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Reported Speech
Reporting Verbs
Say and Tell
Articles
Be used to
Causative Have
Comparatives
Few and Little
First Conditional
Future Continuous
Future Perfect
Get Used To
Have and Have Got
Indirect Questions
Lend and Borrow
Passive
Past Continuous
Past Perfect Continuous
Past Perfect Simple
Past Simple
Present Continuous
Present Perfect Continuous
Present Perfect Simple
Present Simple
Questions
Reflexive Pronouns
Reported Questions
Reported Speech
Reporting Verbs
Say and Tell
Second Conditional
Small and Little
So and Such
Tag Questions
Third Conditional
Too and Enough
Used to
Will and Going to
Wish
Zero Conditional
These general rules for reported speech also apply.
How do you teach reported questions? Add your idea ยป
One of your students could be a famous personality visiting their town/city. Other students interview him/her and report back.
Example A
Student 1: Are they happy?
Student 2: Yes, they are.
Student 3: What did he ask you?
Student 2: He asked me if they were happy.
Example B
Student 1: What is your name?
Student 2: My name is Sami.
Student 3: What did he ask you?
Student 2: He asked me what my name was.
I use a timeline:
I put the reporting verb in the "PAST" on the line in regard to "NOW".
---PAST (reporting verb)---NOW---
This is to better understand the logics of English, to see e.g. why the present
tense in direct speech becomes the past tense in reported speech, in fact to
show that it stays in the past together with the reporting verb.
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