hi everybody welcome back to our weekly
live stream my name is alicia and today
we're going to talk about reporting
speech in english i'm going to focus on
verbs for this lesson i'm going to talk
about the differences and the different
ways to use say tell
talk speak and ask in this lesson so
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okay uh so as i said today we're going
to talk about
reporting speech reporting speech
so as always if you have not already
please make sure to like and share the
video so other learners can find today's
lesson i'm going to share the video and
then i'm going to begin
so we are going to start today's lesson
with a background point by that i mean
we're going to start the lesson
by talking about something that's
important for all of these verbs not
just for one verb so
that is this point right here before we
talk about today's verbs and the example
sentences i want to talk about this
point
first
when you want to report something like
your friend told you something or your
boss like someone's words when you want
to report that first
choose your tense choose your tense so
that means
if you want to talk about a past
conversation so it happened yesterday or
last week
if you want to talk about a past
conversation this verb like say or tell
or whatever
should be in past tense past tense
if you want to talk about something
that's true now something that is true
now
use
present tense use present tense we'll
we'll cover some examples of these
if you want to talk about something
regularly said so something regularly
said means something that someone often
says so they didn't say it just one time
they say it every day or they say it
every month
in that case use present tense present
tense
and
are you making a guess about the future
are you talking about a future
conversation imagining a future
conversation in that case use a future
tense expression like will or going to
so please keep in mind these points how
to choose your tense
for your verb here so please think about
this as we go through today's lesson
so with that in mind let's take a look
at our first verb our first verb for
today's lesson is the verb say
say
so say past tense is said said so i'll
write it here past tense
is said s-a-i-d
we use say
for a neutral report of speech so it's
not positive it's not negative it's just
a basic report of speech for example
my neighbor said
our music was too loud
my neighbor said
our music was too loud so we know from
this past tense yusuf said
that this is a past conversation
our neighbor said our music was too loud
so this could be yesterday for example
our music was too loud yesterday or last
night
example
my friend says
crazy things on twitter my friend says
crazy things on twitter in this sentence
maybe hard to see in this sentence i'm
using says says s-a-y-s this is a
present
tense use of the verb my friend says
crazy things on twitter again i'm using
this present tense because this is a
regular
occurrence this is something that
happens often so not my friend said
something crazy on twitter my friend
said something crazy means that was one
time
this sentence in present tense means my
friend often says crazy things on
twitter that's the difference between
said and says in a situation like this
okay and please feel free to send your
example sentences in too
let's take a look then at a future tense
example
uh for example
if
i
quit
my job
if i quit my job
oh my marker died oh there you go okay
my parents
will
probably say
my parents will probably
say
so here this is a future tense part of a
future tense expression
i'm crazy i'm crazy
so in this sentence i'm making a guess
i'm making a guess
if i quit my job i'm using an if
conditional here yeah if i quit my job
my parents here's my future will
probably will probably so i'm making a
guess about the future
will probably say so there's no change
to the verb here but i am making a
future expression i'm talking about the
future here my parents will probably say
i'm crazy
okay
so uh i'll look for some examples now on
youtube david says my friend says alicia
is an amazing teacher woohoo your friend
is cool thanks okay
uh
anna says my teacher said yesterday anna
you are amazing great that's awesome
very nice okay good one um
amir on youtube says my teacher alicia
said the youtube users are noisy nice
sentence nice sentence you guys are
great you're not noisy you're not noisy
okay uh
nekotado
four says my friend says he wants to go
to italy perfect so my friend says he
wants to go to italy
means that's something regular that's
something your friend regularly often
said on facebook on facebook uh masaya
hey masaya says someone says it is not
true okay that's that could be good that
could be good uh
juma says i said that i was going home
perfect nice one uh far far away says my
mom said i should be hitting the sack
now nice one that was really natural
great great nice expressions everybody
so this is how we use said
for past conversations for regular
things
and to make future expressions to make a
guess about the future
okay
and if you have any questions please
send those along too but maybe today is
a good
chance to practice a lot of sentences
all right excellent with that then
before we go to part two i will take a
short break and introduce a couple
pdfs i showed you last week uh some of
these for sure but we can use this
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i want to share a couple
of the pdfs i thought would be useful
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but um business meetings so please check
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you can use for business meetings
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this is a new pdf this one has
vocabulary for emergencies
but i thought on the back
when speaking to like police or speaking
to someone in an emergency these are
expressions you can use for that
conversation and so when you need to
talk about when you need to explain
something someone else said this is what
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let's move on
uh we'll continue on the next part i'm
going to talk about using tell
and talk tell and talk also quick
reminder if you have not already please
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okay
let's continue
to using tell the verb tell
so tell i have a beautiful
artist's rendering i have a beautiful
graphic here tell we use tell for
one-way conversations
so not 100 percent one way
one-way conversation means like one
person does lots and lots of talking so
yes there are two people in this
situation yes but when we use tell
it's like one person shares a lot of
information and the other person listens
