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• Presentation
• How the course works
• Unit Preview: Natural disasters
• Indirect speech with imperatives to convey a
message.
• Practice reading and speaking skills.
Theme: Reporting News
• Indirect speech (tense changes)
• Listening activity to identify vocabulary of Natural
Disasters
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How the course works…
- Must know:
•Attendance (Absences are not justified)
•Oral interaction SPEAK A LOT!
•Exam (70%)
•Writing (10%)
•Reading (10%)
•Workbook (10%)
•e-mail: jchaowah@gmail.com
•Blog: jaquienglishuvl.blogspot.mx
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Indirect speech: Imperatives
Convey a
message
Look at the following sentences and identify the
differences:
Peter said: ‘Be careful if you go out during the storm.’
Peter said to be careful if you go out during the storm.
She told Dan: ‘Call me tomorrow.’
She told Dan to call her the next day.
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Indirect speech: Imperatives
Convey a
message
The imperative in indirect speech becomes an
INFINITIVE:
TO + verb in simple form
Peter said to be careful if you go out during the storm.
She told Dan to call her the next day.
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Indirect speech: tense changes
Convey a
message
Diretct Speech Indirect Speech
Present (Simple, Continuous,
Perfect)
Past (Simple, Continuous,
Perfect)
Past Perfect Past Perfect
Future going to Past future going to
Will, can, may Would, could, might
8. How to change to reported
speech?
Present Perfect
Simple
Past Perfect Past Simple Present
Simple
Simple
