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PRACTICE: REPORTED SPEECH

Exercise 1: You talk on the phone to a friend, Luke. This is what he
says.

Exercise 2: A teacher is talking to Andy, a student.

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Exercise 3: Rewrite each sentence as reported speech with tense
changes.

Exercise 4: Read the information about the Trojan War. Then put one
pronoun or reference word in each sentence.

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Exercise 5: Read the information about Heinrich Schliemann. Then
complete the text by writing said or told in each space.

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Exercise 6: Rewrite each sentence about Schliemannas reported
speech.

Exercise 7: Change each sentence into indirect speech

Exercise 8: Correct the errors

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Exercise 9: Rewrite the sentence as reported speech.

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 REPORTED SPEECH PRACTICE (PART 2)

Exercise 2: You apply for a job at a children’s holiday camp. When

you meet the organizer she asks the following questions

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Exercise 3: Read what happened to Suzie the other day. Then write the
conversation she actually had.

Exercise 4: Complete the reported questions.

Exercise 5: Rewrite the sentences as direct speech. Include necessary

punctuation.

Exercise 5: Complete the reported requests or commands.

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Exercise 6: Report the question beginning as shown.

Exercise 7: Change each sentence into indirect speech.

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Exercise 7: Change into indirect speech

Exercise 8: Change the sentences into reported speech.

1. "Where is my umbrella?" she asked.
She asked............................................. ......................
2. "How are you?" Martin asked us.
Martin asked us................................................ ...................
3. He asked, "Do I have to do it?"
He asked............................................. ......................
4. "Where have you been?" the mother asked her daughter.
The mother asked her daughter.......................................... .........................
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5. "Which dress do you like best?" she asked her boyfriend.
She asked her boyfriend......................................... ..........................
6. "What are they doing?" she asked.
She wanted to know.............................................. .....................
7. "Are you going to the cinema?" he asked me.
He wanted to know.............................................. .....................
8. The teacher asked, "Who speaks English?"
The teacher wanted to know.............................................. .....................
9. "How do you know that?" she asked me.
She asked me................................................ ...................
10. "Has Caron talked to Kevin?" my friend asked me.
My friend asked me................................................ ...................
11. "What's the time?" he asked.
→ He wanted to know .................................................. .
12. "When will we meet again?" she asked me.
→ She asked me .................................................. .
13. "Are you crazy?" she asked him.
→ She asked him .................................................. .
14. "Where did they live?" he asked.
→ He wanted to know .................................................. .
15. "Will you be at the party?" he asked her.
→ He asked her .................................................. .
16. "Can you meet me at the station?" she asked me.
→ She asked me .................................................. .
17. "Who knows the answer?" the teacher asked.
→ The teacher wanted to know .................................................. .
18. "Why don't you help me?" she asked him.
→ She wanted to know .................................................. .
19. "Did you see that car?" he asked me.
→ He asked me .................................................. .
20. "Have you tidied up your room?" the mother asked the twins.
→ The mother asked the twins .................................................. .
21. "Stop talking, Joe," the teacher said.
→ The teacher told Joe .................................................. .
22. "Be patient," she said to him.
→ She told him .................................................. .
23. "Go to your room," her father said to her.
→ Her father told her .................................................. .
24. "Hurry up," she said to us.
→ She told us .................................................. .
25. "Give me the key," he told her.
→ He asked her .................................................. .
26. "Play it again, Sam," she said.
→ She asked Sam .................................................. .
27. "Sit down, Caron" he said.
→ He asked Caron .................................................. .
28. "Fill in the form, Sir," the receptionist said.
→ The receptionist asked the guest .................................................. .
29. "Take off your shoes," she told us.
→ She told us ....................................................................................
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