Here are the sentences converted into reported speech: 1. Jemal said that he enjoyed swimming at the Baro River. 2. Senait said that she was reading the short story written by the famous Ethiopian writer. 3. The boys said that they had known their family. 4. John said that he was English. 5. She said that she had never seen a shark in her life. 6. The hostess said that she had met him two years before. 7. She said that she would be in Jigjiga the next day. 8. The tourists told my brother that they had visited Aksum obelisks the previous year.