1. What did they say?
Reported statements

2. He told me he did it every day.
Reported Statements
Don't forget to change the verb tenses!
Present Simple- Past Simple
Present Continuous- Past Continuous
Present Perfect- Past Perfect
Past Simple- Past Perfect
Future Simple- Future in the Past
He said to me, "I do it every day"
He told me he did it every day.

3. Change Time expressions
Today, tonight, this week
That day, that night, that week
Now
Then, at that time, at once, immediately
Yesterday, last night/week
The day before, the previous night/week
Tomorrow, next week/month/year
The day after, the following day, the next week
Two days/years ago
Two days/years before

4. Change modal verbs Change Certain Words This Can That Could These May
Those
Here
There
Come go
Can
Could
May
Might
Must
Had to

5. Have you got mice?
What did you say?
No, we haven’t
Is it a computer shop?
I said that…
It is a flat!
We had no mice

6. You will not get me any new books next year! How so?
I’ll stay another year in the 6th form!
Pa, I must tell you something now. I am sure you will be happy to know it.
Well, out with it, sunny.
What did you say?
I said that….
I would stay another year in the 6th form

7. How nice of you! And what was the question?
What did you say?
I said that…
Who broke the window in the classroom…?
I answered the teacher’s question today!
I had answered the teacher’s question

8. Jack, why are you late for school every morning?
He said that…
What? What did he say?
When I come to the crossing I see the words: SCHOOL-GO SLOW!
When he came to the crossing he saw the words:
School-go slow!

9. Turn from Direct into Reported Speech
Robert said, ‘This cake is tasty’.
Robert said (that) the cake was tasty.
‘I’m starting a new job next week, ’she said.
She said she was starting a new job the following week.
Bob said to mum, ‘I don’t like this shirt’.
Bob told mum he didn’t like that shirt.
He said to her, ‘Open the window, please’.
He asked her to open the window.
‘I may be late today,’ he said.
He said he might be late that day.
Well done!

10. Test yourself ‘I got my exam results last week,’ he said.
‘I can’t afford to buy this dress,’ she said to her friend.
She said, ‘Give me this book, please.’
‘I won’t be late again,’ he said.
‘We must go home now,’ they said to us.
‘There is too much violence on TV,’ said dad.
‘I’m going to a party tonight,’ she said.
‘This is a very good book,’ he said to me.
‘Don’t do it again!’ he said to her.
‘I’ve never done it,’ she said.

11. Check yourself He said he had got his exam results the week before.
She told her friend she couldn’t afford to buy that dress.
She asked to give her that book.
He said he wouldn’t be late again.
They told us they had to go home at that moment.
Dad said there was too much violence on TV.
She said she was going to a party that night.
He told me that was a very good book.
He told her not to do it again.
She said she had never done it.
Well done!