Insights to English Reported Speech in 3 Steps
Insights to English Reported Speech in 3 Steps is a video lesson of about six minutes on the Insights to English YouTube channel. The video shows how to change direct speech into reported speech, also called indirect speech, for statements, in three steps: removing the quotation marks and adding that, backshifting the verbs, and changing the point-of-view words. The video description links to companion printouts and tips.
100% Free (unlimited): The complete video, with its chapter markers for each step, plays on YouTube for every learner, with no account and no payment. The video description also points to companion resources on the Insights to English website.
How It Helps Your Business English
The video takes a quoted statement through three steps: removing the quotation marks and the comma and adding that, backshifting the verbs so they become more past, and changing the point-of-view words such as pronouns, determiners and adverbs of time and place.
Watch it straight through once to see the three steps in order, then use the chapter markers to return to the step you want to practise. Pause at the worked example and change the sentence yourself before the speaker does, which shows at once which step still needs attention. The closing summary is short enough to replay whenever you want to refresh the sequence.
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