to that information so tell is used to
describe this sort of conversational
relationship
so some examples
my teacher told me
i failed the test my teacher told me i
failed the test so tell
in past tense is told
told my teacher told me
i failed the test
another example
tell me about your vacation
so you'll notice when we use the verb
tell we follow it with something like me
here in these examples i've used me
so this shows the person receiving the
information
we can change this me to someone else
like my teacher told my mom i failed the
test or my teacher told my roommate i
failed the test my teacher my teacher
told him i failed the test so we can
change this word after the verb
to change the person receiving the
information
so this is how we show the relationship
the person speaking and the person
receiving the information in these very
one-way conversations
okay some good examples are coming in
paulino says tell me about your family
great great okay
let's take a look at uh let's look at a
future a future tense example
so
uh this one
oops my pen died so if we want to use
this uh with a future expression
we could use something like going to so
when i talked about using say we used
will probably for the future but you can
also use going to thank you
okay we can also use going to here
i'm going to ah
i'm going to
tell
my boss
about
a new idea
so this is an example of a future tense
expression yes
the verb tell remains the same but we
put it together with a future tense
expression i'm going to tell my boss
about a new idea
at native speed this would sound like
i'm going to tell my boss about a new
idea
so that's how we that's how quickly we
would say this i'm going to tell my boss
about a new idea
some good examples are coming in tell me
about yourself good that's a a nice job
interview question thanks person morocco
and korea tell me about your hobbies
great nice example tell me
i missed one sorry uh tell me about your
strengths and weaknesses great blackout
kim that was from last week's lesson
about job interviews nice
abdullah on facebook says i have told
him don't do it don't do it ah so when
you want to
describe direct speech so the thing
someone said exactly
use quotes so this is like an open quote
do you know maybe
these marks
it's really small it's really small to
see sorry thank you
it's really small to see these marks
these are called
quotation marks quotation
marks
we use quotation marks in writing so now
is a great chance to practice using
these we use these to mark exactly what
someone said so we put it around the
words someone said so you can practice
using those in the chat today
all right someone on
youtube whose name is in russian maybe i
can't read tell me the truth perfect
tell me the truth is another common
expression with tell so to tell
the truth
is one expression and to tell
a lie
we use the verb tell in these
expressions so to tell the truth means
to share or to say
what actually happened to be honest to
tell a lie means to make up a story
to say something that is not true
okay
uh
other examples
nelson says i told him not to open the
door great victoria says tell me about a
time when you felt overwhelmed nice one
sassy says i'm going to tell my mom
about my success perfect nice nice nice
um garrison has a scandalous one i'm
going to tell my friend all the truths
maybe all
everything true about his girlfriend oh
that sounds interesting
uh
saying sorry saying hello i can't saying
hella tinge sorry maybe i'm going to
tell my teacher my country nice one nice
one okay nice examples let's continue to
the next verb then let's talk about talk
let's talk about the verb talk
so talk uh is connected to speak i've
connected these here on the board
because uh there are some rules we can
use for talk
and speak that are the same that is this
we can use
to
or
with
when we use these verbs so talk to
someone talk with someone or speak to
someone speak with someone they are both
fine they are both fine to use you can
choose whichever you prefer
for me
with feels a little bit more like you're
doing something together you're doing
something together but really there's
not there's not much of a difference
that's one point so we can use to or
with with talk and speak
and
you can use
both of these verbs with about so about
introduces your topic let's talk about
something or i want to speak about
something
so about introduces a topic with these
two verbs
so let's begin with talk some examples
that use talk
i talked to my parents about my visit
this is a past tense example so talk in
past tense becomes
talked talked in this case i'm using the
preposition to here to introduce the
person or the people in the conversation
with me so i talked to my parents is
great you can say i talked with my
parents as well
i feel like in everyday like
conversation we use two more commonly
it's a little bit shorter and easier to
say so at native speed this sentence
sounds like i talk to my parents about
my visit i talk to my parents about my
visit
okay
let's go to the next example one more
example let's use a present tense one
my friends
talk
my friends
talk about so here's a topic my friends
talk about
new
restaurants my friends talk about new
restaurants
every week
so in this sentence i'm using a present
tense verb talk
i'm using this present tense verb
because again
this is a regular discussion i know that
there's a hint in the sentence every
week my friends talk about my topic new
restaurants every week so we use this
present tense form
when we want to describe something
that's regular it's a common occurrence
okay
so let's compare this then to speak to
speak up here so yes we can use these
two verbs for the same thing like i
could use uh the verb speak in these
sentences i spoke to my parents about my
visit or my friends speak about new
restaurants every week fine the
difference here in this case is that
speak sounds a little bit more formal
than talk generally when we're just you
know hanging out with our friends
spending time with friends we use talk
when we're like at work or maybe in a
more formal situation we use speak we
use speak also we use speak
for language abilities so for example
i speak english i speak japanese i don't
speak chinese we use speak for our
language abilities we cannot use talk in
this way we do not say
i talk japanese or i don't talk chinese
cannot use that we have to use speak
when talking about our language
abilities
all right some good examples of talker
coming in by the way
i talked about politics with my friends
says christopher a nice one okay
uh on facebook emmed says i talked to my
boss about maybe a three week holiday ah
interesting point when you use four uh
as in your example i talked to my
