1、重庆大学版重庆大学版 高一高一（33）Unit 4Unit 4We have learned many dialogues.Have you retold a dialogue in indirect speech?We will learn how to do this now?Study the picture and read the dialogue below.Then retell the dialogue in indirect speech.Girl:Hello!What are you doing?Old woman:I am making this iron into a
2、needle.Girl:But the piece of iron is so big and a needle is so tiny.Old woman:Yes,I know.Girl:Then how long will it take you to finish making the needle?Old woman:I dont know.But if I die before I finish,I will leave this work to my son.And if my son dies before it is finished,he will leave this wor
3、k to my grandchildren.Someday,this piece of iron will be a needle.The following is an unfinished story about the picture and dialogue.Try to provide a title for the story and complete it with your own sentences.You may write down your first draft on a piece of paper._A long time ago,there lived an o
4、ld woman who was very patient.Every day,she sat in front of her house doing the same job,patiently sharpening a piece of iron.One day,a little girl _.The girl was surprised because_.3.Exchange your story with your partners and check the following aspects so as to make the story better.grammar spelli
5、ng vocabulary sentence structures punctuation tenses把下面直接引语改为间接引语，并且用自己的话改编成一篇文章。Man:Whats the matter,Peter?Peter:I think Im going to fail a math test,Dad.Man:You are?Why?Peter:Well,I missed the bus and I had to walk to school.Man:So?Peter:Im not allowed to get to class late,and there was a big test
6、 today.Man:And you werent allowed to take the test?Peter:Thats right.Bur I should be allowed to take the test later.Its not fair.Man:Well,Peter,the school has to have rules,you know.Peter:I know.But I should be allowed to take the test later.Its not fair.Man:I agree.Maybe you could talk to the teach
7、er after school.Peter:Yeah.Maybe if I explain what happened,shell understand.One morning Peter got up late in the morning.When he came to the bus stop to take a bus to school,the bus had already gone.There wasnt any bus that morning.Peter felt very sad for he was going to have a maths test.He tried
8、to walk to school as fast as he could.But unfortunately,he was thirty minutes late when he arrived there.He was not allowed to have the exam.Peter told his father about that the next day.He said he should be allowed to take the exam later,or it was not fair to him.His father tried to calm him and as
9、ked him to talk to his teacher.Peter accepted his fathers advice and decided to explain what happened to him.4.Revise your first draft and then write down your final copy in your exercise book.Here is a checklist for you.1)Did you give a title to your story?2)Did you write the title with a capital l
10、etter?3)Did you put the title in the center of the top the page?4)Did you indent the first line of each paragraph?5)Did you capitalize the first word in each sentence and end each sentence with a period?5.Share your final copy with your classmates and then find a partner to act out the story.6.Surf the Internet to find more stories about the importance of persistence and then make up a story of your own.
