5H 1009 Grammar Indirect Speech III

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Welcome!

Road map

• BBC One Minute World News
• Assignments 4, 5
• Indirect Speech part III
• Work on assignments

BBC One minute world news

• Watch the clip
• What are the two/three topics that are being discussed? 
• What is your idea/opinion about ..... 

www.bbc.com

Lesson Goal

At the end of this class you can describe how modals behave when direct speech is transposed to indirect speech

and

you can list at least two instances in which there are no changes when direct speech is transposed to indirect speech.

Imporant because:

you can use the techniques in your letters and essays (Part of the 5H PTA). 

Road map

• Test talk
• Grammar practice: conditionals 

Black Story

In the middle of the pavement Mollie and Minnie are lying in a pool of blood. What has happened?

Mollie = a cat,

She is cat, owned by a couple living on the third floor of an appartment building. The couple was fighting and the man threw Mollie to his wife (rather cruel). Mollie, however, missed the wife, and flew out of the window. She landed on Minnie, an elderly lady who was just passing by. She fell on the pavement (hit it with her head) and died, together with Mollie. 

Questions

Open questions: Interrogative pronoun - who / where / why / when / how, etc. 

• Where do you live? = She asked me where I lived.

Closed questions (yes/no), start with a verb.

• Have you seen my dog? = She asked me whether/if I had seen her dog. 
• Did you go to school today? = He asked me if I had gone to school on Tuesday.
• whether is more formal, if is more informal. 
• use whether after a preposition

Imporant because:

you can use the techniques in your letters and essays (Part of the 5H PTA). 

Imperatives

Imperatives are transposed into reported speech by using 'told me/you/him/her/us/them to ....'

• She told us: Do this! Do that! Don't do that!
  

She told us to do this. 

She told us to do that. 

She told us not to do that.

Imporant because:

you can use the techniques in your letters and essays (Part of the 5H PTA). 

Any Questions?

Assignments 1.1B and 1.1C

Imporant because:

you can use the techniques in your letters and essays (Part of the 5H PTA). 

Modal verbs

Modals: can, may, will, must etc. 

Esp. when you use a past form but are not actually talking about the past/it is something that did not/could not/would not actually happen.

I could have danced all night

I could have danced all night

And still have begged for more

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things

I've never done before    -       Julie Andrews

Imporant because:

you can use the techniques in your letters and essays (Part of the 5H PTA). 

Modal verbs

I don't know your face no more

It's just a place I'm looking for

We might as well be strangers in another town

We might as well be living in a different world

- Keane 

Imporant because:

you can use the techniques in your letters and essays (Part of the 5H PTA). 

Past tenses

Often do not change when transposed from direct to indirect speech except when it could lead to some kind of misunderstanding.

They arrived on Tuesday

1. He told us they had arrived on Tuesday  

2. He told us they arrived on Tuesday. 

Both are correct here. But beware! 

Imporant because:

you can use the techniques in your letters and essays (Part of the 5H PTA). 

Past tenses

The past continuous is often unchanged as well, unless there is a clear contrast between 'before' and 'after'.

He said, 'I was watching tv when you arrived'.

He told me he was watching tv when I arrived. 

She said, 'We were thinking of moving to the city, but we have decided to stay here'.

She told us that they had been thinking of moving to the city but that they had decided to stay there.

Imporant because:

you can use the techniques in your letters and essays (Part of the 5H PTA). 

Hour #2

Work on option of choice:

• Finish assignments from Alquin
  
• Work on your grammar assignments
  
• Finish the examtext

• Read a book

Imporant because:

you can use the techniques in your letters and essays (Part of the 5H PTA). 

Looking ahead

Tuesday 14/09: Finish Grub's up! assignments

Thursday 16/09: Examtexts

Friday 17/09: Finished: GRO Chapter 4 ex. 7, 8

Start: Chapter 5 Conditionals