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Indirect Speech - Questions

This is a worksheet for teaching or revising indirect speech-questions at elementary level. There are 2 easy different activities in which students are asked to complete the reported questions and...

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Direct Speech Intermediate Worksheet

This is a worksheet for teaching or revising direct speech at pre-intermediate level. Students are asked to write fifteen different sentences given in the direct speech. The answer key is included.

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Reported Speech - Exercises

This Power Point Presentation consists of twenty-eight sentences to be changed into reported speech. It can be used as a great oportunity to review the subject as well as extra exercises to provide...

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Reported Speech Present

This is a worksheet for revising the reported speech. There are 2 exercises for your students to do transformations. Each of them contains 20 sentences. Exercise 1 contains statements, orders and...

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Song Worksheet: Are You Lonesome Tonight? by Elvis Presley (Reported Questions)

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...

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Direct/ Indirect Speech

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...

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Reported Speech (All Tenses)

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,...

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Reporting Verbs: Say and Tell Worksheet

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...

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Rephrasing - Reported Speech

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)....

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Reported Speech: Statements for Adult Students

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...

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Reported Speech Interview List

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...

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Reporting Conversations

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...

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Direct Speech Worksheet: Find the Hidden Songs

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...

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JC'S Reported Speech Cheat Sheet

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,...

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Reported Speech Backshift

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,...

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Reporting Verbs

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...

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English Resource - Relative Pronouns (1)

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....

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English Resource - Relative Pronouns (2)

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....

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Telling It Like It Is or Was

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...

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Reported Speech

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...

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Reported Speech 2

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...

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Reported Speech Lesson

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...

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Perfect, Simple and Continuous

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...

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Report Speech

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...

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Direct and Indirect Questions

This is a simple scheme to introduce the difference between direct and indirect questions. To be filled by students themselves. Mind that the terms may differ, so you can change "information...

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Diagnostic Test Level 4

A set of grammar tasks to revise different grammar points learned in the previous level (3): supply the right options of varied tenses and linkers+report 3 direct statements +change to passive voice+...

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Reported Speech Memory Game

Hopefully, this will be useful for you as a quick solution for practice or time-filling activity in an upper-intermediate (perhaps even intermediate) adult learner setting. The title is...

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Reported Speech Worksheet II

This is a worksheet for teaching or revising reported speech at pre-intermediate level. There's a complete explanation followed by two different activities in which students are asked to rewrite the...

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Superstitions PPT

this PPT lesson is suitable to be used for a multicultural class. This one hour reading & speaking lesson introduce superstitions and is supplemented with a short group activity and presentation...

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Movie Worksheet: Wild Target

This is a worksheet that can be filled in by intermediate students once they have watched the film "Wild target"; a British comedy. They have to find information about the film, actors, film director,...

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Reported Speech

It's just an exercise for intermediate and upper-intermediate students to practise reporting phrases using reporting verbs followed by gerund, infinitive and/or preposition. Hope this will be of some...

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Reported Speech

A powerpoint about how to turn direct speech sentences into indirect reported speech sentences. It contains the rules for normal sentences, questions, questions with question words, imperatives, and...

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Movie Worksheet: 100 Year Old BFFs (Practise the Reported Speech)

Activities to practise the reported speech based on a funny video from Steve Harvey's show where 100-year-old best friends share their thoughts on today's pop culture. At first, students answer the...

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Emotional Reported Speech

This is a game to pracice reported speech. Students have to take one "tell-card" and one "adverb" card and then say one or two sentences (about what is written on the card) emotionally, trying to...

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Reading- Famous People

Aimed at intermediate and above students, this worksheet consists of reading biografies of famous people who have overcome some adversities in their lives. It also has some vocabulary activities, use...

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Movie Worksheet: Friends, Season 8, Episode 6- Halloween Party

I have prepared this one for teenagers. I often use the following link for making my own worksheets http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583612/ There you'll find quotes, plot summaries, goofs. And there is...

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Reported Speech

This power-point presentation is helpful for teaching reported speech in present, past and present perfect.It's appropriate for Pre-Intermediate and upper levels. Hope you enjoy!

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Reported Speech

It is a very useful material about how to revise reported speech. It contains a sheet with theory, a sheet with exercises, one with tranformations and some flash cards with funny sentences for using...

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Reported Speech. Summary Chart

Just a summary of structures used in the reported speech. Just a hint for our students when they have to face it. You can use it as a refresher or as a reminder when they practice this grammar. It's...

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Captain America: Civil War - 3rd Conditional, Reported Speech, Degrees of...

I created this worksheet to have a little grammar revision with my students. It is dedicated to a new Marvel film "Captain America: Civil War". I like it a lot and learners enjoy discussing...

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Reporting Verbs

Chart with the right use and examples of the most common reporting verbs and some useful practice. It also aims at students preparing for exams like the first certificate of English (B2 level)...

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Movie Worksheet: Kids Say the Funniest Things (Reported Speech)

This is a fun video activity to practise using reported speech. Learners listen to cute kids speaking. Then  they change the direct speech into reported speech (indirect speech). It can be done as a...

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Flying First Class

This worksheet is about a joke about a blonde woman travelling to New York. Students are required to answer questions to check their undertanding of the joke, then they can role play the scene in...

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Direct and Indirect Speech

This worksheet has been designed in a simple way, keeping in mind the need of an average student. It covers all the essential rules required by a student to learn to understand the concept of Direct...

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Indirect Speech - Exercises

Exercises with indirect speech, ranging from statements, with no change in tense, to questions in various tenses. They can be used for practicing various aspects of indirect speech, for revising...

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Quiz On Parts Of Speech

The purpose of this worksheet is to brainstorm your students previous knowledge or even to evaluate their knowledge after a grammar class about parts of the speech. Students will check understanding...

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Rubric for Presentations

  This rubric can be used with oral speeches or presentations. It can be used to evaluate or as an assessment tool for oral speeches or presentations. You can give the amount of points that you...

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Reported Speech on Football

  The worksheet practices reported speech and reported questions using the comic section of the book called Manchester United by Kevin Brophy (Pearson Education Ltd., 2001.). Students have to...

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Digital Marketing

  This intermediate ESL digital marketing lesson is perfect for your B1-B2 students to discuss the topic of digital marketing and explore each area in detail, including SEO, email, social, content,...

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Reporting Verbs – Free ESL Lesson Plan

  When should you teach reporting verbs? This ESL lesson plan on reporting verbs is aimed at students with advanced proficiency levels (B2 level). To fully grasp the material, students must be very...

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