REPORTED SPEECH EXERCISES (STATEMENTS)

1. Change the following statements into the reported speech.

a. “I have something to show you”, I said to her.

b. “I’ll come with you as soon as I’m ready”, she replied.

c. “I must go to the dentist tomorrow”, he said.

d. “I found an old Roman coin in the garden yesterday and I am going to take it to the museum this afternoon”, he said.

e. “I met her about three months ago”, he said.

f. “Pete and Sue are getting married tomorrow”, she said.

REPORTED SPEECH PRESENTATION

 

TRANSLATION

Hi guys,

Here you have the translations of the sentences that I gave you this morning.

1. The woman who/that was in the park stole my bag.

2. If I had won the lottery, I would have bought a new car.

3. Some very beautiful houses have been built

4. If I were you, I would talk to the teacher.

5. The dog which/that I saw the other day has died.

FOR AND AGAINST // OPINION ESSAYS

You can see some good exampls of  FOR AND AGAINST ESSAYS here and here

You can see an example of an OPINION ESSAY here

Have a look and do some practice!!

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PAST SIMPLE EXERCISES (2)

A. Correct the sentences. 

1. Who do you met on Saturday morning?
2. Did he went to school yesterday?
2. Why did you to go home early?
3. Where you did learn English?
4. Did she works today?
5. What do you this yesterday?
6. Did they last night phone you?

B. Complete with past simple

1. I opened the door and ___________ (look) inside.
2. I ___________ (not climb) over the fence.
3. The glass ___________ (fall) off the table.
4. Jane ___________ (not write) a letter.
5. Luis Miguel ___________ (hurry) to catch a bus
6. The dog ___________ (catch) the ball.
7. ___________________ (you/sell) your old car?
8. She ___________ (smile) when she saw me.
9. Elizabeth ___________ (not /give) Eva any chocolate.
10- She ___________ (laugh) when I told her the joke.
11. ______________________ (she/ laugh) when I told her the joke?
12. We ___________ (drive) to a safari park yesterday.
13. We ___________ (buy) a new car.



C. Complete the sentences with the past simple of the following verbs:
           be – get up – meet – have – go – run – drink – sleep – swim – eat 

Yesterday I ____________ early, at about seven o´clock.  I ____________ a shower and some fruit for breakfast. Then I ____________ to the sports centre.  I ___________ 500 meters in the swimming pool and then  I _____________ 5 kilometers.  At lunchtime I ____________ my friends in a café.  We ____________ some pasta and ____________ some juice. After lunch I ____________ for a few hours, I ____________ tired!

PASSIVE EXERCISES (2)

Transform these sentences into the PASSIVE voice. Write TWO possibilities when possible.

1. The woman is taking the injured people to the hospital.
2. They gave my little sister some sweets.
3. Didn't she tell you the news?
4. Somebody have killed the snake with a stick.
5. Someone sold this old hat to my wife.
6. They are going to find him guilty of murder.
7. Nobody can repair this broken chair.
8. We will have to give them more attention
9. Nobody will tell you the secret.
10. CNN shows the sports programmes in the afternoon.
11. They make a lot of paper from wood.
12. Our government will export a great amount of our oil to other countries.
13. Somebody is going to offer us a good job.
14. Has the mother fed her baby girl yet?

300 -- PASSIVE