Intensive English-6

UNIT -7
Motivation
 Activity
ARRANGE Me!
Arrange the jumbled words
to form a grammatical
sentence.
 Let’s Begin!
high expectations.” Jennis
Oprasert member said: “We
have of Lyra Band
Jennis Oprasert of Lyra Band member said: “We have
high expectations.”
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Thailand.“It’s said Paul

Sirisant, who heads a bet,”
UMG in
“It’s a bet,” said Paul Sirisant, who heads UMG in
Thailand
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“We told Reuters saw into their

individual artistic them
transform selves,”.
“We saw them transform into their individual artistic
selves,” told Reuters.
 ARRANGE Me!

said one of “The band through

many ups and downs,” the has
gone fans.
“The band has gone through many ups and downs,” said
one of the fans.
 ARRANGE Me!

“Potato has produced nine albums and

many great singles,” announced by the
reporter.

“Potato has produced nine albums and many great

singles,” announced by the reporter.
 Answer Me!
1. What have you noticed with the sentences?

2. Do the sentences tell about what someone has

said about something?

3. What do you call these sentences that report

the message of someone’s message?
 Reported Speech
- is used to tell people
what other people have
said.

- to repeat the information that

somebody didn’t hear/didn’t
quite understand
Types of Reported Speech
D - uses quotation marks(“) and reports exactly what was said
I For example:
R Iwi l l b uy yo u
ert
Statement Speaker Tag Descriptor Word
a conc
E ticket. “I will buy you a dad said
concert ticket,”
C
“We enjoyed the fans shouted
T S l b u y y ou a
show,”
“I wil ticket,”
t
concer aid. “He is really my Jane exclaimed
P da d s
favorite artist,”
E
E
C
H
D - uses quotation marks(“) and reports exactly what was said
I For example:
R Iwi l l b uy yo u
ert
Statement Speaker Tag Descriptor Word

a conc “I will buy you a dad said

E ticket.
concert ticket,”
C Dad said, "I will buy you a concert ticket.”
“We enjoyed the fans shouted
T S y ou a
show,”
l l b u y
“I wi t,”
P c o n c e r t ti c ke
id.
Fans shouted, “We enjoyed the show.”
da d s a
“Marc is really my Jane exclaimed
E favorite artist,”
E Jane exclaimed, “ Marc is really my favorite artist.”
C
H
 Indirect Speech

- When we want to report

what someone said
without speech marks and
without necessarily using
exactly the same words
 Rules in Changing Direct to
Indirect Speech
Change pronouns, personal and Pronouns change (or not) depending on the
possessive view of the reporter

Direct Speech Indirect Speech

I me my he / she him/her his/her

We
to talk
usthat ours they them their
I want She said
d to
t o Jo h n . she wante .
talk to hi
m Direct: Diana said, “ I want to talk to John.”

Indirect: She saidthat

that she wanted to talk to you.
him
 Rules in Changing Direct to
Indirect Speech
Make time and place changes in relation to
Change the time expressions tense changes
Direct Indirect She said, “I call John She said that she
today.” called John that
Now then
Today day.
that day
Tonight that night
Yesterday the day before
Tomorrow the following
day/the next day
Next day/week the following
month/year day
month/year