Reported speech

Direct speech vs. Reported speech

What did Bart say?

Direct speech

Bart said, “Nobody loves me.”

Reported speech
(also known as Indirect speech)

Bart said that nobody loved him..

What changes can you see?

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 Reported Speech
Changing Reference Words
Types of Reference Words
Changing Pronouns
Changing Pronouns
Changing Pronouns
 Changing Time and Place Words

• Examples:
“There is a big party tonight”, July said. (Saturday)
July said there was a big party last night. (Sunday)
July said there was a big party that night. (Few weeks later)

“The party will be here in my home”, said Mike.

Mike said the party would be there in his home.
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 Reported Speech
Changing Verb Tenses
Reported (Indirect) Speech can be introduced by a verb in
present tense, when we are:

A. Reporting a conversation that is still going

B. Reading a letter and reporting what it says
C. Reading intructions and reporti them
D. Reporting a statement that someone makes very often.
When the introductory verb is in present, present perfect or
future, report the direct speech without any change of tense.
Example
PAUL (phoning from the station): I’m trying to get a taxi.

ANN (to Mary, who is standing beside her): Paul says he is trying
to get a taxi.

BUT, reported speech is usually introduced by a verb in

past tense, that’s why verbs in the reported (indirect)
speech have to be changed into the corresponding past
tense.

Example
Bart said, nobody loved him…
SOME VERB TENSES CHANGES ARE
SHOWN IN THE FOLLOWING TABLE
DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH

Simple Present Simple Past

“I never eat meat”, he explained. He explained (that) he never ate meat.
Present Continuous Past Continuous
“I’m waiting for Ann”, he said. He said (that) he was waiting for Ann.
Simple Past Past Perfect
“I took it home with me”, she said. She said (that) he had taken it home with her.
Future (will) Conditional (would)
He said, “I will be in Paris on Monday”. He said (that) he would be in Paris on Monday.
** Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous remain the same in direct and indirect speech.
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 Direct speech Reported (indirect) speech
• Present Simple  • Past Simple
“My students love English,” the The teacher declared that her students
teacher declared. loved English.

• Past Continuous
• Present Continuous  The students said that they were
“We are listening attentively,” the listening attentively.
students said.
• Past Perfect
• Present Perfect  Lara confessed that she hadn’t written
her essay.
“I haven’t written my essay,” Lara
confessed.
• Past Perfect Continuous
The students emphasized that they had
• Present Perfect Continuous been studying for hours for that
“We have been studying for hours exam.
for this exam,” the students
emphasized.
• Past Simple  • Past Perfect
“The test yesterday was awful,” Students murmured that the test
students murmured. the day before had been awful.
• Past Perfect Continuous
• Past Continuous 
Vedran made clear that he had
“I got an F because Dino was gotten an F because Dino had
distracting me,” Vedran made clear. been distrscting him.

• Past Perfect 
• Past Perfect
“I didn’t correct your tests because I
had lost them,” the teacher The teacher revealed that she
revealed. hadn’t corrected our tests
because she had lost them.
• Past Perfect Continuous
“I hadn’t been listening to you at all,” • Past Perfect Continuous
the teacher admitted. The teacher admitted that she
hadn’t been listening to us at all.
• WILL  • WOULD
“You will get extra homework,” The teacher shouted that we
the teacher shouted. would get extra homework.

• CAN  • COULD
“I can help you with this task,” Lucija whispered that she could
Lucija whispered. help me with that task.

• MIGHT
• MAY 
Antonia declared that she might
“I may not be in school
not be in school the next day.
tomorrow,” Antonia declared.

• Imperative 
• Infinitive
“Open your workbooks,” the
The teacher told us to open our
teacher told us. workbooks.
Who said it?
 Albert Einstein

Anne Frank Winston

Churchill

Mark Twain
Pablo Picasso

Nelson Mendela

Eleanor Roosevelt Thomas Edison

Anyone who has never made a mistake has
never tried anything new.

"We all live with the objective of being happy;

our lives are all different and yet the same."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000

ways that won't work."

Twenty years from now you will be

more disappointed by the things
that you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph
over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who
conquers that fear.”

“I am always doing that which I

cannot do, so that I may learn
how to do it.”

“Never give in, never give in, never;

never; never; never - in nothing, great
or small, large or petty - never give in
except to convictions of honor and
good sense”

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their

dreams."
 Albert Einstein
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has
never tried anything new.”
 A.Einstein said that anyone who had never
made a mistake had never tried anything new.
 Anne Frank
"We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same."
A.Frank said that we all lived with the objective
of being happy;
our lives were all different and yet the same.
 Winston Churchill
“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in
nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in
except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
 W.Churchill told us never to give in, never to give in, never;
never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty -
never to give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Thomas Edison
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000
ways that won't work."
 T.Edison said that he had not failed. He
explained that he had just found 10,000 ways
that wouldn’t work.
Pablo Picasso
“I am always doing that which I
cannot do, so that I may learn how
to do it.”
P.Picasso said that he was always doing that
which he could not do, so that he might learn
how to do it.
 Eleanor Roosevelt
"The future belongs to those who believe in the
beauty of their dreams."
E. Roosevelt said that the future belonged to
those who believed in the beauty of their
dreams.
 Choose 3 questions, ask your partner and
report his/her answers.

• What do you do when you cannot fall asleep?

• What will you do with your first salary when
you earn it?
• Who did you last get angry with and why?
• Have you ever used English outside the
classroom? Why (not)?
• What is the one thing you cannot live
without and why?
 “I train
“I won a silver medal
soccer 45
for Mexico in the
hours a Olympic Games.”
week.”

Leonel Messi, soccer player.

Ana Gabriela Guevara, Mexican athlete.

“I will continue “I’m able to travel all

with my training around the world
until I can’t go thanks to bowling.”
on.”

Usain Bolt, Jamaican athlete. Missy Parking, American bowling

trichampion.
 Leonel Messi
•He can play soccer for 150 straight minutes.
•His obligation is to train at least 48 hours a week.
•When he kicks the soccer ball, it reachers a speed of 120
km/hr.

Ana Gabriela Guevara

•Her obligation is to eat healthy everyday.
•She can reach a speed of 80 km/hr running.
•She can run 100 meters in 10 seconds.
 Usain Bolt
•He doesn’t need to use any kind of steroids.
•He can reach a speed of 100 km/hr running.
•He needs to drink a lot of water when training.

Missy Parking
•She can throw a 16 lbs. bowling ball at a speed of 30
miles/hr.
•Her obligation is to do exercise 3 hours per day.
•Her obligation in tournament is to complete 68 bowling
games.