Instructions • Slides 2 – 5 provide students with examples of reported speech. • Slides 6 – 10 provide students with grammar explanations. • Slides 11 to 14 – students practice. Have students, in pairs, report the speech displayed. Click on the slide to start the animation and then students can see the answer. By Lilian Marchesoni
14
Embed
Instructions Slides 2 – 5 provide students with examples of reported speech. Slides 6 – 10 provide students with grammar explanations. Slides 11 to 14.
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
Instructions
• Slides 2 – 5 provide students with examples of reported speech. • Slides 6 – 10 provide students with grammar explanations. • Slides 11 to 14 – students practice. Have students, in pairs, report the speech displayed. Click on the slide to start the animation and then students can see the answer.
By Lilian Marchesoni
Take a pill a day and get some rest.
The doctor told me to get some
rest.
The doctor said to take a pill a
day.
Don’t miss a dose of your medicine,
ok?
The doctor told me not to miss a
dose of my medicine.
Reported speech
If we report what another person has said, we
usually do not use the speaker’s exact words
(direct speech), but reported (indirect)
speech.
Quoted Speech reports a person’s exact words.
The doctor said, “Get some rest.”
He said, “Don’t get up.”
Reported Speech reports what someone has said but not the exact words. With reported commands,
use say or tell + an infinitive. Notice how say and tell are used differently. An object pronoun is used with tell.
The doctor said to get some rest.He told me not to get up.
Say or tell? Say can refer to any type of speech.
“Good night,” she said.She said she was unhappy.Jim said to meet him here.
Say is never followed directly by a person as an object: you must use ‘say something to someone’ for this.
She said goodbye to me at the station.She said me goodbye at the station.
Tell is used to report that someone has given information or an order, the verb tell is always followed by the person that the information or order is given to.
Simon told them all to stay inside the house.Oscar told the boys a wonderful story about a
giant.Oscar told to the boys a wonderful story about a
giant.
Say or tell?
Source: Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary – Second Edition