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"Life is like grammar: there are more exceptions than rules" 

- Remy de Gourmont
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Grammar

"Life is like grammar: there are more exceptions than rules" 

- Remy de Gourmont

Slide 1 - Slide

Goals

  • how to write a sentence using the indirect speech 
  • tell why we use the Past Perfect Simple
  • know how to conjugate the most common irregular verbs 

Slide 2 - Slide

  1. Direct Speech to Indirect Speech

  2. Past Perfect & Past Simple

  3. Irregular Verbs

Slide 3 - Slide

  1. Direct Speech to Indirect Speech

  2. Past Perfect & Past Simple

  3. Irregular Verbs

Slide 4 - Slide

WHAT IS IT?
  • Report what another person has said, without using the speaker’s exact words (direct speech) 

  • 'We go one step back in time'

  • Since we report back on something, 'Indirect Speech' is often called 'Reported Speech'

Slide 5 - Slide

DIRECT SPEECH

- Present simple             

- Present continuous   

- Past simple                    
REPORTED SPEECH

- Past simple

- Past continuous

- Past perfect


                            

Slide 6 - Slide

DIRECT SPEECH

- Steven said: "I  love that movie!"


- Boris said: "I  am living in London."


- Charly said: "I bought a new car."
REPORTED SPEECH

- Steven said (that) he loved that movie.

- Boris said (that) he was living in London

- Charly said (that) he had bought a new car.

Slide 7 - Slide

Direct or Indirect?

The chauffeur said: "Get in!"
A
Direct Speech
B
Indirect Speech

Slide 8 - Quiz

Direct or Indirect?

The Principal said that our lessons would be online from now on.
A
Direct Speech
B
Indirect Speech

Slide 9 - Quiz

Direct or Indirect?

My neighbour said: "Can I borrow some sugar?"
A
Direct Speech
B
Indirect Speech

Slide 10 - Quiz

Put this sentence in the Indirect Speech form:

Luke said: "I like ice cream!"

Slide 11 - Open question

Put this sentence in the Indirect Speech form:

The teacher said: "I made a quiz for all of you."

Slide 12 - Open question

Put this sentence in the Indirect Speech form:

The group said: "We are going skiing next weekend."

Slide 13 - Open question

Direct Speech
Reported Speech
Repeating without using the exact words
Using double quotation marks
Past Simple becomes Past Perfect
First person pronoun becomes a third person pronoun
Present Simple becomes Past Simple

Slide 14 - Drag question

  1. Direct Speech to Indirect Speech

  2. Past Perfect & Past Simple

  3. Irregular Verbs

Slide 15 - Slide

WHAT IS IT?

  • Describe one action that happened before another action in the past

  • We use the Past Perfect to describe the action that happened before or earlier

  • We use the Past Simple to describe the action that happened second or later

Slide 16 - Slide

Past Simple

- I bought a car
Past Perfect

- I had saved up enough money
Past Simple: 
- I bought a car.
- I took the book from the shelf.
Past Perfect: 
- I had saved up enough money.
- I had read the introduction.
Past Perfect Simple: 
- I bought a car after I had saved up enough money.
- I took the book from the shelf when I had read the introduction.

Slide 17 - Slide


  • By the time Doris got to the party, everyone had gone home.

  • I had lived there for three years before I met her.

  • Before I  knew it, she had run out of the door. 

  • I didn't say anything until she had finished talking

Slide 18 - Slide

Fill in the gap:

I ... a letter to my uncle, after I had received one from him.
A
write
B
wrote
C
will write
D
had written

Slide 19 - Quiz

Fill in the gap:

When I arrived at school, someone .... into my locker.
A
had broken
B
broke
C
hadn't broken
D
breaks

Slide 20 - Quiz

Fill in the gap:

.... up your room by the time your parents .... home?
A
cleaning, get
B
cleaned, had gotten
C
Had you cleaned, got
D
Did you clean, got

Slide 21 - Quiz

Fill in the gap:

She ... not see him until he ... apologised.
A
would, had
B
will, has
C
might, has
D
will, had

Slide 22 - Quiz

Fill in the gap:

After Sophie .... her work, she .... to lunch.
A
finished, went
B
had finished, went
C
hadn't finished, went
D
finishes, will

Slide 23 - Quiz

Fill in the gap:

The teacher ... if we ... for the exam.
A
asks, had studied
B
is asking, studied
C
asked, studied
D
asked, had studied

Slide 24 - Quiz

Fill in the gap:

I ... some flowers until the sun ... down.
A
picked, had gone
B
was picking, went
C
am picking, went
D
picked, is

Slide 25 - Quiz

  1. Direct Speech to Indirect Speech

  2. Past Perfect & Past Simple

  3. Irregular Verbs

Slide 26 - Slide

WHAT IS IT?
  • Verbs that do not follow the standard rules for conjugation

  • Standard rules? Conjugation with -s, -ed

  • Remember them! 

Slide 27 - Slide

Most common irregular verbs
- be
- have
- say
- do
- know
- buy
- get
- see
- think
- go

Slide 28 - Slide

Use the correct form of the irregular verb

We .... (buy) a house last year.
A
buy
B
bought
C
are buying

Slide 29 - Quiz

Use the correct form of the irregular verb

I .... (go) home when the part had ended.
A
hade gone
B
went
C
go
D
am going

Slide 30 - Quiz

Use the correct form of the irregular verb

I .... (know) what we will have to learn for the test.
A
knew
B
have known
C
know
D
am knowing

Slide 31 - Quiz

Use the correct form of the irregular verb

We ... (see) a tiger when we were in Africa.
A
saw
B
had seen
C
are seeing
D
see

Slide 32 - Quiz

Use the correct form of the irregular verb

Who would have ... (think) that we would end up in a worldwide pandemic.
A
been thinking
B
thinks
C
thought

Slide 33 - Quiz

Use the correct form of the irregular verb

TikTok ... (be) the latest social media hype.
A
were
B
was
C
is
D
has been

Slide 34 - Quiz

Use the correct form of the irregular verb

Students at Spinoza20First ... (take) all of their exams online.
A
took
B
take
C
have taken
D
have been taking

Slide 35 - Quiz

Evaluate
EVALUATE

Slide 36 - Slide

I want to say what someone said, but without using their exact words.
A
Direct Speech
B
Past Perfect Simple
C
Indirect Speech
D
Reported Speech

Slide 37 - Quiz

This action happened in the past before another action in the past.
A
Past Perfect
B
Past Simple
C
Past Perfect Simple
D
Past Continuous

Slide 38 - Quiz

These verbs are irregular
A
work
B
think
C
say
D
play

Slide 39 - Quiz