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BusyTeacher.org says, “We’ve got 195 reported speech worksheets just for you!” And once you’ve tried some of them in your classroom, we’re sure you’ll agree with thousands of other teachers all over the world, who’ve said, “BusyTeacher.org is a great site for ESL resources!”

All cheesiness aside, reported speech can be a little confusing for some ESL students, but it’s simple to teach if you have the right tools. Just about every language involves some form of reported speech - so once your students get the general idea, they should be off and running with any activities you give them. The question is, how can you make sure you give them a solid foundation in English reported speech?

By starting with BusyTeacher.org worksheets, of course! When you use some of these 195 worksheets along with the more rigorous exercises in your textbook, your students will quickly gain experience in all the ways English can be used to report speech. Then it’s time to turn them loose on some of the fun activities and games you’ll find on this page, so they can start using reported speech in sentences and descriptions.

It doesn’t matter if you’re teaching basic reported speech to ESL level-one beginners, or practicing advanced reported speech with your level-five students - you’ll find worksheets here that are perfectly adapted for your students’ skill and experience. And whether you want to quiz them with some fill-in-the-blank or multiple-choice worksheets, help them analyze reported speech in English-language movies and TV shows, or get them up and active with some reported speech games, BusyTeacher.org has got the right worksheets for you.

Working through a special themed unit? We love that! We’ve got worksheets based on work and school vocabulary, animals, cartoon characters, emotions, movies, and much more. BusyTeacher.org even has worksheets that target specific aspects of reported speech, like direct speech, reporting verbs, and impersonal report structures. We’ve got a reported speech worksheet for everybody, from ESL beginners to advanced students; from classes full of kids to business English seminars.

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GRAMMAR TIP:What Is Reported Speech?
In grammar, indirect or reported speech (also indirect discourse; Latin ōratiō oblīqua) is a way of reporting a statement or question. A reported question is called an indirect question. Unlike direct speech, indirect speech does not phrase the statement or question the way the original speaker did; instead, certain grammatical categories are changed. In addition, indirect speech is not enclosed in quotation marks. Person is changed when the person speaking and the person quoting the speech are different. In English, tense is changed.
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Reporting Verbs – Free ESL Lesson Plan

Reporting Verbs – Free ESL Lesson Plan

Nathan Martin
Reported Speech, ,
  When should you teach reporting verbs? This ESL lesson plan on reporting verbs is aimed at students with advanced proficiency levels (B2 level). To fully grasp the material, students mus ...
1 Views 5,646 Adv
Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing

ESL Pals
  This intermediate ESL digital marketing lesson is perfect for your B1-B2 students to discuss the topic of digital marketing and explore each area in detail, including SEO, email, social, ...
1 Views 15,665 IntAdv
Reported Speech on Football

Reported Speech on Football

gelleorsi
» Reported Speech
  The worksheet practices reported speech and reported questions using the comic section of the book called Manchester United by Kevin Brophy (Pearson Education Ltd., 2001.). Students have ...
1 Views 10,629 Int
Rubric for Presentations

Rubric for Presentations

Cynthia Lopez
» Reported Speech
  This rubric can be used with oral speeches or presentations. It can be used to evaluate or as an assessment tool for oral speeches or presentations. You can give the amount of points th ...
1 Views 6,297 IntAdvExam
Indirect Speech – Exercises

Indirect Speech – Exercises

Mirela Ursu
» Reported Speech
  These exercises help with practicing various aspects of indirect speech, ranging from statements with no change in tense, to questions in various tenses. They can be used for, for revisi ...
1 Views 33,483 Pre-IntInt
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Quiz On Parts Of Speech

Quiz On Parts Of Speech

BusyTeacher Contributor
The purpose of this worksheet is to brainstorm your students previous knowledge or even to evaluate their knowledge after a grammar class about parts of the speech. Students will check understand ...
1 Views 15,756 Elem
Direct and Indirect Speech

Direct and Indirect Speech

Shaloo Court
» Reported Speech
This worksheet has been designed in a simple way, keeping in mind the need of an average student. It covers all the essential rules required by a student to learn to understand the concept of Dir ...
1 Views 20,516 Pre-Int
Flying First Class

Flying First Class

Reported Speech, ,
This worksheet is about a joke about a blonde woman travelling to New York. Students are required to answer questions to check their undertanding of the joke, then they can role play the scene in ...
5 Views 29,425 ElemPre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Kids Say the Funniest Things (Reported Speech)

Movie Worksheet: Kids Say the Funniest Things (Reported Speech)

