Reported

Speech:
statements
Reported Speech: statements

When we change a sentence from Direct Speech into

Reported Speech there are some changes we need to make:

VERBS

Present Simple Past Simple

work worked

Present Continuous Past Continuous

is / are working was / were working

Reported Speech: statements

Future (will) Conditional (would)

will work would work

Past Simple Past Perfect

worked had worked

Present Perfect Past Perfect

has / have worked had worked

Reported Speech: statements
Personal Pronouns, Possessive Pronouns / determiners

I / you he / she
we / you they

my her / his

your her / his / their

our their
mine his / hers

yours theirs

ours theirs
Reported Speech: statements
Reference to time and place

here there
this, these that / those

now then / at that moment

today, tonight that day / that night
yesterday the day before / the previous day

tomorrow the following / next day

next week the following week / the next week

last week the week before / the previous week

a year ago a year before

Reported Speech: statements

A. Complete the sentences in reported speech.

1. Jess: I work at this restaurant on Saturdays.
she worked at ________
She said that ___________ that restaurant on Saturdays.
2. Kathy and Tom: Now we are washing our father’s car.
at that moment they were washing their
They said that _____________________________________
father’s car.
3. Ron: I don’t have a part-time job but yesterday I had a job
interview.
He said that ______________a
he didn’t have the day before
part-time job but _____________
_____________
he had had a job interview.
4. Mike: My parents don’t want me to have a part-time job because
they believe I won’t have enough time to study.
his parents didn’t want him to have a part-time job
He said that _________________________
because ____________________________
they believed he wouldn’t have enough time to study.
Reported Speech: statements

B. Change into reported speech.

1. Jack’s parents: Your sister is studying in her room and we
are watching TV.
Jack’s parents told him that ____________________________
his sister was studying in her room
and they were watching TV.
__________________________________________________
2. Julie: I am so happy because I have just won a prize at school.
Julie said that ______________________________________
she was so happy because she had just won
a prize at school.
__________________________________________________
3. Andy: Tomorrow my sister and I are going to visit our
grandparents. We visited them last week too.
Andy told me that ___________________________________
the next day his sister and he were going to
visit their grandparents. They had visited them the week
__________________________________________________
before too.
__________________________________________________