Unit 1 Friendship Grammar and Useful Structures1．Teaching objectivesLearn to use direct speech and indirect speech2. Teaching important pointSummarize the rules of Direct Speech and Indirect Speech.3. Teaching difficult pointLearn about the special cases in which the tenses shouldn’t be changed.4. Teaching methodsDiscussing, summarizing and practicing.5. Teaching proceduresStep 1 Warming upWarming up by discovering useful words and expressionsStep 2 PresentationBoys act one cartoon figure and says something.Teacher asks “What did he/she say?”Girls act the other cartoon figure and answer the teacher’s question. Then boys and girls exchange.The shoes are too big for me.What did he say?He said the shoes were too big for himStep 3 GrammarThe students will learn the use of Direct Speech and Indirect Speech (statements and questions). First try to make clear to the students what direct and indirect speech is, with the help of the practice in Step III. Then give them some ex-amples. At last get them to summarize the rules of Direct Speech and Indirect Speech (statements and questions). T: In this part, we are to learn the use of Direct Speech and Indirect Speech (statements and questions). When do we use Direct Speech and when do we use Indirect Speech?T: Now let’s look at these sentences again. If we want to change Direct Speech into Indirect Speech, what should be changed?Ss discuss by themselves.Ss: sentence structures, tenses, pronouns, adverbials of time and place and verbs should be changed.T: Quite right. Look at the form on the screen. These are the rules.一、直接引语变成间接引语，句子结构的变化 1.陈述句用连词 that 引导，that 在口语中常省略。主句的谓语动词可直接用引语中的said, 也可用 told 来代替，注意，可以...
