10 graders: Reported Speech

Aims:

√Review the rules

√Working on the Reported Speech                                                 

Direct Speech		Reported Speech
Present Simple	write(s)	Past Simple	wrote
Present Continuous	is/are writing	Past Continuous	was/were writing
Present Perfect	has written	Past Perfect	had written
Present Perfect Continuous	have/has been writing	Past Perfect Continuous	had been writing
Past Simple	wrote	Past Perfect	had written
Past Continuous	was/were writing	Past Perfect Continuous	had been writing
Future	will write	Conditional	would write
Modal Verbs – can; may write		Modal Verbs – could; might write
Imperative	Write! Don’t write!	Infinitive	to write not to write

       

Exercises

A.    Yesterday you met a friend of yours. He told you a lot of things. Here are some of the things he said to you. 

Later that day you tell another friend what he said…

1.  ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………

4. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………

5. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………

6. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………

B.     Someone says something to you which is the opposite of what they said before. You have to answer           I thought you said…

“ That restaurant is expensive” – I thought you said it wasn’t expensive.

1.      “Ann is coming to the party.” ” I thought you said she …………………………………………………………………..………………………………………..”

2.       “They have got many friends”  “I thought you said

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….”

3.      “I’ll see them next week” “ I thought you said ……………………………………………………………………………………………….………..…..”

4.      “I can afford a holiday this year” “ I thought you said ………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………....”

5.      “Tom worked very hard last year” “I thought you said

………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…..”

C.    Now you have to read a sentence and write a new sentence with the same meaning.

1.      “Eat more fruit and vegetables”, the doctor said.

The doctor said ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2.      “Read the instructions before you switch on the machine!”

He told ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3.      “Can you speak more slowly? I can’t understand”, she said to me.

She asked …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

because ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

4.      “Don’t keep all the bad things to yourself”, I told him.

               I told …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

D. These are some questions taken from a magazine!

          1. What do you think about the use of Internet among teens?

              2. Is printing press the most used mean of communication now?

              3. Will he listen to more radio in the near future?

              4. When is television going to turn into a new computer?

The magazine asked…

1.       ………………………………………………………………………………………..

2.      …………………………………………………………………………………………

3.      …………………………………………………………………………………………

4.      …………………………………………………………………………………………