Thursday, November 12, 2015

NA1 - unit 8B: Reported Speech


Curiously I taught this same topic in level NI1 so I suggest having a look at the entry of this blog for a revision of this grammar point, especially the changes of tenses, pronouns, determiners and so on. If you want to go to the post, here you are what I posted last year:

This topic is a typical grammar point but I'd like you to see it as a natural way of speaking. We use it very frequenltly in our conversation in Spanish and it's very usual in English as well. You must be logical and you'll find this topic much easier than expected. A list of changes is already in your own book. Here you are a video explaining this point, click here, but it's rather simple for you. However, for a good but long explanation, click here. Remember you can do some exercises at the end of the explanation.
Let me remind you that direct and indirect speech are very common in our daily life as well as in the news. If you read or watch some news you'll see it. Click here to check it: BBC news
The other problem was the use of if and whether. Here you are a good page to see the difference between them; click here

Nevertheless, this lesson in NA1 deals with the introductory verbs you should use to be more accurate. You can go to these links to see how these vebs work; click here , here or here
For practice you can do these exercises: exercise 1     exercise 2    exercise 3     exercise 4

To finish with, let me tell you that the best way to learn them is to practise as much as possible; the more you practise the better you use them so here you are some more exercises to do:

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