bad Luck. This reading provides learners of a lot of prefixes and suffixes with filling the gaps. Building Vocabulary. Source: American English File 3. Book, Jake Richards. Oxford Practice Grammar. Book, Norman Coe.

Reading Related to Good Luck, Bad Luck.

Building Vocaulary, Exercises Taken from Oxford Grammar Practice.

Noun	Adjective (-)	Adjective	Adverb	Adverb (-)
Luck	Lucky	___lucky	Lucki___	___unlucki___
Care	______________	______________	______________	______________
Comfort	______________	______________	______________	______________
Patience	______________	______________	______________	______________
Fortune	______________	______________	______________	______________

Now let's complete the sentences using the vocabulary related to Good Luck, Bad Luck.

Individual Task 2

Problems or Difficulties and Solutions or Thesis

Juan Fernando Londoño Gil

Cód. 70141792

Language Forms and Functions

Group: 551019_19

Tutor:

Luz Angela Cabra

Cead - Medellin - Antioquia

2015