1. Complete these sentences with either said or told.
1. He..........that the grass needed cutting.
2. We've finally.........Don's parents that we're getting married.
3. My brother........to me that she thought I was looking unwell.
4. Ann me that you're moving to Canada.
5. When David came back, he.......us all about his holiday.
6. On the news, they.........that there had been a big earthquake in Indonesia.
7. Mr Picker.......to the press that he was selling his company, but I don't
believe him.
8. My mother.....me about the time she worked in a chocolate factory.
9. They.....to us that they were going to be a little late.
2. Underline the correct verb. If either is possible, underline them both.
1. She promised/volunteered that she would collect the children from school
today.
2. We offered/suggested that we could meet them at the airport.
3. He promised/volunteered to cook dinner tonight.
4. He demanded/ordered to have his own key to the building.
5. I agreed/offered that I would deliver the parcel for her.
6. The teachers said/agreed to meet the student representatives.
7. He advised/proposed that the subject of holiday pay should be raised at the
next meeting.
8. We expected/insisted to receive the machine parts today.
9. The Foreign Minister refused/requested that the peace talks should be
reopened.
10. The company suggested/promised to create 300 new jobs in the next six
months.
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REVISION
ҚАЙТАЛАУ
1. Match the letters with the numbers in the reported speech.
1. Bolat won’t read it!
a) He asked her why she was looking at
him.
2. She’s always making a remark when
I’m trying to concentrate.
b) He denied reading it.
3. If you do that again, I’ll punish you.
c) He told them not to cry in the
corridors.
4. Marat didn’t read it!
d) She threatened to punish him if he did
that again.
5. You took the bracelet.
e) He admitted he liked her.
6. What have you heard?
f) He refused to read it.
7. Yes, I like her.
g) She told him to take his book.
8. It’s cold.
h) He was offended that she was always
making a remark when he was trying to
study.
9. You’re always stealing things.
i) He accused her of talking the bracelet.
10. Why are you looking at me.
J) He exclaimed that it was cold.
11. There was nobody in when I knocked. k) He asked her what she had heard.
12. Don’t cry in the corridors.
l) She asked him where he was going on
holiday that year.
13. Where are you going on holiday this
year?
m) He accused her of always stealing
things.
15. Take your book.
n) He said that there had been nobody in
when he had knocked.
2. Change into the reported speech and give alternative word orders where
possible: announce, command, complain, decide, plead, promise, remark, wonder.
1. I’ll certainly help you tomorrow. (Aset)
2. Don’t come near me. (she)
3. Why did they do that? (he)
4. We are getting married! (Dina)
5. I think Asan was right after all. (he)
6. Those flowers look nice. (Liz)
7. This coffee’s cold. (she)
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8. Please let me go to the party. (Dana)
3. Change into the Reported speech using the following verbs: refuse, warn,
advise, remind, apologize, promise, agree, suggest, offer, invite.
1. «Don’t touch that tiger, it is dangerous», the mother said.
2. «Ainur, will you come and spend your holiday with us», Diana asked.
3. «I am sorry I am late», the boy said.
4. «What about going out tonight?» Dias asked.
5. «I won’t put that coat on. I look silly in it», the girl told her mother.
6. «If I were you, I’d buy another flat», Sara said.
7. «Don’t forget your bag, Sara», Dana said.
8. «I won’t tell anybody», the boy said.
9. «Would you like me to help you», he asked.
10. «OK. I’ll come at seven», he said.
4. Complete the sentences with one of these nouns and an expansion of the notes:
claim encouragement guarantee invitation issue
observation.
1. The president has turned down an invitation (visit China / December)
to visit China in December.
2. The newspaper has now dropped its … (be / oldest / France)
3. We have received an … (building work / finished / next week)
4. It was the British Prime Minister Harold (a week / long time in politics)
Wilson who made the …
5. My parents gave me a lot of … (do well / university)
6. We went on to discuss the … (should represent us / negotiations)
5. Change Direct speech into the Reported speech. (Anuar said/told/asked/
ordered)
Anuar said: «We like him very much». «I think they'll return soon». «I believe
I shall pass my exams successfully». «I don't know». «Where are you going?»
«Don't wear these trousers». «Open the cupboard». «Can you tell me the way
to the railway station?» «He will be staying at home». «Is she a scientist?» «What
are you going to do ?» «I don't know your uncle's telephone number». «Wake me up
early tomorrow». «Will you be at the party too?» «Is that the end of the film?»
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«Don't smoke here please». «Get out of the room!» «What are you laughing at?»
«Why did he come here?» «Where has she come from?» «Give me your hand,
please». «Will you go with me?» «I can do it for you». «Come in, please».
7.
Read this text. Change Direct speech to the Reported speech. Answer the
question: Why do think the man told like that?
Aesop’s Fable
A man once built a house for his dwelling. The house was pretty, but very
small. He invited his friends to visit him, as he wanted them to see the house. His
friends came and looked at the house. His friends came and looked at the house. All
of them said something about it: - The front of the house is very bad.
- There are not enough windows.
- The windows are very small.
- The roof is not a good one: the rain can come in.
- The doors are too narrow.
- The ceilings are too low.
- «What rooms! the last man said, «they are not big enough for any one»
The man heard everything his friends said about his home and then answered:
«Indeed, it may be true. The house is small but I have not enough true friends to fill
even this small house».
