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    The document discusses reporting news headlines using reported speech. It provides examples of how to change tenses, pronouns, and time/place words when converting direct speech to reported speech. This includes changing "I" to "me", "said" to "told", "now" to "then", and reporting statements using the appropriate tense like past perfect for past tense statements. The goal is to help students practice paraphrasing news headlines using reported speech conventions.

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    BREAKING NEWS !

    Reported Speech
    Class Objectives

    ▪ Learning objective: to get familiarized with terminology


    related to newspapers while reviewing Reported Speech.
    ▪ Communicative: to orally paraphrase news using Reported
    Speech.
    ▪ Strategies: paraphrasing.
    Let’s talk!
    ▪ Where do you normally get your news from?
    ▪ What's your favorite media source to get news?
    ▪ What are the main newspapers in Colombia?
    ▪ Can you name some of the most popular newspapers
    around the world?
    Let’s take a look at an online newspaper!
    ▪ Can you identify different parts of it?
    3 1 1. Header

    2 2. Headlines
    (Latest events)

    3. Sections
    4. Breaking News

    6. Classifieds

    7. Blogs and Columns

    5. Sports Section
    Newspapers from other countries
    ▪ Your teacher will assign you an English-speaking
    country: USA – England – Australia – Canada
    ▪ Access http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
    ▪ Select a newspaper and identify different sections and
    parts of it. Then, answer:
    1. What are some latest events and headlines found in your
    newspaper?
    2. What is that news about?
    3. What section does that news belong to?
    Reporting news headlines
    ▪ Try to report these headlines using Reported Speech
    Reported Speech Review: Say vs. Tell
    SAY TELL
    • Used for reporting statements and • Used normally with a Personal Object (the
    declarations made by individuals. receiver of the message).
    • Used with “THAT” as a connector. • Does not need preposition “TO”.
    • It is important to use the preposition “TO”
    before mentioning the receiver of the
    message (Object Pronoun).

    Example: Example:
    Kathy said to her husband that she loves Yasmin frequently tells her children about
    him. (mentioning the Personal Object) their family history.
    Reported Speech Review
    Aspects to consider: #1 Tense Changes
    Tense DIRECT SPEECH Reporting Tense REPORTED SPEECH
    “Colombian women are He said that Colombian women were
    Simple Present Simple Past
    beautiful.” beautiful.

    She said that he had worked hard the


    Simple Past “I worked hard yesterday.” Past Perfect
    day before.

    Will “It will refresh you too.” Would He said that it would refresh us too.

    Must “The show must go on.” Had to She said that the show had to go on.

    He said that people couldn’t buy


    Can “You can’t buy happiness.” Could
    hapiness.
    She said that he should buy that
    Should “He should buy that product.” Should
    product.
    Reported Speech Review
    Aspects to consider: #2 Personal Pronouns
    When converting Direct Speech to Reported Speech, we change these elements according to the context.

    Personal
    Object Pronouns He told me that he was sick.
    Pronouns
    I ➙ Me They said to her that she was not admitted.
    You ➙ You
    We told him that she had been busy.
    He ➙ Him
    She said to them that she had been working all
    She ➙ Her night long.
    It ➙ It
    You told us that she was working at nights.
    We ➙ Us
    They ➙ Them
    Reported Speech Review
    Aspects to consider: #3 Time & Place Words
    When converting Direct Speech to Reported Speech, we change these elements according to the context.
    Time Place
    now ➙ then here ➙ there
    today ➙ that day this ➙ that
    this week ➙ that week these ➙ those
    tomorrow ➙ the next day
    Person A:
    yesterday ➙ the day before We will meet here tomorrow, ok?
    last week ➙ the week before
    Person B:
    They said that we would meet there the next day.

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