Reported speech writing game
Instructions
Write in the gap below and fold the paper so that the next person cannot see what you have written. Pass it to the next person in a clockwise direction. Do the same with the one you receive. Continue until you have filled the last gap in one of the stories, then pass it one more time.
Read out the one that you have received with your partner with you as the man and your partner as the woman, converting what was said into direct speech.
Pass it one more time and do the same with the one you receive.
Optional: Do the same with other dialogues.
Discuss as a class what makes sense and what doesn’t make sense about each dialogue.
Write in the gap below and fold the paper so that the next person cannot see what you have written. Pass it to the next person in a clockwise direction.
A man and a woman met in ________________________________________________
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He asked her if _______________________________________________________
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She answered that ____________________________________________________
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He asked her what _____________________________________________
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She asked him why he had ____________________________________________
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He said that he ________________________________________________________
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She said that she was ________________________________________
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He asked when she would _______________________________________________
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She said that she had never _____________________________________________
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He asked her to ______________________________________________________
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She ________________________________________________________________ him
Pass this story to the next group for them to unfold it and read it out.
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