LESSON 01

LESSON 01 

INTRODUCTION TO REPORTED SPEECH

Guidelines for lesson 01

HI ALL!

WELCOME TO THE TOUR OF “Reported speech for grade ten students”

😃First watch the video below and identify the differences between  “ direct speech and indirect speech  ”

😃 Next read the blog post.

DEAR ALL,

PLEASE WATCH THE FOLLOWING LINK

 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rku7Wvr6w48hYZsC3xvB0_6nitrjAx51?usp=sharing

Direct and indirect speech can be a source of confusion for English learners. Let's first define the terms, then look at how to talk about what someone said, and how to convert speech from direct to indirect or vice-versa.

You can answer the question What did he say? in two ways:

• by repeating the words spoken (direct speech)
• by reporting the words spoken (indirect or reported speech).

DIRECT SPEECH these words. We may be reporting something that's being said NOW (for example a telephone conversation), or telling someone later about a previous conversation.

EXAMPLES

Direct speech repeats, or quotes, the exact words spoken. When we use direct speech in writing, we place the words spoken between quotation marks (" ") and there is no change in

• She says, "What time will you be home?"
• She said, "What time will you be home?" and I said, "I don't know! "
• "There's a fly in my soup!" screamed Simone.
• John said, "There's an elephant outside the window."

INDIRECT SPEECH

Reported or indirect speech is usually used to talk about the past, so we normally change the tense of the words spoken. We use reporting verbs like 'say', 'tell', 'ask', and we may use the word 'that' to introduce the reported words. Inverted commas are not used.

She said, "I saw him." (direct speech) = She said that she had seen him. (indirect speech)

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