Liceo Andrés Bello A-94 Coordinación Técnico Pedagógica Departamento de Inglés Srta.: Ivonne Pérez F. Curso: III ° medio
En glish handout Reporte d speech
Objetivos:
-Aplicar patrones gramaticales del estilo indirect. - Identificar tiempos usados en estilo directo para convertirlos a estilo indirecto. -Utilizar correctamente verbos say, offer, tell, order, suggest, ask, etc.
Habilidades:
-Transformar -Aplicar -Reconocer
Reported speech (or indirect speech)is used to say what other person(s) said before, so when we change direct speech into reported speech, we usually go one tense back and we need an appropriate verb to complete the sentence.
In questions, we always use the verb “asked” when we change sentences into reported speech:
i.e. Pablo and Sara: “Why are you so sad?” They asked me why I was so sad.
In other kind of sentences, we can use “said”, “told”, “offered”, “suggested”, etc.
i.e. Tom: “ My wife is going to have a baby “ Tom told me his wife was going to have a baby.
In commands, we use the verb “ordered”
i.e. Alice: “Clean your room!” Alice ordered me to clean my room.
1) Using modal verbs: Directspeech
Reportedspeech
will I'll come and see you soon.
would He said he would come and see me soon.
can I can swim under water for two minutes.
could He said he could swim under water for two minutes.
must All tickets must be bought in advance.
had to He said that all tickets had to be bought in advance.
shall What shall we do about it?
should He asked what we should do about it.
may May I smoke?
might He asked if he might smoke.
2) Using commands:
Directspeech positive imperative Shut up! negative imperative Don't do that again! imperatives as requests Please give me some money.
Reportedspeech tell + infinitive He told me to shut up. tell + not + infinitive He told me not to do it again. ask + infinitive He asked me to give him some money.
3) Using other tens es:
Directspeech
Reportedspeech
present simple I'm a teacher.
past simple He said he was a teacher
present continuous I'm having lunch with my parents.
past continuous. He said he was having lunch with his parents.
present perfect simple I have been to France three times.
past perfect simple He said he had been to France three times.
present perfect continuous I have been working very hard.
past perfect continuous He said he had been working very hard.
past simple I bought a new car.
past perfect He said he had bought a new car.
past continuous It was raining earlier.
past perfect continuous He said it had been raining earlier.
past perfect The play had started when I arrived.
past perfect NO CHANGE POSSIBLE
past perfect continuous I had already been living in London for five years.
past perfect continuous NO CHANGE POSSIBLE
In the case of past perfect simple, past perfect continuous and rd past perfect, we use “HAD + the verb in participle (3 column of the irregular verbs list)”
4) Using questions:
When we have question words (who, why, how, when, etc) in direct speech, we have to maintain the question word but we have to change the order of the question:
Loretta: "How long have you lived in the United States?" Loretta asked me how long United States. Questio n word
person
I
had lived in the
Verb in the correct tense
When we have questions starting with any auxiliary verb (do, does, did, will, etc.) in direct speech, we have to use “if” before the person.
María: “Does your sister study?” María asked me if my sister perso
studied.
Verb in the correct tense
We make some changes in the adverbs of place and time in the following cases: now
then
today
that day
here
there
this thisweek tomorrow
next week
that thatweek the following day the next day the day after the following week the next week the week after
yesterday
the previous day the day before
last week
the previous week the week before
ago
previously before
2 weeks ago
2 weeks previously 2 weeks before
tonight
thatnight
last Saturday
the previous Saturday the Saturday before
next Saturday
the following Saturday the next Saturday the Saturday after that Saturday
EXERCISES
Susan: “I went to the theatre last night.”
Peter: “I'm staying here until next week.”
Vin: "Harold has left already."
Cindy: "The students didn’t have problems with the computers."
Rose: "I can work on Saturday."
My father: "Go to your room."
Malinda: "Why did you come to the United States?"
Claudio: “Do you like to travel on vacation?"
Try the following page with interactive exercises:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reportedspeech/exercises?10
