The first part of the song “Are you lonesome tonight?” by Elvis Presley consists only of questions that he asks his loved one. When ss already know the rules of reporting questions it might be a nice way for them to practice by reporting th ...
The first part of the song “Are you lonesome tonight?” by Elvis Presley consists only of questions that he asks his loved one. When ss already know the rules of reporting questions it might be a nice way for them to practice by reporting th ...
This worksheet will let your kids practice indirect (reported) speech using speech bubbles set in the classroom. The picture is of a classroom with numbered speech bubbles coming from each of the students' and the teacher's mouth. Just have the studen ...
This simple Power Point provides a quick oral revision of reported speech that can be used with a whole class letting students guess in turns. It includes examples of all tenses in affirmative, negative and interrogative as well as some time expression ...
This is a worksheet for teaching reporting verbs at pre-intermediate level. There are 3 different activities in which students are asked to complete the sentences with said or told, complete with the right form of say or tell and circle the right ...
These are two worksheets about reported speech. Students must rephrase sentences by using the three basic verbs used in this type of exercise: say (statements), ask (questions)and tell (orders). Exercises follow this order: first, statements; then, que ...
This is a simple worksheet which is aimed to revise and practise reported speech. There are two different tasks in which students are asked to put the correct pronouns and determiners into the sentences in reported speech and report the given stat ...
This speaking and writing activity focuses on reported speech (statement, question and request). Half of the class will be reporters and the other is a famous person. They go around the class and pair up with other students.The reporters use the list o ...
This is a speaking activity intended for intermediate students. The aim is to practise reporting conversations, using different introductory verbs. The activity is based on a set of humorous conversations that might help you inject a sense of fun into ...
This is a worksheet for revising direct speech at intermediate level. The fun part comes when students discover that they are writing the lyrics of two very popular songs. You will see your students paying a lot of attention and correcting their mistak ...
A single page containing the basic information your students need to remember about reported speech. It includes definitions of direct and reported speech, the 6 changes involved in reported speech, the changes in tenses and the difference between "say ...
Reported speech is usually a hard task to give in class, perhaps due to the huge framemark you have to work with. And many times, problems appear when you have to "put into the past" time adverbs, personal and object pronouns, and such kind of words. ...
Reporting verbs are a quite good tool to improve speaking and lead it into a higher stage. People, kids and students, just usually use "say",above all, and "tell", but they don´t know about the existence of other very common ones like confess, e ...
The most common relative pronouns are who/whom, whoever/whomever, whose, that, and which. This English resource was created for KS2 elementary/primary students. There are 12 sentences to complete. They must read the sentences and choose the correct rel ...
The most common relative pronouns are who/whom, whoever/whomever, whose, that, and which. This English resource was created for KS2 elementary/primary students. There are 12 sentences to complete. They must read the sentences and choose the correct rel ...
This is a power-point lesson for grade 8 learners, with rules, examples and exercises based on Peanuts cartoons, reporting in correct format the words in speech bubbles. They role-play the cartoon as partners, orally, and then do them in writing. Fun!
If you are looking for some interesting ideas to work with reporting speech, here you will find a set of parts from Garfield's comic so that your students can work with reported speech or indirect speech. You can elicit rules and structure on the board ...
If you want to go on working with reported speech, in this file you will find a series of activities to work with reporting speech exercises. They are based on Garfield's character comic. You can work with reporting verbs as well. Use it freely and ada ...
This document is not a language activity per se, but rather a recap chart about reported speech, showing how to use reporting verbs and the main transformations with tenses & modals as well. It can be used as a reminder for intermediate students or ...
A number of sentences to complete. I use this for a revision of the past simple, past continuous, present perfect simple, present perfect continuous, and past perfect simple. Reported speech also included. Multiple answers are sometimes possible, answe ...
This pdf file "reported speech" was done in order to help the students to easily remember or to learn "Reported speech" tenses. It is a basic chart with all tenses from direct speech to reported speech with examples in each tense to make it easy t ...