②直接引语如果是特殊疑问句，变成间接引语时，原疑问句中的疑问词 who, whose, what, which, where, why, how 等就成了引导间接引语的连词。
③原直接引语中的疑问语在间接引语中变为陈述语序。
④直接引语中的问号变成了句号。
⑤人称、时态、状语等也相应变化。如：
He asked,“Is it raining now? ”
→ He asked whether / if it was raining then.
The man asked me,“How old are you?”
→ The man asked me how old I was.
They asked him,“When do you harvest the wheat?”
→ They asked him when he harvested the wheat.
I asked the man,“Who are you?”
→ I asked the man who he was.
The teacher asked her,“Why did you come?”
→ The teacher wondered why she had come.
第二步：解释 command 和 request 两种句式及这两个词语的用法( give commands, make a request/ request that somebody should do)，并让学生分辨这两种句子；
第三步：Activity 1，学生阅读句子，学习如何将表示命令和请求的句子变成间接引语。然后让学生说出更多表示命令和请求的句子，并将它们变成间接引语；
不错哦
第四步：Activity 2， 学生比较表示命令和请求的句子在表达上有什么特点（commands are less polite while requests are polite），然后让学生说出什么人经常下命令（例如上级，长辈， 老师等），什么人经常发出请求（下级，晚辈，学生等）；最后是两人活动，一个学生给命令或发出请求，另一学生将它们变成间接引语；
第五步：补充语法知识：如何将祈使句变为间接引语;
转述祈使句的时候， 要将祈使句的动词原形变为动词不定式并在动词不定式前根据句子的意思用 tell ( 命令 ) ，ask ( 请求 ) , order ( 命令 ) 等及物动词加宾语。如果祈使句为否定式，则在不定式前面加 not 。例如：
He said to the girl,“Do it at once.”
→ He ordered the girl to do it at once.
“Be quiet!”I told the children.
→ I told the children to be quiet.
He said to farmers,“Do things at the right time of the year.”
→ He told farmers to do things at the right time of the year.
“Don't grow plants in the same place year after year.”the farmer said.