REPORTED SPEECH (indirect speech) in 3 Steps

How to go from Direct Speech to REPORTED SPEECH (aka INDIRECT SPEECH) in 3 Steps - Find this video’s companion resources at , including printouts, presentation materials, and further tips and tricks. How to teach REPORTED SPEECH (just for declarative sentences): There are three steps to change direct speech (or quote) into reported speech (or indirect speech): 1. Remove the quotation marks and the comma, and add the word ’THAT’. 2. BACKSHIFT the verb(s). This means make the verb more past. See our backshifting video for details: 3. Change the POINT-OF-VIEW words, such as personal pronouns, possessive determiners, demonstrative pronouns, demonstrative determiners, adverbs of time, and a couple adverbs of place. -- 0:00 Direct Speech vs. Reported Speech 0:40 Step 1 1:30 Step 2 2:15 Step 3 3:53 Point-of-View Words 5:00 Example 6:03 Summary -- [good for nativ