英语九年级上册Unit 8 Detective stories教学设计

牛津译林版九年级英语上册

9A  Unit 8  Detective stories

Period 6  Grammar (II)

Teaching Goals:

·To use reported speech to talk about what someone else said                   

·To use reported speech to report questions                             

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1. Revision

  When the body of a 22-year-old computer programmer was found in the doorway of a clothes

shop. What did Detective Lu say?

 (1) He said, “ We are asking anyone who saw anything unusual last night to contact us.” 

 (2) HE said, “ We are particularly interested in hearing from anyone who saw anything unusual near Upper Street.”

 (3) He said: “ The victim was attacked with a knife and bled to death as a result.”

 (4) He said: “ The victim obviously put up a good fight.” …

Ask the students to say as many sentences as possible.

Step 2. Presentation

  Now, you are the assistant of Dtective Lu, you want to tell other people what Detective Lu said. You can use reported speech or indirect speech. We don’t use quotation marks with reported speech. We should pay attention to the following rules.

1. We change the pronouns when using reported speech.

  “ I’m scared.” Said the witness.  ---- The witness said (that) he was scared.

(Using ‘that’ in the middle of the sentence is optional. In spoken English , ‘that’ is generally left out. In written English, ‘that’ is often kept, as this more formal.)

2. We change tenses when using reported speech like this:

  “ I’m scared.” Said the witness.  ---- The witness said (that) he was scared. 

 (Simple present – Simple past )

  “ The thief is running away.” Said Mr. Ma.  ---- Mr. Ma said the thief was ruuning away.

 (Present continous  – Past continous )

  “I have finished my reported.” Said Detective Lu. ---- Detective Lu said he had finished his

reported.

 (Present perfect – Past perfect )

  “ I watched the game.” Said Mr. Wu. ---- Mr. Wu said that he had watched the game.

 (Simple past – Past perfect)

  “We’ll look for more clues.” Said Detective Lu. ---- Detective Lu said that they would look for

more clues.

 (Simple future – Would…)

Tip: We don’t change simple present tense to the simple past tense when the speaker is talking about something that is always true.

e.g. “The sun rises in the east.” Said Mr. Wu. ---- Mr Wu said that the sun rises in the east.

3. We change theadverbials of time using reported speech like this.

now – then   today – that day   tonight – that night 

this morning/week – that morning/week    tomorrow – the following day/the next day    yesterday – the day before    last month – the month before

Step 3. Practice

 There is an interview on TV. It’s about the murder in Valley Town. Millie is taking aome notes

for the school writing competition. Help Millie finish her notes on page 104 with reported speech.

Step 4. Presentation

  We can also use reported speech to report questions. Apart fro changing the tenses, adverbials of time and pronouns, we also need to change some other things when reporting questions.

1. Change the question mark into a full stop, change the word order.

  “Where is the body?” asked the policeman. ---- Th policeman asked where the body was.

2. For ‘Yes/No’ questions, use ‘if/whether’.

  “Does he know the victim?” I asked.  ----- I asked if/whether he knew the victim.

Step 5. Practice

  There was an interview with Detective Lu on TV. Millie ia telling Amy about it. Help Millie report the interview’s questions using reported speech. Finish the exercise on page 105.

Step 6. Extension activity

  Tell students that the class is going to creat its own table showing the differences between direct speech and reported speech. Write te questions below on the left-hand side of the board. Make sure the questions are easy to respond to.

1. What did you have for breakfast?

2. Have you ever been to Hong Kong?

3. What will you do on Sunday?

4. What was your favorite subject at primary school?

Choose a few students to respond to the questions in full sentences.

Tell other students to listen carefully to the responses. They must then tell you how to write the answers in reported speech. As a sentence is said correctly in reported speech, write it on the board next to its corresponding question.

1. What did you have for breakfast?     Millie said that he had porridge for breakfast.

2. Have you ever been to Hong Kong?   Suzie said she had ever been to Hong Kong.

3. What will you do on Sunday?        Tom said that he would play tennis on Sunday.

4. What was your favorite subject at primary school?   

Winnie said that her favourite subject at primary school was Chinese.

Step 5. Consolidation

  将下列直接引语改为间接引语

1. “I’m angry,” said Miss Ding.

 __________________________________________________________________.

2. “The suspect is running away,” said Mr Yan.

 __________________________________________________________________.

3. “Will you come back tomorrow?” I asked Mandy.

 __________________________________________________________________.

4. “Where did you park the car yesterday?” Dad asked his son.

 __________________________________________________________________.

Step 6. Homework

 1. Revise the reported speech we have learned.

 2. Do some more consolidation exercises.

   (1). 侦探问凶案什么时候发生的。

The detective asked _______________________________.

(2). 怀特夫人告诉我她看见一个手上拿着枪的人。

     Mrs White told me _______________________________________________.

(3). 她渐渐失去了耐心。

Her patience ____________________________________________.

(4). 你明白我所说的话吗？

Do you understand ____________________________________?

(5). 颐和园里有更多展出的艺术作品。

    There are _________________________ works of art on show in the Summer Palace.