Exercises

Exercise 1. Change the following sentences into Indirect Speech.

1.I asked my friend, "How do you feel after your holiday?" 2. Margaret asked Richard, "Where are you going for your holidays?" 3. Ann asked Mary, "What do you usually have for breakfast?" 4. Jack's father asked him, "Who are you writing a letter to?" 5. The teacher asked Bob, "When did you learn to swim?" 6.1 saw a cloud of smoke and asked, "What is burning?" 7. Mary's mother asked her, "Where have you put your shoes?" 8.1 asked her, "Who gave you that watch?" 9. Peter asked me, "When are you going to have dinner?" 10. Mr. Smith asked his wife, "How much do you spend on food every week?" 11. The policeman asked me, "Where did you lose your wallet?" 12. The teacher came into the classroom and asked the pupils, "What are you doing?" 13. Henry asked Tom, "Who did you visit in the hospital?" 14. I asked Bob, "Why didn't you answer my letter?" 15. The teacher wrote the answers on the blackboard and then asked, "Who has got all the answers right?" 16. The little boy asked his father, "Why does a policeman wear a uniform?" 17. I asked him, "Who are you looking at?" 18. A man asked his friend, "When did you buy your car?" 19. Tom asked the teacher, "What does the word mean?"

Exercise 2. Change the following sentences into Direct Speech.

1.My sister said that she hadn’t got a watch. 2. The teacher told his students that he has pleased with their work. 3. I told my mother that Henry was studying medicine at the University. 4. I told the taxi-driver that he was driving too fast. 5. I told him that I hadn’t seen his brother for a long time.

Exercise 3. Change the following sentences into Indirect Speech.

1.I said to Jack, "Please give me your dictionary." 2. The bus-conductor said to the passengers, "Don't get off the bus while it is going." 3. Mary said to her brother, 'Take the letter to the Post Office, please." 4. The teacher said to Tom, "Collect the exercise-books and put them on my table." 5. The old man said to the little girl, "Don't ran across the street." 6. The teacher said to the pupils, "Learn the poem by heart." 7.1 said to my friend, "Meet me outside the cinema at six o'clock." 8. Mary's mother said to her, "Don't go out without your coat." 9. The teacher said to the students, "Open your books at page 60." 10. The doctor said to the sick man, "Don't go back to work for a fortnight." 11. Jack said to the policeman, 'Tell me the time, please." 12. The teacher said to the student, "Clean the blackboard, please."

Exercise 4. Change the following sentences into Direct Speech.

1. She told them she knew their address. 2. They asked me where I lived. 3. They want to know if there will be a meeting next week. 4. She tells me not to touch her things. 5. He explained that he had taken my umbrella by mistake after the party

Reading

1. Read the text.

The Profession of Teacher

The younger generation of Russians haven't experienced “life teachers”, instructors who taught them how to live and be decent people. In our poll, we asked respondents: “Do you have a teacher who has a major influence on your views and whom you can describe as a life teacher? ". Only 56% of surveyed said: “We have such teachers”, while 34% said: “We don't”. The younger the respondents, the more likely they were to have grown up without a teacher making a significant contribution to the process of their moral growth.

Today, the predominant opinion is that every teacher must help raise children, rather than just educate them: 86% of all adult Russians agree that, apart from teaching specific subjects, instructors should shape their pupil's life views in general.

52% of families contain school-age children. We asked these people: “Are there instructors in the schools your children attend who help shape their outlooks on life?” In response they said that there were no such teachers. Many of those surveyed had difficulty answering the question.

In other words, adults for the most part are ignorant of the way their children's personalities are being shaped in school and the role teachers play in this process.

Speaking about the reasons why teachers fail to shape properly schoolchildren's views, respondents pointed to small salaries, which make teachers unmotivated or indifferent. Others said that many instructors were poorly trained. As a result, children misbehave and are disrespectful towards their teachers.

Respondents who are satisfied with the way teachers shape children's outlooks on life often said -many of them referring to their own experience - that teachers were well-trained specialists devoted to their mission.