2. STANDARD
COMPETENCY
This course aims at able to understand some english
structure for their use and form correctly.
3. BASIC COMPETENCY
Students understand the form and use of direct and
indirect speech
4. INDICATOR
Students are able to understand the reporting verbs
and direct speech
Students are able to understand reporting verb and
indirect speech
Students are able to do the exercises correctly
5. LEARNING ACTIVITY
Students study from grammar chart and its
examples
Students listen to the teacher’s explanation about
direct and indirect speech
Students learn from the grammar notes
Students rewrite the statements as indirect speech
6. REPORTED SPEECH
Reported speech divided into two groups:
1. Direct Speech
2. Indirect Speech
7. DIRECT SPEECH
Direct speech is a direct sentence from the speaker
without a changing.
Usually direct speech using cite. The sentence begin
with capital letter.
Example : She said, “ Don’t leave me”.
“Don’t leave me”, She said.
8. INDIRECT SPEECH
Indirect speech is a sentence that not directly which
report speech tell again what talked by the first
speaker.
Example:
David said,” I write the letter”. (Direct)
→David said that he wrote the letter.
(Indirect).
9. VERBS FORM
1. Verb 1 → Verb 2
2. Verb 2 → Had + Verb 3
3. Is/ am → Was
4. Are → Were
5. Was/were → Had been
6. Will → Would
7. Can → Could
8. Have → Had
10. PRONOUNS FORM
1. I → She / He
2. My → His / Her
3. Me → Him / Her
4. We → They
5. Our → Their
6. Us → Them
11. TIME FORMS
1. Now → Then
2. Yesterday → The day before
3. Tomorrow → The following day
4. Today → That day
5. Tonight → That night
6. Last week → The week before
7. Two weeks ago → Two weeks before
8. Next week → The following week.
12. EXAMPLES
NO DIRECT SPEECH INDIRECT SPEECH
1 She said,”I write She said that she
the letter”. wrote the letter.
2 She said,” I spoke She said that she had
english”. spoken english.
3 He said,” I am He said that he was
going to Bali”. going to Bali.
He said,” I will He said that he would
4 clean the bag” clean the bag.
They said, “We They said that they
5 have finished”. had finished.
13. EXERCISE
A. Change these direct speech into indirect speech!
1. My Father said” I will go to bogor next week”.
2. The postman said” The Manager was meeting the
customer”
3. Mr. Gugun said” My beloved wife is sick”.
