Unprepared Reported Speech
Открытый урок в 6-м классе
Уровень: pre-intermediate.
Материалы, используемые на уроке:
1. CDs: Robin Hood, Stephan Colbourn, Macmillan
2. DVDs: Robin Hood, Walt Disney, Gold Collection
3. Книга Robin Hood, Stephan Colbourn, Macmillan
STEP 1
Listen to the extract about Robin Hood and answer the questions.
On the blackboard:
(The teacher explains or reminds the pupils of the meaning of the words written on the blackboard and necessary for understanding the text for listening.)
To hit a target at 500 paces
To compete with
A knight [nait]
To own, an owner, a landlord
To pay taxes
War
On the blackboard:
(Questions which are read up before the pupils are asked to listen to the text.)
1. What did Robin Hood beg his father to let him do?
2. What was Robin Hood sure of?
3. What did the father try to explain to his son?
4. Why did Robin Hood insist on going to Nottingham and competing in the archery contest?
5. How did Robin object to his father?
CD, The listening text (page 10 of the book)
When Robin reached his eighteenth birthday, he decided to speak to his father about the contest in Nottingham.
“Father, please let me go to Nottingham,” Robin said. “I am old enough to enter the contest and I am the best archer in Locksley. I can hit a target at five hundred paces. Let me compete with the archers in Nottingham. I am sure that I can win.”
His father was silent for a moment, then he replied: “You are a very good archer, my boy. But the King and the Sheriff want archers for their wars. Don’t go Robin. Stay in Locksley and be a farmer. It’s not a bad life.”
“But I want to see the world,” said Robin. “I have never been to Nottingham. And I may win one hundred golden crowns. With that money we can buy more land. And... then I can ask Marian to marry me!”
“You may win the contest,” replied Robin’s father, “but Marian’s family still won’t let you marry her. They want their daughter to marry a knight, not a farmer.”
“But your father was a knight,” said Robin. “He owned land in Huntington and around Locksley.”
“That was over twenty years ago,” said his father. “The Sheriff took most of our land when my father could not pay his taxes. Now we are poor but honest.”
“I’m sure that Marian will marry me for love,” replied Robin.
STEP 2
Read (silently) the talk (Handout to be given to the pupils in class) between Prince John and the Steward (распорядитель состязания). Try to remember the information in this dialogue and who the phrases belong to, then present this talk as if you were 1) Prince John, 2) the Steward. You are given special support on the handout to fulfill this task.
HANDOUT
Prince John turned to the Steward and said: “This beggar is a strange-looking man, he is too old to take part in the contest.”
“You are right, your highness, and he has got this awful patch on his eye,” the Steward continued.
“Do you know his name?” the Prince asked.
“He calls himself Jack of Lincoln. He fought in the King’s wars,” the Steward hurried to answer.
“I’m sure he can’t shoot straight with only one eye. By the way, Robin Hood hasn’t come to the contest,” the prince sounded disappointed.
“Look! The beggar is taking aim,” the Steward said to the Prince.
“Well, he will not beat my best archer, Gilbert,” the Prince said feeling a bit nervous.
“Let’s watch the beggar!” Oh! No! He has hit Gilbert’s arrow and split (расщепил) it!” the Steward shouted at the top of his voice. “He has won!”
Before the pupils are asked to present their role stories (ролевой рассказ) the teacher checks their understanding of the text. The pupils read on the screen the sentences from this text which are given in the wrong order, they are supposed to arrange these sentences in the correct logical order saying who the words belong to. They must read these sentences in reported speech and they shouldn’t consult the text.
E.g. “The beggar is taking aim.”
The Steward told the Prince that the beggar was taking aim.
1. “Let’s watch the beggar! Oh! No! He has hit Gilbert’s arrow and split it!”
2. “Do you know his name?”
3. “I’m sure he can’t shoot straight with only one eye.”
4. “This beggar is a strange-looking man.”
5. “By the way, Robin Hood hasn’t come to the contest.”
6. “You are right, my highness, and he has got this awful patch on his eye.”
7. “He has won!”
8. “Look! The beggar is taking aim.”
NOTE: The pupils are asked to present the talk as if they were Prince John and the Steward, they are given time to think it over, the box below can be of help to them.
| PRINCE JOHN
I noticed… I asked the Steward… The Steward explained to me that… I was sure that… I felt disappointed because… I was shocked when… | STEWARD
When Prince John saw the beggar he told me that… Prince John wondered… I replied that… I suggested… (Verb+ing) I shouted that… The Prince felt disappointed because… |
STEP 3
Watch the fragment from the cartoon “Robin Hood” in which the Prince congratulates Robin Hood on his victory and unmasks him revealing to everybody that the beggar is Robin Hood in disguise (переодетый). Report the talk between the main characters of the episode. They are: Prince John, Robin Hood, Maid Marian.
Before watching the cartoon the pupils look through the words which might be new to them. It is advisable that the pupils see the fragment twice.
NEW WORDS (to be read up in class in chorus)
1. royal – королевский
2. a real treat –настоящее удовольствие
3. to sentence to death – приговорить к смерти
4. to spare one’s life – пощадить жизнь
5. to have mercy – проявить милосердие
6. a plea - мольба
7. a traitor - предатель
The words to introduce the reported speech: to congratulate, to thank, to admit, to order, to announce, to beg, to wonder, to want to know, to remark.
After the pupils fulfill the task let them compare the original soundtrack with their answers. Ask them to say what information was left out in the reported speech.
VIDEO (SOUNDTRACK)
| Prince John | Our royal congratulations! | To congratulate |
| Robin Hood | Oh! Thank you, your highness.
Meeting you face to face is a real treat. | To thank |
| Prince John | Release the royal fingers!
And now I name the winner or more appropriately (correctly) the loser. Seize him! I sentence you to sudden and immediate death! | To order
To say To command To announce |
| Maid Marian | Oh! No! Please, please! I beg you to spare his life. Please, have mercy! | To beg |
| Prince John | My dear emotional lady, why should I? | To wonder |
| Maid Marian | …because I love him, your highness. | To say |
| Prince John | And does this prisoner return your love? | To wonder |
| Robin Hood | Marian, darling, I love you more than life itself. | To say |
| Prince John | Your pleas haven’t fallen on a heart of stone. But the traitor to the crown must die. | To tell, to say |
STEP 4
At this stage the pupils are supposed to present the dialogue as if they were Robin Hood, Prince John and Maid Marian. No support is offered as the pupils have already trained to do it at the previous stage. They shouldn’t forget that they are expected to use reported speech.
HOME TASK:
1. Write down the sentences of Step 2 in reported speech, arranging them in logical order.
2. Present the contents of the soundtrack in the reported speech orally.
Teacher’s note: The material is presented in the logical development of the events as they are described in the book and shown in the cartoon.