Tom asked Ann what she wanted.

(2)直接引语是客观事实、普遍真理等，变成间接引语时，时态不变。例如：

　　They told their son, "The earth goes round the sun."→

　　They told their son that the earth goes round the sun.

(3)直接引语变间接引语时， 指示代词、时间状语、地点状语等要作相应的变化。例如：

　　He said, "I haven't seen her today."→

　　He said that he hadn't seen her that day.

注意：如果转述时就在原来的地方，就在说话的当天，就不必改变指示代词、时间状语、地点状语等。

Direct Speech Indirect Speech

Present past

Past past and past perfect

Present perfect past perfect

Past perfect past perfect

Present continuous past continuous

Step3 practice

　T: Turn to Page 5. Please change the following direct speech into indirect speech and indirect into direct.

1. "I'm going to hide from the Germans," Anne said.

2. "I don't know the address of my new home," said Anne.

3. "I cannot ask my father because it is not safe to know," she said.

4. "I had to pack up my things very quickly," the girl said.

5. "Why did you choose your diary and old letters?" Dad asked her.

6. Mum asked her if/whether she was very hot with so many clothes on.

7. Margot asked her what else she had got.

8. Anne asked her father when they would go back home.

9. Anne asked her sister how she could see her friends.

10. Mother asked Anne why she had gone to bed so late the night before.