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Unit: I Major: English IX Group: B Grade: 10º

Practice’s name: Direct vs Indirect Speech.

Practice’s number: 1.1
Topic: Reported Speech
Student’s name: EDUARDO JUAREZ JUAREZ
Teacher’s name: Yunuen Pérez Centeno
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. D A ‘I’m going to leave my job
earlier today’.
1. I told my mum that my sister had tried to B I have already finished
Select an option
stop smoking. reading all the books.
2. Tony said that he wasn’t feeling very C C ‘I am not feeling very well.’
well.
3. I told the manager I was going to leave A D ‘I can ride one of the
job earlier that day. horses.’
4. Rebecca said that she had drunk just a F E ‘I am very proud of the
little water. students’.
5. He told us that he was very proud of the E F ‘I drank just a little water.’
students.
6. I said that I had already finished reading B G ‘My sister tried to stopped
all the books. smoking’

While Task: Reported Speech (Indirect)

Activity 1
Instructions: Change the direct speech to reported speech.
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Example:

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Fred told Danny that he loved her.

8. She told that she had found his keys.

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.
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1 She said that she wasn’t very hungry.

2 The nurse told the man that it wouldn’t hurt.
3 He told the police that it was his mother’s car.
4 She said that she had finished her homework.
5 He told the instructor that he couldn’t swim.
6 He told her that he would always love her.

Example: “I am not very hungry”. Will not hurt

The cars belongs to my mother I finished my homekork

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I do not know how to swin 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.
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1. The man liked to talk to people about his private life. False
2. The man always told the truth to his friends. False
3. The wise old woman asked the man to take a pillow to the top of the hill. True
4. The man asked the wise woman if she wanted to gossip with him. False
5. The man said that it was impossible to refill the pillow with the feathers. True