As you already must know, the Grammar Appendix at the back of your Workbook contains explanations and examples of the different grammar items we are studying this year. Pages 125 & 126 deal with reported speech.
In the first of those pages you are shown the changes in sentence elements which may take place: backshift of the verb, place and time phrases and demonstratives. Personal pronouns and possessives, as we have seen, may also change.
In page 126, just by looking at the headings in bold, we can see there are different types of reported sentences. We have been working with statements, which roughly correspond to affirmative and negative sentences, so as to speak.
The next heading refers to questions, which can be Wh-questions or Yes / No questions. The handout I gave you in class last Tuesday has exercises on Wh-questions. Read carefully the explanations and remember what I emphasized in class: word order stays the same as in statements, the subject comes before the verb and not the other way round, as in direct questions.
Reported orders or requests and reported suggestions are much simpler since we can use infinitives or gerunds and, consequently, do not have to care about backshift. The only thing to bear in mind in these cases is the selection of the reporting verb: tell and order are the most common for orders / requests and suggest the most common for suggestions.
As I said in class regarding reporting verbs, it is important to take into account the grammatical difference between say, which does not need an indirect object, and tell, which, as one of your classmates said, needs an indirect object after (e.g.: He said / He told the students / He told us...)
On Friday, I will post the answers to the handout I mentioned before (Reported speech Wh-questions) together with the answers to the worksheets you can see by clicking on the pictures below, which you have to do in your notebook and will be assessed when classes at school are resumed*. These are exercises on Yes / No questions (La jaula se ha vuelto pájaro), orders / requests (Volando entre ideas) and suggestions (Le jue de vivre).
*to resume is a false friend: it doesn't mean resumir, it means reanudar
Apart from studying pages 125 & 126, here you are a link to a clip with visual and oral explanations and examples of reported Yes / No questions.
La jaula se ha vuelto pájaro, de Teresa Ramón
The next picture links to exercises on reported orders, commands or requests. It also needs to be done by Friday.
Volando entre ideas, de Teresa Ramón
Finally, the next link is to execises on suggestions. Write the answers in your notebook and you'll be able to check them on Friday.
Le jue de vivre, de Teresa Ramón
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