Part 1:
Watch the following video.
http://www.schooltube.com/video/8d94448e0ba3a3f756b9/
Write 5 sentences that you hear in quoted speech. There are many ways to do this. Please vary your style and word choice to make it interesting. In other words, do not write all of the quotes in the same format.
For instance,
"I heard you the first time," Ricky said to Lucy, "but what language is it?"
Part 2:
Reply to your own comment. WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO is to rewrite your original sentence in reported (indirect) speech.
For instance,
Ricky told Lucy that he had heard her the first time but that he didn't know what language it was.
1. Lucy told Ricky, “It’s the language I want our child to learn: good English.”
ReplyDelete-->Lucy explained that good English was the language that she was using and also wanted their child to learn.
2. “Now, Lucy, your aren’t going to teach our child to talk that way,” Ricky said, “aren’t you?”
-->Ricky wanted to make sure that she wasn’t going to teach their child to talk the way she was talking.
3. “I certainly am,” Lucy answered, “From the time our child is born, it isn’t going to hear anything but perfect English.”
--> Lucy replied that she was certainly sure, and their child wasn’t going to hear anything but perfect English since they were born.
4. “Well honey, it’s very nice thought,” Ricky agrued, “but as usual you have no logical ‘spanation for doin’ it the way you’re doin’ it.”
-->Ricky notified Lucy that was a very nice thought, but she usually had no logical idea about what she was doing.
5. Ricky asked Lucy ironically, “Do you mean to tell me that I could have gotten out of this whole deal by just taking you to a movie?”
-->Ricky ironically asked Lucy whether she meant that he could have gotten out of that whole deal by just taking her to a movie.
Excellent direct and indirect speech, Thao!
Delete1.Ricky said to Lucy,"you are getting me all confuse.”
ReplyDelete2.“we are going to teach our child to speak Spanish,”Ricky told Lucy.
3.“I don’t want you to talk to the kid,”Ricky argued with Lucy,”until he is 21 years old.”
4.“Our cild is going to learn to speak English,” Lucy complained,"but first we have to learn.”
5.“we are gonna hire a touter,” Lucy decided.
1.Ricky said Lucy that she were getting him all confuse.
Delete2.Ricky told Lucy that they were going to teach their child to speak Spanish.
3.Ricky argued with Lucy that he didn’t want her to talk to the kid until he was 21 years old.
4.Lucy complained that their child was going to learn to speak English but first we had to learn.
5.Lucy decided that they were gonna hire a tutor.
1. Ricky said to Lucy*
Delete4.but first they had to learn.
1. “I heard you the first time,” Rickey said, “but, what language is it?”
ReplyDelete Rickey told Lucy that he had heard her the first time and he asked her what language it was.
2. “The language I want our child to learn: good English,” Lucy said.
Lucy told Ricky that it was the language that she wanted their child to learn: good English.
3. Lucy said,” Rickey, promise me that until our child is at least 19 or 20 years old you won’t talk to him.”
Lucy told Rickey to promise her that until their child was at least 19 or 20 years old, he would not talk to it.
4. “Well, I haven’t told you this before,” Lucy told Rickey,” dear you speak English with slight accent.”
Lucy mentioned to Rickey that she hadn’t told her this before that he spoke English with accent.
5. Lucy answered,” I have learned to listen with an accent.”
Lucy told Rickey that she had learned to listen with an accent.
dear teacher I have two questions
DeleteQ1/ is it required to tell every single word had said in the speech in reported speech?
“You can understand me, Rickey replied, “can’t you?”
Rickey answered Lucy that she could understand him.
how to report "can't you"
Q2/ in the example below does the question- which fellow the first sentence in the speech is anew or still with the sentence that before it
“Well, this is indeed distressing news,” Lucy said, “to what do you attribute your plethora of fatigue?”
Lucy told Rickey that well, this was indeed distressing news, and to what did he attribute his plethora of fatigue?
dear teacher I have two questions
DeleteQ1/ is it required to tell every single word had said in the speech in reported speech?
“You can understand me, Rickey replied, “can’t you?”
Rickey answered Lucy that she could understand him.
how to report "can't you"
Q2/ in the example below does the question- which fellow the first sentence in the speech is anew or still with the sentence that before it
“Well, this is indeed distressing news,” Lucy said, “to what do you attribute your plethora of fatigue?”
