Sometimes teaching grammar can be tricky. I don't want to get stuck only repeating rules with my students. I want them to understand rules by using them and realizing how that grammar point can be used in real life. With that in mind, I've found this great powerpoint presentation posted by the user Gaby141 on the website Busy Teacher to practice Reported Speech (you can download the presentation at the end of this post). The activity is based on the video "The Most Polite Robbery Ever" (video below) in which a robber is very polite when robbing the owner of a shop. Gaby141 has broken down the interactions from the video in slides. Students should pay attention to the dialogue in each of the slides and then, guided by a question, report what the people in the slides are saying or asking. For example:
