reported speech

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Welcome!

Happy to see you today!

Take a seat and wait till we get started!

Today:

• some organisational stuff
• practice with the modals
• explain reported speech 
• work on task if time left

goal: you can use the modal verbs and know what reported speech is

Tests

Irregular verbs test: 

want to do it tomorrow or after breekweek? 

People who still need to catch up on a test: when? 

The task 

Need to make pairs of 2

Who's gonna pair up with who? 

Modal verbs

Who remembers what they were? 

When do you use them? 

Example sentences? 

past tense? 

Let's practice

on the worksheet: 

First exercise about normal modal verbs

second exercise about modal verbs in the past tense 

Let's discuss the answers

reported speech / indirect speech

"he said... - she said..."

Rules for transcribing

"I'm eating some tacos"

1. He said he eats tacos
2. he said he was eating tacos
3. he ate tacos
4. he has eaten tacos

"I didn't like these tacos"

1. He said he didn't like these tacos
2. He said he doesn't like tacos
3. He doesn't like tacos
4. These tacos weren't liked by him

"I bought these tacos yesterday"

1. He said he was buying these tacos yesterday
2. He said he had been buying these tacos yesterday
3. He has bought these tacos yesterday
4. He said he bought these tacos yesterday

"I haven't had tacos in forever"

1. He said he hadn't had tacos in forever
2. He didn't have tacos in forever
3. He said he didn't have tacos in forever
4. He didn't have tacos

"I think I'll have tacos today"

1. He said he'd have tacos today
2. He said he might have tacos today
3. He said he would have tacos today
4. He said he will have tacos today

"I want tacos"

"I should take the tacos out of the oven"

"I was eating a taco today"

Get to work

study the irregular verbs

work on the task 

practice online with reported speech

Bye!

Have a nice day!