- •Unit 1 computer users
- •Using Computers
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 1
- •Text 1a. Computer users
- •Table a Table b
- •The digital age
- •Text 1b. Computers make the world smaller and smarter
- •Grammar review present forms
- •Verbs usually not used in any of the progressive tenses
- •Grammar Exercises
- •The Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous
- •Writing
- •Unit 2 computer architecture
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 2
- •Text 2a. Computer architecture
- •Text 2b. Cache memory
- •How a disk cache works
- •Grammar review. Past forms
- •The present perfect and past simple
- •I have done I did
- •The present perfect continuous and present perfect
- •I have been doing I have done
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Speaking/writing
- •Even if minis and mainframes were inexpensive, why it is unlikely that you would buy one for your home.Unit 3 peripherals
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 3
- •Advantage
- •Text a. Peripherals
- •Post-reading activity
- •Specialist reading
- •Text b. Types of Printers
- •Grammar review future forms
- •It is interesting to know:
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Exercise 10. Put the verbs in brackets into the Future Perfect or the Futures Simple.
- •Exercise 11. Put the verbs in brackets into the Future Continuous or the Future Perfect.
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 4
- •Appliance
- •Relevance
- •Text 4a. Personal computers
- •Specialist reading
- •Text 4b.Data mining
- •Grammar review. The passive voice
- •Table of passive voice
- •Active and passive voice (compare) Active Voice
- •Passive Voice
- •Grammar Exercises
- •The Prepositions
- •Grammar Exercises prepositions
- •Prepositions of location:
- •In used to show location or destination in an area:
- •Intended goal/target
- •In is used for
- •Other common prepositions with multiple meaning
- •Writing/speaking
- •Think about advantages and disadvantages of using a desktop computer, a laptop and a palm computer. Compare them.
- •.Unit 5
- •Operating system
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 5
- •Environment
- •Search engine
- •Text 5a. Operating systems
- •Operating Systems: Hidden Software
- •General Features of Operating Systems
- •Vms: help, directory, search, copy, rename, print, show users, show time, create/directory, phone, delete Unix: write, cp, lpr, Is, mkdir, date, rm, man, grep, rwho, mv
- •Text 5b. Linux
- •Grammar review reported speech The sequence of tenses in the subordinate clauses:
- •The sequence of tenses is:
- •Modal verbs changes
- •Indirect speech for exclamatory and imperative sentences.
- •Indirect speech of imperative sentence
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Speaking/writing
- •4. Speak about os as hidden software.Unit 6 graphical user interface
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 6
- •To perform
- •Text 6a. The graphical user interface
- •Post-reading Exercises
- •Text b. Interface with menus
- •Grammar review nouns
- •Plural of countable nouns
- •Irregular plurals
- •Plural forms
- •The possessive case
- •Nouns determiners
- •Much, many, little, few, a lot, plenty
- •Grammar exercises Nouns
- •Some, any, much, many, a lot, few, a few, little, a little
- •Articles Revision of the Use of the Articles (in tables) Classification of Nouns
- •Functions of the Indefinite Article
- •Functions of the Definite Article
- •Don’t confuse the articles in the generic function
- •The use of articles with names of people
- •The use of articles with geographical names
- •The use of articles with other proper names
- •Numerals
- •The four operations
- •Fractional numerals Common Fractions
- •Decimal Fractions
- •Extra information
- •Exercises
- •Writing
- •Unit 7 applications programs
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 7
- •Spreadsheet
- •Word processor Text 7a. Applications programs
- •Post-reading Activity
- •Listening and speaking
- •Vocabulary Bank. Interview. Former student
- •Environment
- •To upload
- •Exercises
- •Grammar review
- •First conditional
- •Second conditional
- •If I were you…
- •Oral Activity
- •Third conditional
- •Making a wish
- •Grammar revision
- •Writing
- •.Unit 8 multimedia
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 8
- •Animation
- •Text 8a. Multimedia
- •Post-reading activity
- •Text 8b. New applications of the computer
- •Videodisc
- •Digital Video
- •Multimedia Authoring Systems
- •Virtual Reality
- •Grammar review. Adjectives. Adverbs. Pronouns.
