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REPORTED SPEECH 4ESO

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Created on April 16, 2020

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Transcript

Tuesday, April 21

1:30

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DREAM TEAM

now

DREAM TEAM

Hermione, Ron, You

Ron:We have a problem!Hagrid told me that he had heard Dumbledore talking to the Minister about Bellatrix.

You:What??

Hermione:What did you just say Ronald!?

Ron:Hagrid told me: " I have heard Dumbledore talking..."

DREAM TEAM

Hermione, Ron, You

You need to talk to Dumbledore Harry!

Hermione:

You:What can I tell him?

Hermione: Well…tell him that Ronald told us…

Ron:I heard his conversation about Bellatrix last week.

DREAM TEAM

Hermione, Ron, You

Ron:I heard his conversation about Bellatrix last week.

You:So I tell him that Ron told us that he had heard your conversation about Bellatrix the week before.

Reported Speech

Or how do we say what others have said...

XO XO GOSSIP GIRL

Reported Speech

In Direct Speech... - we have always punctuation signs. - the message is not transformed.

Kanye: " Beyoncé deserves the VMA".

In Indirect Speech... - the message is a little bit altered. - we have an introductory clause like... he said/ I said/ he told me...

Taylor S.: I cannot believed Kanye said that Beyoncé deserved the VMA".

Introductory Clause

He/she/ the teacher said thatShe/he/my mom told me that... My parents claimed that...My friends mentioned that...

The intro. clause tells us:

  • WHO SAID IT: my mom, he, she...
  • WHEN: said/told (in the past)
  • The attitude trhough a reporting verb

REPORTING VERB

SPEAKER (of the original sentence)

THAT

*that: can be omitted when the message has a subject.... we write it (in brackets)

Reported Speech

We need to look carefully:

  • who is the person speaking.
  • who is the subject of the message.
  • who is the "speaker" and who is the "listener"... do they appear in the message?
  • Is it a question or a statement?

And in the message, we need to pay attention to three points:

  1. Verb tense
  2. Pronouns
  3. Time/space references

SO, AS WE HAVE SEEN AT THE BEGINNING...

Hermione: Well…tell him that Ronald told us… Ron: I heard his conversation about Bellatrix last week. Harry: so I tell him that Ron told us that he had heard his conversation about Bellatrix the week before.

Underlined: time changesIn red: pronouns In purple: time references

Ron: I heard his conversation about Bellatrix last week. Harry: so I tell him that... Ron told us that he had heard his conversation about Bellatrix the week before.

El estilo indirecto entonces está en que:

  • Harry tiene que decir lo que Ron le ha dicho.
Tenemos en cuenta los elementos:
  • El sujeto del mensaje (RON) es distinto al que habla (HARRY).
  • Por lo que todo va a pasar a una tercera persona cuando Harry lo diga. (I - He)
  • Todas las referencias temporales toman distancia.

Verb tense

Almost always it jumps back in time...

PRESENT SIMPLE/ CONTINUOS

PAST S/C

He cookedHe was cooking

He cooksHe is cooking

PRESENT PERFECT S/C

PAST PERFECT S/C

past simple/ continuous

PAST PERFECT S/C

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He cookedHe was cooking

He had cookedHe had been cooking

PAST PERFECT S/C

PAST PERFECT S/C

WILL CAN MUST/HAVE TO

WOULD COULD HAD TO

Pronouns

YOU

WE

I/ME THEY/THEM

HESHE

THEY

PRESENT SIMPLE/ CONTINUOS

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MY

OUR

YOUR

MY/THEIR

HIS/HER

THEIR

YOU

ME

US

ME/THEM

HIM/HER

THEM

References

As tenses and pronouns,they are also changed...

here there

THIS thAT

THESE thOSE

now then

today that day

tonight that night

YESTERDAY the DAY BEFORE tHE PREVIOUS DAY

tomorrow the next/following day

lAST (WEEK/YEAR)

the previous YEARthe year before

Statements

"I went kayaking with you last year", she told us.

She told us that she had gone kayaking with us the year before.

Questions

Yes/no

"Did you watch the football match yesterday?", she asked us.

She asked us if/whether we had watched the match the day before.

Wh-

"How long have you been here?", she asked me.

"She asked me how long I had been there.