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.
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This is the 2nd ws to practise rephrasing. There are two exercises for students to change passive sentences into active ones & reported sentences into direct ones. Thanks Phillip Martin for cl ...
This is not an in- depth look although with more time it could be used to help write a letter to Facebook for instance or together with a look at the film the Social Network. This tries to look at ...
This PowerPoint slide show gives students a brief idea what reporting statements is. By following 5 steps, students can easily change directed speech into reported speech. Each step has an exercis ...
In this worksheet there are two exercises to practise rephrasing. In 1 the students have to rewrite active sentences into passive ones and in 2 they have to change direct sentences into reported s ...
exercises on reported speech, sentences to rephrase in affirmative, negative, questions, orders, etc... Short sentences that students find easy to rephrase when they start learning the reported sp ...
This is a board game for revising and practicing the reported speech (introductory verb is in simple past) with MUST, CAN, MAY, WILL, SHALL, MIGHT, OUGHT TO, COULD, SHOULD, and WOULD as the report ...
This worksheet provides comprehension activities about the movie Click! The activities should be carried out before and while watching this movie. It includes various types of actvities, such as m ...
This exercise was originally intended for a group of upper-intermediate students. My aim was to get students to pay attention to the story behind the lyrics, paying attention to the use of verb te ...
Useful exercise to practise report speech by means of different reporting verbs. Students need to identify the appropriate verb to be used in each of the sentences and write it in the grids and th ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising the reported speech. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to rewrite the sentences beginning with the given words. The worksheet is avai ...
This is pretty simple worksheet for teaching or revising the direct speech. Students are asked to write sixteen different sentences in the direct speech. The worksheet is recommended for pre-inte ...
Using a youtube upload of this fun BBC documentary about 18th century Paris to complete a gap fill exercise, an exercise to expand vocabulary/English phrases, plus general questions on the dialogu ...
Some more practice on Reported Speech. This is for pre-intermediate to Intermediate level for non English Speakers, especially for EFL students. The max time allotted to complete this exercise is ...
This is a worksheet for practising reported speech. The extract is from the story Ghost in the House. The students are asked to rewrite the extract observing the rules of transformation from dire ...
An old but funny song by the Searchers which can be used to teach students Reported Speech. Let your student listen to the song first, then find an example of Reported speech, convert two sentence ...
After watching the movie Persepolis, students answer questions based on it and work on vocabulary. Persepolis is also a movie that can be worked for different subjects such as social studies, they ...
REPORTED SPEECH: this worksheet contains detailed information about the rules of reported speech (reporting verbs, transforming direct into indirect speech, rules of transformation of various tens ...
This ws consists of 2 exercises to revise reported & direct speech. In exercise 1 the students have to rewrite 16 direct sentences into reported speech. In 2 they have 15 reported sentences to ...
This is a very useful hand-out for Ss who are learning what and how to change from direct speech into indirect one - sometimes also called 'reported speech'. When reporting speech, a few changes ...
This worksheet will be a great help while teaching reported speech. Rules are organized into tables which are easy to use and even easier to explain. It may help to transfer direct speech into ind ...
In this worksheet you will find 5 exercises: 1) previewing: sudents predict what is going to happen by writing a tick next to their choice; 2) a listening ex. in which students listen and tick the ...
This worksheet follows my presentation. The examples have been taken from the book "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". There are two pages, each having fifteen sentences for practice. I hope y ...
This presentation follows the one on reporting statements, commands and requests. This time I have decided to use examples from the book "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". It includes explana ...
This worksheet is aimed to Spanish-speaking learners who are learning English as a foreign language. It deals with listening and reading comprehension, vocabulary, the simple past tense and report ...
A worksheet for intermediate students on reported speech. There are two pages with different activities in which students are asked to complete each sentence by reporting what was said using 'sai ...
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