Reported Speech Reporting Verbs - Grammar Question Practice
Practise reported speech reporting verbs through personal questions and paired speaking at B2 level. Includes a model exchange, follow-up support and a communicative task; answers are open-ended.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Model exchange
- Topic-based partner questions
- Follow-up support
- Communicative pair practice
Report advice, suggestions, offers and apologies with suitable verb patterns.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Use the single learner page in pairs. Personal or invented responses can vary; there is no fixed answer key.
- Identify the organiser's apology, refund offer and booking recommendation in the opening exchange.
- Discuss advice and promises, then report the cable warning, train suggestion, forgotten form and checking offer.
- Role-play a changed event with an organiser, then relay the advice, offer and apology to a concerned friend and clarify what was promised.
Support and extension
Provide suggested doing, warned someone not to do and offered to do frames. Accept suitable that-clauses or perfect gerunds while preserving the original message and addressee.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
