Language and Content: Reported Speech:
Questions and Commands

GRADES 3-5; 6-8; 9-12

VOCABULARY

LESSON PROCEDURE

Vocabulary

1. Watch the Vocabulary movie to introduce the new words, stopping to ask questions, give examples, and ask students to make connections to the words.
2. For homework, have students make a game to practice the academic vocabulary words (demand, order, request, infer, examine, respond, complicate). Instruct them to divide a sheet of paper into six squares, to make a gameboard. In each square, have them illustrate one of the academic vocabulary words. They can be creative about how they depict the words, drawing or cutting and pasting photos from magazines or the Internet. Examples might include situations that convey the meaning of the words, such as a scientist looking in a microscope for “examine” or an example that conveys the meaning, like a complicated looking math problem for “complicated.” Have students write the six academic words they selected on index cards. When they have completed their games, students exchange games and match the word cards to the illustrations.
3. Project the picture side of Flash Words onto the board or interactive white board. Have students label the words they know and then flip the pictures to check if they are correct.

Grammar

1. Watch the Grammar movie. Pause for students to tell Moby what the question or command was before Ben says it. Then continue the movie, for students to check if they’re correct. You might want to keep a chart on the board that shows the backshift of tenses and the changes in time and place for reported speech.
2. Press Conference. Ask a volunteer to take on the role of a famous person of his or her choice. It can be anyone from entertainment, sports, politics, history, etc. Invite the volunteer to sit in the front as the class conducts a press conference, asking the volunteer questions like they’ve seen or heard in a real press conference. When the press conference is over, ask students to recall (either written or orally) all the questions the class asked. For example, Mario asked what her favorite food was.
3. To practice reporting commands, invite a volunteer to participate in this activity with you. Give the volunteer a series of commands. For example, Stand up. Go to the board. Write your name. Return to your seat. Then ask the class what you just told him or her to do. You can repeat the activity with students giving the orders to each other.

Movie

1. Before watching the movie What Nikki Wants, ask students what they do when they are sick. Are they good patients? Ask for examples of how they might be demanding when they’re sick.
2. During a repeated viewing of the movie, ask students to identify how Ben uses the academic vocabulary. Distribute a copy of the chart below for students to take notes while watching the movie.

   Academic Word Chart

   Word	How it is Used in the Movie
   demand
   order
   request
   respond
   examine
   infer
   complicate

3. Tell students that Nikki writes 10 notes to Ben in this movie. Have students write each note on a separate sheet of paper or index card. Students may view the movie again, to identify the 10 notes. You can use these notes in different ways:
   Students copy the notes that Nikki wrote.
   Students sequence them according to the movie, and retell the story.
   Students go through the notes, stating Nikki’s demands and requests in reported speech.
   Students place the notes in order, from polite request to rude demand.
4. Watch the movie again. Pause when Moby beeps and ask students to report what they think Moby asked or said.

Features

1. Watch Hear It, Say It. Students may listen and repeat sentences from the movie.
2. Some students may want to do the Hear It, Say It activity with a partner. One student listens to the sentences, and the other asks what Ben said. Students take turns asking and answering. For example:
   Student A: What did Ben say?
   Student B: Ben said that the doctor told her to rest and that she also told her not to talk.
3. Students complete the remaining interactive features of the lesson: Play It, Warm Up, and You Can Do It.