Reported Speech - Statements

Thursday 5^th February, 2015

Hi guys! How are you?

 

So, the only one who did homework was Pilar! That’s why she got a ‘10’, straight away.

Well, you are right. Talking so much about charities is getting a bit too boring. That’s why we changed the issue of our class. We read about ‘love’.

We used a love story called ‘Love in the supermarket’ to revise reported speech.

They met next to the washing powder. By the cereals they got to know to each other (started to know themselves better). They fell in love (had a crush) at the vegetables section. He proposed (asked her to marry him) in front of the frozen food. But, at the chocolates he said something inconvenient and …it was over (it finished)!’

  Direct speech: it’s when somebody uses the same words to tell what the other person said. He said, "I can’t come tomorrow."

(Punctuation: in direct speech, a comma is used not a colon. He said: ‘I can’t come tomorrow’)

Reported speech: it’s when somebody uses his/her own words to tell what the other person said. He said (that) he couldn’t come the following day.

Look at how the verb tenses change:

Direct	Statements: affirmative or negative sentences		Reported
Present simple		Past simple
He said, "I get up at eight every day."		He said he got up at eight every day.
Present continuous		Past continuous
He said, "I’m seeing my friends tomorrow."		He said he was seeing his friends the following day.
Present Perfect		Past perfect
"I’ve lived in Madrid for 15 years."		He said he had lived in Madrid for 15 years.
Past simple		Past perfect
"I saw him yesterday."		He said he had seen him the day before.
Future simple		Present Conditional
"I’ll travel all over the world."		He said he would travel all over the world.

Not only the verb tense changes, also the pronouns and the time expressions.

yesterday	The day before, the previous day
today	That day
tomorrow	The following day, the day after
this	that
these	those
next	The following

We practised pronunciation. We practised the sounds /g/, /ʤ/, /k/, /ʃ/ and /ʧ/

GAME 4

Player 1	5
Player 2	5
Player 3	6
Player 4	9
Player 5	5
Player 6	15
Player 7	5

For homework, do the exercise you were supposed to have done for last Thursday and don’t forget to prepare ‘Flipped Class’

And we finished the class listening to Jorge’s favourite song: ‘Frozen’.

C.U. on Thursday!