Lesson Topic: Vacation Anecdote

Grammar Point: Reported Speech

Name of Teacher: Susan Strikovsky

Target Class: 9th

Lesson Place in the Curriculum:Lesson Nine

המצגת נערכה ע"י סוזן סטריקובסקיכל הזכויות שמורות לוויסקול לימודים מקוונים בע"מ

Table of Contents❖ Introduction

❖Text- Vacation Anecdotes

❖Forming Reported Speech

❖Using Reported Speech

❖Conclusion

Where do you think the people are traveling too?

Why is she cleaning the house?

Vacation Anecdotes

My friend told me a funny story

about her family vacation….

Vacation Anecdotes

• She said they arrived at their rented beach house and found it

was very dirty.

• She told me her parents cleaned it thoroughly.

• An hour later, they discovered they were in

the wrong cottage!

Forming Reported Speech

The main verb of the sentence is usually past

• Tom said that…

I told her that…

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Forming Reported Speech - 1

The rest of the sentence is usually in the

past

• Tom said (that) he was feeling ill.

• I told her (that) I didn't have any money.

Forming Reported Speech - 2The Present form in Direct speech changes to the Past form

in Reported speech

Am / Is Was

Are Were

Do / Does Did

Have / Has Had

Will Would

Can Could

Want,

Like,

Know,

Go

Wanted,

Liked,

Knew,

Went

Forming Reported Speech - 3

Direct: Tom said: "I woke up feeling sick, so I

didn't go to work."

Reported: Tom said that he woke up / had woken

up feeling sick, so he didn't/ hadn't gone to work.

Using Reported Speech

When we tell people what somebody said or

thought, we often use Reported Speech

I really like it here.

Bill said that he really liked it here.

Today’s Lesson was about

Reported Speech

Next Lesson will be about

Future Possibilities- First Conditional