EXERCISE ON REPORTED SPEECH (4º ESO)

EXERCISE ON REPORTED SPEECH

Questions - Exercise 1

Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns and tenses.

1.            "Where is my umbrella?" she asked.
→ She asked

2.            "How are you?" Martin asked us.
→ Martin asked us

3.            He asked, "Do I have to do it?"
→ He asked

4.            "Where have you been?" the mother asked her daughter.
→ The mother asked her daughter

5.            "Which dress do you like best?" she asked her boyfriend.
→ She asked her boyfriend

6.            "What are they doing?" she asked.
→ She wanted to know

7.            "Are you going to the cinema?" he asked me.
→ He wanted to know

8.            The teacher asked, "Who speaks English?"
→ The teacher wanted to know

9.            "How do you know that?" she asked me.
→ She asked me

10.        "Has Caron talked to Kevin?" my friend asked me.
→ My friend asked me

 Questions - Exercise 2

Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns and tenses.

1.      "What's the time?" he asked.
→ He wanted to know

2.      "When will we meet again?" she asked me.
→ She asked me

3.      "Are you crazy?" she asked him.
→ She asked him

4.      "Where did they live?" he asked.
→ He wanted to know

5.      "Will you be at the party?" he asked her.
→ He asked her

6.      "Can you meet me at the station?" she asked me.
→ She asked me

7.      "Who knows the answer?" the teacher asked.
→ The teacher wanted to know

8.      "Why don't you help me?" she asked him.
→ She wanted to know

9.      "Did you see that car?" he asked me.
→ He asked me

10.  "Have you tidied up your room?" the mother asked the twins.
→ The mother asked the twins

COMMANDS AND REQUESTS (I)

Exercise 1 (Requests)

Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns in some sentences.

1.      "Stop talking, Joe," the teacher said.
→ The teacher told Joe

2.      "Be patient," she said to him.
→ She told him

3.      "Go to your room," her father said to her.
→ Her father told her

4.      "Hurry up," she said to us.
→ She told us

5.      "Give me the key," he told her.
→ He asked her

6.      "Play it again, Sam," she said.
→ She asked Sam

7.      "Sit down, Caron" he said.
→ He asked Caron

8.      "Fill in the form, Sir," the receptionist said.
→ The receptionist asked the guest

9.      "Take off your shoes," she told us.
→ She told us

10.  "Mind your own business," she told him.
→ She told him

Exercise 2 

Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note the change of pronouns in some sentences.

1.      She said, "Go upstairs."
→ She told me

2.      "Close the door behind you," he told me.
→ He told me

3.      "Don't be late," he advised us.
→ He advised us

4.      "Stop staring at me," she said.
→ She told him

5.      "Don't be angry with me," he said.
→ He asked her

6.      "Leave me alone," she said.
→ She told me

7.      "Don't drink and drive," she warned us.
→ She warned us

8.      "John, stop smoking," she said.
→ She told John

9.      "Don't worry about us," they said.
→ They told her

10.  "Meet me at the cinema." he said.
→ He asked me

COMMANDS AND REQUESTS (II)

Exercise on Reported Speech  - Mixed Exercise 1

Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note whether the sentence is a request, a statement or a question.

1.      He said, "I like this song."
→ He said

2.      "Where is your sister?" she asked me.
→ She asked me

3.      "I don't speak Italian," she said.
→ She said

4.      "Say hello to Jim," they said.
→ They asked me

5.      "The film began at seven o'clock," he said.
→ He said

6.      "Don't play on the grass, boys," she said.
→ She told the boys

7.      "Where have you spent your money?" she asked him.
→ She asked him

8.      "I never make mistakes," he said.
→ He said

9.      "Does she know Robert?" he wanted to know.
→ He wanted to know

10.  "Don't try this at home," the stuntman told the audience.
→ The stuntman advised the audience

Mixed Exercise 2

Complete the sentences in reported speech. Note whether the sentence is a request, a statement or a question and whether you have to change the tenses or not.

1. "I was very tired," she said.
→ She said
2. "Be careful, Ben," she said.
→ She told Ben
3. "I will get myself a drink," she says.
→ She says
4. "Why haven't you phoned me?" he asked me.
→ He wondered
5. "I cannot drive them home," he said.
→ He said
6. "Peter, do you prefer tea or coffee?" she says.
→ She asks Peter
7. "Where did you spend your holidays last year?" she asked me.
→ She asked me
8. He said, "Don't go too far."
→ He advised her
9. "Have you been shopping?" he asked us.
→ He wanted to know
10. "Don't make so much noise," he says.
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