- •The Adverb
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Pronouns
- •Writing
- •Unit 9 data processing
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 9
- •Equipment
- •Text a. Data processing and data processing systems
- •Basic data processing operations
- •Data storage hierarchy
- •Text 9b. Word processing facilities start up
- •Advantages of computer data processing
- •Grammar review The Modal Verbs (mv) can/could
- •May/might
- •To have (got) to
- •Should/ought to
- •Will/would
- •Grammar exercises
- •In brackets.
- •May/might/be allowed to
- •Must/have to/need
- •Mustn’t - needn’t - don’t have to
- •Should/ought to
- •Revision exercises
- •Unit 10
- •Internet and lan technology
- •Text 10a. The internet
- •Text 10 b. The language of e-mail
- •Grammar review the verbals The forms of the Verbals or the non-finite forms of the verb
- •The Infinitive
- •Infinitive without to
- •Complex object
- •See someone do and see someone doing
- •Personal/impresonal construction (the complex subject)
- •The gerund
- •Have something done
- •Writing/speaking task
- •Unit 11 networks
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 11
- •Text 11 a. Computer networks
- •Text 11 b. Network Communications
- •Grammar review questions
- •1. General questions
- •2. Special questions
- •3. Alternative questions
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Yes/No Questions (General Questions)
- •Exercise 3. Quiz champion Claude Jennings is answering questions. Put in these words and phrases: How Far, How Long, How Often, How Many, What, What Colour, What Kind, When, Where, Who
- •Subject/Object Questions
- •Prepositions in Wh-questions
- •Exercise 5. Put in the question. Use What? and put the preposition in brackets at the end.
- •Negative Questions
- •Exercise 9. Complete the conversations using the words in brackets.
- •Question Tags (Disjunctive Questions)
- •Exercise 12. Complete the conversation. Put in tags.
- •Earthquakes
- •Grammar revision
- •Writing
- •Unit 12 the world wide web
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 12
- •Text 12 a. The world wide web
- •Viruses are something to worry about, but not a lot. A little common sense and the occasional virus-scan will keep you virus-free.
- •Speaking
- •Censorship on the Web
- •What do you think?
- •Grammar revision
- •Writing Projects. Perform the project given
- •Unit 13 programming languages
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 13
- •Text 13a. Types of programming languages
- •Machine Languages
- •Assembly Languages
- •Procedural Languages
- •Natural languages
- •Verb Prefix Meaning Example
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 14
- •Most Common Suffixes
- •Why Learn Suffixes?
- •Interviewer / trainer / employer / interviewee / trainee / employee
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 15
- •Introductory reading
- •In the following list, the two-word forms (shown first) are still more common, but the one-word forms are starting to take hold.
- •In the following list, the one-word forms (shown first) are more common, but the spaced or hyphenated forms are still being used.
- •In the following list, the hyphenated forms (shown first) are more common, but the solid or spaced forms (if given) are used in materials aimed at industry insiders.
- •Variables and the Declaration Statement
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 16
- •Isc2 cissp
- •Unit 17 web design
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 17
- •1. Bad Search
- •2. Pdf Files for Online Reading
- •3. Not Changing the Color of Visited Links
- •5. Fixed Font Size
- •6. Page Titles With Low Search Engine Visibility
- •7. Anything That Looks Like an Advertisement
- •8. Violating Design Conventions
- •9. Opening New Browser Windows
- •10. Not Answering Users' Questions
- •11. Discourse markers: softening and correcting
- •Interview: Website Designer
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 18
- •Store / hold / input / control / convert / process / provide (x2)/ speed up
- •5. Cache … (5) … extremely fast access for sections of a program and its data.
- •Imagine that you are to make a report on the following topics. While preparing it use the main information from the text.
