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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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The 3rd of a series of worksheets to revise reported speech. In this ws there are invitations, suggestions, orders, prohibitions, requests, advice, etc..., that's to say, special sentences to repo ...
This is my 2nd worksheet to revise reported speech, this time students are asked to report some yes/no & wh- questions. It's a good way to revise the structures and the necessary changes to co ...
Some sentences to revise reported speech. In this worksheet the students have to rephrase some sentences with affirmative and negative sentences. It's a good chance to revise verb, pronouns, adver ...
Some activities for revising phrasal verbs, passive tense, reported speech, forming the opposite of adjectives by adding a prefix. This worksheet was prepared for 2nd Bachillerato students (16 yea ...
The powerpoint presentation contains a spelling section, an articles section, an infinitives and gerunds section, passive section, a reported speech section, a present perfect section, a present c ...
This reading activity focuses on teaching the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling and brainstorm different ways students can reduce environmental threats. Suitable for intermediate st ...
This is a worksheet you could use for teaching your students the rules for reporting question as welll as providing them with some practice on this grammar point. It's divided into different kinds ...
Small animated films with children telling about what it's like to be poor. It's real children telling their sad stories - but their characters are animated. There are comprehension questions for ...
A board game to practise reported speech sentences. Good for revision and classroom practice as well. Once students get to know the basics of reported speech affirmative sentences, you can use thi ...
This is a worksheet to learn or revise Reported Speech. It includes both explanations and exercises in which students are asked to report questions and commands and complete sentences. Recommende ...
This is a compilation of Reported speech exercises. All of them come from old worksheets and grammar books. It contains fill-in exercises, reporting verbs practice and full rephrasing. Please note ...
This is the second part of the reported speech practice series. Provides further exercises on this topic. May be used as a test or homework.
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Here is the first of my reported speech worksheets. I'm going to make a series of them, because the topic is quite complicated. The worksheet contains the keys.
This worksheet can be used at the elementary level when you have just explained the students how to convert the direct speech inti indirect one. The author's words are in the present tense, so the ...
This is a rephrasing worksheet suitable for Bachiller students. It approaches structures like passives (one or two objects), reported speech, conditionals (four types), wishes, relative clauses (d ...
This is a "rephrasing" worksheet aimed at students of Bachiller. It includes the following constructions: passive (two obects, passive of reporting verbs), reported speech, conditionals (four type ...
This is a set of cards to revise Reported Speech (statements, questions and commands). Students take cards in turns and have to change the sentence written on it into the Reported Speech. A grea ...
Presentation of Reported Speech: Tenses change, Sentences to Practice on the board... It doesn't focus on place and time expressions but I think it can be very useful. There is a second part on th ...
A very broad worksheet on the reported speech, with varied exercises. This worksheet was designed for students who understand how the reported speech works but still need help memorizing its mech ...
Powerpoint explanation and activity on the reported speech. The first part explains how to construct the reported speech, in terms of sentence structure, tense alterations, etc. The second part is ...
This is an extremely complete & detailed worksheet on "Reported Speech", including a grammar guide explaining the use, changes of tense, pronouns, adverbs of time/place, use of "say" and "tell ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation with sound to learn Reported Speech. A complete grammar lesson explaining the use, changes of tense, pronouns, adverbs of time and place with examples. There are ...
This presentation aims to engage students in discovering grammar. The examples used are taken from the coursebook Lifelines, intermediate, Tom Hutchinson, OUP. After reading and listening to the d ...
This is a helpful handout to teach Intermediate students reported speech. It is mainly productive in its approach of teaching reported speech. I tried to create some tasks that can help students u ...
There are three exercises in this test. The first one is to underline the most suitable form of direct question, which corresponds to the given indirect one. The second exercise is about reported ...
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