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Direct and Reported Speech
Goldilocks and the Three Bears provide the text for a direct and reported speech worksheet. Pupils decide whether the model sentences are direct or reported speech and highlight the differences in the sentence pairs. They then...
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Reported Speech & Direct Speech
Provide your class with this reference page on direct and indirect speech. The page includes definitions of direct speech and reported speech (also known as indirect speech). When writing, pupils can check the sample sentences provided...
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Structure Practice: Direct And Reported Speech
In this sentence completion ESL online interactive instructional activity, students choose the multiple choice answer that best completes 20 statements. Students choose the most appropriate multiple choice verb to complete 10 additional...
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Reported Requests and Orders
A lot of practice in writing exclamatory, interrogative, and imperative sentences is here. Writers change twenty direct speech sentences into reported speech. They create their own sentences in reported speech.
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Reported Speech
In this reported speech worksheeet, students note the difference between reported speech and quoted speech. Rules for tense usage are also given.
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Reported Speech
In this reported speech worksheet, learners use the correct form of the verb in a reported speech sentence. Students are given a direct quotation and must form a reported speech sentence based upon it.
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Reported Speech
For this online grammar worksheet, students read the dialogue examples and convert the phrases into reported speech. Students complete 12 exercises.
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Reported Speech (Statements, Questions, Requests and Orders)
In this verb form worksheet, students rewrite direct speech into reported speech by choosing the correct verb form of ask, say, and tell. Students rewrite 30 sentences.
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Reported Speech- Indirect Speech
In this reported speech worksheet, young scholars change 10 sentences into direct speech, change 18 sentences into indirect speech, and change 15 sentences to direct speech.
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The American Pepper: Exercise on Reported Speech
In this reported speech exercise, students correctly turn direct quotations into reported speech sentences. Students can check their answers and ask for correct answers.
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Reported Speech Exercises
In this interactive grammar worksheet, learners complete the table with the appropriate statements in the present tense. There are seventeen fill-in exercises where the students must type in the word.
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Reported Speech 1
For this reported speech worksheet, students review and discuss five key directives to choosing the grammatically correct verb in ten sentences.
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English in Mind Unit 16: Grammar Practice
In this grammar worksheet, students complete sentences using reported speech, reported questions, and conditional sentences. Students answer thirty two fill in the blank questions.
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English Tenses and Verb Forms
Distinguish between passive and active voice with a grammar worksheet. It contains three exercises in which pupils turn direct speech into indirect speech and create new sentences using passive voice.
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Total English Advanced: Reporting....
In this reporting verbs practice worksheet, students choose a verb from the word bank to report the direct speech in 10 sentences and then write 6 sentences using the reporting verbs listed.
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Adjectives and Adverbs
Adjectives and Adverbs are the focus of this Standardized Test-type of learning exercise. Learners consider ten sentences, and make changes, if necessary, to the underlined portions of each sentence. This learning exercise would provide...
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A Famous Speech
Young scholars explore the rules of direct/indirect narration. They identify and use proper punctuation marks in a given write-up and change the narration according to the rules.
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Modals: Passive Voice
Encourage verb tense awareness by focusing on the passive voice. It could be used with a variety of learners, however, a few of the questions should be modified for younger children. By completing this twenty-six question activity,...
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Does Everyone Agree?
Learners choose the appropriate pronouns needed to fill in the blanks of six sentences. They then practice correcting the pronouns in five different sentences.
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Pronouns- Object Pronouns With or Without "To"
In this ESL/grammar multiple choice worksheet, students determine whether to use "to" with the object pronoun in each of 10 questions.
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Schedule Changing Prepositions
Students discuss the appropriate and inappropriate reasons for requesting a schedule change at work. They create scripts for requesting a change that uses appropriate prepositions and prepositional phrases. Students practice using...
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"Bird Flu"
In this grammar worksheet, students read the article "Bird Flu" to find the word on each line that should not be there. Students write the incorrect word on the line provided.
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Present Tense
In this present tense worksheet, students complete the online sentences by filling in the correct form of the simple present tense verb for the 15 exercises.
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Rewriting a Dialogue (removing quotes)
This is a great activity! Upper elementary learners read a dialogue-driven passage. Then, they rewrite lines of dialogue by removing the quotation marks and shifting the verb tense to past. Grammar and great writing skills all in one. An...