GOOD MORNING MY super-wonderful STUDENTS!
WELCOME TO THE ENGLISH CLASS!
We're going to continue learning about REPORTED SPEECH:
We have learnt about the reported speech and the backshift of tenses ( changes in the tense of verbs) / Hemos aprendido que en el estilo indirecto se cambian los verbos del estilo directo al indirecto. A ese cambio en los verbos los llamamos Backshift of tenses y os recuerdo que son los siguientes:
- Direct Speech → Peter: “I work in the garden.”
- Reported Speech → Peter said (that)* he worked in the garden.
| Direct Speech | Reported Speech |
|---|---|
| Simple forms | |
| Simple Present | Simple Past |
| Simple Past | Past Perfect |
| Present Perfect | |
| Past Perfect | |
| will | would |
| Progressive forms | |
| am/are/is | was/were |
| was/were | had been |
| has been | |
| had been | |
But there are more changes, not only the verbs. Take a look!
Conversion of expressions of time and place
If there is an expression of time/place in the sentence, it may be changed, depending on the situation.
- Direct Speech → Peter: “I worked in the garden yesterday.”
- Reported Speech → Peter said (that) he had worked in the garden the day before.
ACTIVITY 1. Copy the following chart above in your notebooks.
copia la tabla de arriba en vuestras libretas
ACTIVITY 2. Follow the link and do the exercise online, then check your answers (just do it, don't write it down or send me screenshots):
ACTIVITY 2. Follow the link and do the exercise online, then check your answers (just do it, don't write it down or send me screenshots):
ACTIVITY 3. Copy the following chart below in your notebooks.
Copia la tabla de abajo en vuestras libretas
Copia la tabla de abajo en vuestras libretas
Change of persons/pronouns
If there is a pronoun in Direct Speech, it has possibly to be changed in Reported Speech, depending on the situation.
- Direct Speech → Susan: “I work in an office.”
- Reported Speech → Susan said (that)* she worked in an office.
Here I is changed to she.
ACTIVITY 4. Follow the link and do the exercise online, then check your answers:
