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Reported Speech Review 2 (Author-Bouabdellah)
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Reported Speech exercises
Level:
intermediate
Age:
12-17
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4687
REPORTED SPEECH STATEMENTS (B&W VERSION INCLUDED)
Level:
intermediate
Age:
13-17
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3770
REPORTED SPEECH all you need to know about
Level:
intermediate
Age:
14-17
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2308
INDIRECT SPEECH - STATEMENTS
Level:
intermediate
Age:
11-14
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1968
REPORTED SPEECH: STATEMENTS. RULES & PRACTICE
Level:
intermediate
Age:
12-17
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1869
Reported Speech or... The Art of Gossip
Level:
intermediate
Age:
13-17
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1564
Technicum Si-Tarek Of Relizane
Third Year Students
Technological Streams 2003/2004
Structure Practice:
DIRECT AND REPORTED SPEECH
Exercise Three:
Rewrite these sentences using reported speech.
1)
"I live in an old house in the country," she told me.
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"I'm living with my parents," she said.
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"I�ve just finished school," he said.
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"I played football last week," he told us.
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"I was having a bath when the lights went out," he told me.
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"It will be cold and wet tomorrow," the weather man said.
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"I must go and have my hair done now," she said.
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"This is the last warning I�m going to give you," she said.
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"I still haven�t read these books," she admitted.
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"I'll meet you here next week at the same time," he said.
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Exercise Four:
Rewrite these sentences using direct speech. Complete the sentence.
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She said that she had seen the robber leave the bank.
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She told them to go to bed.
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He said he couldn�t get to sleep that night.
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He told her that he would phone her the next day.
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She asked him if he could phone her that evening.
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They said they had to get up early the following morning.
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They said that they didn�t want to be late.
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She said she was going into town later that morning.
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He told them he had always wanted to play James Bond.
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Pond said that he had been working at a tea company before he became a spy.
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Exercise Five:
Rewrite these questions using reported speech.
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"Do you like ice cream?" my aunt asked me.
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"Where are you from?" the man asked me.
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"Why don�t you take up the piano?" my mum asked us.
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"Have you ever been to Disneyland?" she asked me.
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"When did you last go to the dentist?" the teacher asked me.
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"Can you speak any other languages?" the woman asked us.
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"Must you leave so soon?" I asked the girl.
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"Will we see some paintings by Picasso?" she asked me.
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"Why do you wear jeans all the time?" he asked her.
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Did you enjoy the film?" she asked me.
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Exercise Six:
Put the words in these indirect questions in the correct order.
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