REPORTED

SPEECH
¿Cuándo utilizamos el reported speech?
El reported speech, o estilo indirecto, sirve para contar lo que ha dicho alguien sin
emplear las palabras exactas pronunciadas por esa persona.
DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH

“I AM TIRED” SHE SAID SHE WAS TIRED

Examples
She said she was coming to class
(Ella dijo que iba a venir a clase).

I told you I wouldn’t be able to come

(Te dije que no podría venir).

You said you would help me!

(¡Dijiste que me ayudarías!).
 We often use REPORTED SPEECH to:

1. Give someone a telephone message.

2. Tell someone news that we heard from someone else.

3. To report something that happened earlier.

 REPORTED SPEECH
GRAMMAR
TENSES
IMPORTANT Present Simple 🡪 Pasado simple
Present Continuo 🡪 Pasado continuo
Pasado Simple 🡪 Pasado Perfecto
Pasado Continuo 🡪 Pasado Perfecto Continuo
Present Perfect 🡪 Past Perfect
Pasado Perfecto 🡪 Past Perfect
Futuro (Will ) 🡪 Would
Can 🡪 Could
May 🡪 Might
Must 🡪 Had to
 GRAMMAR
TENSES
IMPORTANT
REPORTED SPEECH

Present Simple 🡪 Pasado simple

Pasado Simple 🡪 Pasado Perfecto
 REPORTED SPEECH
IMPORTANT TIME
EXPRESSIONS
Today 🡪 Yesterday
Now 🡪 Then
Tonight 🡪 That night
Last 🡪 the previous…/the …before
Yesterday 🡪 the day before
tomorrow 🡪 The next day
Here 🡪 There
This 🡪 That
These 🡪 Those
 I’m not happy at my
E job anymore and I
x think I will quit.
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s
e Ahmad told me that he ………. not happy at his job anymore and

he…………………. he …………. quit.

 I’m not happy at my
job anymore and I
think I will quit.

was
Ahmad told me that he ………. not happy at his job anymore and
thought would
he…………………. he …………. quit.
 Be careful with pronouns
E My sister is coming to visit
x me soon.

e
r
c
i
s Ameera said that …… sister was coming
e
to visit ………… soon.
Be careful with pronouns:
My sister is coming to visit
me soon.

her
Ameera said that …… sister was coming
her
to visit ………… soon.
In Reported Speech you should use this structure:

xxxxxxx said ( that ) ……………………

Or:

Someone told me ( that ) ……………………

 I find that the harder I work, the
more luck I seem to have.

Thomas
Jefferson
He said he found that the harder he
worked, the more luck he seemed to
have.

What did he say?

90% of our worries are about things
that will not happen

Margaret
Thatcher
She said that 90% of their worries
were about things that would not
happen

What did she say?

 Everything is funny as long as it is
happening to somebody else.

Will Rogers
He said that everything was funny as long as
it was happening to somebody else.

What did he say?