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 19
- •Virus protection
- •Internet crime
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 20
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 21
- •Information systems analysis and design
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 22
- •If X, then y
- •Virtual reality
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 23
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 24
Modal verbs changes
Direct speech |
Reported speech |
He said, “I will have some tea.” |
He said (that) he would have some tea. |
He said, “She can type fast.” |
He said (that) she could type fast. |
He said, “I can talk to you tomorrow.” |
He said (that) he could/would be able to talk to me next day. (it refers to the future) |
He said, “They may come home.” |
He said (that) they might come home. |
He said, “What shall I tell her?” |
He asked what he should tell her. |
He said, “You must stay in.” |
He said (that) I must/had to stay in. |
He said, “She must be exhausted.” |
He said (that) she must be exhausted. |
Direct Question |
Indirect Question |
What are you doing? |
He asked me what I was doing. |
Where do you live? |
He wanted to know where I lived. |
When did you see Tom? |
He asked me when I had seen Tom. |
Where is the manager? |
He asked me where the manager was. |
Who has broken the window? |
She wondered who had broken the window. |
Ask (someone) + if + підрядне речення |
|
Direct question |
Reported question |
Are you watching TV? |
He asked (me) if I was watching TV. |
Do you like sailing? |
He wanted to know if I liked sailing. |
Did you eat raw fish? |
He wondered if I had eaten raw fish. |
Have you found your passport? |
He asked me if I had found my passport. |
Will you fly to Paris tomorrow? |
He wondered if I would fly to Paris the next day. |
Indirect speech for exclamatory and imperative sentences.
Indirect speech of imperative sentence
A sentence which expresses command, request, advice or suggestion is called imperative sentence. For example, Open the door. Please help me. Learn your lesson. To change such sentences into indirect speech, the word “ordered” or “requested” or “advised” or “suggested” or “forbade” or “not to do” is added to reporting verb depending upon nature of imperative sentence in reported speech.
Examples. Direct speech: He said to me, “Please help me” Indirect Speech: He requested me to help him. Direct speech: She said to him, “You should work hard for exam” Indirect Speech: She suggested him to work hard for exam. Direct speech: They said to him, “Do not tell a lie” Indirect Speech: They said to him not to tell a lie. Direct speech: He said, “Open the door” Indirect Speech: He ordered to open the door.
Grammar Exercises
Exercise. 1. Fill in the gaps with say or tell in the correct tense.
A. Katie 1) told Dave that she had met a set of twins at a party. “They looked exactly the same,” she 2)________________. “I couldn’t 3) ______________ the difference between them.” “I’ve got a twin brother, too,” 4) ______________ Dave. “Are you 5) ______________ me the truth?” asked Katie. “6)_______________ me his name.” “His name is Stephen,” Dave 7)______________ her. “I’ll take you to meet him tomorrow.”
B. “You never listen to me,” Tara 1) ________________ Jim. “I 2) _______________ good morning to you three times today and you didn’t answer,” she 3) _______________. “To
4) _________________ you the truth, it makes me really angry. Why don’t you listen to me?” “Oh, hello Tara,” said Jim. “Did you just 5) ________________ something?”
C. “Claire 1) ______________ me that she and John are getting married,” 2) ________________ Sue. “She 3) ________________ that they’re going to have a big wedding with lots of guests.” “That will be expensive,” 4) _________________ Tom. “I thought John 5) ______________ that they couldn’t afford a big wedding.” “Well, that’s what Claire 6) _______________ me,
7) _______________ Sue. “I don’t think she would 8) _________________ a lie.”
Exercise. 2. Turn the following sentences into reported speech.
1. He said, “I’m going to the station.”
He said (that) he was going to the station.
2. Tina said, “You should exercise regularly.”
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3. They said, “We had booked the room before we left.”
4. Tom said, “This meal is delicious.”
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5. “I’ve written you a letter,” she said to her friend.
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6. “We’ve decided to spend our holidays in Jordan,” they told us.
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7. Jill said, “I’ll go to the bank tomorrow.”
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8. She said to him, “We’ve been invited to a wedding.”
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9. She told me, “You must leave early tomorrow.”
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10. “They’ve gone out for the evening,” Jessie said to me.
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11. They said, “We may visit Joe tonight.”
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12. She said, “I can meet you on Tuesday.”
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13. Keith said, “There is a letter for you on the table.”
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14. “We won’t be visiting Tom this evening,” Sam told us.
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15. Eric said, “They had been talking on the phone for an hour before I interrupted them.”
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16. “I haven’t spoken to Mary since last week,” Gloria said.
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17. “They delivered the letters this morning,” she said.
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18. He said, “I’d like to buy this jumper.”
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19. “They aren’t going on holiday this year,” he said.
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20. Jane said, “I haven’t finished my homework yet.”
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21. “I’m going to bed early tonight,” Caroline said.
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22. “My mother is coming to visit us,” I said.
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23. “We don’t want to watch a film tonight,” the children said.
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24. “He’s playing in the garden now,” his mother said.
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25. She said, “You must do your homework now.”
