B2 reported speech lookback

To retell someone's words, in the Reported Speech we always change the tense

• true

• false

we don't change the tense when the reporting verb:

• is in the past

• is in the present

• is in the future

• is in the present perfect

sort out the tenses, structures and modals into correct category:

Groups:

(a) we change in the Reported Speech

,

(b) we don't change in the Reported Speech

• must

• could

• past simple

• might

• past continuous

• would

• present simple

• past perfect continuous

• may

• present perfect continuous

• will

• used to

• past perfect

• can

Reorder the following:

• the following week

• he said

• would

• he

• join us

choose the right reported sentence for the original: "We've been trying to figure out what the answer is for this question"

• They said that they'd been trying to figure out what the answer is for this question.

• They said that they'd been trying to figure out what the answer was for that question.

• They said that they've been trying to figure out what the answer was for that question.

• They said that they'd been trying to figure out what the answer was for this question.

choose the right original sentence for the reported one: He told me that he was hoping to be invited to the storytelling event that night.

• "He was hoping to be invited to the storytelling event that night"

• "He is hoping to be invited to the storytelling event that night"

• "I'm hoping to be invited to the storytelling event tonight"

• "I'm hoping to be invited to the storytelling event that night"

How do we change these words in the Reported Speech? Match the following:

• that

• this

• there

• now

• those

• here

• then

• these

How do we change these words in the Reported Speech? Match the following:

• their

• me

• I/we

• our

• he/she

• you

• they

• I

• him/her

• we

For which sentences we don't do the backshift?

• "I'm always reluctant for studying"

• "I sing in the bathroom"

• "I won't be at the party tomorrow"

• "I wear glasses to see the board at school."