Therefore, 30 cows in a field, 20 ate chickens --> 10 cows didn’t eat chicken.
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Learning objective
- You know the difference between direct and indirect/reported speech
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Direct speech
- You use direct speech to repeat the direct words that someone has said -->
these sentences are placed between quotation marks
'I missed my train,' he said.
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Indirect speech
- You use indirect/reported speech to retell what someone else has said --> the sentences have already been spoken so reported speech is often in the past tense
He said he missed his train.
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Direct to indirect
- You usually change the tense
- You have to change the possessive pronouns in indirect speech
'I love my dress,' she said.
She said she loved her dress.
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Tenses
present simple --> past simple
present continuous --> past continuous
past simple --> past perfect
present perfect --> past perfect
will --> would
am/are/is going to --> was/were + going to
past perfect --> past perfect
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Time to practise
Exercise 51 A
Finished? Do exercise 52
timer
6:00
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Answers
He said it had been too long since he had played this game.
My mother asked who was talking to me on the computer.
My uncle once said that MP3 players were a thing of the past.
The presenter said that we would fly to Mars in 2050.
My grandmother worryingly said that robots were going to take over the world.
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Worksheet
Change the sentences from indirect to direct and the other way around
timer
15:00
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"Have you ever been to Disneyland," she asked.
She asked if I had ever been to Disneyland.
He said (that) he had no intention of quitting his job.
"I have no intention of quitting my job," he said.
