Reported speech
Luise Mo
Created on April 13, 2022
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Transcript
Choose:
a little game
When you click on the question mark, you can do a short test. (external link)
As a little warm up: a video by "grammar rocks" - a teacher who would do anything to make his students learn... - make yourself a picture!
Textbook
In your textbook at page 187 you can learn how to use reported speech (explained in German).
A video on when and how to use reported speech.
Click here to test yourself!
Here you find the grammar rules on one page. Take your book and mark the page with a post-it!
COMPLETE THE CHALLENGE!
"I come from a land down under"
"She has left me"
"I don't care!"
"All you need is love!"
"I have lost my mind"
"You are a fool!"
"I cried."
"I left my home in Georgia"
"I walk the line."
"Love hurts."
"She has fooled me."
"I am a walrus"
"I was dreaming of the past"
"I have done my work."
"I have a dream."
A
He said that he was a walrus.
A
He said that he had a dream.
A
He said that love hurt.
("hurt" ist ein unregelmäßiges Verb und hat im Past Simple die gleiche Form, nur ohne -s)
Allerdings: Es ist eine generelle Wahrheit, dass "love hurts"... daher geht auch: He said that love hurts.
A
He said that he had come from a land down under.
B
He said that he came from a land down under.
B
He said that he has been a walrus.
A
He said he had been dreaming of the past.
A
She said that she has done her work.
A
He said that he walked the line.
A
He said he has lost his mind.
A
He said that he had cried.
A
She said that she did not care.
B
She said that she had done her work.
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B
He said that he walks the line.
B
He said he had lost his mind.
B
He said that he has cried.
A
He said that he has left his home in Georgia.
A
They said that all you need is love.
(no backshift necessary because it is a general truth)
A
She said that I was a fool.
A
He said that she had fooled him.
A
He said that she had left him.
B
He said that he had left his home in Georgia.
B
They said that all you needed was love.
B
She said that I had been a fool.
B
He said that she has fooled him.
B
He said that she has left him.
CONGRATULATIONS!