DIRECT /

REPORTED
SPEECH
LET´S REMEMBER SOME TENSES
INENGLISH
I learn English.
!!!
I learnt/ learned English.
I am learning English.
I was learning English.
I have learnt English.
I had learnt English.
I will learn English.
I must learn English.
I can learn English.
DIRECT /
REPORTED
SPEECH
WE USE THE REPORTED SPEECH TO SAY
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SAID.
EXAMPLE:
THERE IS NO BOSS

HE SAID (THAT) THERE WAS NO BOSS

WE MAKE THE FOLLOWING
CHANGES TO VERB IN
DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH
Is / are was / were
Present simple Past simple
Present coninuous Past continuous
Past simple Past perfect
Present perfect Past perfect
Be going to Was / were going to
will would
must must
Can could
DIRECT SPEECH
 THE PINK PANTERS SCARE PEOPLE BUT WE DON´T HURT
THEM.

REPORTED SPEECH
 ONE THIEF TOLD A JOURNALIST (THAT) THE PINK
PANTERS SCARED BUT THEY DIDIN´T HURT THEM

NOTE THAT WE DON´T HAVE TO USE

( THAT ) IN REPORTED SPEECH

WE ALSO MAKE
THE
FOLLOWING
CHANGES
WE CHANGE PERSONAL
PRONOUNS
WE CAN CATCH THE THIEVES

THE POLICE SAID THEY COULD CATCH THE

THIEVES
 WE CHANGE POSSISSIVE
ADJECTIVES
I HAVEN´T SEEN MY
SISTER SINCE LAST
WEEK.

 HE SAID HE HADN´T SEEN HIS

SISTER SINCE THE WEEK
BEFORE.
WE CHANGE SOME TIMES
AND PLACE EXPRESSIONS
DIRECT SPEECH REPORTED SPEECH
HERE THERE
NOW THEN
TODAY THAT DAY
YESTERDAY THE DAY BEFORE
TOMORROW THE NEXT / THE
FOLLOWING DAY
A YEAR AGO A YEAR BEFORE
IF IS SOMTHING TRUE
we don´t need to change the verb

JOB “ THE POPULATION

OF CHINA IS THE BIGEST
IN THE WORLD”

JOB SAID THAT “ THE

POPULATION OF CHINA IS
THE BIGEST IN THE WORLD”
WE ARE ENGLISH STUDENTS

THEY SAID THEY WERE

ENGLISH STUDENTS
I AM A PORTUGUESE
TEACHER

HE SAID HE WAS A
PORTUGUESE TEACHER
SHE DOES HER HOMEWORK
EVERYDAY

SHE SAID SHE DID HER HOMEWORK

EVERYDAY
WE VISITED THE DOCTOR TWO
DAYS AGO

THEY SAID THEY HAD VISITED THE

DOCTOR TWO DAYS BEFORE
 HE IS WAITING FOR YOU

HE SAID HE WAS WAITING FOR

YOU
I HAVE HEARD THE NEWS
ABOUT YOU.

HE SAID HE HAD HEARD THE NEWS

ABOUT YOU.
 SHE WILL TRAVEL
TOMORROW

SHE SAID SHE WOULD TRAVEL THE

NEXT DAY
 WE ARE GOING TO SWIM IN
THE POOL

THEY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO

SWIM IN THE POOL.
QUESTIONS

????
 ARE YOU
AMERICAN ?

THE JOURNALIST I SHE WAS

ASKED F AMERICAN
ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE A
SHOWER?

SHE ASKED YOU IF YOU WERE

GOING TO TAKE A SHOWER