Yr 4 Direct and Indirect Speech

What is direct speech?

• Direct speech is where the exact words spoken by a person are written in quotation marks.

• Direct speech is where the words spoken by a person are completely ignored and not written in quotation marks.

• Direct speech is where the exact words spoken by a person are summarized and written in quotation marks.

• Direct speech is where the words spoken by a person are not exact and are written without quotation marks.

What is indirect speech?

• Indirect speech is what someone thought instead of what they said.

• Indirect speech is what someone said without using their exact words.

• Indirect speech is what someone said in a different language.

• Indirect speech is what someone said using their exact words.

In direct speech, how are the exact words of the speaker presented?

• Using "quotation marks"

• Using italics

• Using punctuation!?

• Using bold font

Change the following direct speech into indirect speech: She said, 'I am going to the park.'

• She is going to play at the park.

• "I am going to the park", is what she said.

• She said that she was going to the park.

• She already went to the park.

Change the following direct speech into indirect speech: He said, 'I will help you.'

• He said you can help him.

• She said he would help me.

• He said he can help.

• He said he would help me.

The following is an example of _______ speech:

'Where are you going?' asked the teacher.

The following is an example of _______ speech:

'Can you lend me your pen?' she asked.

The following is an example of _______ speech:

He said that he loves to play football.

Should this sentence contain speech marks?

I am happy, she said.

• YES

  (because it is direct speech)

• NO

  (because it is indirect speech)

Is the following sentence an example of direct or indirect speech?

'Why did you break the vase?' she asked.

• Direct

• Indirect