2. Reported Speech
1. «What time does the next bus leave?» he said. «I need to get to the station.»
He/ She asked what time did the next bus leave and that he/she needed to get to the station.
2. «Don’t go swimming in the lake,» she said. «The water is filthy.»
She told her not to go swimming in the lake and that the water was filthy.
3. «Let’s go shopping tomorrow,» she said. «The sales have started.»
She told her to go shopping the next day and that the sales had started.
4. «Stand up,» the teacher said to the pupils. «The headmaster is coming.»
The teacher told to the pupils to stand up and that the headmaster was coming.
5. «Please don’t take my ring,» she said to him. «It was a present.»
She asked him not to take her ring and that it had been a present.
6. «It’s very late, Martin,» his mother said. «Where have you been?»
Martin’s mother told that it was very late and asked had you been.
7. «Shall I cook the dinner?» he said to her. «You look very tired.»
He asked her if he should cook the dinner and that she looked very tired.
8. «Please stop making that noise!» she said to him. «I can’t concentrate.»
She asked him to stop making that noise and that she couldn’t concentrate.
9. «Yes, I dropped your vase,» she said. «I was cleaning the shelf.»
She told that had dropped his case and that she had been cleaning the shelf.
10. «Can I use the car, please?» she said. «I need to run some errands.»
She asked if she could use the car and that she needed to run some errands.
11. «I’m sorry I’m late,» he said. «The car wouldn’t start.»
He told that he was sorry he was late and that the car wouldn’t start.
12. «Why are you teasing your sister?» she asked him. «You know it makes her unhappy.»
She asked why was he teasing his sister and that he knew it made her unhappy.
13. «Why won’t you come to the party?» he said to her. «Everyone would love to see you.»
He asked her why wouldn’t she come to the party and that everyone would love to see her.
14. «It was Rob who broke the window,» he said to her. «He was kicking the football.»
He told her that it had been Rob who had broken the window and that he had been kicking the football.
3. Match the word with the by proper definition
- altogether l. completely
- brag d. to tell about your own achievements
- even out g. to come into balance
- hold out for h. carelessness
- lame o. stupid and boring
- marvel I. to be amazed
- negligence f. to insist on something
- profile b. a face seen from the side
- illiterate j. one who cannot read or write
- show off a. to behave in an ostentatious way to impress others
- absently c. without paying attention
- squabble m. to argue
- stray n. to get lost
- trivia e. useless facts
- yank k. to pull hard
5.Read the dialogues and choose the most appropriate options to complete the dialogues.
1. Doctor
Take this medicine for a week and you’ll start to feel better.
Patient
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Doctor
Are you sure? It’s the best on the market.
Patient
Yes I am. Can you please prescribe another one?
D) But I’ve used it before and it did not help at all.
2. Jake
How did you like the movie you saw last night?
Karen
I can’t say it was the best I’ve ever seen.
Jake
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Karen
Certainly not. Do not waste your time.
E) Then you wouldn’t recommend it, would you?
3. Father
What? You crashed the car again?
Son
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Father
I’m sure it wasn’t. This is the third accident you have had this year.
Son
You’re very angry now, dad. We had better talk about this later on.
A) I do apologize. I promise it won’t happen again.
B) Was the car in good condition?
C) But it wasn’t my fault. You’ve got to believe me.
D) Was it worth the money and time you had wasted?
E) Why do you ask? Don’t y
4.Chuck
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Sue
Why do you think so?
Chuck
Whenever we meet, she pretends not to see me.
Sue
I don’t thin k it’s because she hasn’t got over her anger. She’s having
a bad time at work nowadays.
A) It seems that Martha is still angry with me.
5.Tom
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Mary
Are you kidding? We are in June.
Tom
So what? What’s wrong with June?
Mary
The right time to trim your roses is the beginning of winter, when they
lose their flowers.
B) Can you help me prune the roses in the garden at the weekend?
6.Complete the sentences with the most appropriate options.
1. Even though the two parties appear united in negotiations, —-.
A) the level of trust between them will always remain, at best, tenuous
2. The moment I saw the sad face of my girl friend, —-.
D) I found out that something was wrong
3. You had better take your mobile phone with you —-.
D) If you had wanted to go abroad
4. —- when they learned that the chairman would not be able to join the meeting.
C) It wasn’t until they got a phone call about an urgent meeting the next day
5. —-, the Grammys are the highest rated.
A) There are many mus
E) Of the «big three» music awards shows
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