Lucy told Rickey that well, this was indeed distressing news, and to what did he attribute his plethora of fatigue?
These are very good, thoughtful questions. I appreciate that :)
DeleteQ1: The tag question "can't you" does not have to be reported. It's just a speaking device--it does not contain real content.
Q2: These are actually 2 separate sentences. The first sentence is a statement and the second one is a question. So a comma after Lucy said and a capital T for "To what do you attribute...?"
1. Lucy said, " It's not going to hear anything but perfect English."
ReplyDelete2." I made a little mistake," Ricky said
3. Ricky asked, " Should I say "enu"?"
4. " I don't see why," Ricky said," you have to have such a crazy language anyway."
5."In spanish," Ricky said. " You got a sound, it sound the same all the time."
Indirect speech
1. Lucy reminded Ricky that it wasn't going to hear anything but perfect English.
2. Ricky said that he had made a little mistake.
3. Ricky asked Lucy that should he say "enu".
4. Ricky argued that he didn't see why he had to have such a crazy language anyway.
5. Ricky explained that in spanish he had gotten a sound, it sounded the same all the time
5. ...Ricky said, "You got a
Deletesound..."
3. if he should say "enu."
Good work!
1- Ricky said to Lucy" when you got started in something, you really go through it"
ReplyDelete- Ricky told Lucy that when she had started in something, she deeply went through it.
2- " I was not sure that you had asked me to get married or to go to a movie." Lucy told Ricky.
- Lucy wondered that she had been confused whether he had wanted to ask her to go to a movie or propose to her.
3- Ricky asked Lucy" do you mean to tell mean that I could have gotten out of this whole deal by just taking you to a movie."
-Ricky asked Lucy that if he took her to a movie, he would not have been married her.
4-" you take this book and pretend " Lucy asked "that our child has come to you and said, daddy, read me a good-night story"
-Lucy wanted Ricky to took a book and acted like their child had come to him and asked him to tell him a good night story.
5- Lucy said" that shows how little you know about English language."
- Lucy shocked Ricky with the fact that his language ability was horrible.
1. Where's the punctuation?
Delete2. wondered IF Ricky had wanted...
3. Ricky asked Lucy, "Do you mean...?"
This one is too tricky to report!
4. Punctuation?
...to take a book and act...
5. Lucy said, "That shows..."
The last sentence is not reported speech; its your interpretation of the conversation!
1. Ricky said, "should I say enough?"
ReplyDeleteRicky asked if he should say enough.
2. "You write it in the same way, and it sounds in the same way," said Ricky.
Ricky said that you wrote it in the same way, and it sounded in the same way.
3. "We are going to teach our child," Ricky argued ",to speak Spanish."
Ricky said to Lucy that they were going to teach their child to speak Spanish.
4. "Our child is going to learn to speak English," Lucy said.
Lucy said to Ricky that they were going to teach their child to speak English.
5. "We are going to hire a tutor," said Lucy.
Lucy said to Ricky that they were going to hire a tutor.
1. Ricky said, "Should...?"
Delete3. ...Ricky argued, "to speak Spanish."
Good work.
1. “ Lucy, you are not going to teach our children to talk that way, aren’t you?” , Ricky said.
ReplyDeleteRicky asked Lucy whether she was going to teach their children to talk that way.
2. “ I’m certainty,” Lucy said. “From the time our children is born, it’s not going to hear anything but perfect English.”
Lucy responded that she was certainly. From the time their children was born, it was not going to hear anything but perfect English.
3. “What did you say?” Lucy asked Ricky.
Lucy asked Ricky what he had said.
4. “ I haven’t told you this before,” Lucy said, “but you speak with a slight accent.”
Lucy told Ricky that she hadn’t told him this before, but he spoke with a slight accent.
5. “That’s what I always say,” Ricky said. “You’re getting me all confuse.”
Ricky said that was what he always said, and she was getting him all confuse.
1. "..., aren't you?" Ricky said (no comma).
Delete2. ...she was certain that from the time...
5. confused
great reported speech
1. "I had no idea how sloppy my speech was until I started reading this book", Lucy said.
