Cracking the Backshift Code: mechanics walkthrough

Section role: supports the 'Cracking the Backshift Code' section while the teacher formalizes grammatical rules on the board based on the earlier student incident reports. Slides: (1) Title — 'Cracking the Backshift Code'; (2) The Backshift Principle — bullets: moving verbs one step further into the past, comparing direct 'see' with reported 'saw'; (3) Tense Transformation Table — bullets: Present Simple to Past Simple, Present Continuous to Past Continuous, Will to Would; (4) Reporting Verbs — bullets: contrast between 'said' without an object and 'told' with an object, using examples from the detective reports; (5) Time and Place Markers — bullets: how 'tomorrow' changes to 'the next day' and 'here' changes to 'there'; (6) Check-for-Understanding — bullets: two guided examples transforming direct quotes into reported speech as a class. Closing slide: 'How do our detective reports from earlier look now that we have applied these rules?' — hands control back to the teacher to transition into individual practice.

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