JUANA MORAL'S ENGLISH SITE: reported speech

ICE-BREAKERS for speaking and writing

This multi-level task was designed using different formats such as a spinning wheel and it's perfect to promote communication and getting to know our students on the first days.

Ice-breakers for speaking and writing all levels. Juana Moral's English Site. ELT.

It involves DUA/UDL principles as it is based on previous knowledge, it presents several forms of implication and promotes understanding in different languages.

1st ESO. A1 levels

Reported speech is a transformation in which we reproduce someone’s words.

Peter says: “I am fed up”

Peter said that he was fed up

Reported speech implies remoteness, we always go backwards in time when we reproduce someone’s words.

Verbal tenses move back into the past.

Pronouns change in the form to imply less proximity) and

Adverbs of place are also replace by others that imply that something is further.

VERBThere is a bakcshift, ie., the verbs take a more REMOTE FORM.
There is a backshift to the past when we want to write a statement in reported speech. It is as if we go upstairs. If we transform reported speech into direct speech we go downstairs.

- SIMPLE TENSES

present simple- simple past- past perfect

-CONTINUOUS TENSES

present continuous-` past continuous

-PERFECT TENSES

present perfect- past perfect

-PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSES:

present perfect continuous--------------past perfect continuous

-MODAL VERBS:

Modal verbs are backshifted as well:
can------ could
will------ would
must------ had to
have to-- have to

ADVERBS AND ADVERBIALS. (including demonstratives)

Here- there
Now- then
Yesterday- the day before
This, these- that, those
Today- that day
Tonight- that night
Tomorrow- the following day/ the next day
Last week/ month/year- the following week…
A week ago- the week before/ the previous week.

REPORTING VERBS:
There are some typical verbs used to introuced reported speech in English. THey have some peculiarities which are worth studying:

-Say* to / that: he said Mary that she had to go out
-Tell+ object+ that/ to= I told Mary to be a good girl. I told Mary that she was a good girl

-Ask, tell, insist, want + someone to do something (CI+ infinitive)
-Refurse/offer/ agree*to
-Complain/ promise/ explain/ admit+ that
-Claim, suggest, answer, respond

iN THE FOLLOWING LINKS, YOU CAN FIND MORE PRACTICE AS WELL AS EXPLANATIONS:

PASSIVE VOICE, REPORTED SPEECH, VERBAL TENSES AND CONDITIONALS.

CLICK HERE

JUANA MORAL'S ENGLISH SITE

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Ice breakers for speaking and writing all levels

ICE-BREAKERS for speaking and writing

REPORTED SPEECH I for 4th ESO and Bachillerato

Reported speech is a transformation in which we reproduce someone’s words.

VERBThere is a bakcshift, ie., the verbs take a more REMOTE FORM.
There is a backshift to the past when we want to write a statement in reported speech. It is as if we go upstairs. If we transform reported speech into direct speech we go downstairs.

Páginas

Ice breakers for speaking and writing all levels

ICE-BREAKERS for speaking and writing

REPORTED SPEECH I for 4th ESO and Bachillerato

Reported speech is a transformation in which we reproduce someone’s words.

VERBThere is a bakcshift, ie., the verbs take a more REMOTE FORM.There is a backshift to the past when we want to write a statement in reported speech. It is as if we go upstairs. If we transform reported speech into direct speech we go downstairs.

VERBThere is a bakcshift, ie., the verbs take a more REMOTE FORM.
There is a backshift to the past when we want to write a statement in reported speech. It is as if we go upstairs. If we transform reported speech into direct speech we go downstairs.