1. Yudhie Indra G S.Pd

2. STANDARD
COMPETENCY
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This course aims at able to understand some english
structure for their use and form correctly.

3. BASIC COMPETENCY
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Students understand the form and use of direct and
indirect speech

4. INDICATOR
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 Students are able to understand the reporting verbs
and direct speech
 Students are able to understand reporting verb and
indirect speech
 Students are able to do the exercises correctly

5. LEARNING ACTIVITY
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 Students study from grammar chart and its
examples
 Students listen to the teacher’s explanation about
direct and indirect speech
 Students learn from the grammar notes
 Students rewrite the statements as indirect speech

6. REPORTED SPEECH
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Reported speech divided into two groups:
1. Direct Speech
2. Indirect Speech

7. DIRECT SPEECH
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Direct speech is a direct sentence from the speaker
without a changing.
Usually direct speech using cite. The sentence begin
with capital letter.
Example : She said, “ Don’t leave me”.
“Don’t leave me”, She said.

8. INDIRECT SPEECH
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Indirect speech is a sentence that not directly which
report speech tell again what talked by the first
speaker.
Example:
David said,” I write the letter”. (Direct)
→David said that he wrote the letter.
(Indirect).

9. VERBS FORM
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1. Verb 1 → Verb 2
2. Verb 2 → Had + Verb 3
3. Is/ am → Was
4. Are → Were
5. Was/were → Had been
6. Will → Would
7. Can → Could
8. Have → Had

10. PRONOUNS FORM
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1. I → She / He
2. My → His / Her
3. Me → Him / Her
4. We → They
5. Our → Their
6. Us → Them

11. TIME FORMS
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1. Now → Then
2. Yesterday → The day before
3. Tomorrow → The following day
4. Today → That day
5. Tonight → That night
6. Last week → The week before
7. Two weeks ago → Two weeks before
8. Next week → The following week.

12. EXAMPLES
NO DIRECT SPEECH INDIRECT SPEECH
1 She said,”I write She said that she
the letter”. wrote the letter.
2 She said,” I spoke She said that she had
english”. spoken english.
3 He said,” I am He said that he was
going to Bali”. going to Bali.
He said,” I will He said that he would
4 clean the bag” clean the bag.
They said, “We They said that they
5 have finished”. had finished.

13. EXERCISE
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A. Change these direct speech into indirect speech!
1. My Father said” I will go to bogor next week”.
2. The postman said” The Manager was meeting the
customer”
3. Mr. Gugun said” My beloved wife is sick”.