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Hi guys, I hope you're well. Today we're going to talk about reported speech, but before we can talk about reported speech, let's just discuss direct speech, okay?

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So, direct speech is what someone says when they speak. If you hear this and then tell someone what was said, that is reported speech.

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So, an example of this is, Joe said I like playing football.

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This is direct speech.

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But if he said, Joe said that he liked playing football.

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This is reported speech.

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Okay?

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Now, it's quite a simple concept, but you have to make a few changes to change speech from direct to reported.

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Okay?

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Reported speech is one step in the past from direct speech because it happens after the

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original words were said. So, the verb has to change. Like playing becomes liked playing.

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Liked pasta becomes had liked pasta. All the correct verb changes are going to be shown in

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this diagram. So I'm going to give you a few examples. If you pause the video and then we

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can check to see whether you've got them correct. Okay. Okay. I'm going to show you the answers in

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three, two, one. How did you do? As you can see, we've had to change the verb to suit the tense.

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so I hope that's helped you

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and that's all I have

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so good luck

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if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me

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ok, thanks