Reported Speech / indirect speech video

REPORTED SPEECH PRACTICE FOR 4 ESO + keys / Practicamos el Estilo Indirecto

1.- Translate the following direct sentences in Spanish into English; Then, change the English sentences into the Indirect or Reported Speech: / Traduce las frases del español al Inglés en estilo directo, después transforma las frases resultantes al estilo Indirecto.



For example:

* Tom: " no quiero comer fruta". (spanish & Direct speech)

1 step: Tom: " I don't want to eat any fruit" (English & direct speech)

2 step: Tom said that he didn't want to eat any fruit (English & Indirect/ reported Speech)

Sentences:

1. Martha: " estoy cansada y hambrienta"
2.El policía: " tú estás conduciento demasiado deprisa en esta autovía"
3. " Quiero ir a la playa ahora" dijo el niño.
4. Mi padre: " Tú no debes llegar tarde hoy"
5. " Si tu estudiaras, aprobarías" dijo el profesor.
6. Peter: " Yo salí ayer con mis amigos"

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reporting verbs practice

In each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below (a, b, c, or d).

REPORTING VERBS ARE THOSE VERBS USED TO INTRODUCED THE REPORTED SPEECH.

EN ESTA ACTIVIDAD PRACTICAMOS LOS VERBOS PARA INTRODUCIR EL ESTILO INDIRECTO.

1. The motorist _______ that the police consider giving a warning instead of a fine for using his mobile while driving.
a) asked b) wondered
c) inquired d) told

2. Many US visitors to the UK _______ on having air conditioning on in their hotel rooms, even when the weather is not hot.
a) order b) advise
c) insist d) ask

3. After telling us about the new students' room, she _______ that we were no longer allowed to drink coffee in classrooms.
a) added b) told
c) replied d) reminded

4. One of the students ________ having the lesson in the garden as it was such beautiful weather that day.
a) advised b) insisted
c) asked d) suggested

5. One of my friends is always ________ getting up early every morning.
a) accusing b) insisting
c) complaining d) denying

6. I was ________ not to return to my home along the coast road but to take a different route through the mountains.
a) insisted b) suggested
c) warned d) promised

7. My friend was arrested last week because he couldn't ________ having explosives in his backpack when the police searched him.
a) accuse b) explain
c) admit d) deny

8. Our teacher apologised ________ one of the students' names for the third time.
a) that he forgot b) for forgetting
c) to not remember d) for he forgot

9. I politely _______ their invitation to go to the pub because I needed to spend more time on my homework.
a) accepted b) replied
c) declined d) denied

10. None of the class members _________ to taking the chocolate while the teacher had been out of the room.
a) admitted b) apologised
c) agreed d) accepted

11. I was totally shocked when the police _________ being a terrorist and warned me that I could be held for thirty days without trial.
a) alleged me b) accused me of
c) suggested me d) claimed me of

12. My lawyer ________ remaining silent and suggested that I tell the police everything I knew about my mysterious flatmate.
a) advised against b) told me not
c) warned d) suggested

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Reported speech practice

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Grammar Point: Reported Speech

Reported Speech

In the English language reported speech affects the sequence of tenses, if the main clause is in the past ("I said", She asked"). It applies to some of the tenses.

TENSES:
1) Present Simple -> Past Simple

I do -> I did
2) Present Continuous -> Past Continunous

I am doing -> I was doing
3) Present Perfect - >Past Perfect

I have done-> I had done
4) Present Perfect Continuous ->Past Perfect Continuous

I have been doing-> I had been doing
5) Past Simple -> Past Perfect

I did-> I had done
6) will ->would

Changes in time and place words (ADVERBS)
here->there
this->that
now->then
yesterday-> the day before
tomorrow -> the day after
last week - the week before
next week - > the week after
ago -> before


Mike said: "I will repair my bike tomorrow"
REPORTED SPEECH: Mike said that he would repair his bike the day after

Modals in the Reported Speech:


Can ->Could

He can swim
REPORTED SPEECH: Mike said he could swim
May ->Might

He may swim
REPORTED SPEECH: Mike said he migth swim
Must ->Had

He must swim
REPORTED SPEECH: Mike said he had to swim
Needn't * ->Did not need

He needn't swim
REPORTED SPEECH: Mike said he didn't need to swim
*needn't is a different way of saying: don't need.

You needn't worry! I will take care of this = You don't need to worry ...
The following modals do not change: Would, could, might, ought to, needn't have, must have, used to.


Reported Questions:

Reported questions have the word order of a statement (postive sentence).
a) questions asking for details (What? Which? Where? Who? When? and so on.)
For example: "Where was your brother yesterday?" We introduce them with the interrogative pronoun.

REPORTED SPEECH: She asked where my borther had been the day before.
b) general questions (yes/no questions) those which can be answered with yes or no, formed using conjunctions like if and whether.
For example: "Are you hungry?"

REPORTED SPEECH: He asked whether I was hungry.

Reported Commands and Requests:

Commands
"Go to bed!"
We use the infinitive with to.
REPORTED SPEECH: He told me to go to bed.
"Don't go to bed!"

REPORTED SPEECH: He told me not to go to bed.
Requests
"Could you buy some eggs?"

REPORTED SPEECH: She asked me to buy some eggs
"Don't buy any eggs, please."

REPORTED SPEECH: She asked me not to buy any eggs