Reported Speech Review and Exercise

1. STARTER
Tongue Twister

3. BUILDER
Dialogue

4. 1. How many brothers
and sisters do you have?

5. 2. What are you going to
do tonight?

6. 3. What did you do on
weekend?

7. GRAMMAR FOCUS

8. S/HE SAID (THAT)…
S/HE TOLD {ME}
S/HE ASKED
…if
…who
…when
…where
…what
REPORTED SPEECH

9. Mr. Mike said, “I go to work.”
Mr. Murakami said, “I am hosting the Olympics.”
Mr. Aiba said, “I have met Mike.”
Ms. Nami said, “I completed my training yesterday.”
Mr. Sugi said, “I have been living here for forty years.”
Mr. Mikkun said, “I will go to Palau with Shin-chan.”

10. Mr. Mike said that he went to work.”
Mr. Murakami said that he was hosting the Olympics.”
Mr. Aiba said that he had met Mike.”
Ms. Nami said that he had completed my training
yesterday.”
Mr. Sugi said that he had been living here for forty
years.”
Mr. Mikkun said, “I would go to Palau with Shin-chan.”

11. Form 1: STATEMENTS
Reported Speech

12. am was
• FORMULA [one tense back]
like liked
liked had liked
had liked had been liking
will like would like

13. Exercise 1
Change the statements to
Reported Speech.

14. “He works in a bank.”
She said ________________________

15. “We went out last night”.
She told me ______________________

16. “I’m coming!”
She said ________________________

17. “I was waiting for the bus when
he arrived”
She told me ______________________

18. “I’d never been there before”
She said ______________________

19. REPORTING VERBS {STATEMENTS}
•ADDED
•ANNOUNCED
•COMMENTED
•EXPLAINED
•REMARKED
•STATED
•Said
•Told

20. Exercise 2
Change the statements to Reported Speech.
Use different reporting verbs.

21. “My Jack is very clever,” his
mother remarked.
His mother remarked that her son
was very clever.

22. “He usually plays computer
games,” she told me.

23. “I bought the computer for my
work,” his father explained.

24. “I won’t use eBay anymore,”
Mrs. Neal decided.

25. “I don’t know how it
happened,” said Jack.

26. “I’ve always liked computers,”
he told reporters.

27. “Please clean up your room,”
his mother asked Jack.

28. “Go and play soccer,” his
father told him.

29. Form 2: QUESTIONS
Reported Speech

30. Where do you live?
• FORMULA [no do/does/did]
He asked me where
I lived.
What did you eat?
She asked me what I
ate.

31. Exercise 3
Change the statements to Reported
Speech.

32. Where are you working?

33. Where is he?

34. Where did you work?

35. Do you like Indian food?

36. Can I call you back?

37. Are you happy?

38. Did you get the job done?

39. CHALLENGER
Paragraph

40. Look, Mom! I bought a
car on eBay for $15,000
A three-year-
old boy used
his mother’s
computer to
buy a $15,000
car on the
Internet
auction site
eBay.

41. https://www.theguardian.com/technolog
y/2006/sep/26/news.consumernews

42. Exercise 4
Change the statements to Reported
Speech.

43. Jack Neal’s parents only discovered
their son’s successful bid when they
received a message from the website.
The message said that they
(1) ____________ a pink Nissan Figaro.
You have bought a Pink Nissan Figaro.

44. Mrs. Neal, 36, said that (2) ____________ it.
We can’t understand it.
She (3) ____________ the internet the day
before, but (4) ____________ anything.
I was on the internet yesterday.
I didn’t buy anything.

45. “Jack kept telling us that he
(5) ____________ so happy, and that we
(6) ____________ soon get a big surprise.”
I’m so happy.
You’ll soon get a big surprise.

46. Mrs. Neal, from Houston Texas, thought
Jack (7) ____________. He often used the
computer, and she was pretty sure that he
(8) ____________ her password.”
He’s joking.
I’m pretty sure he knows my password.

47. Her husband, John, 37, called the seller of
the car, and explained that there (9)
____________ a mistake.
There has been a mistake.

48. “Fortunately, he saw the funny side and
said he (10) ____________ the car again.
I’ll advertise the car again.

49. Mr. Neal has told Jack to be more
careful, and he has asked his wife to
change her password.