PRACTICE

Exercise 1 – ORAL. Put the statements into reported speech.

1. ‘I’m tired,’ she said. She said that……………………………………………………………………..

2. ‘I need to borrow some money,’ my brother told me. ……………………………………………….

3. ‘I can’t swim very well,’ I told her………………………………………………………………………

4. ‘Mr Mason has gone out,’ the secretary told me. ………………………………………………………

5. ‘I don’t want to go swimming,’ Andrew said. ……………………………………………………………..

6. ‘We are leaving on Friday,’ we said…………………………………………………………………………

7. ‘We had lunch in Luigi’s restaurant,’ they said. ………………………………………………………….

8. ‘I’ll phone you later,’ Sarah told Simon. …………………………………………………………………..

Exercise 2 – ORAL. Change the following sentences into Indirect General Questions.

1. The teacher asked Tom, "Do you come to school by bus or on foot?" …………………………………

2. A man stopped me in the street and asked, "Have you got a match?" …………………………………..

3. The teacher asked us, "Do you understand the question?" ……………………………………………..

4. Henry's father asked his son, "Do you want to be an engineer or a doctor?" ………………………….

5.1 asked Peter, "Are you going to play football on Friday?" ………………………………………………

6. He asked his secretary, "Has the postman been yet?"………………………………………………………

Exercise 4 – ORAL. Change the following sentences into Indirect Special Questions.

1.Mother asked Jane, "What are you doing here?" 2. Margaret asked Richard, "Where are you going for your holidays?" 3. Ann asked Mary, "What do you usually have for breakfast?" 4. The inspector asked, "Who caused the accident?" 5. The teacher asked Bob, "When did you learn to swim?" 6. Mary's mother asked her, "Where have you put your shoes?" 7. The teacher asked, "Which number can be divided by three?" 8. Peter asked me, "When are you going to have dinner?" 9. The policeman asked me, "Where did you lose your wallet?" 10. The teacher came into the classroom and asked the pupils, "What are you doing?" 11.1 asked Bob, "Why didn't you answer my letter?" 12. There was a crowd in the street. I asked a man in the crowd, "What is the matter?" 13. Father asked, "When will lunch be ready?" 14. The little boy asked his father, "Why does the policeman wear a uniform?" 15.1 asked him, "Who are you looking at?" 16. The nurse asked, "Who is the next, please?" 17. The man asked his friend, "When did you buy your car?"

Exercise 5 – ORAL. Which questions would you ask to which people? Report the questions. Begin: I asked the….(a hotel receptionist / a doctor / a policeman / a mechanic / a waiter / a cinema attendant)

1. ‘Will it take long to repair the car?’……………………………………………………………………………..

2. ‘Can I park my car in West Street?’…………………………………………………………………………….

3. ‘What time does the film finish?’……………………………………………………………………………….

4. ‘Have you got a double room?’………………………………………………………………………………….

5. ‘How many times a day should I take the medicine?’……………………………………………………….

6. ‘What’s the soup of the day?’………………………………………………………………………………….

Exercise 7 – ORAL. Change the following sentences into Indirect Speech. Decide whether to use "told" or "asked", or whether either of these two verbs is suitable.

1. Mary said to her brother, "Take the letter to the Post Office, please." 2. The teacher said to Tom, "Collect the exercise-books and put them on my table." 3. The old man said to the little girl, "Don't run across the street." 4. The teacher said to the pupils, "Learn the poem by heart." 5. I said to my friend, "Meet me outside the cinema at six o'clock." 6. Mary's mother said to her, "Don't go out without your coat." 7. The teacher said to the students, "Open your books at page 60." 8. The doctor said to the sick man, "Don't go back to work for a fortnight." 9. Jack said to the policeman, "Tell me the time, please."

Exercise 9. Complete the sentences with – say – tell – in the correct form. Use only one word each time.

1.Ann …………………………………..goodbye to me and left.

2.Don’t just stand there! ……………………………something.

3. Dan ……………………………me that he was bored with his job.

4. The doctor …………………….that I should rest for at least a week.

5. ‘Did she ………………………you what happened?’ ‘No, she didn’t …………………….anything to me.’

6. Gary couldn’t help me. He ………………………..me to ask Caroline.

7. Gary couldn’t help me. He ………………………...to ask Caroline.

Date: 2014-12-22; view: 1851