GENERAL MAMERTO NATIVIDAD NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Purok Apitong II, Poblacion, General M. Natividad, Nueva Ecija 3125

January 11, 2023

Detailed Lesson Plan (DLP)
I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
A. Identify indirect speech;
B. Appreciate the importance of direct and indirect speech by writing correct form of the
sentence, and
C. Construct direct and indirect speech sentences following its respective rules.
II. Subject Matter
A. Topic: Indirect Speech
B. Reference/s: English 10: Quarter 2- Module 7
C. Materials: PowerPoint Presentation
III. Learning Activities
Teacher’s Activity Learner’s Activity
1. Classroom Management

“Kindly, stand everyone. Look around

your place. If there are pieces of papers
and plastics, kindly pick those up and
keep it to your bag and throw that later in
the trash bin.”

2. Prayer

“Okay, who will lead the prayer today?” (Ms. Vicente will lead the prayer.)

3. Greetings

“Good morning class!” “Good morning, ma’am!”

“Please be seated.”

“How’s your day?” “Good, ma’am.”

“It is great, ma’am!”
“That’s good to hear since you are doing (The president of the class will report to
great today. Are there any absent today?” the teacher if there is/are absent.)

(The teacher will prepare her initiatory

activity.)
B. Initiatory Activity

“Before we begin, what was our topic “It was about direct speech, ma’am.”
yesterday?”

“And what was its definition based on “Direct speech denotes word for word of
your understanding?” an author or a speaker which it’s focused
on the speaker’s point of view, ma’am.”

“How about its construction?” “A direct speech sentence always starts

with a capital letter with the presence of
quotation marks which includes whether
comma, question mark, and exclamation
mark to be enclosed by a force stop or a
period, ma’am.”

“Very good!”

(The teacher will proceed to the

development of the lesson)
C. Lesson Proper

Now, do you have any idea what will be “I think, it will be indirect speech ma’am?”
our lesson today?”

“Correct! Since we’re done with the direct

speech, it’s counterpart will be discussed
today but before that, I would like you to
take a look to these sentences.”

1. “The exam is so difficult, it’s like I have

not read and study thoroughly all night!”,
Rina exclaimed.
2. She said that the exam was so difficult
like she did not study nor read thoroughly
last night.

“Can you see the difference between the

two sentences?” “Ma’am, I think in the first sentence, it’s
an example of direct speech since it was
stated by the speaker herself
accompanied with quotation marks as
well as the exclamation mark and ends
with a period.”
“What about the second sentence?”
“It was told by someone of what Rina
exclaimed that day.”
“Very good! We can see that in the first
sentence it is indeed an example of direct
speech while the second is the indirect
speech. In sentence 1, it was directly told
by the speaker while in sentence two,
someone has told what Rina previously
felt. In which an

Indirect/Reported Speech- used to

describe a speech that happened in the
past, where you are recounting
something that was said to you before.

“It’s like, someone has told you their

feelings, and you were only retelling it to
others. In which its simplest term, it’s from
the listener standpoint.”

To continue, there are four simple rules in

using indirect speech. What do you think
are the differences between direct and
indirect speech in terms of punctuation
marks? “Ma’am, I think it’s the question mark?”

“Correct! What else?” “Ma’am, it’s the quotation marks?”

“Very good!”
Here are the four rules:

The first rule is,

A. Quotation marks are not used.

Instead of saying “I cannot believe what I
heard,” in indirect speech it will be; she
said that she couldn’t believe what she
heard. Do you understand, class? “Yes, ma’am.”

Second, we have,
B. When the verb in the reported
discourse is conjugated, it is generally
presented by that; however, the inclusion
of that is optional.

Examples are;
She said that she will not live under this
insult.
“But you can also extract that in this
example; She said she will not live under
this insult. Both are examples of indirect
speech”.

Third,
C. Imperative forms, when recounted in
indirect signal, generally become infinitive
constructions where to is used before the
imperative statement.

“But first, what is imperative sentence?” “Imperative sentence is a type of

sentence makes issues, request,
“Okay, correct.” instruction or demands.”

Let’s continue. We used to in this rule to

signal that the sentence is an indirect
speech but without the to and just the
imperative sentence, it will be direct
speech. Let’s take a look on these
examples:

Direct signal: I told them, “Get out of

here!”
Indirect signal: I told them to get out of
here.
“Have you observed the difference
between the two?”
“Excellent observation!” Finally, we have,
“Yes, ma’am. The direct signal used
quotation marks with the imperative
sentence while the second one does not
but used to.”

D. When quotation is put in indirect

signal, care must be taken to verify that
verb tenses reflect the change in
temporal context, meaning the time, the
action takes place. Hence, a change in
tense is done here. Let’s take a look at
these examples;

Direct discourse: She said “I will be on

time.”
Indirect discourse: She said she would be
on time.
Direct discourse: When he called, he
said, “I am at the airport.”
Indirect discourse: When he called, he
said, he was at the airport.

“You see, class. There is a change in

tense when we alter the direct speech
into indirect speech; from using present
tense to using past tense, since indirect
speech happened already in the past.
Have you understood?”
“Yes, ma’am.”

D. Generalization

“Do you have any questions or

clarification regarding our topic?” “None, ma’am.”

“If none, kindly bring out ¼ sheet of paper

and answer whether the sentence are
examples of an indirect speech.”

E. Application
Activity 1
Direction: Identify whether the statement
is an example of direct or indirect speech.
Write DS if its direct speech and IS if its
indirect speech.
1. Alina said that she would return back in
1 hour.

2. The educator scolded Paul and said

that he would call his mother, if he did not
finish his project.

3. Puja asked me what I had been

watching.

4. “Why are you crying?”, Ana nervously

ask.

5. Joe advised that I must give her

another opportunity.
IV. Evaluation
Activity 2: Change the statements into
direct or indirect speeches. Write your
answer in a whole sheet of paper.

1. “I am going to take my driver’s license

test today”, said Gloria.
2. My father said that he would be happy
to help me.
3. “Tell me what happened”, I pleaded.
4. The principal asked us if we were on
our way to the concert.
5. The bus driver sighed, “Don’t you have
any correct change?”

V. Assignment
“Do a research about the mechanisms in “Okay, ma’am.”
changing direct speech into indirect
speech.”

“That’s conclude our discussion for today.

Goodbye, class. See you tomorrow.”
“Goodbye, ma’am!”
Prepared by: Checked by: Noted by:
Regilyn T. Dayon Lorena V. Saribay Sheryl D. Cariaga
Practice Teacher Cooperating Teacher Head Teacher III