Direct and Indirect speech

• Saying exactly what someone has said is called direct speech also sometimes is called quoted speech.
• here what a person says appears within quotation marks ("...") and should be word for word.

For example:

She said:"Today's lesson is on presentations"
or
"Today's lesson is on presentations", she said.

• Indirect speech (sometimes is called reported speech), doesn't use quotetion marks to enclose  what the person said and  it doesn't have to be word for word.
• when the reporting speech the tense usually changes. This is because when we use reported speech, we are usually talking about a time in the past (because obviously the perosn who spoke originally spoke in past). The verbs therefore usually have to be in past too.

For example:
DIRECT SPEECH                                                                   INDIRECT SPEECH
"I'm going to the cinema", he said.                       He said he was going to the cinema.

Direct Speech / Quoted Speech

Saying exactly what someone has said is called direct speech (sometimes called quoted speech)
Here what a person says appears within quotation marks ("...") and should be word for word.
For example:
She said, "Today's lesson is on presentations."
or
"Today's lesson is on presentations", she said.
- See more at: http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/reportedspeech.html#sthash.QWWXrC45.dpuf