Reported+Speech


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This activity goes well with Ven Conmigo 2 Chapter 8 Section 3.

I taught reported speech (changing direct quotes to reported dialogue. For example, changing //María dijo, "yo soy inteligente."// to //María dijo que ella era inteligente."//) recently in Spanish 3. I decided to use the game telephone to practice it. You can execute it a couple of ways. First, I had the students break off into groups of 4 people. They took turns being the person who started the sentence and being the last person who heard the sentence and then reported the dialogue.

For example, if the first person (let's say was named Nick) said, "Español es divertidísimo," the last person in the group would have to say, "Nick dijo que español era divertidísimo." This went on until everyone had a chance to be the first person and the last person.

Then we moved on to doing telephone with the whole class. I started the dialogue during this time. I tried to make it more difficult so the students would have to listen more closely. There are about 20 students in each Spanish 3 class, so it didn't take up too much time. The students loved playing a game that they used to play in elementary school. If you have a larger class, you can have two dialogues going in opposite diretions in order to waste less time. That can also make it more challenging.

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