S 3 English Direct & Indirect

Speech • We can use reported spe

ech to talk about what someone else said.

• Indirect Speech=

• Reported Speech

• (間接引語 )

• Target Unit 7

• P.6,7

Tom said, “ I am hungry.”

There are 3 types of speech

• 1.Statement (陳述 )

• Direct Speech: Tom said, “I am hungryI am hungry.”

• >>Indirect Speech:

• Tom said Tom said thatthat hhee waswas hungry. hungry.

We use different reporting reporting verbs.verbs.

• Reported Statement( 陳述 )

• eg. He saidsaid that he did not know your address.

We use different reporting reporting verbs.verbs.

•Reported command : 命令• change ‘said to’ to toldtold

• He toldtold me to wait for him.

•Reported request: 要求• He asked asked me to help him.

“Move your car.”

• policeman

driver

2. Command or request (命令 /請求 )

• I . Command

• Direct SpeechDirect Speech:

• “ Move your car, ” the policeman told the driver.

• >> Indirect Speech>> Indirect Speech:

• The policeman told the driver toto move his car.

“Please get me some water.”

Alan

II. Request 請求• Direct Speech:

• “Please get me some water,” Miss Wong said to Alan.

>> Indirect Speech:

said to >>> askedasked

Miss Wong asked Alan

toto get her some water.

We use different reporting reporting verbs.verbs.

•Reported question

•??????????????• He askedasked me how

I did it.

Tom

3. Questions

• I. Wh- question• Direct Speech:

• eg. “Where do you come from?” Tom asked me.

>>>Indirect Speech:

Tom asked me where I came from.

nurse

II. Yes/No question

• Direct Speech:

• “Are Are you ill?” she asked me.

Change the order of the subject and the verb in questions.

• She asked me if + subject + verb + ……….

>>Indirect Speech:

•She asked me ifif II waswas ill.

We change tenses when using indirect speech like this.

Direct speechSimple tense

Indirect speechSimple tense

“I happy,” saidthe lady.

The lady said that she

happy.

Present Continuous Tense>>Past Continuous Tense

• “The thief is running away,” said Mrs.Chan.

• Mrs. Chan said that the thief was running away.

>>

have/has finished >> h a dfin ish ed

>>

saw >> h a d seen

>>

will/shall find >> w o u ld fin d

The tense does not always change in indirect speech. If we are reporting something which is generally

true, or something that is still true, the tense stays the same.

• “China is the biggest country in the world,” he said.

• >>> He said that

• China is the biggest country in the world.

Change the modal verbsmodal verbs.

• Can Can >>>

• could• shall shall >>>

• should

• may >>>may >>>

• might• must >>>must >>>

• had to

Change ‘don’t’ to ‘not to’

• ‘Don’t move,’ the robbers shouted.

• >>The robbers told us not to move.

Change the time words.

• “I saw a pretty girl today,” said Edison.

• Edison said that he had seen a pretty girl that day.

yesterday>>> the day before

• tomorrow >>>

• the following day

• last year >>>

• the previous year

• next week >>>

• the following week

Change ‘here’ to ‘there’.

• “Put the bottle here,” he said.

• Indirect Speech:• He told me to put

the bottle there.

Change ‘this’ to ‘that’; ‘these’ to ‘those’.

• eg. “I like this jacket and these socks,” said Miriam.

• >>>Indirect Speech

• Miriam said that she liked thatthat jacket and thosethose socks.

Change the pronouns and possessive adjectives.

• I, me, my --->>>

• we, us, our ---->>

• you, youryour -->>>

• he/she, him/her, his/her

• they, them, their

• he/she/they/• him/her/them,• his/her/theirhis/her/their• me, myme, my

Take out your notebook now.

Exercise 1:

• 1. “ I am afraid,” said Mark.

• Ans:

• >> Mark said thMark said that he was afraid.at he was afraid.

2.“Get down onto the floor,”the robbers said tosaid to the manager.

•Ans:•>>>The robbers told the manager to to get down onto the floor.

3. “Please wake me up at 6 a.m.,” Joey said to her mother.

• Ans:

• >>>>> Joey asked her mother to wake herher up at 6 a.m.

4.“Will you be my girlfriend?”Edison asked Joey.

• Ans:

• >>>Edison asked

• Joey if she would

• be his girlfriend.

5. “What do you do?” Miss Mo asked me.

• Ans:Ans:

• Miss Mo asked Miss Mo asked me what I did.me what I did.

• Try to do Try to do Target p.7 Target p.7 now.now.

Please check your answers.(1) “I will write a report

about the robbery tomorrow,” said the Manager.

• Ans:

• The Manager said that hThe Manager said that he would write a report abe would write a report about the robbery the folloout the robbery the following day.wing day.

(2) “I tried to press the alarm under my desk,” said the

cashier.•Ans:Ans:•The cashier said that he/she The cashier said that he/she had tried to press the alarm had tried to press the alarm under his/her desk.under his/her desk.

3. “Where is the key?”the robber asked me.

• Ans:

• The robber asked me where the key was.

4. “Shut up!” shouted the robber.

• Ans:Ans:

• The robber ordered/told The robber ordered/told us to shut up.us to shut up.

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