Big Brother and reported speech

Some years ago when I was working at a bilingual school I had to focus on communication. I included many aspects of it such as, body language working with Mr.Bean videos in class, sign language( what deaf people use to communicate), braille, tv, radio, internet, etc, etc. It was the year 2007 and Big Brother was on every tv set at home. All the children were talking about that and they knew every detail about the programme. As a project and included in a test I downloaded material about Big Brother 2002 US, the names of the characters, , family members,their jobs, etc. They were fascinated to read more about a different Big Brother and in a different country with a different culture. Students had to read some direct speech and turn it into reported speech in the test. In this way, they not only learned, but also were very enthusiastic as the test was not the typical one. It was a real success!

Alejandra Vecchiarelli