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Can you complete
these sentences?
'I don’t want pizza'.
She said
_____________________________________
‘I hate it’, he told me.
He told me he
_________________________________
‘Remember me? We met at last year’s party’, Mary asked
John.
Mary asked
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Don't Forget:
1.
Pronouns
2.
Backshifting
3.
Reporting
verbs – say, tell, ask are most used; try different verbs and adverbs to
represent the mood of the speaker. Eg: quietly agreed, happily told, angrily
shouted, confidently declared, categorically denied.
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Complete the gaps using the correct form of the verbs below.
Watch the video and check your answers (1.10):
TV: Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
This is Jack Jetwash, your slipped disk jockey on 3-D TV at half past 700
hours, on this good, good, good morning, with your modern mother’s muscle tone
program of the air.
Now, chins up! I____________, chin up, index fingers out.
Ready for your push-button finger exercises? (1)
Jane: I’m ready (2)
TV: One, two! One, two! One, two! One, two!
One, two! One, two! One, two! __________!
Judy: Okay, Mom, take five! (3)
Good morning! And did you change your mind?
Jane: No! It’s too cool to go ___________after
school. Besides, you won’t be home in time for dinner. (4)
Judy: From Acapulco?
Jane: Oh! I __________ you were going to Hawaii (5) .
Well, all right if your father says yes.
Judy: Oh, he will! (6)
Daddy? Daddy, are you asleep? (6)
George: Yes… (7)
Judy: Thanks, daddy! (8)
Daddy __________ yes! (9)
Jane: Ok, then!
Work with
your partner.
Use reported speech to re-write the following dialogs:
(1) Jack Jetwash asked if everybody was ready for
their push-button finger exercises.
(2) Jane ______________________________________________________
(3) Judy
______________________________________________________ and
(4) ______________________________________________________
(4) Jane
____________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
(5) Jane
___________________________________________________________.
(6) Judy
___________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
(7) George
______________________________________________________________
(8) Judy
____________________________________________________________
(9) Judy ____________________________________________________________
Complete the gaps using the correct form of the verbs below.
Watch the video and check your answers (1.10):
TV: Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
This is Jack Jetwash, your slipped disk jockey on 3-D TV at half past 700
hours, on this good, good, good morning, with your modern mother’s muscle tone
program of the air.
Now, chins up! I MEAN chin up, index fingers out.
Ready for your push-button finger exercises? (1)
Jane: I’m ready (2)
TV: One, two! One, two! One, two! One, two!
One, two! One, two! One, two! REST!
Judy: Okay, Mom, take five! (3)
Good morning! And did you change your mind?
Jane: No! It’s too cool to go SWIMMING after
school. Besides, you won’t be home in time for dinner. (4)
Judy: From Acapulco?
Jane: Oh! I THOUGHT you were going to Hawaii (5) .
Well, all right if your father says yes.
Judy: Oh, he will! (6)
Daddy? Daddy, are you asleep? (6)
George: Yes… (7)
Judy: Thanks, daddy! (8)
Daddy SAID yes! (9)
Jane: Ok, then!
Suggested
answers.
As this is only a review, it’s good to encourage students to use
different verbs and leave “say” and “tell” behind as well as making their
speech more colorful, using adverbs when possible.
(1) Jack Jetwash asked if everybody was ready for
their push-button finger exercises.
(2) Jane SLEEPILY SAID she was.
(3) Judy SUGGESTED her mother took a rest and
(4) ASKED if she had changed
her mind.
(4) Jane POINTED OUT that it was too
cool for swimming and reminded Jane that she wouldn’t be home in time for
dinner.
(5) Jane REPLIED that she thought Jude
was going to Hawaii.
(6) Judy EXCLAIMED her father would say
yes.
(7) George MUMBLED yes
(8) Judy HAPPILY THANKED her father
(9) Judy told her mother that
George’s answer was yes.