The 73 Questions ESL activity is based around the Vogue interview series of the same name, with students discussing what the celebrity said.
Do the Catch Up Party ESL activity with your class and find out what everyone’s been doing recently.
Demonstrating when and how we report speech in real life is a good way to engage your students, as is using examples from popular culture and current events. At the same time, be prepared with some sillier activities to lighten things up if students get overwhelmed with the complex grammar.
Here’s a list of the best EFL / ESL games, activities, projects and conversation ideas that you can use when teaching Reported Speech.
The 73 Questions ESL activity is based around the Vogue interview series of the same name, with students discussing what the celebrity said.
Do the Catch Up Party ESL activity with your class and find out what everyone’s been doing recently.
In the Celebrity Interview ESL activity students role-play a TV talk-show style interview.
In the Crazy Requests ESL activity, students practise making and responding to (and reporting) strange requests with their classmates.
The Family Feud ESL game is a version of the popular TV show of the same name (Family Fortunes in the UK), adapted for your English class.
In the Gossip ESL activity students tell their partner a ‘secret’, who then spreads it around the class.
The He Said She Said ESL activity is a variation on I Went To The Shop for practising reported speech.
In the Job Interviews ESL activity, students imagine that they run a business and conduct job interviews with their classmates.
In the News Program ESL project, students create a TV news program and present it to the class.
In the Personality Party ESL activity, students attend a party in which they play the role of an alter-ego.
The Phone Messages ESL activity requires students to pass on information using reported speech.
In the Reported Tweets ESL activity, students find what people have said on Twitter and report back to the class.
In the Speed Dating ESL activity, students meet lots of different people for a short time.