Inglés - 4B - 17 de marzo - reported speech

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English - 4B

Reported speech

Time and place in reported speech

Let's practise

1. "Where do you live?", she asked me.

2. "Do you speak English?", he asked me.

3. "When do the children sing?", I asked Tom.

4. "What did they build?", I asked Paul.

5. "Who did you meet?", Tina asked me.

6. "Have you seen the dog?", he asked Tom.

7. "Has she ridden a horse?", I asked.

8. "When will you return?", she asked me.

9. "What have they said?", she asked Tom.

10. "Did you see the film last week?", I asked her.

• She asked me where I  lived.

• He asked me if I spoke English. 

• I asked Tom when the children sang. 

• I asked Paul what they had built.

• Tina asked me who I had met. 

• He asked Tom if he had seen the dog. 

• I asked if she had ridden a horse. 

• She asked me when I would return. 

• She asked Tom what they had said. 

• I asked her if she had seen the film the other week. 

We don't change the tense when:

1. the  reporting verb is present or present perfect
2. we are reporting a past perfect verb, would, could, should or had better

Reported speech with say and tell

1. If we mention who is spoken to, we usually use tell. We don't use to before the person spoken to.
2. We use tell with the infinitive to report instructions.
3. After say, we don't have to mention who is spoken to.
4. After say, if we do mention who is spoken to, we put to before the person.

Let's practise

Make exercises 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (SB) p. 72

Reporting verbs

We use the reported speech when we want to tell someone what another person said without using his/her exact words, adapting them to the new circumstances in which they are repeated.

Examples on page 76

(Let's listen to exercises 2 & 4 on page 76)

Let's practise some more!

Make exercises 5, 6 (SB) p. 76

&

exercises 1, 2, 3, 4 (WB) p. 62