REPORTED SPEECH REVIEW

WARM-UP

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● Play in 4 groups
● 1st person: receive a sentence
● Whisper to each other
● Last person: hold iPad, join Menti.com and write answers after 1 minute.

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Grammar Review
Reported speech

01

Review the reported speech

Objectives

02 Practice with exercises

03 Report a video

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Knowledge review

Multiple Choice

“I have met her before,” he said. → He said he had met her before.

 Which part (underlined) has been changed?

• pronoun

• tense

• place

• time

Multiple Choice

Anne: “I want to go here tomorrow.” → Anne said she wanted to go there the next day.

 Which part (underlined) has been changed?

• pronoun

• tense

• place and time

Multiple Choice

Nam: “I go to school every day.” → Nam said he went to school every day.

 Which part (underlined) has been changed?

• pronoun

• tense

• place

• time

Multiple Choice

“Who is this girl?”, she asked me. → She asked me who was that girl.

  Is this sentence correct?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

 “When changing the imperatives into the reported speech, we use to + V-inf.”

  Is this True or False?

• True

• False

Changing direct speech into
reported speech

+ General rule: Change
● Pronouns
● Tense (one tense back)
● Time and place
+ Questions: if/whether/WH-questions + S + V
+ Imperatives: to V

02 Practice

Exercise 1: Fill in the blanks to complete the sentence.

• Don't use capital letters

• Don't add any punctuation

Exercise 2: Change the sentences into the reported speech.

• Don't use capital letters

• Don't add any punctuation

Reporter
wannabes

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RULES

● Work alone
● Watch a video and take note the content

● Write reported sentences on Padlet in 3 minutes
● Present in front of the class

Reported sentences sample

• Po said he loved Kungfu.

• Po's father asked him to comeback.

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