Report the dialogue between a speaker and an audience member, by completing the sentence:

  Speaker: Thank you for listening to my talk on the importance of recycling. Do you have any questions or comments? 

Audience member : Yes, I have a question. How can we encourage more people to recycle their waste? 

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The speaker thanked the audience for their attention and asked if they had any queries or feedback. The audience member said that he/she had a question and wondered how they could persuade more people to _______ their waste.

Answer as written by the student:

The speaker thanked the audience for their attention and asked if they had any queries or feedback. The audience member said that he/she had a question and wondered how they could persuade more people to recycle their waste.

Step-by-step explanation of the answer:

To report the dialogue between a speaker and an audience member, we need to use indirect speech, which is a way of expressing what someone said without using their exact words. 🗣️

To change this into indirect speech, we need to follow these steps:

• Introduce the indirect speech with a reporting verb, such as “said”, “asked”, or “wondered”. 🔊
• Change the present tense verbs in the direct speech to past tense verbs in the indirect speech, because the dialogue happened in the past. ⏰
• Change the pronouns in the direct speech to match the point of view of the indirect speech. 👥
• Change the word order of the questions in the direct speech to make them statements in the indirect speech.❓
• Use the word “that” to connect the reporting verb and the indirect speech.🌉
• Keep the words that are not affected by the changes, such as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs.🆗

Applying these steps, we can change the direct speech into indirect speech.

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