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LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
LESSON 3: A CLOSER LOOK 2

GRAMMAR

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Reported speech
(questions)

LESSON 3: A CLOSER LOOK 2

WARM-UP

Video watching

PRESENTATION

Task 1: Underline the correct word or phrase for each sentence.
Task 2: Put the words and phrases in the correct order to make
reported questions.
Task 3: Change the following questions into reported questions.
Task 4: Report the conversation between An and Mai.

PRACTICE

PRODUCTION

CONSOLIDATION

Reported speech (questions)

Task 5: Work in pairs.
Wrap-up: Game: What did they ask you?
Homework

WARM-UP

Watch a video.

WARM-UP

How do we use reported speech
for questions?

WARM-UP

PRESENTATION

Structure:
S + ask/wonder/want to know + question word + clause.
Example:
“What time does the train leave?”
 He asked me what time the train left.
“Where did he go?”
 She wanted to know where he had gone.
“When could you get this done by?”
 He wondered when we could get it done by.

PRESENTATION

1 Underline the correct word or phrase for each sentence.
1. He phoned to ask his mother what she was doing now / then.
2. Ann wondered what plants Vietnamese people grow / grew for
food.
3. Peter phoned the shop to ask what specialities they are selling
there / here.
4. The student asked his professor what forms of life can / could exist
on Mars.
5. He wanted to know how many planets there were / were there in
our solar system.

PRACTICE

2 Put the words and phrases in the correct order to make reported questions.
1. how many moons / My little brother / asked me / had / Venus / .
 My little brother asked me how many moons Venus had.
2. which / She / planet / the closest / wanted to know / was / to the
sun / .
 She wanted to know which planet was the closest to the sun.
3. asked the scientists / The journalist / what / for / were using /
telescopes / in space / they / .
 The journalist asked the scientists what they were using telescopes
in space for.

PRACTICE

2 Put the words and phrases in the correct order to make reported questions.
4. wanted to know / when / The scientists / travel to Mars / would be
able to / humans / .
 The scientists wanted to know when humans would be able to
travel to Mars.
5. He / what / were / asked the professor / to have life / for a planet /
the conditions / on it / .
 He asked the professor what the conditions for a planet to have life
on it were.

PRACTICE

3 Change the following questions into reported questions.
1. “Who will be the first to step on Mars?” Mary asked the scientist.
 Mary asked the scientist who would be the first to step on Mars.
2. “How fast can a UFO travel?” I asked my father.
 I asked my father how fast a UFO could travel.
3. The student asked his friend, “How many craters does the moon
have?”
 The student asked his friend how many craters the moon had.

PRACTICE

3 Change the following questions into reported questions.
4. The pupils asked the teacher, “Where can we find information
about the solar system?”
 The pupils asked the teacher where they could find information
about the solar system.
5. “What is the weather on Mars like?” I asked my teacher.
 I asked my teacher what the weather on Mars was like.

PRACTICE

4 Report the conversation between An and Mai.

Suggested answers:
An asked Mai what she was reading.
Mai told An that she was reading
Aliens, and she was almost done.
Next, An asked Mai what kind of
book it was. Mai said to An that it
was science fiction. And An asked
Mai what it was about. Mai told An
that it was about three aliens who
tried to take over Earth.

PRACTICE

5

Work in pairs. Ask your partner five questions about his / her daily routine and make
notes of his / her answers. Then report your questions and your partner's answers to
the class.

Example:
I asked ... what time he/
she got up in the morning
and he told me (that) he
got up at ...

CONSOLIDATION

1 Wrap-up

Game: What did they ask you?

- Make a list of people who might ask you questions and what those
questions might be: a police officer, your mother/ father, a teacher,
a taxi driver, etc.,
- Report something that he/she asked, without revealing
who he/she was:
+ This person asked me if I had my driver's license.
- Other Ss guess that was the police officer: The police officer asked
you if you had your driver's license.

CONSOLIDATION

2 Homework
- Make 5 sentences by using reported speech (questions).
- Do the exercises in the workbook.

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