Name: Juan Emmanuel Martinez Alvarado Grade: Eleventh

HE SAID IT DIDN’T BOTHER HIM

Grammar

Reported statements: say and tell

Function

Reporting what someone said

1. OPENER
 Which are the least and most popular forms of communication nowdays?
RTA: I realized that the most popular comminicacion elemets are verbal comunication.

 How often do you use the phone? … write letters? … send e- mail?
RTA:
Since it was damaged, I can no longer use it as before, now I use the computer more.
You really must when I write a letter to someone.
Yes, because of the pandemic I do it frequently
 Which do you do most/least often?
RTA:
I watch videos on the computer.
I go to the gym 5 times a week.
I hardly play video games anymore.
I hardly go to parties

2. READING
 Read the article The @ symbol and e-mail.
 Identify 5 new words and write their meaning in English.
RTA:
UNFAIR: not based on or behaving according to the principles of equality and justice.
SPREAD: open out (something) so as to extend its surface area, width, or length.
ATTACHMENT: an extra part or extension that is or may be attached to something to perform
a particular function.
TURN INTO: be transformed into or become a particular kind of thing or person.
SPREAD: open out (something) so as to extend its surface area, width, or length.

3. Do the COMPREHENSION exercise.

 Write the instruction and the sentences.
 Remember you have to correct the false statements.
RTA:
 1. Ray Tomlinson said he had invented the computer in 1971.
RTA: Ray didn´t invent the computer, he invented e-mail.
2. He said it was easy to invented e-mail.

3. He told the interviewer that e-mail was a tough problem.

RTA: No, he said that spam was a difficult problem, not e-mail a such.
4. He said that they were going to solve the problem of spam.

5. He said that solutions to spam were working.

RTA: No, he said they didn´t work because they too much or too little.
6. He told the interviewer that he got lost of e-mail.

7. He said computer nerds didn´t know that he had invented e-mail.

RTA: He said the only knew that he invented e-mail was computer nerds.

8. E-mail to Ray said what he had done was great.

9. Ray said it was nice that no one was interested in what he had done.

RTA: He just said no, that no one knew what he invented.

4. Draw the scheme that appears in the second video.

TIME AND PLACE IN REPORTED SPEECH

DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED
SPEECH

now Then The children are Said the children

playing outside now playing outside then
Here there Put the box here The told us to put
the box there
tomorrow The next day I will for New York She said that she
tomorrow would leave for New
York the next day
ago Previously/ Before The letter come a He said the letter
few days ago had come a few day
before