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-What do you know about Reported speech? -Ok, today we will speak about reported speech and do exercises ok?! -Now, look at this rule-pictures. DIRECT AND INDIRECT (OR REPORTED) SPEECH. INTRODUCTION There are two ways of relating what a person has said: direct and indirect. In direct speech we repeat the original speaker’s exact words: He said, “I have lost my umbrella.” Remarks thus repeated are placed between inverted commas, and a comma is placed immediately before the remark. Direct speech is found in conversations in books, in plays and in quotations. In indirect speech we give the exact meaning of a remark or a speech, without necessarily using the speaker’s exact words: He said (that) he had lost his umbrella. There is no comma after say in indirect speech. that can usually be omitted after say and tell + object. But it should be kept after other verbs: complain, explain, object, point out, protest etc. Indirect speech is normally used when conversation is reported verbally, though direct speech is sometimes here to give a more dramatic effect. When we turn direct speech into indirect, some changes are usually necessary.
-Ok, now look at the book at page 116 exercise 1. Exercise 1: Match the sentences with the pictures. You’ve got two minutes.
Tapescript / answers: 1 c My brother really annoys me. 2 g I get on well with my parents. 3 e Don’t argue! Turn that music off now. 4 a They’re having a row. 5 b Kelly is Tara’s closest friend. 6 f I love my dog and my dog loves me. We love each other. 7 d I spend a lot of time with my friends.
Exercise 2 a: Listen to three British teenagers and follow in your book. Are they like teenagers in your country? Exercise 2 c: Match 1-5 with a-e and make true sentences. (1-e 2-a 3-d 4-c 5-b)
-Good, then we will work with grammar without book. Now I’ll give you papers with tasks.
Task 1: Change this direct speech into reported speech: 1. “He works in a bank” She said __________________________________ 2. “We went out last night” She told me________________________________ 3. “I’m coming!” She said __________________________________ 4. “I was waiting for the bus when he arrived” She told me _______________________________ 5. “ I’d never been there before” She said__________________________________
Reported statements: Answers 1. She said (that) he worked in a bank. 2. She told me (that) they went (had gone) out last night (the night before). 3. She said (that) she was coming. 4. She told me (that) she was waiting for the bus when he arrived. 5. She said (that) she had never been there before.
Task 2: Change these direct questions into reported speech: 1. “Where is he?” She asked me ____________________________ 2. “What are you doing?” She asked me ____________________________ 3. “Why did you go out last night?” She asked me ____________________________ 4.“Who was that beautiful woman?” She asked me ____________________________ 5. “How is your mother?” She asked me_____________________________
Reported Questions – Answers: 1. She asked me where he was. 2. She asked me what I was doing. 3. She asked me why I went (had gone) out last night. 4. She asked me who that beautiful woman was. 5. She asked me how my mother was.
-Ok, let’s continue our exercises. Look at the book to exercise 4. Write sentences with He/ She/ They said… Answers: 2 They sais (that) they were going away 3 He said (that) he didn’t know. 4 She said (that) she had a new car. 5 He said (that) he could speak Chinese. 6 She said (that) she looked like her sister. 7 He said (that) he didn’t often go out. 8 They said (that) they loved each other. | 
