Reporting a question — use it independently in context

Reporting a question: progressive explanation, topic-specific examples, guided exercises and a corrected assessment.

Duration: 25 minPrerequisites: discours-indirect-questions-manipulerPass mark: 80%

1. Objective

By the end, you will reuse “Reporting a question” in a sentence or situation of your own.

2. Discover

Read the examples for “Reporting a question — use it independently in context” as language you might use today. What clue helps you choose the right structure?

3. Understand

To produce, start from a real question you might ask and report it with “demander / vouloir savoir + question word or si”. Keep statement word order.

Je lui demande s’il peut venir vendredi.Nous demandons où se trouve l’arrêt de bus.Elle veut savoir quand commence la réunion.Ils demandent combien de temps dure le trajet.Tu demandes pourquoi le dossier a été refusé.Je voudrais savoir si ce service est gratuit.

Watch out

First identify the relation between the ideas: cause, consequence, contrast, condition, time… Choose the connector from the meaning, not the other way around.

4. Guided practice

5. Independent practice

6. Write / speak

Write three sentences you could genuinely say or send. Change the subject, context and at least one lexical element.

7. Check your learning

8. Remember

To produce, start from a real question you might ask and report it with “demander / vouloir savoir + question word or si”.

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9. Now I can…

I can recognise “Reporting a question” in a new example.
I can justify my choice and create an example.