Reported speech part 2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Change to reported (indirect) speech
Kayra "I like reading books."

Change to reported speech
Tijmen: "I have never seen him before."

Change to reported speech
Ms Kwakkenbos: "I can't believe my eyes."

Change to reported speech
Sietske: "I am watching Netflix."

Change back to direct speech
Babice said they were getting hungry.

Questions?

What's going on in this picture?

What is going on in this picture?

What do you see that makes you say that?

What more can you find?

What's going on in this picture?

What is going on in this picture?

What do you see that makes you say that?

What more can you find?

Reveal

This image comes from the March 24, 2020 article “Nearly a Million Children Left Behind in Venezuela as Parents Migrate.” Meridith Kohut is the photographer.

The story documents the effects of the years-long economic crisis in Venezuela. Many parents have been forced to go abroad in search of work, leaving hundreds of thousands of children in the care of relatives, friends and others.

From the article

Down a wide street here in the state capital, Maracaibo, sits a modest building, painted blue, called Casa Hogar Carmela Valera.

It is a boarding school for girls in need, run by cheery nuns who swish down its sunny hallways in long black habits. In the past, students came here after parents died or began to use drugs. Today, at least half of its residents have a parent abroad.

The girls share a peach-colored bedroom, a kitchen, a chapel, a small mess hall and patio with a basketball court and a stage.

The school has seen better times. It has running water for a short period about every two weeks, and the girls shower, cook and flush the toilet using water they save in any containers they can find. They have no light bulbs for one of their two bathrooms, which means they brush their teeth on slippery floors in the dark.

From the article

Sister Wendy Khalil, 39, said that the home is desperate for everything: Antibiotics, shampoo, toilet paper, vegetables, water tanks.

But her biggest concern is providing a degree of normalcy for her charges, keeping them busy with homework assignments and the occasional movie night so that they don’t have time to think about anything else.

“Say no to depression,” reads one of the signs on the patio. Last year, one of the students locked herself in the bathroom and threatened suicide after her parents left the country.

One day last month, the girls woke just after dawn, brushed their hair and headed to the chapel, where a priest led them in passionate prayer, accompanied by a nun on a guitar.

Next week

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Make sure you study and know all the grammar we have done so far: the verb tenses, active and passive, first and second conditional, have/get something done, adverbs and reported speech.

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