English Through Videos
Reported Speech, ,
This is a fun video activity to practise using reported speech. Learners listen to cute kids speaking. Then  they change the direct speech into reported speech (indirect speech). It can be do ...
17 Views 74,994 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Reporting Verbs

Reporting Verbs

BusyTeacher Contributor
» Reported Speech
Chart with the right use and examples of the most common reporting verbs and some useful practice. It also aims at students preparing for exams like the first certificate of English (B2 level) pro ...
6 Views 62,900 Int
Captain America: Civil War - 3rd Conditional, Reported Speech, Degrees of Comparison

Captain America: Civil War - 3rd Conditional, Reported Speech, Degrees of Comparison

sasha_alexandra
I created this worksheet to have a little grammar revision with my students. It is dedicated to a new Marvel film "Captain America: Civil War". I like it a lot and learners enjoy discussing superh ...
8 Views 31,351 IntAdvExam
Reported Speech. Summary Chart

Reported Speech. Summary Chart

Leticia
» Reported Speech
Just a summary of structures used in the reported speech. Just a hint for our students when they have to face it. You can use it as a refresher or as a reminder when they practice this grammar. It ...
5 Views 28,071 Int
Reported Speech

Reported Speech

BusyTeacher Contributor
» Reported Speech
It is a very useful material about how to revise reported speech. It contains a sheet with theory, a sheet with exercises, one with tranformations and some flash cards with funny sentences for us ...
16 Views 39,969 Int
Reported Speech

Reported Speech

» Reported Speech
This power-point presentation is helpful for teaching reported speech in present, past and present perfect.It's appropriate for Pre-Intermediate and upper levels. Hope you enjoy!
11 Views 28,737 Pre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Friends, Season 8, Episode 6- Halloween Party

Movie Worksheet: Friends, Season 8, Episode 6- Halloween Party

Reported Speech, ,
I have prepared this one for teenagers. I often use the following link for making my own worksheets http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583612/ There you'll find quotes, plot summaries, goofs. And there ...
8 Views 46,181 ElemPre-IntInt
Reading- Famous People

Reading- Famous People

Reported Speech,
Aimed at intermediate and above students, this worksheet consists of reading biografies of famous people who have overcome some adversities in their lives. It also has some vocabulary activities, ...
9 Views 32,659 IntAdv
Emotional Reported Speech

Emotional Reported Speech

, Reported Speech
This is a game to pracice reported speech. Students have to take one "tell-card" and one "adverb" card and then say one or two sentences (about what is written on the card) emotionally, trying to ...
14 Views 32,876 Pre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: 100 Year Old BFFs (Practise the Reported Speech)

Movie Worksheet: 100 Year Old BFFs (Practise the Reported Speech)

Reported Speech,
Activities to practise the reported speech based on a funny video from Steve Harvey's show where 100-year-old best friends share their thoughts on today's pop culture. At first, students answ ...
25 Views 28,461 IntAdv
Reported Speech

Reported Speech

» Reported Speech
A powerpoint about how to turn direct speech sentences into indirect reported speech sentences. It contains the rules for normal sentences, questions, questions with question words, imperatives, a ...
14 Views 26,234 Int
Reported Speech

Reported Speech

Vadim
» Reported Speech
It's just an exercise for intermediate and upper-intermediate students to practise reporting phrases using reporting verbs followed by gerund, infinitive and/or preposition. Hope this will be of s ...
12 Views 28,045 IntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Wild Target

Movie Worksheet: Wild Target

BusyTeacher Contributor
Reported Speech,
This is a worksheet that can be filled in by intermediate students once they have watched the film "Wild target"; a British comedy. They have to find information about the film, actors, film direc ...
1 Views 12,050 Int
Superstitions PPT

Superstitions PPT

this PPT lesson is suitable to be used for a multicultural class. This one hour reading & speaking lesson introduce superstitions and is supplemented with a short group activity and presentati ...
12 Views 40,765 Pre-IntInt
Reported Speech Worksheet II

Reported Speech Worksheet II

» Reported Speech
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising reported speech at pre-intermediate level. There's a complete explanation followed by two different activities in which students are asked to rewrite t ...
17 Views 34,996 Pre-IntInt
Reported Speech Memory Game

Reported Speech Memory Game

» Reported Speech
Hopefully, this will be useful for you as a quick solution for practice or time-filling activity in an upper-intermediate (perhaps even intermediate) adult learner setting. The title is self-expla ...
16 Views 36,145 IntAdv
Diagnostic Test Level 4

Diagnostic Test Level 4

A set of grammar tasks to revise different grammar points learned in the previous level (3): supply the right options of varied tenses and linkers+report 3 direct statements +change to passive voi ...
6 Views 20,902 Adv

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