WorksheetsReported Speech - B1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 12mins
Rewrite this sentence using reported speech.
Jessica: "Don't play football in the garden."
Jessica told me do not play football in the garden
Jessica said to me not to play football in the garden
Jessica told me not to play football in the garden.
Jessica said me not to play football in the gardem
Rewrite this sentence using reported speech.
Mary: "Are you reading that book now?"
Mary wonders if I was reading that book then
Mary said Are you reading that book now?
Mary asked me if I was reading that book then
Mary wanted to know if I was reading that book then
Rewrite this sentence using reported speech.
Alice: "I spent all my pocket money last weekend."
Alice said that she spent all her pocket money last weekend
Alice complained that she had spent all her pocket money the previous weekend/weekend before.
Alice told me that she had spent all her pocket money the previous weekend/weekend before
Alice said to me that she had spent all her pocket money the previous weekend/weekend before
Change these direct questions into reported speech:
Mary: “Why did you go out last night?”
She asked me why I went out last night.
She wanted to know why I went out last night
She asked me why I had to go out last night
She wanted to know why I had gone out last night
Change these direct questions into reported speech:
“What were you doing when I saw you?”
She wanted to know what I was doing when she saw me
She asked me what I had been doing when she saw me
She wanted to know what I was doing when she sees me
She asked me what I have been doing when she saw me
Change these direct questions into reported speech:
“Where will you live after graduation?”
She asked me if I would live after graduation
She asked me If I will live after graduation
She asked me where I would live after graduation.
She asked me where I will live after graduation
Change these direct questions into reported speech:
“Can you help me?”
She asked me if I can help her
She asked me if I can help her
She ask me if I could help her
She asked me if I could help her
Change these direct questions into reported speech:
“Have you studied reported speech before?”
She asked me if I have had studied reported speech before
She asked me if I have studied reported speech before
She ask me if I had studied reported speech before
She asked me if I had studied reported speech before.
Change the direct questions into reported questions:
Is John at home?
She asked me if John was at home.
She said if John was at home
She wanted to know if John was at home
She wants to know if John was at home
Change the direct questions into reported questions:
"Does it rain a lot in London?"
She asks me if It had rained a lot in London
She asks me If it rains a lot in London
She asked me if it rained a lot in London
She asked me if it rains a lot in London
Rewrite this sentence using reported speech.
Nancy: "Why didn't you go to New York last summer?"
Nancy wanted to know why I hadn't gone to New York last summer
Nancy wanted to know why I didn't go to New York last summer
Nancy asked me why I hadn´t gone to New York the previous summer / the summer before.
Nancy asked me why I didn't go to New York last summer
Change this direct speech into reported speech:
“I don’t like chocolate”
She said she doesn't like chocolate
She told me she don't like chocolate
She told me that she didn't like chocolate.
She said she didn't like chocolate
Change this direct speech into reported speech:
“I hadn’t traveled by underground before I came to London”
She told she hasn't travelled by underground before coming to London
She said she hadn't travelled by underground before she came to London
She said that she haven't travelled by underground before she came to London
She told she hasn't travelled by underground before coming to London
Change this direct speech into reported speech:
“He hasn’t eaten breakfast”
She told me he hasn't eaten breakfast
She told me that he hasn't eaten breakfast
She told me that he didn't have breakfast
She told me that he hadn't eaten breakfast.
Change this direct speech into reported speech:
“I was waiting for the bus when he arrived”
She told me that she has being waiting for the bus when he arrived
She told me she was waiting for the bus when he arrived
She told me that she had been waiting for the bus when he arrived.
She told me she has been waiting for the bus when he arrived