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Exercise 3. Turn the sentences into reported speech. In which of the following sentences do the tenses not change? In which do they not have to be changed?
1.The article says, “The artist only uses oil paints.”
The article says (that) the artist only uses oil paints.
The tenses do not change because the introductory verb is in the present simple.
2. “They are working hard today,” he said.
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3. “I’ve done the things you asked me to do,” Mary said.
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4. “The sun rises in the east,” she said.
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5. “He broke the window,” they said.
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6. “We’ve never been on holiday abroad,” they said.
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7. Mum says, “Dinner is ready.”
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8. “I’ll start cooking at six o’clock,” she said.
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9. “We went to the supermarket yesterday,” he said.
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10. Mrs Jones says, “My daughter is going to have a baby.”
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11. “You’re never going to get a job,” Dad always says.
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12. “Fish live in water,” he said.
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13. “We went to the beach last weekend,” they said.
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14. “He showed me his photographs,” she said.
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15. “I’m working on my project now,” Billy said.
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Exercise. 4. Reported questions.
“Where do you live?” I asked her.
I asked her where she lived.
2. “How old will you be on your next birthday?” he asked me.
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3.“Where is your umbrella?” she asked her daughter.
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4. “Do you like playing football ?” John asked us.
5. The boss asked, “What time are you going home today?”
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6. “Will you take the children to school today?” he asked.
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7. “Who called you today?” she asked.
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8. “When will you decorate the kitchen?” Martha asked.
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9. “Who broke my vase?” I asked.
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10. Father asked, “Will you help me lift these boxes, please?”
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11. “Can you speak a foreign language?” she asked her.
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12. “Where is the tourist information center?” we asked.
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Exercise. 5. Fill in the gaps with the introductory verbs in the list in the correct form.
order tell ask beg suggest
1. “Please visit me in hospital,” Joan said to Colin.
Joan asked Colin to visit her in hospital.
2. “Let’s eat out this evening,” Paul said to her.
Paul ___________________ eating out that evening.
3. “Please, please be careful,” she said to him.
She __________________ him to be careful.
4. “Don’t go near the fire,” Dad said to us.
Dad __________________ us not to go near the fire.
5. “Be quiet!” the commander said to the troops.
The commander _________________ the troops to be quiet.
Exercise. 6. Turn the following sentences into reported speech.
1. The doctor said to the patient, “Come back to see me again next week.”
The doctor told the patient to go back and see him again the following week/the week after.
2. The guard said to the driver, “Stop!”
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3. He said, “Shall we go for a walk?”
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4.She said to him, “Please, please don’t leave me!”
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5. Jenny said to Dave, “Please help me with this.”
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6. She said to him, “Open the window, please.”
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7. Mother said, “How about going for a drive?”
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8. She said, “Let’s eat now.”
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Exercise 7. You are being interviewed for a job and are asked the owing questions. When you come back home, tell your parents the questions you were asked.
1. How old are you? 2. Where do you live? 3. What's your address? 4. What school did you go to? 5. When did you leave school? 6. Where are you working now? 7. Who are you working for? 8. How long have you been working? 9. Are you enjoying your present job? 10. How big is your salary? 11. Why do you want to leave?
Exercise 8. Change the sentences into indirect speech.
1. I confess that I'm a shopaholic. 2. Let me tell you that every time I see you, I'm shining like a candle in the night. 3. He is terribly sorry for the things he has done. 4. It's a beautiful fish, we shall let it go. 5. I'm sorry to say that I don't believe you and I never will. 6. The inspector worked hard, but it didn't get him anywhere. 7. This film is a work of fiction. 8. Can you kiss me goodbye? 9. We are having a very lazy time. 10. David saw a flying saucer last summer. 11. — I have a chronic headache. My organism needs a painkiller. — Take this pill. It will have an immediate effect. Though it may have some side effects as well.
Exercise 9. Retell the following jokes in indirect speech.
1. Dentist: Stop screaming! I haven't touched your tooth yet.
Barry: I know, but you're standing on my foot.
2. What are two reasons why men don't mind their own business? 1. no mind 2. no business.
3. Bill: Why the glum look?
Stan: I just don't understand today's world. My son wears an earring. My daughter has a tattoo. My wife makes twice what I do.
Bill: So what are you going to do?
Stan: I'm going home to my father.
