Lesson Topic: Vacation Anecdote
Grammar Point: Reported Speech
Name of Teacher: Susan Strikovsky
Target Class: 9th
Lesson Place in the Curriculum:Lesson Nine
המצגת נערכה ע"י סוזן סטריקובסקיכל הזכויות שמורות לוויסקול לימודים מקוונים בע"מ
Table of Contents❖ Introduction
❖Text- Vacation Anecdotes
❖Forming Reported Speech
❖Using Reported Speech
❖Conclusion
Where do you think the people are traveling too?
Why is she cleaning the house?
Vacation Anecdotes
My friend told me a funny story
about her family vacation….
Vacation Anecdotes
• She said they arrived at their rented beach house and found it
was very dirty.
• She told me her parents cleaned it thoroughly.
• An hour later, they discovered they were in
the wrong cottage!
Forming Reported Speech
The main verb of the sentence is usually past
• Tom said that…
I told her that…
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Forming Reported Speech - 1
The rest of the sentence is usually in the
past
• Tom said (that) he was feeling ill.
• I told her (that) I didn't have any money.
Forming Reported Speech - 2The Present form in Direct speech changes to the Past form
in Reported speech
Am / Is Was
Are Were
Do / Does Did
Have / Has Had
Will Would
Can Could
Want,
Like,
Know,
Go
Wanted,
Liked,
Knew,
Went
Forming Reported Speech - 3
Direct: Tom said: "I woke up feeling sick, so I
didn't go to work."
Reported: Tom said that he woke up / had woken
up feeling sick, so he didn't/ hadn't gone to work.
Using Reported Speech
When we tell people what somebody said or
thought, we often use Reported Speech
I really like it here.
Bill said that he really liked it here.
Today’s Lesson was about
Reported Speech
Next Lesson will be about
Future Possibilities- First Conditional