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REPORTED

SPEECH

GRADE IX
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING
Reported speech helps to convey
others' statements accurately,
practice tense and pronoun
changes, and improve
communication skills by mastering
indirect expression and
summarization techniques.
LEARNING TARGETS
I can
•recognize the difference between
direct and indirect speech.
•change direct speech to indirect
speech.
•use the verbs correctly in indirect
speech.
DAY
AGENDA SUCCESS
CRITERIA
• Entry Ticket (5 mins) I will be able to:
• explain what reported speech is and
how it differs from direct speech.
• Recap of rules of • identify reported speech in written

transformation (35 and spoken English


• use proper punctuation when writing
mins)
sentences in reported speech.
• recognize and correct common errors
• Exit Ticket (10 mins) in reported speech, such as incorrect
tense shifts or pronoun use.
ENTRY
TICKET
Direct speech is quoting someone's words and
indirect speech is reporting someone's words.
Let’s play a game to determine which is which.

direct indirect
She asked if he was
coming over for
dinner that night.
“Are you going
away over the
summer break?”
Tina asked Stuey.
“I am going to beat you all!” laughed Bree.
Dad told the girls that they were going on a
surprise holiday to the beach.
“Is it yummy?” asked Mum.
Poppy told Jack
that he loved him.
Shellie laughed and said “ok, that’s enough!”
“And that’s the end
of the story!”
exclaimed Milly.
“How was your
day?” Mum asked
Kerry.
“Say cheese!” called out Hugo.
REPORTED SPEECH

Reported Speech is very important for


legal language, because it is used in
newspaper reports of crimes and
investigations, in reports on trials, in
judicial procedure etc

Thus Reporting what a person said without


quoting the speaker’s exact word is called
indirect speech or reported speech.
VIDEO- INTRODUCTION TO REPORTED SPEECH
General Rule
1. When introductory/reporting verb (say, tell, inform, state, claim…) is in the present,
present perfect or future tense, no change in tense or adverbs of time and place.

•He says: “I don’t understand this question”.


>> He says that he doesn’t understand this question.
General Rule
2. When the introductory/reporting verb is in the Past Tense, there is a change of tense
and adverbs of time and place.

•He said: “I don’t understand this question”.


>> He said that he didn’t understand that
question.
THINGS TO REMEMBER
Verb tense changes
Reporting verbs When we report what someone said,
We use reporting verbs such as "said," "told," we often need to change the tense of
"asked," "explained," etc., to introduce the the verbs. If the original sentence is in
reported speech. For example, if someone said, 01 02 the present tense, we generally
"I'm going to the movies," we can report it as change it to the past tense. For
"He/she said that he/she was going to the example, "I like pizza" becomes
movies. "He/she said that he/she liked pizza."

Time & place references


Pronoun changes If the original sentence contains
03 specific time or place references, we
We also need to change the pronouns 03
usually need to change them to
to match the perspective of the reflect the time and place of the
person being reported. For example, reporting. For example, "She said, 'I
"I" becomes "he" or "she," "we" will go to the park tomorrow'"
becomes "She said that she would go
becomes "they," and so on.
to the park the next day."
CHANGE IN TENSES
Rewrite the sentences below in reported speech.This is to be done
in your notebooks.

1. “I’m going out now, but I’ll be in by nine”, he said.


2. “I can’t live on my basic salary”, said Peter. “I’ll have to offer to do overtime.”
3. “We are waiting for the school bus”, said the children. “It is late again.”
4. “The ice will soon be hard enough to skate on”, said Tom. “I’ll look for my skates
when I get home”, Ann said.
5. “Don’t lend Harry any money”, said Lucy. “He never pays his debts.”
6. “Get into the right lane”, said the driving instructor.
DAY
AGENDA SUCCESS
• Entry Ticket (10-15 mins) CRITERIA
I will be able to:
• explain what reported speech is and
• Interrogative, Imperative how it differs from direct speech.
and Exclamatory • identify reported speech in written
sentences (35 mins) and spoken English
• use proper punctuation when writing
sentences in reported speech.
• Exit Ticket (10 mins)
• recognize and correct common errors
in reported speech, such as incorrect
tense shifts or pronoun use.
ENTRY
TICKET
Listen and Learn!
Step 1 - Listen to the video carefully.

Step 2- Pick any 5 sentences from it .

Step 3- Convert these sentences to Reported Speech following rules of transformation.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=n-WLCje2SbXOrutp&v=zxJih02-he0&feature=youtu.bet

Note: This is to be done on an A4 size sheet.


INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES
While changing a question into reported question, it isn’t a
question any longer. We change it into a positive
sentence. We do not use “that” to introduce a reported
question.

• While reporting a “yes/ no” type question, we add if/


whether to the sentence.
For example: She said, “Do you like chocolates?”
She asked me if/ whether I liked chocolates.
INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES
‘Wh’ questions

While reporting a “ (what, when, where, why, how, who),


we retain the “wh” word of the direct speech.

For example: She said, “What is your future plan?”

She asked me what my future plan was.


EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES

To change exclamatory sentences use phrases like,


‘exclaimed with joy’, ‘exclaimed with sorrow’ or
‘exclaimed with wonder’ in the reporting verb
depending upon the nature of exclamatory sentence
in the reported speech.
EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES

The players said."Hurrah!We have won the match."

RS- The players exclaimed with joy that they had won the
match. (Joy)
IMPERATIVE SENTENCES
Reported Speech worksheet
T h a n k
y o u !

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