4. When he found a six-year-old shoe-repair ticket in the pocket of an old suit, Brown called the shop to see if the shoes were still around.
"Were they black wing tips needing half soles?" asked a clerk.
"Yes," said Brown. "We'll have them ready in a week."
5. Mother to daughter:
– What kind of person is your new boyfriend? Is he respectable?
– Of course, he is, Mom. He's thrifty, doesn't drink or smoke, has a very nice wife and three well-behaved children. (from "Stupid Men's Jokes")
Exercise 10. Retell the following jokes in indirect speech.
1. A man walked into the emergency room with both of his ears badly burnt. The man explained, "The phone rang and I picked up the iron by mistake." The nurse asked, "How did you burn the other ear?" "I did that," said the man, "when I went to phone the ambulance."
2. A telephone man was trying to measure the telephone pole but couldn't figure out how to climb up the pole. He radioed the office and they suggested that he should lay the pole down on the ground and measure it. The phone man didn't like that idea. "That won't work. I need to measure how high it is, not how long."
3. Did you hear about the man who died from jumping out of an airplane? It seems he was watching the movie, forgot where he was and stepped out for some more popcorn.
4. "I have good news and bad news," the defence attorney told his client. "First, the bad news. The blood test came back, and your DNA is an exact match with that found at the crime scene." "Oh, no!" cried the client. "What's the good news?" "Your cholesterol has gone down to 140."
(From "Stupid Men's Jokes")
Exercise 11. Read the jokes and retell them in indirect speech
1. If an Englishman gets run down by a truck, he apologizes to the truck.
2. A foreign visitor to England is completely baffled by the language and struggles with the pronunciation of words such as "enough", "bough" and "though". He usually gives up altogether when he reads a local newspaper headline "Fete Pronounced Success".
3. An American tourist comes to London to stay at a top hotel. He picks up the phone one morning and asks for room service. He says, "I want three overdone fried eggs that are hard as a rock, toast that is burnt to a cinder and a cup of black coffee that tastes like mud."
"I'm sorry, sir," replies room service, "we don't serve breakfast like that." "Well, you did yesterday!"
4. An old woman from the country is visiting the big city for the first time in her life. She checks in at a smart hotel and lets the bellboy take her bags. She follows him but as the door closes, her face falls. "Young man," she says angrily. "I may be old and straight from the hills, but I ain't stupid. I paid good money and this room won't do at all. It's short of what I expected. It's too small and there's no proper ventilation. Why, there's not even a bed!" "Ma'am," replies the bellboy, "this isn't your room. It's the elevator!"
Exercise 12. Translate.
1. Вчора я зустріла Марка і він розповів мені, що Хіггінси переїхали в новий триповерховий будинок на сусідній вулиці. Я відповіла, що якби у мене було стільки грошей, я б зробила те ж саме. 2. Джон сказав, що він хотів би запросити Мері повечеряти де-небудь в наступну суботу. 3. Місіс Морріс сказала, що Джим зараз дивиться фільм жахів і не хоче відповідати на дзвінок. 4. Філ сказав, що піде до лікаря наступного тижня. 5. Трейсі сказала, що статуя Свободи знаходиться в Америці. 6. Менеджер попросив мене не бути грубим з покупцями. 7. Селлі запитала мене, скільки мені було років, коли я вперше літала на літаку. 8. Біллі сказав, що кенгуру живуть в Австралії. 9. Вона сказала, що їй слід було б вибачитися. 10. Тренер сказав, що на вашому місці, я б не їв так багато вуглеводів перед сном. 11. Учитель попросив Майкла не розливати воду на підлогу. 12. Мама попросила Алана не чіпати руками гарячу духовку. 13. Містер Браун сказав зробити тихіше звук телевізора, вимкнути світло і не перемикати без кінця канали. 14. Боб запропонував нам сходити в кіно. Всі із задоволенням погодилися подивитися першу серію третього сезону улюбленого серіалу "Sherlock". 15. Ти не знаєш, чи є в цьому готелі Wi-Fi зона? А то я мамі обіцяв зателефонувати, як тільки ми поселимося. 16. Скажіть, будь ласка, тут можна (дозволяється) палити? 17. Поліція нас попередила, що гірські дороги дуже небезпечні і порадила не перевищувати швидкість, а особливо не виїжджати на зустрічну смугу і не здійснювати обгін.