VII. Read the additional text, entitle it, discuss it with your group-mates.

A very popular method of travelling is hiking or camping. It is travelling on foot. Walking tours are very interesting. People go to campsites, which are usually near some lakes or mountains, with tents or caravans. While staying there you can go fishing, hiking, mountaineering, bicycling, swimming and sunbathing. People make food for themselves in nature, so there are lots of activities to do. Camping is the healthiest way of spending holidays.

If you like to hike and travel, then you’re a special kind of hiker, a travelling hiker. Travelling hikers have a spirit of adventure, a natural curiosity about people and places far from home, a sense of humor that enables them to take every curve in the road in stride and a young-at-heart spirit common to active people of all ages and stages of life. The travelling hiker also shares a love of nature, an appreciation of the green world and a desire to stay active and healthy while participating in a kind of travel that challenges body and mind.

Grammar Exercises

Direct Speech

Indirect Speech

· Present Indefinite → She said, “I travelby bus every day.” · Past Indefinite → He said, “I travelled by bus every day.” · Present Perfect → He said, “I have already travelled by bus.” · Past Perfect → He said, “I had already travelled by bus.” · Present Continuous → He said, “I am travelling by bus.” · Past Continuous → He said, “I was travelling by bus.” · Present Perfect Continuous → He said, “I have been travelling by bus since morning.” · Future Indefinite (Continuous, Perfect) → He said, “I’ll travel by bus.”

· Past Indefinite She said (that) she travelled by bus every day. · Past Perfect He said (that) he hadtravelled by bus every day. · Past Perfect He said (that) he had already travelled by bus. · Past Perfect He said (that) he had already travelled by bus. · Past Continuous He said (that) he was travelling by bus. · Past Perfect Continuous He said (that) he had been travelling by bus. · Past Perfect Continuous He said (that) he had been travelling by bus since morning. · Future Indefinite (Continuous, Perfect)-in-the-Past He said (that) he wouldtravel by bus.

I. Change the following from direct into indirect speech paying attention to the tense forms.

1. The travel agent said, “The coach leaves for the airport every morning.”

2. “The trip to Mexico brought me some new experience and impressions”, the traveller said to his college.

3. The tour guide said, “Our journey has come to an end.”

4. “No flight will be delayed because the weather conditions are perfect”, the airport attendant explained to me.

5. A travelling hiker answered, “I’m fishing, hiking, mountaineering, bicycling, swimming and sunbathing while staying at my campsite.”

6. The manager of the travel agency said, “We’ve been discussing advantages and disadvantages of bus travel about this area for an hour.”

7. “I was looking through the flight board when I met Den”, Lily said to me.

8. My seat mate said, “I am going on a guided tour to Rome. I have read a lot about this amazing city. Now I can see everything myself.”

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