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Unit: I Major: English IX Group: A Grade: 10th

Practice’s name: Direct vs Indirect Speech.

Practice’s number: 1.1
Topic: Reported Speech
Student’s name: Fernanda Emmanuelle Martínez Flores
Teacher’s name: Lic. Dolores Vega Espinoza
Practice’s objective: The student will be able to differentiate between the direct and indirect
speech aspects in order to correctly change from one to another form.

Pre Task: From direct to indirect speech

Instructions: Match the sentences according to the correct report form of the direct
speech sentences.
.
Example:
0. I said that I could ride one of the horses. A ‘I’m going to leave my job
D earlier today’.
1. I told my mum that my sister had tried to B I have already finished
stop smoking. G reading all the books.
2. Tony said that he wasn’t feeling very C ‘I am not feeling very well.’
well. C

3. I told the manager I was going to leave D ‘I can ride one of the
job earlier that day. A horses.’
4. Rebecca said that she had drunk just a E ‘I am very proud of the
little water. F students’.
5. He told us that he was very proud of the F ‘I drank just a little water.’
students. E

6. I said that I had already finished reading G ‘My sister tried to stopped
all the books. B smoking’
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While Task: Reported Speech (Indirect)
Activity 1
Instructions: Change the direct speech to reported speech.

Example:

1. She said that she couldn’t see didn’t like the music.

2. He told her that He didn’t like the music.

3. John told his father that he had cleaned up his room.

4. The man said that it wouldn’t be expensive.

5.Debbie said that she wasn´t go to the party.

6. Richard told his wife that he had lost the match.

7. Fred told Danny that he lob her.

8. She said that she found found his keys.

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Activity 2
Instructions: Look at the following pictures and select the correct direct speech for
each situation. You may wish to consider the following reported speech sentences.
1. She said that she wasn’t very 4. She said that she had finished her
hungry. homework.
2. The nurse told the man that it 5. He told the instructor that he
wouldn’t hurt. couldn’t swim.
3. He told the police that it was his 6. He told her that he would always
mother’s car. love her.

Example: “I am not very hungry”. "It won't hurt".

"It's my mother's car". "I've finished my homework".

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"I can't swim". "I'll always love you".

Post Task: Reports from a story

Instructions: Read the following text and select True or False according to the
content of the story.

1. The man liked to talk to people

True
about his private life.

2. The man always told the truth to

False
his friends.

3. The wise old woman asked the

man to take a pillow to the top of True
the hill.

4. The man asked the wise woman

False
if she wanted to gossip with him.

5. The man said that it was

impossible to refill the pillow with True
the feathers.