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Reporting What Other People Said

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  • Communicative Objective: Learn to summarize conversations, messages, instructions, and information received from other people.
  • 5 Core Functional Sentences:
    1. She said that she was going to arrive a little late.
    2. He told me that the meeting had been canceled.
    3. They explained that they needed more time to complete the work.
    4. My supervisor asked me whether I had finished the report.
    5. The instructor told us not to use our phones during the test.
  • Grammar Focus: Reported statements, reported questions, backshift, and reported commands
  • Vocabulary Focus: report, mention, explain, statement, message
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