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LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

GRAMMAR POINT: REPORTED SPEECH

A- Rewrite the sentences with the reporting verbs in the list.

1. ‘Don’t take photos in the museum,’ the officer said to the visitors.
2. ‘Could you take the children with you, please,’ said Mary to Angel.
3. ‘Always use grated cheese on  pizza,’ the chef said to Mike.
4. ‘ If  I were you , I wouldn’t leave the kids alone with Eddie,’ Elaine said to her sister.
5. ‘ Be ready to attack at 5 tomorrow morning,’ the commander said to the troop.

B- Define the following sentences as command, request, advice…etc. and then report them with an appropriate reporting verb.

1. ‘I promise, I’ll never lie to you again,’ said Mike to his girl friend.
2. ‘ Jack, will you please feed my cat when I am on holiday?’ told  Celine.
3. ‘ Don’t let anybody come in without asking me,’ said the landlady to the maid.
4. ‘ You shouldn’t ask a girl to go to a football match with you,’ said Helen to Eric.
5. ‘ Hand in your essays until Friday,’ the teacher told the class.
6. ‘ Todd, could you learn his phone number for me, please?’ asked Monica.

C- Report the following sentences with the correct reporting verb given below.

claim / say / announce (2) / admit / think

1. His agent: ‘ Tarkan is going to give concerts in five cities in the next three months.’
2. Özcan Deniz: ‘ My new film will be the best Turkish film ever made.’
3. Mr. Bush : ‘ I was wrong when I attacked Iraq two years ago.’
4. The lawyer : ‘ The prisoners are being kept under bad conditions.’
5. Mrs. Buffy : ‘ I think, the government didn’t give the necessary attention to homeless children.’
6. The Minister: ‘In the next six months, we are planning a 50 % pay rise for the workers.’

D- Write what these people said.

1. Raymond Barone complained that his parents were living just across the street.

2. Jack admitted that if he had enough money , he wouldn’t even come to this neighborhood.

3. Rosetta asked Angelo to help her to choose an invitation card for their wedding.

4. Doctors told that sunbathing without using protective lotions might cause skin cancer.

5. The Gellers said they had been living abroad for the previous ten years.

6. Two French archeologists claimed that they discovered the oldest antique city in the Middle East . They thought that it was one of the first Sumerian cities.

7. I advised her to wait for the sales to buy clothes for the coming baby.

E-  Read the reported statements and choose the correct option.

1. Lily said she would also find a part-time job to share the payments.

1. 1. Lily found a part-time job
   2. Lily had been working in the afternoons.
   3. Lily decided to find a part-time job.
   4. Lily is working at the time of the interview

2. Ömer said he had joined a photography club.

1. 1. Ömer has been a member of a photography club.
   2. Ömer will be a member of a photography club.
   3. Ömer decided to join a photography club.
   4. Ömer was a member of a photography club but not anymore.

3. Şafak said she had been in Kazakhstan.

1. 1. Şafak was preparing to go to Kazakhstan.
   2. Şafak was in Kazakhstan at the time of the interview.
   3. Şafak came back from Kazakhstan.
   4. Şafak has been in Kazakhstan at the time of the interview.

4. Adam promised to see a psychiatrist.

1. 1. Adam decided to see a psychiatrist at the time of the interview.
   2. Adam has been seeing a psychiatrist before the interview.
   3. Adam will soon see a psychiatrist after the interview.
   4. Adam was talking to a psychiatrist during the interview.

5. Akın advised Azra not to go into the details of her personal life.

1. 1. Akın said to Azra that she should go into the details of her personal life.
   2. Akın told Azra that if he had been her, he wouldn’t have gone into the details of his personal life.
   3. Azra went into the details of her personal life at the interview although she promised Akın not to.
   4. Akın asked Azra to tell him about her personal life.

6. The scientists claimed that in the future there would probably be very cold weather all around the world.

1. 1. The scientists are sure that the weather will be very cold all around the world in the near future.
   2. The scientists said that the weather would definitely be too cold around the world.
   3. As the scientists claimed, the weather is getting cold all around the world
   4. The scientists said that the weather would probably be very cold all around the world.