Reported Speech and Sporcle a match made in movie heaven.

Here is the return of an old favourite from my old blog. It's a fantastic way to work reported speech and movie trivia into th classroom

There are a myriad of games to allow your students to practice their new found skill of reporting. One I was introduced to a couple of days ago tests your students movie knowledge, their ability to transalte from the language they first saw the movie and then how to convert some of the most famous quotes in movie history into reported speech.

Your students level will, obviously, dictate the difficulty of the task, the reporting verbs they use and whether they chuck a few adverbs in there as well.

The first step is to get onto the fantastic  http://www.sporcle.com/games/happy101/best-movie-quotes-imageshttp://www.sporcle.com/games/happy101/best-movie-quotes-images then run through each of the images to identify which movies the quotes come from.

Step two, hit the timer and get the students to take turns in giving you a quote to one of the movies on the screen. 

Seven minutes later the time will have run out and all the missing quotes will be revealed and the students will have a chance to take the famous quotes and report them to their classmates.  

This works as a wonderful cooler after going through the "rules" of reported speech or as a warmer in the next class to make sure they still have it down.. My students really enjoyed it.

 A big thanks to my colleague Neil for pointing me towards the quiz and sharing his idea with me. 

I hope your students find it as useful as mine did. 

Right that's all for today.  Have a great holiday whereever you may be. If you don't have a holiday just go ahead and have a great weekend.

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