parents four
that introduces the length of time of
your conversation so for example uh i
talked
to my boss
about my vacation
for three hours for example for example
this uses all the prepositions all the
words we're talking about so i talked to
okay great i talked to my boss
about my vacation okay our topic this
four
for three hours means the length of your
conversation that means your
conversation was three hours long so you
can include all of this if you want to
but using four introduces the length of
time of your conversation
okay uh
other points monday blue whatever
members hello there can i talk about the
topic uh over my uh can i talk about the
topic with my boss and i'll get back to
you later maybe or can i talk the topic
over with my boss maybe that's the
expression using over
there yeah nice one nice one okay um
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other ones
she talks about her cat says miguel
that's a good one that's a good one okay
time's going quick so let's go to speak
let's look at some examples with speak
speak first the past tense the past
tense of speak is spoke
so spoke i have it in my example
sentence here my first example sentence
speak becomes spoke in past tense the
past participle form is spoken spoken so
have you spoken to her yet have you
spoken to him yet so i spoke to my
manager i spoke to my manager again we
can use talk here it's fine i talked to
my manager or i talked with my manager
perfect also i spoke with my manager
also it's great
another example
uh
my friend
squeaky my friend often what was my
example my friend often speaks speaks so
another present tense example my friend
often
speaks
speaks with me
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about
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business ideas
so again i'm introducing a topic and a
person here with speaks with me about
about so you can include both points in
your sentence
also as i said we use this to express
our language abilities so
i speak
whatever i speak
japanese so we can use this verb to
express our language abilities
all right
so we're on to the last point for today
the last verb i want to talk about is
ask ask
we use ask for questions so anytime you
need to report a question you can use
ask so this means you can use it for
requests for offers for inquiries so you
need some help with something you can
use ask to describe that
and for more advanced learners you can
use this
when you're using like these indirect
style questions embedded questions too
like she asked if i knew where the
restroom was and so on more advanced
point but this is the verb we used to do
that
so let's take a look at some examples
first
ask the past tense form of ask is asked
asked it takes the regular ed ending i
asked
so i asked my friend for help i asked my
friend for help here simple past tense i
asked
my friend that's the person who received
my question you can think of it that way
i asked my friend for help or uh in like
a future situation
uh
our boss our boss
is going to is going to
ask
oops sorry is going to ask
about
the project status
at the meeting
so here we are
making a very confident guess the guess
is more confident because we know that
because we're using going to our boss is
going to ask about this at the next
meeting so we should be prepared this is
a situation
in which you might use an expression
like this our boss is going to ask about
this
so we can use this past tense as we
talked about past tense for past
conversations things that have finished
we use it uh
when present for something true now or
for something that is regularly said and
we use with future tense like will and
going to to make guesses about the
future
okay i want to check some of your
examples matea says she asked me to walk
the dogs this morning perfect nice one
matias on youtube uh
another example on youtube
edgard says i asked my boss if i could
get a vacation or if i could have a
vacation or take a vacation take a
vacation is the natural verb choice
there
uh
valdeci valdesi maybe he was asked to
renew his membership at the end of the
month good good good
uh ricardo has a nice question ask for
or ask about when do we use good
question so to ask for something means
you want to receive that thing
like
can i ask for your autograph like your
signature or can i ask for some time off
that's the thing you want to receive
when you use ask about it's like you
want to get information
on a topic i want to ask
i want to ask you about like the project
status so that's like you're getting
information kind of you're introducing
the topic for discussion there so it's
not like you're going to receive
something maybe information uh but ask
for is like for requests more for offers
ask about is like introducing a
discussion topic kind of okay
um
on facebook on facebook
uh javier says talk is talk used when
the other person is just listening no we
can use we use talk talk and speak are
used for like two-way or group
conversations
tell is used for like one-way
conversations
uh luis on facebook says i will ask the
secretary about the breakfast good
beto says i asked about maybe i asked
about the class okay nice one
um other examples paulino says i asked
my girlfriend if we can hang out tonight
very nice very nice okay great sounds
good very nice examples everybody so
these are this is a quick introduction
to
a few verbs that are very commonly
confused as well as choosing the correct
tense with these verbs so i hope that it
was helpful for you of course you can
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facebook if you missed any points and if
you have any questions send them in the
chat i will check and i will try to make
some changes
or make some new stuff for the future so
i have to finish there we have to be
done for today so thank you very much
for joining us
for this week's live lesson and thank
you for sharing all of your awesome uh
example sentences and great questions
today too
next week we'll be back with a new topic
next week yeah i've gotten lots of
requests from you about phrasal verbs so
i decided to make a lesson with 20 high
frequency phrasal verbs high frequency
means 20 phrasal verbs that are very
very often used in everyday life so i
have a list i'm going to put uh 20 of
them in next week's lesson so for those
of you asking phrasal verbs phrasal
verbs so please join us for next week's
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vocabulary
this one is about like your leisure time
activities uh which you definitely use
especially this verb ask when you make
invitations so check this one out as
well uh for talking about your hobbies
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