1. Detectives
Instructor: Tahani Al-Hammami

4. What Will We Learn for Today?
• Key Words: Crime
• Grammar: Reported
Questions
• Exercises: 4, 6, 8
• Workbook: p. 48 - 49

5. Key Words: Crime
• General: clue, crime
scene, motive, stakeout, theft, robbery,
investigation
• People: detective, informant, private
eye, suspect, thief, victim, criminal, witn
ess
• Evidence:
DNA, footprints, forensics, hair, lethal

6. Grammar: Reported Questions

7. Rules Form Example
1) Use the word order of a subject + verb “Why do you work so
statement much?”
She asked me why I
worked so much.
2) Change the tense in the Present tense  past Is she coming?  He
question of the reporting tense asked if she was coming.
verb into the past tense Did they call him?  She
Past tense  past perfect asked if they had called
him.
3) Use the question word Why, what, who, when, “When do you play
from the question how etc. football?”
Peter asked when I played
football.
4) Add “if” when there is no Yes/No question  if “Is it raining?”
question word She asked me if it was
raining.

8. Umm,
Hey Misa-chan. yes.
Do you like my
new hairstyle?
He asked me if I liked
his new hairstyle. It’s
really horrible!

10. Thank You!