Chuyên đề môn Tiếng anh 2009-2010

Tuesday, December 25
th
, 2007.
REVISION
GRAMMAR POINT: THE REPORTED SPEECH.
- Hi! What’s your name?
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Can you play tennis?
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Do you like playing soccer?
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Nice to meet you, Hoa.
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Bye.
- My name’s Hoa.
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Yes, I can.
-
Oh, no.
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Nice to meet you, too. Bye.

What is your name?

Ba asked Hoa what her name was.
My name is Hoa.

She said her name was Hoa.
Can you play badminton?


Ba asked Hoa if/ (whether) she could play badminton.
Do you like playing soccer?

Ba asked Hoa if/(whether) she liked playing soccer.

Direct speech Indirect speech Types of
sentences
What is your
name?
Ba asked Hoa what
her name was.
Wh- questions
My name is Hoa. She said her name
was Hoa.
Statements.
Can you play
badminton?
Ba asked Hoa if/
(whether) she could
play badminton.
Yes/ No-
questions.
Do you like playing
soccer?
Ba asked Hoa if/
(whether) she liked
playing soccer.
Yes/ No-
questions.

A. Notes:

Imperatives:
a. Affirmative form:
“ Close the door, please!”

The teacher asked/(told) me to close the door.
b. Negative form:
“ Don’t open your book!”

The teacher asked/(told) me not to open my book.

Direct speech
Reported speech
1) Tenses:
+ Present simple
+ Present progressive
+ Past simple
+ Past progressive
+ Present perfect
2) Modal verbs:
WILL
SHALL
CAN
MAY
MUST/ HAVE TO

Past simple
Past progressive
Past simple

Past progressive
Past perfect
WOULD
SHOULD
COULD
MIGHT
HAD TO


Direct speech Reported speech
ADVERBS OF TIME
now
today
tonight
tomorrow
yesterday
last night
two days ago
then
that day
that night
the next/ following day
the day before/ the
previous day
the night before
two days before
ADVERBS OF PLACE
here there
DEMONSTRATIVE
HEADS

this
these
that
those

1. He asked me, “ Will you visit
your old teachers?”
a. He asked me if I will visit my
old teachers.
b. He asked me if I would visit my
old teachers.
c. He asked me if would I visit my
old teachers.
d. He asked me if I would visit
your old teachers.
2. I asked him …………………
a. What his name is.
b. What is his name.
c. What was his name.
d. What his name was.
3. He said to me, “Do this
exercise again.”
a. He told me to do that exercise
again.
b. He told me to do this exercise
again.
c. He told me do this exercise
again.
d. He told me do that exercise
again

4. Mr. Ha said, “I must go now.”
a. Mr. Ha said that he must go
now.
b. Mr. Ha said that he had to go
now.
c. Mr. Ha said that he had to go
then.
d. Mr. Ha said that he has to go
then.
B. EXERCISES:
I. Choose the best answer:

II. Change these sentences into reported speech.
1. He asked me, “ How do you go to school?”

He asked me how I went to school.
2.“ Can you play the guitar, Ba?” I asked.

I asked Ba if/ (whether) he could play the guitar.
3. They said, “ We went to Nha Trang last summer”

They said (that) they went to Nha Trang the summer
before.
4. “Don’t make much noise!” the teacher told his
students.

The teacher told his students not to make much noise.
5. “ I will go to Da Lat tomorrow”, Nam said to me.

Nam told me he would go to Da Lat the following day.

III. Free talk:
Work in pairs: One gives a direct speech, the other
reports it.
MODEL:
Student A: “What are you doing?”
Student B: She/ (he) asked me what I was doing.

C. Homework:
Change these sentences into reported speech.
1. Lan said, “I don’t like Physics”
2. She asked me, “How old are you?”
3. The teacher asked Nam, “ What time did you go to
bed last night?”
4. He asked Mai, “Can you play the organ?”
5. “Wait for me!” he told me.
6. His mother told him, “Don’t be lazy!”
7. I asked Hoa, “What do you often do in your free
time?”
8. He asked her, “Are you tired?”
9. I asked, “Why were you late for school yesterday,
Mai?
10. He said, “I enjoy playing sports”