Universidad Tecnológica Cadereyta

Ingeniería Química en Procesos Industriales

English IX

Unidad I
El discurso

Indirect Speech

“homework 2”

Alumno: Jonathan Michael Briceño Martínez

Matrícula: 661710568
Docente: Lic. Mayra Maldonado Martinez

Cadereyta Jiménez NL, a 13 de septiembre del 2020

Exercise 1: Write on your document 5 sentences in Direct speech and change
them into indirect speech. Circle the verbs in each column.

1) Direct: "Don't fight with your sister," my mother said. "Get on with your
school homework."
Indirect: My mother told me not to fight with my sister and to get on with my
school homework.
2) Direct: "Be quiet! I'm watching television."
Indirect: She told us to be quiet while she was watching television."
3) Direct: He said, “I am going to school”
Indirect: He said that he was going to school
4) Direct: He said, “I write a letter”
Indirect: He said that he wrote a letter
5) Direct: She said to me, “I like your book”
Indirect: She said to me that she liked my book

Exercise 2: Have Ss Make a chart using the way the indirect speech changes in
every tense.

Simple present Simple past

She told me that she was
"I am homesick."
homesick.
"I'm tired," she says almost every Almost every evening, she says
evening. (that) she is tired.
“I have cut my finger.” He said that he had cut his
finger.
Exercise 4: Listen to the audio and take a screen shot from the quiz