Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals

Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals

Activity 175 - while you were sleeping

reported speech

Before you watch the segment:

I. Talk to a partner about the following situations. Decide what you would do:

1) What would you do if you saw someone falling on the subway tracks? Justify it.

2) If you saved someone's life, would you expect a financial reward? Why/Why not?

3) Would you hide a secret in order not to hurt a stranger's feelings? Why/Why not?

II. Now watch the movie segment and decide who said each of the following lines:

Lucy (Sandra Bullock)

A Doctor

A Nurse

A Police Officer

1) Will you marry me? ______

2) Are you okay? ______

3) There’s a train coming and it’s fast. ______

4) Are you family? ______

5) She’s his fiancée. ______

6) I need to ask you a few questions. ______

7) He is in a coma. ______

8) He was pushed from the platform at the train station. ______

9) She jumped on the tracks. ______

10) She saved his life. ______

Now rewrite the sentences, using reported speech:

EX: 1) Lucy asked if he would marry her.

2) Lucy asked if he was okay.

3 ______

4 ______

5. ______

6 ______

7 ______

8 ______

9 ______

10 ______

movie segments to assess grammar goals

activity 175

while you were sleeping

reported speech

3. Lucy said there was a train coming and it was fast.
4. A doctor asked if she was family.
5. A nurse said she was his fiancée.
6. A police officer said he needed to ask Lucy a few questions.
7. A doctor said he was in a coma.
8. Lucy said that he had been pushed from the platform at the train station.
9. A police officer said that she had saved his life.
10. A police officer said that she had jumped on the tracks

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Claudio Azevedo