Indirect / Reported Speech

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Today's plan

- Test next week (reading)

- Instruction

- Reading a book this period

- Exercises + homework

Reading test next week

- Use the exyra reading material in classroom to prepare

- Bring a dictionary when you have the test

Reported Speech

• Reported speech = Indirect Speech
• Direct Speech: ​

    Something is said directly, sentence is between inverted commas "..."​

      Direct: June said, "It is my car."

      Indirect: June said that it was her car.

Tara said, "I work here every day."

1. Tara said that he works here every day."
2. Tara said that he works there every day."
3. Tara said that he worked here everyday."
4. Tara said that he worked there everyday."

"He will come tomorrow".
She told me that he ________ tomorrow.

1. is coming
2. will come
3. would come
4. will came

Change to reported speech
Fien: "I am watching Netflix."

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.
4. My cousins said we had worked all night.

Turn the sentence to indirect speech:
''I never make mistakes'', he said.

Tenses change. 

What do you think the rule might be?  

John (Direct speech): ' I am really hungry'

Amy (Reported speech): John said that he was really hungry.

John (Direct): 'I am meeting Paul for dinner'

Amy (Reported): John said he was meeting Paul for dinner. 

John (Direct): 'we bought an electric car' 

Amy (Reported): John said that he had bought an electric car

5/5 They asked, "should we hand this in?"

Transform this sentence from direct speech to indirect / reported speech. On the next slide you'll find out whether your

answer was correct.

had to

the next day

they

in two days' time

this week

last night

'must' changes to _____ in reported speech.

'tomorrow' changes to ______ in reported speech.

The personal pronoun 'we' changes to _______ in reported speech.

'the day after tomorrow' changes to ______ in reported speech.

the night before, Thursday night

that week, last week

Now lets go to the book

Do the following

Chapter 3

Exercise 50, 51 and 52

Done?

Exercise 1+2 from the book (classroom)

Homework:

- Bring a dictionary next week

- Do extra reading in classroom

- Submit exercise 1 + 2 and 3 from the book exercises (classroom)

Not done? You have to come back the same afternoon