Transcript Reported Speech Teens 4

Reported Speech
Teens 4
Direct and
indirect or
reported
speech
We use direct speech to show
the exact words that a person
used:
Julia: ‘I want to go home’
We use reported speech to tell
somebody else what a person
said.
Julia said (that) she wanted to go
home.
I’m going to
work in Spain
next year.
Last week
Meg ran into
Rachel, a
friend she
hadn’t seen
for a long time
I work for a
small
Company.
I hope my
friends will
come and visit
me.
I went there
last week with
my secretary
I’ve been chosen
to run a new
office in
Barcelona
What are you
going to do in
Spain?
Where do you
work?
Do you know
Barcelona?
Write to me,
please
She told me she was
going to work in Spain
the following year.
Yesterday
Meg met Alice
and told her
all the things
Rachel had
said.
She told me she worked
for a small Company.
She said she hoped her
friends would come and
visit her.
She said she had been there
the previous week with her
secretary.
She said she had been
chosen to run a new
office in Barcelona.
Reported
Statements
After a past tense reporting
verb the original verbs
usually shift one tense into
the past, and the pronouns
and possessive adjectives
change.
Direct Speech
Reported
Statements
Present Simple
Present Continuous
Past Simple
Present Perfect Simple
Past Continuous
Present perfect cont.
Past Perfect Simple and
Continous
Indirect or
Reported Speech
Past Simple
Past Continuous
Past Perfect Simple
Past perfect Simple
Past perfect Cont.
Past perfect cont.
No change
Direct Speech
Reported
Statements
Indirect or
Reported Speech
am/is/are going to
Was/were going to
Will
Would
Can
Could
May
Might
Must/have to
Had to
Should/could/might/ought No change
to/would
Expressions of
time and place
I asked her where
she worked.
… and all the
things she had
asked and
requested
Rachel.
I asked her
if/whether she
knew Barcelona.
I told her to write
to me.
I asked what she
was going to do in
Spain.
That’s awesome!
Reported
questions
We change tenses and
expressions of time and place in
reported questions in the same
way as reported statements.
When we report direct questions, we
change the word order and use
IF/WHETHER
DIRECT
QUESTIONS
‘Can I have a drink?’, she asked
She asked IF/WHETHER she could have a
drink.
 If/whether
 Word order of statements
 No auxiliary
When we report WH- questions
we use the same question word
and change the word order.
WHQUESTIONS
‘Where does Sally live?’, she asked
She asked where Sally lived.
 WH- word
 Word order of statements
 No auxiliary
Reported
commands/
requests
When telling somebody to do
something we use:
TO + infinitive
‘Go away’, she said to him.
She told him TO go away.
The most common reporting verbs are
SAY and TELL.
She said (that) she was leaving
They said (that) they were going on holiday.
Say or tell?
We can use TELL when we know who
somebody is talking to.
She told him/her (that) she was leaving.
They told me (that) they were going on
holiday.