Reporting verbs with attitude: practical B2 English

Your goal for Reporting verbs with attitude

Reporting verbs with attitude: Reporting verbs show the speaker's purpose or attitude. Success means that the learner replaces said with 10 to 12 attitude-carrying reporting verbs in context.

Make a first attempt before reading the models

Respond to this prompt in two or three sentences: Reporting verbs with attitude. Keep the attempt. You will compare it with a second version after the lesson.

Four models with different jobs

Listen to the models

What an effective response is doing: Reporting verbs with attitude

Their grammar patterns differ, so learn the verb with its complement.

1. Preserve the original meaning before changing the wording.
2. Separate a source's claim from your reaction.
3. Check grammar patterns after reporting verbs.

Return to your first attempt. Underline the part that meets the outcome, then identify the exact place where the listener or reader may struggle.

Read the context before choosing the language

The technically correct sentence is not automatically the best sentence. Consider who is listening, what they already know, how much certainty you have and whether the moment calls for directness or explanation.

For Reporting verbs with attitude, keep the factual meaning stable while changing detail, register or pacing for a class discussion, a friend, a public presentation or a written response. Do not make a claim stronger than the available information.

Two errors that change the result

Move from recognition to production: Reporting verbs with attitude

1. Explain why models one and two are different.
2. Complete one controlled sentence using the lesson pattern.
3. Change the audience and rewrite the sentence without changing its central meaning.
4. Complete the production task: Replaces said with 10 to 12 attitude-carrying reporting verbs in context.
5. Compare your two attempts for accuracy, organisation and ease of understanding.

Check the target English

Production task and self-check: Reporting verbs with attitude

Replaces said with 10 to 12 attitude-carrying reporting verbs in context.

• The response completes the named task, not a different easier task.
• The main idea is identifiable in the opening sentences.
• Examples support the central point.
• Grammar errors do not hide the relationship between ideas.
• The second version improves one measurable feature.

Connect Reporting verbs with attitude to earlier English

Say He admitted losing the key. from memory. Add one clause, contrast or time marker from the previous lesson. Keep the addition only if it makes the meaning more precise.

Change the audience, keep the meaning

Rewrite They suggested meeting after class. for two settings: a conversation with a friend and a more formal class or community discussion. Notice which words change and which facts must remain stable.