Monday - I recommend reading it all!

Today we talked about reported speech and reporting verbs. Be careful about the difference between the two. 

Reported speech uses verbs 'say' 'tell' and 'ask' and has all kinds of rules attached to it. If you're not sure of the rules you can try this exercise to practise. 

Reporting verbs are those we put on the board - you don't need to shift your verbs in time or drop auxiliaries or change word order or anything like that with them, you just need to follow the pattern. 

We also talked about how we could practise this (pause your favourite TV show and report what the character just said) and we asked for examples for homework of suggestions, offers, invitations etc. so we can practise this tomorrow morning. 

Finally, we asked you all to get involved with this blog and talked about how we can use computers/technology to be prepared for class. We'll see how that goes, but remember, the better prepared you are for class, the greater the value our practise will have and the more time we can spend on the things that are problems for us, rather than spending massive amounts of time on things that we could do by ourselves at home. 

So that's what I remember about today, how about you? What do you remember? What did you learn? How did you learn it? Let me know in the comments!