Reporting verbs

VERB PATTERNS
❑ Do you ever write notes to your friends?
When? Why?

❑ Some people say that the written word is

more powerful than the spoken word. Do you
think this is true? Why/Why not?
►Find one spelling
mistake in the
handwritten note.
►What has happened?
►Who wrote the note and why?
1. Read the text and find the answers to
the questions on slide 2

2. Underline the reporting verbs below in

the text.
Complete the rules (a-e)
with the correct promise
reporting verbs
beg persuade
► accuse
► admit admit
► apologise
► beg
apologise
► persuade
► promise
► thank accuse
thank
 John’s mother begged him not to lose his phone again.

Mrs Brown accused her neighbours of stealing her plants.

Grace apologised for not being better at cooking.

Harry suggested not spending so much money on

snacks.

Anna’s parents encouraged her to take up a hobby.

 The tour guide warned the tourists that
swimming in the river was dangerous.

Ella insisted on paying for her own ticket.

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 HOMEWORK

Make one sentence

for each verb
pattern