ESL worksheets and activities - Reported speech

Resource centre - Reported speech

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Aim To practise reported speech
Activity Students listen and write down a sentence which they later report back to the teacher
Organisation Individual / whole class
Preparation Make one copy of the sentences below and cut them up
What do I do? 1 Give one sentence to each student.
2 Students A reads out their sentence to their whole class, others write it down.
3 Student B reads out their sentence to the whole class, others write it down and this continues until all of the sentences have been read out.
4 Pick a student at random to report what one student said. Correct the response as appropriate, presenting / eliciting the form. Repeat with another student

She’s studying in Paris
She went there 5 years ago
They have traveled all over the world
I will meet you at 6 o’clock
We have a class every Monday
They’re going to Barcelona next week
I can come on Tuesday
He had seen the movie before

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