REPORTED SPEECH is always in our daily life because we need to tell the others what we know about something or when somebody told us information.
Prepare your ideas and your examples about when we can use Reported Speech in your life and in your culture.
In this webquest students will learn when you have to use the Reported Speech, besides students will learn the grammar about this topic, which verb tenses we use and how to conjugate them. This topic will help you to improve students' speaking and writing.
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Grades:
- If your news are printed and pasted you have 50 points.
- If all your verbs are well conjugated you have 30 points.
- Readable handwritting and cleaning with no mistakes 20 points.
At the end that's a 100.
Everything must be in the notebook and you must deliver it the day that the teacher said. If it's not like that you grade would be a 0.
Introducción:
REPORTED SPEECH
We have to ways to talk, direct speech and reported speech. The Direct Speech is the normal way that we use, for example:
Teacher: You need to learn this topics for the exam.
In reported speech this sentence would be:
The teacher said that I needed to learn that topics for the exam.
We use Reported Speech to report something that someone else said in the past. Reported Speech usually is used to repeat the information to other people.
When we use Reported Speech, we have two reporting verbs that are:
- SAY and TELL
We use SAY to report something that was said for an amount of people, to make it clear, this kind of situation happens when a reporter, president, teacher or conferencist is talking to a crowd.
We use TELL when somebody tells something to just another person. It is an informal conversation and it's for a few people.
There are ways to report sentences into Reported Speech:
DIRECT SPEECH | REPORTED SPEECH |
When the sentence is in… | The sentence turns to… |
SIMPLE PRESENT | SIMPLE PAST |
SIMPLE PAST | PAST PERFECT |
PRESENT PERFECT | PAST PERFECT |
PAST PERFECT | PAST PERFECT |
PRESENT CONTINUOUS | PAST CONTINUOUS |
PAST CONTINUOUS | PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS |
WILL | WOULD |
CAN | COULD |
It is supposed that we already know all these tenses so we can work with them. If there's a question about this verb tenses you can check your notebook.
Homework:
This homework will help you to practice the reported speech and you will improve your writing making a review of all the grammar and verb tenses.
- Look for news in the news paper and rewrite them using the correct form of Reported Speech.
Here are the steps to do your homework:
1.- Click on the link that is in the Resources Area
2.- Look for some short news that you are intereset in, and then choose the most interesting new for you.
3.- Print the new and paste it in your notebook.
4.- Once your new is pasted, start to rewrite it using Reported Speech in your notebook.
5.- Here's the example:
New York Times | Reported Speech |
The Police discovered a robber when he entered in an empty house and he spent the whole night there. The neighbors heard a strange sound and they notified the police. | The New York Times announced that The Police had discovered a robber when he had entered in an empty house and he had spent the whole night there. The neighbors had heard a strange sound and they had notified the police |
New York Times | Reported Speech |
There is a new pet store in USA that has everything that you can need for your pet. This new store will design everything that you can imagine for your pet. The products are customized with low prices. | The New York Times said that there was a new pet store in USA that had everything that you could need for your pet. This new store would design everything that you could imagine for your pet. Also it said that the products were customized with low prices. |
6.- Check if your verbs are well conjugated and check your grammar.