Reported Speech

What is the difference between reported speech and direct speech?

• It is a form of speech that reproduces exactly and verbatim what another subject said

• speak what the person says

• We use it to tell what a person has said , but without quoting their words exactly .

In direct speech we change from present simple to...

• Past Simple

• Present continuous

• Past participle

• Presente perfect

1. Complete the sentence

2. “Do me a favour please!”, she told me. 

She told me ____ ____ ____a favour. 

What are the modals like?

• Could

  Might

  Would

  Should

• Today

  Can

  Will

  Won´t

• Well

  Could

  Told

  May

What is the structure of the questions in the reported speech

• Subject+verb

• Subject+complement

• Verb to be+ Auxiliar