II. Practice

Direct and Indirect Speech

Grammar

Active Vocabulary

Illustrative Examples

Sentence Patterns

Information for Study

Lesson Fourteen (14)

Listen to the sentences, repeat them after the speaker.

Remember them.

 

Direct speech (прямая речь)   Indirect speech (косвенная речь)
«Are you ready?», asked he. - He asked if (whether) I was ready.  
«Will you be ready in 5 minutes?», asked she. - She asked if (whether) I should be ready in 5 minutes.  
She said: «I lived in Moscow last year».   - She said that she had lived in Moscow last year – (жила).
She said: «I live in Moscow».   - She said that she lived in Moscow (живет).  
She said: «I'll live in Moscow». - She said she would live in Moscow – (будет жить).  
She says: «I shall live in Moscow».   - She says she will live in Moscow - (будет жить).

 

 

She asked where she could get those dictionaries.

They were asked if they worked there.

I was asked when I should leave on Friday.

Mary asked John why he was so angry.

«Did you go far?» asked he. He asked me if I had gone far.

«They will bring me no more misfortune now» he thought.

He thought that they would bring him no more misfortune.

We wondered what (who) would bring him more misfortune.

 

1. Listen to the words, repeat them after the speaker.

2. Remember them.

 

Nouns Verbs Adjectives Word Combinations  
command conference hostel misfortune skates skating rink admit catch follow last pretend remember wonder bright competitive by the way to be angry to be ready to make a report on foot to read a paper

 

1. Listen to the sentences, repeat them.

Table 32.

 

  Direct Speech     Indirect Speech
  Imperative Sentences Повелительные предложения  
  She told me, «Wait here» She asks her, «Don't go there»   She told me to wait here. She asks her not to go there.  
  Statements Утверждения  
  He said, «I am busy» He said to me, «I have known this young man» He said, «I'll be here tomorrow»   He said that he was busy. He told me that he had known that young man. He said he would be there tomorrow.  
General and Special questions Общие и специальные вопросы  
  He asks me, «Are you a worker?» He asked me, «Are you a worker?» He asked her, «Were you a student?»   He asks (me) if I am a worker. He asked (me) if I was a worker. He asked (her) if she had been a student.  

 

A

1. Read the following words.

Kate, pole, nine, take, hide, fir, burden, hire, port, far, care, theme, fit, pan, side, fond, girl, mere, sort, here, line, not, gun, her;

say, faint, lie, found, boat, sail, boy, laid, meat, suit, tool, bound, fault, oil, took, hail, sauce, float, May, lie, street, tea;

branch, fast, blind, half, past, craft, mild, raw, bold, saw, fight, law, light, can't, pass, path, calm, chalk, false, hall;

by, fine, mule, sleep, rain, taking, coal, hoping, focus, likely, hailing, sue, biting, filing, sailing, sleepless, waiter;

kind, hold, table, fibre, trifle, bugle, noble, metre, acre;

map, hot, robbing, butter, fan, big, bigger, lesson, let, letter, fun, bag, running, rod, lack, banner, fitting, hand;

term, car, circus, first, form, serving, her, forming, nor, arm;

nearly, mare, wire, square, pure, more, fairly, fire, wireless, careful, careless, care;

moor, spoon, pool, boiling, found, cloudless, coil, food, foil, round, look, hey, loop, toy, noisy;

cent, gun, job, can, fence, factor, chamber, cube, role, page, fetch, knife, writing, these, path, catching, theft, song, bank, shaking, cell, cat, cutting;

blossom, butter, easy, clever, picture, carpet, summer, winter, lazy, sofa, battle, paper, minus, nobly, rubber, order;

prescribe, before, provide, prevent, perfect, define, begin, repeat, select, forgive, betray, belong, require, perform;

commit, supply, observe, suppose, correct, attain, obtain, impose, combine, affect, collapse, connect, oblige, arrest, enclose, surround.

 

2. Listen to exercise 1 and check your pronunciation .

 

B

1. Put the following sentences into Indirect Speech.

a) 1. He said, «I shall go to the cinema tomorrow.» 2. She said, «I am ready.» 3. They said, «We have finished our work».

b) 1. I asked, «Can you help me? « 2. We asked, «Did you enjoy the trip?» 3. The teacher asked, «Do you stay in the hostel?» 4. She asked me, «Have you been to the Crimea?»

c) 1. She asked me, «Where do you study?» 2. She asked us, «What are you discussing?» 3. We asked them, «How many subjects will you study next year?»

d) 1. She asks me, «Do you know this man?» 2. They ask him, «Where do you study?» 3. He asks her, «What do you learn?»

 

2. Ask, answer and give additional information.