SEMAINE 21 – JOUR 1 Reported Speech (Statements) Programme : Grammaire + Listening Thème : Telling What Others Say
INTRODUCTION
Dans la vraie vie, nous rapportons souvent ce que les autres disent.
Exemples :
Marie : « I am tired. »
➡️ Marie said that she was tired.
John : « I like English. »
➡️ John said that he liked English.
Aujourd’hui, tu vas apprendre à :
✔️ rapporter une information
✔️ raconter ce que quelqu’un a dit
✔️ parler plus naturellement
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Le Reported Speech (Discours rapporté) 🗣️
🔹 Qu'est-ce que le Reported Speech ?
Le Reported Speech (ou discours indirect) permet de rapporter les paroles de quelqu'un sans les citer mot pour mot. On ne met plus de guillemets. La structure change.
❌ DIRECT SPEECH
Konan said : "I am tired."
→ Paroles exactes, entre guillemets
✅ REPORTED SPEECH
Konan said that he was tired.
→ Rapporté, pas de guillemets
🔹 Le recul des temps (Backshift)
Quand le verbe introducteur est au passé (said, told, asked), les temps reculent d'un cran :
| Direct Speech | Reported Speech | Exemple |
| Present Simple | Past Simple | "I study" → she said she studied |
| Present Continuous | Past Continuous | "I am eating" → she said she was eating |
| Past Simple | Past Perfect | "I went" → she said she had gone |
| will | would | "I will come" → she said she would come |
| can | could | "I can help" → she said she could help |
| must | had to | "I must go" → she said she had to go |
🔹 Changements de pronoms & expressions de temps
Pronoms :
| Direct | Reported |
| I | he / she |
| my | his / her |
| we | they |
| you | I / he / she / they |
Expressions de temps :
| Direct | Reported |
| today | that day |
| tomorrow | the next day |
| yesterday | the day before |
| now | then |
| here | there |
🔹 Questions rapportées
Avec mot interrogatif (what, where, why, when…)
Direct : "Where do you live ?"
Reported : She asked me where I lived.
Direct : "Where do you live ?"
Reported : She asked me where I lived.
Sans mot interrogatif (yes/no) → if / whether
Direct : "Are you ready ?"
Reported : She asked me if I was ready.
Direct : "Are you ready ?"
Reported : She asked me if I was ready.
💡 Astuce Coach Assoa : Retiens 3 choses clés :
1) Le verbe recule d'un cran (présent → passé, will → would…)
2) Les pronoms changent selon qui parle
3) Les questions rapportées n'ont plus d'inversion — c'est une phrase normale !
❌ She asked where did I live. ✅ She asked where I lived.
1) Le verbe recule d'un cran (présent → passé, will → would…)
2) Les pronoms changent selon qui parle
3) Les questions rapportées n'ont plus d'inversion — c'est une phrase normale !
❌ She asked where did I live. ✅ She asked where I lived.