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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.
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It is an enjoyable powerpoint with pictures and suitable exercises. The students are expected to change sentences into reported speech by using some reporting verbs such as deny / admit/ claim / o ...
This worksheet contains vocabulary and questions connected to a short film called Validation. It contains pre-watch vocabulary activity and questions which should be asked while watching. It can b ...
This worksheet contains 10 quotes of famous people. The students match the quotes and the people, put the quotes into indirect speech and discuss the content. Thus the worksheet can be used as gra ...
A popular song “She Said” by Plan B can be used as a warmer to start a lesson on reported speech or a fun activity to finish it with. Ss enjoy listening to the song and singing the fir ...
A story you can learn from with questions you can discuss or write about after the reading. I used this story for home reading and later in classroom kids tell me the story with their own words an ...
A worksheet to be used in "noticing" or "guided discovery" to find out how reported speech works and the changes that are necessary. It starts with an outrageous and evidently wrong quotation to s ...
Taken from TV series 'Friends' episode 23 (season 4) will come in handy to those busyteachers who want to revise reported speech and have a good laugh as well. There are pre-, while- and post-watc ...
This is a worksheet for revising reported speech at intermediate level. There's a brief explanation at the top of the page followed by an activity in which students are asked to report the questio ...
A word scramble on reporting verbs in a nice way to recollect them. Of course, first they should be pre-taught , for that I use this worksheet. It will be even more interesting if you make this a ...
A great worksheet on reporting verbs to practice indirect speech. Students look at speech bubbles and match them to corresponding verbs. They also have to rewrite the sentences into reported spee ...
This is a worksheet for revising reported speech at intermediate level. Students are asked to reported the sentences given using one of the verbs given. The answer key is included.
This is the 3r ws of a series for advanced students. In this ws the students are offered to revise linking words and rewrite direct speech statements or questions into suitable reported speech for ...
It's the best for a test, as it's easy to check quick students progress .Simple test but really efficient if you want to see results. Changing sentences to reported and direct speech.
This is a 2-page worksheet for reviving reported speech. Recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to report the statements and the questions given.The answer key is included.
This is a simple worksheet to practice Reported Speech in a less boring way :) You can easily find the music (The Importance of Being Idle, from the album Don't Believe the Truth, by Oasis) and ev ...
Students revise the use of reported speech. In the first exercise there are sentences that have to be rewritten into reported speech. In the second exercise the sentences are in reported speech an ...
Four activities about conditional clauses, passive voice, reported speech and verbal tenses. The first activity is about reported speech. Students will transform the sentences from direct speech t ...
Three activities about conditional clauses, passive voice and reported speech. You can use them to revise these grammar points. The first activity is about conditional clauses. Students will compl ...
Simple sentences to rewrite in the Reported Speech. Pre-intermediate level. The students will have to read the sentences and pay attention to the words in bold which will have to be replaced. This ...
In this activity students transform some verses of the lyrics of "Broken Strings" by James Morrison feat. Nelly Furtado into Reported Speech. First, students can listen to song and follow the lyri ...
Three activities about conditional clauses, passive voice and reported speech. You can use them to revise these grammar points. The first activity is about conditional clauses. Students will compl ...
Three activities about conditional clauses, passive voice and reported speech. You can use them to revise these grammar points. The first activity is about conditional clauses. Students will write ...
It is a basic exercise in which students are given some introductory verbs first and then some sentences in direct speech. The students are asked to choose the introductory verb suitable for each ...
This worksheet is a filling the gaps activity for students of 2nd Bachillerato. It is a compilation of grammar exercises taken from different selectivity exams. It is a good way to revise verb ten ...
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