ReplyDeleteLucy said that she hadn't had any idea how sloppy her speech had been until she had started reading that book.
2. Ricky told Lucy, "You are not going to teach our child."
Ricky told Lucy that she was not going to teach their child.
3. Lucy said to Ricky, " Promise me that until our child is at least 19 or 20 years old, you will not talk to it."
Lucy said to Ricky to promise her that until their child was at least 19 or 20 years old, he would not talk to it.
4. Ricky asked Lucy, "What's the matter with the way I talk ?"
Ricky asked Lucy what the matter with the way he talked was.
5. Lucy said, "I have learned to listen with an accent."
Lucy said that she had learned to listen with an accent.
1. "... book," Lucy said.
DeleteGreat reported speech.
Lucy " this is the language that our children is going to learn good english", ricky said wether our children is going to speak good spanish or enshlish.
ReplyDeletelucy said "by the time our children born you are not going to speak with him since he have 20" riky respond so our kid is going to speak perfect spanish and you are not going to speak with him.
lucy said "read this story" ricky make errors in the pronuntation of the worlds.
lucy said " you even can read rigth a good story for our kid" ricky i have enogh.
Please correct your mistakes.
Deletelucy said " i didnt know the bad my english was since i started reading this book" ricky said when you start somthing is seriusly.
ReplyDeleteJose you really need to be able to write a clear and correct sentence at this level. Please try again.
Delete1) Lucy: I certainly am from the time our child is born, he's not going to hear anything but perfect English
ReplyDeleteLucy said to Ricky: she was certain that from the time her child's born , he was not going to hear anything but perfect English
2) Lucy: Ricky promise me that until our child is at least 19 or 20 years old you won't talk to it
Lucy said to Ricky: promise me that until their child was at least 19 to 20 years old, he would not talk to it
3)Ricky: You can understand me can't you
Ricky asked Lucy: If she could understand him
4) Lucy: I wasn't sure that you'd asked me to get married or to go to the movie
Lucy said that she had not been sure that ricky had asked her to get married or go to the movie
5) Ricky: So I made a little mistake
Ricky had concluded that he made a little mistake
Where are the "quotation marks?"
Delete2. Try again.
3. Punctuation mistakes
4. that or if?
5. Try again.
1.Lucy told Ricky, " that shows how little you know about the English language."
ReplyDelete-> Lucy wanted to tell Ricky how bad Ricky's english was
2. " I heard you the first time," Ricky said to Lucy, " but what language is it?"
->Ricky told Lucy that he heard her the first time but he wanted to make sure that Lucy was not speaking aliens' language.
3. "it's the language I want our child to learn: good English" Lucy told Ricky.
-> Lucy told Ricky that she was not speaking aliens' language but perfect english.
4. "Do you remember when you proposed?" asked Lucy.
-> Lucy asked Ricky that if Ricky remember his proposed.
5. Lucy told Ricky,"promise me that until our child is at least 19 or 20 years old, you won't talk to it. "
-> Lucy wanted Ricky to promise that he would not poison their child's brain before their child is 19 or 20.
I forgot to do this, sorry for late.....
Adam told Holly that he had forgotten to do this homework, he was sorry about that.
1. ..., "That shows..."
Delete2. that he HAD HEARD her...
3. "...learn: Good English," Lucy told Ricky.
4. that if?
5. ..., "Promise me..."
You didn't actually report the speech; you interpreted it. LOL very funny. I enjoyed reading it.
(Holly told Adam that his homework was very funny and that she had enjoyed reading it.)
1. Ricky: "I heard you the first time, but what language is it?"
ReplyDelete=> Ricky told Lucy that he had heard her the first time but he asked her what language she was speaking.
2. Lucy: " but they have wonderful exercises to correct it"
=> Lucy said that the book had wonderful exercises to correct it.
3. Ricky: "Now,Lucy, you are not going to teach our child to talk that way, aren't you"?
Ricky asked Lucy if she was going to teach their child to talk that way.
4. Lucy: "What did you say?"
Lucy asked Ricky what he had said
5. Ricky: "What's the matter with the way I talk?"
Ricky asked Lucy what the matter with the way he talked was.
2. Lucy: "But they have.... it."
Delete3. ..., are you?"
Excellent.