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Actividad Final
Actividad Final
Actividad Final
Speech
Presentation.
Statements in indirect speech.
Tense changes.
Other changes : adjectives, adverbs etc.
Say/ tell ; Infinitive, gerund constructions.
Questions.
Requests, offers,suggestions,commands etc.
Exercises 1
Exercise 3 +(key)
Exercises 2
Exercise 4 +(key)
Departamento de Ingls.
Curso : 3 de Escuela Oficial de Idiomas.
Profesor : ALFONSO GARCIA BALAN
Im feeling
tired
Ann said
am
feeling
tired .
Tense changes
The changes are shown in the following table
Direct speech
SIMPLE PRESENT
I never eat meat, he explained
Indirect speech
SIMPLE PAST
He explained that he never ate meat.
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
PAST CONTINUOUS
PRESENT PERFECT
PAST PERFECT
SIMPLE PAST
PAST PERFECT
FUTURE
CONDITIONAL
FUTURE CONTINUOUS
CONDITIONAL CONTINUOUS
Ill be using the car myself on the 24th, he said He said hed be using the car himself
on the 24th.
that day
Yesterday
Tomorrow
day
in two daystime
Say, tell
Say can introduce a statement or follow it :
Tom said, Ive just heard the news or Ive just heard the
news, Tom said.
Infinitive
gerund
constructions
tell requiresand
the person
addressed:
tell me
he told us in
A agree,refuse,offer,
indirect
speech promise,threaten + infinitive can sometimes be used
instead of say (that)...
Paul : Ill help you if you like.
Paul offered to help her/me or Paul said that hed help her/me.
C other useful verbs are : add, admit, answer, argue, assure +object,
complain,
deny, explain, observe, point out, promise, remark, remind +
object, reply.
These can be used with direct or indirect speech.
going.
Offers :
Shall I bring you some tea?
Suggestions :
Shall we meet at the theatre?
2.- CLICK the picture you think is the correct one according to its
transformation into reported speech.
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3.- Choose the best alternative according to the usage of the verb tenses.
A.- The clerk said it would / will take a little time to look up her file.
B.- She reminded me to insure / insuring my luggage.
key
C.- She told him not to put / to put not sticky things in his
pocket.
4.- You have to read a sentence and write a new sentence with the same
meaning.
1.- Listen carefully, he said to us.
He
told ..............................................................................................................................
2.- Dont wait for me if Im late, Ann said.
Ann
said.............................................................................................................................
3.- Can you speak more slowly? I cant understand, he said to me.
He
asked..........................................................................because....................................
4.- Read the instructions before you switch on the machine, he said to me.
He
told ..............................................................................................................................
.
5.- Dont come before 6 oclock, I said to him.
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5.- Yesterday you met a friend of yours, Charlie. Charlie told you alot of
things. Here are some of the things he said to you :
2 My father is in
hospital.
4 Margaret has had a baby.
Later that day you tell another friend what Charlie said. Use reported
speech.
key
1 Charlie said
that....................................................................................................
2 Charlie
said...........................................................................................................
3
Charlie.............................................................................................................
......
4
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4.- Key
1 He told us to listen carefully.
2 Ann said not to wait for her if she was late.
3 He asked me to speak more slowly because he couldnt understand.
4 He told me to read the instructions before I switched on yhe machine.
5 I told him not to come before 6 oclock.
5.- Key
1 Charlie said that he was thinking of going to live in Canada.
2 Charlie said that his father was in hospital.
3 He said ( that) he had been playing tennis a lot recently
4 He said (that) Margaret had had a baby.
5 He said (that) he would tell Jim he had seen me./ ... He saw me.
6 He said (that) he didnt know what Fred was doing.
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