Reported Speech and Reported Commands: Direct and Indirect Speech Practice

"Don't heat it!" the scientist told me.

1. Identificamos que es una orden negativa en discurso directo.
2. La estructura de reported command es: told + objeto + not + to + verbo.
3. Sustituimos: told me not to heat it.

The engineer asked us to be careful around flammable products.

1. Es un reported command con asked us to.
2. En discurso directo se convierte en una petición entre comillas.
3. La frase original sería: "Be careful around flammable products," the engineer asked us.

My aunt told me to use her chemistry kit.

1. Reported command con told me to.
2. En discurso directo se expresa como una orden directa.
3. La frase original sería: "Use my chemistry kit," my aunt told me.

"Wear protection suits to manipulate toxic elements," said Joseph.

1. Discurso directo con orden afirmativa.
2. Reported command: said + to + verbo o told + objeto + to + verbo.
3. Transformamos: Joseph said to wear protection suits to manipulate toxic elements.

"Read the manual before starting the experiment," Diane said.

1. Discurso directo con orden afirmativa.
2. Reported command: said + to + verbo.
3. Transformamos: Diane said to read the manual before starting the experiment.

Heather told me to open the windows to ventilate the classroom.

1. Reported command con told me to.
2. En discurso directo se convierte en una orden directa.
3. La frase original sería: "Open the windows to ventilate the classroom," Heather told me.

Fred told me to wash the Petri dishes.

1. Reported command con told me to.
2. En discurso directo se convierte en una orden directa.
3. La frase original sería: "Wash the Petri dishes," Fred told me.

Speaking

1. Divide into four communities to play the Chinese Whispers game.
2. Start the game: a) A student will read the list of steps below to do an experiment and then will whisper them to the student next to him, one by one. b) From there, each student will tell the instructions to the next student in the chain using reported speech until reaching the last student.
3. Final report: a) The last student in the chain will report what he heard using reported speech. b) The result will be compared to the original instructions to see how the information changed along the game.

Respuesta orientativa: Esta actividad lúdica refuerza el uso del reported speech en contextos reales de comunicación. Al susurrar y transformar instrucciones, los estudiantes practican la precisión gramatical y la escucha activa, y luego comparan cómo la información se distorsiona al pasar por la cadena, lo que evidencia la importancia de la claridad al reportar.