Direct and indirect speech

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

welcome!

past perfect

reading: chaucer

indirect speech

Grammar time!

Goal:

At the end of this class, 

you know how to use the 

Past Perfect (in combination

with the Past Simple).

What do you know already?

Past Perfect

What is happening in this sentence?

When he arrived to the train station, the train had already left.

What happened

first?

Fill in the Past Perfect:
When I walked in, the meeting ___already___ (start).

Fill in the Past Perfect:
After he ______ (pass) his exam, he trew a party.

Fill in the Past Perfect:
He was shocked because he ____ never ____ (see) anything like this.

Great! Now let's practise a bit with the Present Perfect and the Past Simple.

In every question, look carefully what happened first (past perfect) and what happened next (past simple).

When they _______ (finish) school, they _______ (go) to the mall.

1. had finished - went
2. finished - had gone

They ________ (show) me the pictures they ________ (take) during their holiday.

1. had shown - took
2. showed - had taken

The boy _______ (be) sorry for what he ______ (do).

1. had been - did
2. was - had done

What did you think when you heard this kind of music?

A story from...?

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote

The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,

And bathed every veyne in swich licour,

Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

From what time are these lines?

1. 800
2. 1000
3. 1400
4. 1900

Middle Ages 

(medieval)

- 400 to 1500

- People divided in social groups (3 groups)

- Most important: King (or later Queen)

The Canterbury Tales

Buzz question (you can look this up on your phone):

1. Where is Canterbury?

2. How far is it from your home?

3. How far is it from London to Canterbury?

Canterbury

- Now 19 hours, in medieval times it would take days to travel there

- By horse, by mule, by carriage

- The people in The Canterbury Tales tell stories on their way to Canterbury

The Canterbury Tales

- Written by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343(?) - 1400)

- About pilgrims that travel from London to Canterbury

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The Canterbury Tales

- Not finished (124 stories was Chaucer's goal)

- Chaucer dies

- Chaucer actually completed only twenty-two, although two more exist in fragments

Pilgrimage (pelgrimstocht)

- Pilgrimages are still happening nowadays

- Also from London to Canterbury

- "Pilgrimage is time set apart from normal daily life in which people travel to a holy place."

What did we learn today?

- The Canterbury Tales was written by Geoffrey Chaucer.

- It contains stories, told by people from medieval society.

- It is not finished.

- What pilgrimages are.

let's work

activity book page 8

exercise 5,6

Turn into indirect speech:
"What time does the train arrive?" she asked ........

1. what time the train arrived
2. when the train arrived
3. what time the train arrives
4. when the train did arrived

Julie: I want to go out.
INDIRECT SPEECH

1. Julie said that I want to go out
2. Julie said that she want to go out.
3. Julie said that she wanted to go out.
4. Julie said that she had wanted to go out.

My cousins: We worked all night.
INDIRECT SPEECH

1. My cousins said that we worked all night.
2. My cousins said they had worked all night.
3. My cousins said they worked all night.

Turn into indirect speech:
Peter said to John: "Why are you so late?"

1. Peter asked to John why he so late was
2. Peter asked John how late he was
3. Peter asked John when he was late
4. Peter asked John why he was so late

your work

activity book page 9-10 

exercise 8,9,10 

+ exercise 7 in Magister