Al Dhafra Grade 6 English: Welcome to Al Dhafra Grade 6 Blog! Journalistic Writing Unit Wk2

TV News Reader

What's Being Said? Practice Direct Speech

Adding Speech marks

Starter(s)

Discuss this picture

Now read the caption for the picture. Were you able to guess it correctly?

How about this camel?

Changing Statements From Direct to Reported Speech

Practice 'Direct' to 'Reported Speech'

Reported Speech:

Change of pronouns - Change of place and time - Reported Speech

	Direct Speech	Reported Speech (Reported speech)
Change of pronouns	I We my your our me us	⇒ he/she ⇒ they ⇒ his/her ⇒ my ⇒ their ⇒ him/her ⇒ them
Change of place and time	here today this morning yesterday tomorrow next week next month	⇒ there ⇒ that day ⇒ that morning ⇒ the day before ⇒ the next day ⇒ the following week ⇒ the following month

Original tense	Reported tense	Example
Simple Present	Simple Past	*"We enjoy fishing" - They said they enjoyed fishing*
Simple Past	Past Perfect	*"He saw it" - She said he had seen it*
Present Perfect	Past Perfect	*"She's gone" - You said she had gone*
Present Continuous	Past Continuous	*"I'm leaving" - You said you were leaving*
Past Continuous	Past Perfect Continuous	*"He was reading" - He said he had been reading*
*can*	*could*	*"I can sing" - She said she could sing*
*may*	*might*	*"We may stay" - They said they might stay*
*must*	*had to*	*"I must go" - He said he had to go*
*will*	*would*	*"I'll buy them" - You said you would buy them*