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reported speach B2 students

1. THE REPORTED
SPEECH
?

2. CHANGES
VERB TENSES

SIMPLE PRESENT •SIMPLE PAST
•PRESENT CONTINUOUS
•PAST CONTINUOUS
•SIMPLE PAST •PAST PERFECT
•PRESENT PERFECT •PAST PERFECT
•PAST PERFECT•PAST PERFECT
•FUTURE •CONDITIONAL
•TO-INFINITIVE•IMPERATIVE

3. CHANGES
PRONOUNS AND DETERMINERS

I

HE / SHE
•YOU •I / HE / SHE
•HE / SHE / IT •HE / SHE / IT
•WE
•THEY
•YOU •YOU / WE
•THEY
•THEY

4. CHANGES
(CONT.)

MY

HIS / HER
•YOUR
•YOUR / MY / HIS / HER
•HIS / HER / ITS
•HIS / HER / ITS
•OUR
•THEIR
•YOUR •THEIR / YOUR / OUR
•THEIR •THEIR

5. CHANGES
OTHER WORDS

HERE

THERE
•THAT
•THOSE
•THEN
•THIS
•THESE
•NOW
•TODAY •THAT DAY
•TONIGHT
•THAT NIGHT
•TOMORROW
•THE NEXT DAY / THE
FOLLOWING DAY
•YESTERDAY
•THE DAY BEFORE
•NEXT WEEK
•THE FOLLOWING WEEK
•LAST WEEK
•THE WEEK BEFORE
•AGO •BEFORE

6. EXERCISES
WHAT DID SHE SAY?
IF I LEAVE
THE HOUSE
NOW, I WILL
NOT MEET
MR JONES.
SHE SAID THAT IF SHE
LEFT THE HOUSE THEN
SHE WOULD NOT MEET
MR JONES

7. PETER TOLD ME THAT
SARAH THOUGHT THAT
THE BIGGEST ANIMAL
IN THE WORLD WAS
THE WHALE
SARAH THINKS THAT THE BIGGEST
ANIMAL IN THE WORLD
IS THE WHALE.

8. 
HE ORDERED THEM
TO STOP FIGHTING
STOP FIGHTING!

9. 
“It is clear that he has
been most unwise”,
Tom told peter.
Tom told peter that it
was clear that he had
been most unwise.
•“I like my school”,
she said.
•She said that she
liked her school.
•“They don’t know
the school rules”,
he said.
•He said that they
didn’t know the
school rules.
•“She has published
a novel yesterday”,
I said.
•I said that she had
published a novel
the day before.

10. •“The farmers are
facing difficult
problems in this
place.”, we said.
•We said that the
farmers were
facing difficult
problems in that
place.
•“We will be home
tomorrow”, she
said.
•She said that they
would be home the
next day.
•“We have
completed our task
two days ago”, they
said.
•They said that they
had completed
their task two days
before.
•“Drive fast because
I don’t want to be
late”, I asked him.
•I asked him to
drive fast because I
didn’t want to be
late.