eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2015-05-27 3 6 749 752 10.12691/education-3-6-13 EDUCATION20153613 article Irina-Ana Drobot anadrobot@yahoo.com 1 Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania The purpose of this paper is to underscore some common difficulties that Romanian engineering students face in learning English reported speech. The paper will consider situations in which students will need both to use and to understand reported speech, and will also suggest teaching activities that can help to improve students' communications skills. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/3/6/13/education-3-6-13.pdf ESP ELT tenses visualization activities