1. Have the beam projector ready to show the video suggested in the “MaterialesEducativosDigitales” section, and download, print and make photocopies for students of the file for the second activity.

2. Review in a few steps how a statement can be changed into reported speech.

3. Tell students they are going to have a great time listening to what these kids answered to the questions their parents asked them.

4. Play the video but decide before hand if you want to us it complete or just half of it. The whole video is hilarious so it might be worth playing complete.

5. Make pauses for students to complete the sentences in their notebooks. Tell students they cannot say their answers aloud since everybody is different and may need time to process then to answer.

6. Help students paraphrasing what the kids say and play with the humor in the video as part of a listening comprehension activity.

7. Play the video again and ask volunteers to read their sentences while the rest of the class listens and makes suggestions.

8. Distribute the worksheet and set a time limit.

9. Ask students to underline the verb forms and identify the tenses so they can work easily. If necessary, remind them what the tense change.

10. When time is up, ask students to mingle and exchange their worksheets with other students, read the sentences, and make corrections.

11. Ask students to return the worksheets to their original owners and read the answers for final confirmation.

1. Have the beam projector ready to show the video suggested in the “MaterialesEducativosDigitales” section, and download, print and make photocopies for students of the file for the second activity.

2.  Write on the board, ‘Close the window, please’, ‘Do not use a dictionary for the activity’, and ask students what they have in common (commands) and what they express.

3.  Tell students that ‘orders’ (commands) can also be put in reported speech like any other statement so ask students to imagine that the above sentences were said by you and when the video is finished they are going to put them in reported speech.

4. Play the video and ask students to copy the examples given.

5. When the video finishes, ask students to complete the above sentences and also change the affirmative into negative and the negative into affirmative.

6. Ask students to also try the question form (yes/no question).

7. Have volunteers narrate the video and talk about reported commands.

8. Ask students to think of a situation that made them feel stressed. What was it? What happened?  When did it happen?

9. Distribute the worksheet and ask students to choose their answers individually.

10. Ask students to work in pairs and check their answers while you write them on the board as well for final confirmation.

1. Download the files suggested in the “MaterialesEducativosDigitales” section, and make photocopies for students.

2. Divide the students into groups of three and give each group a set of direct speech cards and a set of reported speech cards.

3. Divide the students into groups of three and give each group a set of direct speech cards and a set of reported speech cards.3. Ask the students to shuffle each set of cards and spread them out face down on the table in two sets.

4. Players take it in turns to turn over a direct speech card and read what's on the card, e.g. "I like pizza", she said. Then,  the player then changes the direct speech into reported speech, e.g. 'She said that she liked pizza'.

5. Next, the player tries to find the sentence by turning over one of the reported speech cards.

6. If the player turns over the corresponding card, the student keeps the pair of cards and has another turn. If the two cards don't match or the player's sentence is not the same as what's on the reported speech card, the player turns the two cards back over, keeping them in the same place.

7. Players must correctly say the reported speech before they try to find the corresponding card. If a player is unable to correctly form the reported speech, the direct speech card is turned back over, and play passes to the next student.

8. The game continues until all the cards have been matched and the student with the most pairs of cards at the end of the game wins.

9. Tell students they are going to review how to report commands into (reported) speech.

10. Distribute the worksheet and ask students to work in groups of three.

11.  Model the activity by answering sentence 1 and tell students they have 10 minutes to write their sentences.

12. When time is up, say the numbers aloud and ask students to read their sentences while the rest of the class completes their worksheets and/or corrects their sentences.