About reported questions

April 4th, 2017.

First we remember Reporting Speech, then we gave examples of open questions and yes/no questions and then we tried to made it affirmations, well, here are the examples:

Yes/No questions

• To be: Were you upset?/You are upset.
• To do: Did you understand everything?/ You understood everything.
• Modals: Can you swim?/You can swim.

Open questions

• To be: Why were were you upset?/Why you were upset
• To do: How much did you understand?/How much you understood
• Modals: Can most people swim?/ Why most people can swim

Then we did the next sentences:

• Arturo asked José Luis why he was upset.
• Arturo asked Omar and Nancy how much they had understood.
• Arturo asked the guys why most people could swim in Cozumel.
• Arturo asked José Luis if/whether he was upset
• Arturo asked Omar and Nancy if they had understood everything
• Arturo asked the visitors if they could swim

Then he gave us sentences and we transformed them into reported speech

1. She said: "I went to the cinema yesterday". She said that she had gone to the cinema the day before.
2. He said: "I am writing a test tomorrow". He said he was writing a test the following day
3. You said: "I sill do this for him". You said that you would do that for him
4. She said: "I am not hungry now". She said she wasn't hungry then.
5. They said: "We have never been here before". They said they had never been there befoe
6. They said: "We were in London last week". They said they had been in London the week before.

Then we saw a video of British English vs American English uploaded bye Rachel and Juno channel and the video is interesting because there are two girls and one boy, the girls are one British and the other is American and the man is Japanese, and he asked them why his English's teacher said certain things well the conclusion is that some things are fine in American english than in British are not and viceversa here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gpjrais-Ik