Reported Speech (statements, questions, imperatives)

1. Reported Speech

(statements, questions, imperatives)

2. Before we start…

What is direct and indirect (reported)
speech?
When can we use reported speech?
How often do you use reported speech
in your daily life?

3.

• Direct speech: ‘I am doing my
homework right now’, he said.
• Indirect (reported) speech: He
said he was doing his
homework at that moment.

4. Reported Statements

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Reported statements
1 часть (с say или tell) + that (необяз.) + 2
часть (само утверждение)
Marry said that she had been to Germany a
few times.
Marry said she had been to Germany a few
times.

7. NOTE

*We may not change the tense if the reported speech
is still real or relevant.
He said that he lives in New York.
*We DO NOT change the tense if the 1st part of the
reported speech is in the present tense.
They are saying we don’t have to go to the shopping
mall. They got everything they wanted.

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9. Reported Questions

How do we form General Questions and
Special Questions in direct speech?

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General questions:
вспом. гл. + подлеж. + дейст. + доп. + обст.
времени / места ?
Did you eat lunch yesterday?
Special questions:
спец. слово + вспом. гл. + подлеж. + дейст.
+ доп. + обст. времени / места ?
When did you visit Paris last time?

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General reported question
1 часть (c ask) + if / whether + 2 часть (сам
вопрос).
He asked me if I was in Saransk that day.
Special reported question
1 часть (с ask) + спец. слово + 2 часть (сам
вопрос).
They asked him when he had got home the
night before.

13. Report the following questions

14. Listen to the song “Blue Hair” by TV Girl and fill in the blanks with the correct words.

1. She asked me ________________________
But that’s not something you can teach
2. She asked me ________________________
Well, it’s clear that the girl’s a fraud
3. Last I heard _________________________
With a boy who acts his age

15.

She asked me how to be funny
But that’s not something you can teach

16.

She asked me if she was pretty
Well, it’s clear that the girl’s a fraud

17.

Last I heard she was living
With a boy who acts his age

18. Reported imperatives

What is an imperative?
When do we use imperatives?

19. Is it a statement, question or imperative?

1. Mike is not a huge fan of ‘Stranger
Things’
2. Have you ever seen a polar bear before?
3. Clean your room!
4. He never knew they wanted to invite him
to the party.
5. Don’t go in there! It’s too dangerous!

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21. Reported imperatives

1 часть (с ask / tell / order) + (not) to Infinitive
(V1) + 2 часть (дополнение).
Please, help me!
He asked me to help him.
Don’t drink that!
My friend told me not to drink that.

22. Imagine your mom is talking to you. Report the following imperatives.

1. Help me clean the kithen.
2. Don’t stay up all night.
3. Show your brother where the exit is.
4. Bring the cups from the cupboard.
5. Eat your soup before it’s cold.

23. Write one imperative sentences for your desk classmate. Then say it out loud, meanwhile your desk classmate has to report it.

24.

Rate this lesson on a scale from 1 to 10,
where ‘1’ is ‘I didn’t understand
anything. I didn’t revise anything’, and
10 is ‘I revised something today. I can
use more phrases and grammatical
structures now’.