Language focus-Reported speech

Tuesday, December 25th , 2007.
REVISION
GRAMMAR POINT: THE REPORTED SPEECH.
- Hi! What’s your name?
Can you play tennis?
Do you like playing soccer?
Nice to meet you, Hoa.
Bye.

- My name’s Hoa.
Yes, I can.
Oh, no.

Nice to meet you, too. Bye.

What is your name?
Ba asked Hoa what her name was.

My name is Hoa.
She said her name was Hoa.

Can you play badminton?
Ba asked Hoa if/ (whether) she could play badminton.

Do you like playing soccer?
Ba asked Hoa if/(whether) she liked playing soccer.

A. Notes:
Imperatives:
Affirmative form:
“ Close the door, please!”
The teacher asked/(told) me to close the door.
b. Negative form:
“ Don’t open your book!”
The teacher asked/(told) me not to open my book.
Direct speech

Reported speech
Tenses:
+ Present simple
+ Present progressive
+ Past simple
+ Past progressive
+ Present perfect

2) Modal verbs:
WILL
SHALL
CAN
MAY
MUST/ HAVE TO


Past simple
Past progressive
Past simple
Past progressive
Past perfect


WOULD
SHOULD
COULD
MIGHT
HAD TO

1. He asked me, “ Will you visit your old teachers?”
a. He asked me if I will visit my old teachers.
b. He asked me if I would visit my old teachers.
c. He asked me if would I visit my old teachers.
d. He asked me if I would visit your old teachers.

2. I asked him …………………
a. What his name is.
b. What is his name.
c. What was his name.
d. What his name was.

3. He said to me, “Do this exercise again.”
a. He told me to do that exercise again.
b. He told me to do this exercise again.
c. He told me do this exercise again.
d. He told me do that exercise again
4. Mr. Ha said, “I must go now.”
a. Mr. Ha said that he must go now.
b. Mr. Ha said that he had to go now.
c. Mr. Ha said that he had to go then.
d. Mr. Ha said that he has to go then.

B. EXERCISES:
I. Choose the best answer:
II. Change these sentences into reported speech.
1. He asked me, “ How do you go to school?”
He asked me how I went to school.
2.“ Can you play the guitar, Ba?” I asked.
I asked Ba if/ (whether) he could play the guitar.
3. They said, “ We went to Nha Trang last summer”
They said (that) they went to Nha Trang the summer before.
4. “Don’t make much noise!” the teacher told his students.
The teacher told his students not to make much noise.
5. “ I will go to Da Lat tomorrow”, Nam said to me.
Nam told me he would go to Da Lat the following day.

III. Free talk:
Work in pairs: One gives a direct speech, the other reports it.
MODEL:
Student A: “What are you doing?”
Student B: She/ (he) asked me what I was doing.
C. Homework:
Change these sentences into reported speech.
1. Lan said, “I don’t like Physics”
2. She asked me, “How old are you?”
3. The teacher asked Nam, “ What time did you go to bed last night?”
4. He asked Mai, “Can you play the organ?”
5. “Wait for me!” he told me.
6. His mother told him, “Don’t be lazy!”
7. I asked Hoa, “What do you often do in your free time?”
8. He asked her, “Are you tired?”
9. I asked, “Why were you late for school yesterday, Mai?
10. He said, “I enjoy playing sports”