How do you teach an online reported speech?

How to Teach Reported Speech in 3 Steps

1. Get rid of the quotation marks and comma, and insert ‘that’ after the word ‘said’
2. Backshift the verb (make it more past)
3. Change the point-of-view words (certain pronouns, determiners, and adverbs) to fit the new context.

How do you teach reported speech?

Practice. Provide students with a chart of the principal changes in reported speech (i.e. will -> would, present perfect -> past perfect, etc.). Ask students to practice the reported speech by beginning with a reported speech worksheet or by asking them to change sentences from direct to reported speech.

Will go in reported speech?

“Be” moves from a position before the noun to after the noun. Finally, pay attention to whether the speech you are reporting uses a modal verb. Will, can, and shall change to would, could, and should when reported. If the modal verb is already in its past form, it does not change when reported.

What are the rules of reported speech?

The Past Perfect Tense does not change in the Reported Speech….Change of tenses.

	Direct speech	Reported speech
Ann said:	“I want ice-cream.”	Ann said that she wanted ice-cream.
Simple Past	Simple Present	Simple Past
Simple Past	Simple Past Present Perfect Past Perfect	Past Perfect
Simple Past	will	would

How many types of reported speech are there?

There are two main types of reported speech: direct speech and indirect speech.

What are the types of reported speech?

There are two main types of reported speech: direct speech and indirect speech. Direct speech repeats the exact words the person used, or how we remember their words: Barbara said, “I didn’t realise it was midnight.”

What are the 4 types of reported speech?

Reporting different kinds of sentences

• Reporting statements. Put ‘that’ before the reported statement. Use the reporting verb ‘said’ or ‘told’.
• Reporting WH-questions. Omit the question mark.
• Reporting Yes-No questions. Omit the question mark.
• Reporting imperative sentences. Put ‘to’ before the reported command or request.

How do you identify reported speech?

Reported or indirect speech is usually used to talk about the past, so we normally change the tense of the words spoken. We use reporting verbs like ‘say’, ‘tell’, ‘ask’, and we may use the word ‘that’ to introduce the reported words. Inverted commas are not used.

What are the rules for reported speech?

Reported Speech

Direct speech. You can use direct speech with quotation marks.

Reported speech. You can use reported speech.

Simple Present. Simple present tense usually changes to the simple past in reported speech.

Simple Past.

Change of tenses.

Questions – reported speech.

Commands – reported speech.

Also called reported discourse. Traditionally, two broad categories of reported speech have been recognized: direct speech (in which the original speaker’s words are quoted word for word) and indirect speech (in which the original speaker’s thoughts are conveyed without using the speaker’s exact words).

What is direct and reported speech?

Direct Speech is also called a quoted speech, as it uses the exact words of the speaker. As against, the indirect speech is termed as reported speech, as it narrates what is said by the speaker. Direct Speech is from the speaker’s standpoint, whereas indirect speech is from the listener’s standpoint.