Unit 8 and 9

Unit 8 and 9

I will tell you about the topic that for was interesting in these units.

Reported speech

When we want to tell what someone said or thought to another person, we use reported speech.

Example:

I drank coffee yesterday --- He said (that) he had drank coffee the day before.

Reporting verbs

This is other way to express what someone say or admitted previously.

After the teacher explained to us the topic, she put us on such a wonderful video about the Steve Jobs’s live. Next, we had to write sentences with what  Steve Jobs had said in the video, but the sentences had to be written with reporting verbs.

Video

I will give you an example that I did in class.

Example:

He admitted falling in love with an amazing woman who would become in his wife.

We can us create sentences with the following words: 

say, explain + verb + (that)

tell, warn + verb + object + (that)

ask, remind + verb + object + infinitive

promise, decide + verb + infinitive

suggested, admitted + verb + gerund

(page 96 of the ActiveBook)

Past modal of deduction

As the same way that we use the modals to predict something, also there is a way to speculate the past.

Structure:

Subject + modal of deduction + have + past participle + complement

Example:

She might have stayed in Ofelia’s house the day before.

To remind modals of deduction or speculation I will show you:

Must, might, can’t have

The vocabulary learned was:

Outgoing - Extrovertida

Single-minded - Mente individual

Witty - Ingenioso

Sue - Demandar

Arson - Incendio provocado

File - Expediente