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Exercise 10. Decide whether tense changes are required or not if the sentences are changed to reported speech. State the reason why.

1. My friend said, «English and French are the two official languages in Canada».

2. Shakespeare once observed, «Love is blind».

3. Yesterday morning my teacher said, «The results of your test will be here two days from today».

4. My father always told me, «To learn is never too late».

5. Last week my cousin told me, «I have already completed the essay for my classes this week».

6. When I saw Paula last month she told me, «I received John's letter two months ago».

7. Elisabeth told me, «I couldn't come earlier».

8. Michael said, «I would get the tickets».

Exercise 11. Complete the following sentences:

1. The cordless telephone ... available to the professional and general public in the years between 1970 and 1980.

a. is becoming

b. became

c. has become

d. had become

2. Recently, there ... considerable discussion about technology investments.

a. is

b. has been

c. was

d. is going to be

3. If you ... role in leadership, you are going to develop special skills.

a. take on

b. took on

c. will take on

d. were taking on

4. They ... that they had completed the task.

a. have reported

b. report

c. are reporting

d. reported

5. For many years the Academy ... science education in the schools.

a. promoted

b. has promoted

c. promotes

d. is promoting

6. She will go to the university when she ... her paper.

a. finishes

b. will finish

c. finished

d. had finished

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7. We can talk about it after he ...

a. will leave

b. is leaving

c. leaves

d. has left

8. This theory is popular ... scientists.

a. along

b. between

c. where

d. among

9. The quality of education from elementary school through college ... a subject of special interest in recent years.

a. has become

b. became

c. will become

d. becomes

Text B. Read the following passage, paraphrase it. Discuss the ways graphics affects people in workplace.

As we move into the technological age, we witness the increasing use of graphics all around us, and the influence that graphics has on the way everyone thinks, The visual world in which we live reminds us that graphics has enormous impact on our lives. Computer users, for example, use graphic design within the texts they prepare on a word processor. Some researchers believe that graphics will actually help people communicate more effectively whether on a

influence — an effect on someone or something without the use of direct force or command Synonym: impact укр. вплив enormous — extremely large укр. величезний actually — in fact, really, in reality, in actuality укр. фактично, насправдi

computer screen or a printed page. The goal of graphic design is to present information that can be understood easily and quickly. Graphic designs usually mean headlines, charts, graphs, tables, diagrams, symbols and pictures.

GRAPHS are a visual way of presenting information, especially statistical data. The three most important types of graphs are:

line graphs bar graphs

are useful in showing changes and trends (general tendencies or directions in the way a situation is changing or developing) involving quantities or amounts over time

Scientists & Engineers in the Labor Force Per 10,000 Labor Force	Ratio of Science and Engineering Degrees to Total First University Degrees