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Unit 8: Reported speech and reporting verbs

Today

Focus on reported speech

You can define and 
apply the passive form

You can make direct sentences into indirect sentences and apply reporting verbs.
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Today

Focus on reported speech

You can define and 
apply the passive form

You can make direct sentences into indirect sentences and apply reporting verbs.

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Indirect speech

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Rule no 1: Backshift
Take a step back in time
Present simple > Past simple
Jessie: "I am happy with my mark for English."
Maria: "Jessie said that she was happy with her mark for English"
Present continuous > Past continuous
Jessie: "I am going to visit my aunt."
Maria: "Jessie said that she was going to visit her aunt." 

Past simple   >   Past perfect
Jessie: "Last week I worked at McDonalds."
Maria: "Jessie said that she had worked at McDonalds the week before."

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Rule no 2: make some changes
Change pronouns and references to  place and time
Jessie: "My parents and I will visit our aunt."
Maria: "Jessie said that her parents and she would visit their aunt."
Jessie: Yesterday I was at school, but today I am at home."
Maria: "Jessie said that the day before she had been at school, but  that day she was at home."

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We do not change the following:
  • Modal verbs: could, would, should, might, ought to and used to.
  • must when it's negative.
  • must when used as a logical deduction.
When must is used in order to express an opbligation is becomes: had to

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Questions in reported speech
  • We use a full stop not a question mark
  • We use if or whether with Yes/No questions. 
  • We often use the following reporting verbs to introduce the reported questions:
ask, wonder, 
want to know, 
enquired

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Be aware of negative imperatives!
Mother: Tom, don't touch this iron!


Mother warned Tom not to touch the/that iron.

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Slide 10 - Video

Homework revision
The key of OW can be found under Important documents (magister studyplanner). Check the exercises you made for weektask 38. Improve answers in a different colour. In this way I can monitor your progress easily.  Done? Continue with weektask 39

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