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Reported Speech I (A2 & B1&2)

The team: We don’t have the report ready yet. The boss: They said they didn't have the report ready yet. Hozna: I read a lot when I have spare time. You: She said she read a lot when she had spare time. Mom: I cook for all of us every day. Kids: She said she cooked for all of us every day.

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Reported Speech I (A2 & B1&2)

The team: We don’t have the report ready yet. The boss: They said they didn't have the report ready yet. Hozna: I read a lot when I have spare time. You: She said she read a lot when she had spare time. Mom: I cook for all of us every day. Kids: She said she cooked for all of us every day.

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REPORTED SPEECH I

Present - Simple past

Banff National Park- Alberta,


Reported speech I
Reported speech direct speech
is the way you can Tom: Are you ok?
Mary: He asked me if I was ok.
tell, explain, write,
indirect speech
or say something
in your own words direct speech
by changing the Girl: Dad, I love you to the moon and
verb tense. back.
Dad: She said she loved me to the moon
and back.
indirect speech
Reported speech I
Examples:
Son: Mom, I want an ice Nathan: I travel a lot
cream. because of my job.
Mom: He said he wanted Woman: He said he traveled
an ice cream. a lot because of his job.

Me: I always drink beer on Me: I don't want to go to


weekends. the party.
You: She said she always Her: She said she didn't
drank beer on weekends. want to go to the party.
Reported speech I: Rules
Charles: I like to sing Adele’s songs.
Martha: He said he liked to sing Adele’s
Verb tenses change: songs.
You must change Mark: I smoke a box of cigarettes per day.
them from the Present Peter: He said he smoked a box of
tense to the Past cigarettes per day.
tense.
Matt: I play soccer since I was a child.
Present → Past Anthony: He said he played soccer since
he was a child.
Reported speech I: Rules
Anna: I can come here tomorrow.
Me: Anna said she could come here
Modal verbs also change: tomorrow.

You must change Tony: I can help you with that as soon as I
them from the Present finish with this.
tense to the Past Bill: Tony said he could help me with this
tense. as soon as he finished that.

Present → Past Dad: You must finish your homework.


Son: Dad said I had to finish my
homework.
Reported speech I: Rules
Sonia: I'm very happy now.
Mike: Sonia said she was very happy at
that moment.
Adverbs of time also
change: Zoe: We are having a party tonight.
You must change
Frank: Zoe said that they were having a
them from the Present
party that night.
tense to the Past
tense. My Friends: We want to go to the beach

Present → Past tomorrow.


Me: They said they wanted to go to the
beach the next day.
Reported speech I: Adverbs

Direct Speech Reported Speech


Now At that moment
Today That day
Tonight That night
This day/week/month/year That day/week/month/year
Tomorrow The next day
Next day/week/month/year The following day/week/month/year
Yesterday The day before
Last week/month/year The previous week/month/year
Complete the sentence with the correct verb in the past tense:

I sleep eight hours every day, thank God.


He said he _________ eight hours.
Complete!

Kids, please clean up everything and go to bed.


She said ____________ everything.

Do you want to buy a new watch?


They asked me if I _________ to buy a new watch.

I don’t want to wash the dishes again.


He said he ___________ to wash the dishes today.
Complete the sentence with the correct verb in the past tense:

Martha: I have to buy sugar, there is no sugar left.


Charles: Martha said she _______ to buy sugar

Complete!
because there ______ no sugar left.

Penny: I study a lot and I still always have bad grades.


Paul: She said she ________ a lot and she still always
_______ bad grades.

Emma: I don't bathe the baby every hour. I bath him


once a day.
Sara: She said she _________ the baby every hour, that
she _________ him once a day.
Complete the sentence with the correct verb in the past tense:

The team: We don’t have the report ready yet.


The boss: _____________________________________.
Complete!

Hozna: I read a lot when I have spare time.


You: ___________________________________________.

Mom: I cook for all of us every day.


Kids: ___________________________________________.

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