8.
Read these texts. Retell them in the Reported speech.
Aldar Kose and the Niggard
«Hey, man», Aldar Kose said to the shepherd, «I have two tenger. Please
choose me some skinny kid for the money».
The shepherd did so. «Thank you», Aldar Kose said. «Now sell me a fat lamb
for two tenge and a skinny kid».
Well, two tenge and a kid is a good fortune. The shepherd agreed. «Listen, old
chap», Aldar Kose told him, «take back the kid, and the lamb, and the two tenge,
and give me one goat in return».
The exchange did take place.
This way, bargaining and swapping, Aldar Kose in the end obtained a good,
big ram. And the travelers went on.
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Aldar Kose
,
s quick wit
One day two men came to Aldar. One of them, a simple-hearted, good-natured
man, complained to Aldar Kose pointing at the other fellow: «A year ago, I was
getting ready for a long journey and entrusted my gold to this man’s care. Now he
refuses to give it back».
The problem is that there was nobody nearby when I handed my gold over to
him. That is, there are no witnesses.
«And where did you hand the gold over to him? At home or in the steppe?»
«In a lonely place behind the aul, near a green grove».
«And do you remember that grove?»
«Sure I do! I even remember the tree under which the handover took place».
«Well, that is quite enough».
«Do you think that fellow has all ready reached the grove?»
«I don,t think so. It is quite a long way to go».
Some more time passed, during which one could boil a bucket of milk, and
Aldar Kose asked the man once again:
«Do you think he has come now?»
«Yes, now he is sure to have come».
Soon the complainant returned.
«I did everything you told me, honorable man».
«I know», Aldar Kose replied. «It already came to me and I already had a talk
with it».
«Who it?» «The tree».
«What tree?!» the other fellow cried out. «Nobody came while I was here. And
you didn,t talk to anybody. And the tree can not walk!»
«It isn,t the tree that matters», Aldar Kose retumed quietly.
The little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood lived with her mother and father in a little cottage on
the edge of a large forest. Her father worked all day in the forest as a woodcutter. One
day, Red Riding Hood’s mother baked an apple pie and asked her daughter to take it
to her grandmother who lived in the forest.
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«Promise me that you will go straight there and that you will keep to the path.
Don’t talk to any strangers, will you?» said her mother.
«No, Mother», replied Little Red Riding Hood and she set off with her basket
with the apple pie safely inside.
A little further along the path, the wolf joined little. Red Riding Hood and
began to chat to her about the lovely flowers next to the path and about the birds
singing in the trees.
The nasty wolf asked her where she was going and Red Riding Hood told him
that she was going to see her grandmother who was ill in bed.
«Shall we have a little competition?» asked the sly wolf. Red Riding Hood
thought this sounded like fun and agreed.
«I shall race you to your grandmother’s house – you go that way and I shall go
this way», said the wolf and set off at a gallop.
But, that wolf had an evil plan! The wolf had chosen the quick way to
grandmother’s house and was soon there. Then he ate grandmother in one gulp and
snuggled down in bed. She came grandmother’s home, but she didn’t notice that the
wolf was in bed instead of the grandmother. She caught sight of two big black ears
poking out of the nightcap.
«What big ears you have, Grandmother», said Little Red Riding Hood.
«All the better to hear you with, my dear», said the wolf.
«And what big hands you have got».
«All the better to hug you with», said the wolf.
By now, Red Riding Hood was feeling a little suspicious of her grandmother.
«You have very large teeth, too», noticed Red Riding Hood.
«All the better to eat you with!» cried the wolf and sprang out of bed and began
to chase Red Riding Hood round the room.
9. Read and complete the dialogue answering grandmother’s question who
doesn’t hear.
Granddaughter
: I have good news. I am going to get married.
Grandma
: What did you say?
Granddaughter
:
......................
(1)
Father
: Do we know him?
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Grandma
: What did you say?
Father
:
......................
(2)
Granddaughter
: No. We only met yesterday.
Grandma
: What did you say?
Granddaughter
:...................... (3)
Father
: You're crazy. You can't marry him.
Grandma
: What did you say?
Father
:
......................
(4)
Granddaughter
: But he is very nice. He dances very well and drives a beautiful
Mercedes.
Grandma
: What did you say?
Granddaughter
:
......................
(5)
Father
: I wonder what he lives on. How old is he, by the way? Who are his parents?
Grandma
: What did you say?
Father
:
......................
(6)
Granddaughter
: Oh, I don't know. I think he's rich. No younger than thirty, 1 believe.
Grandma
: What did you say?
Granddaughter
:
......................
(7)
Grandma
: Has he already been married?
Grandpa
: What did you say?
Grandma
:
......................
(8)
Granddaughter
: Don't ask me such things. How can I know? All I know is I love
him.
Grandma
: What did you say?
Granddaughter
:
......................
(9)
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Father
: Stop talking nonsense. Does he work. or does he just spend his parents'
money?
Grandma
: What did you say?
Father
:
......................
(10)
Mother
: I can't understand what you are all talking about! Are all of you crazy? She
can't marry anybody, she's only fifteen!
Grandma
: What did you say?
Mother
:
......................
(11)
Grandma
: What do you mean? I married your father when I was sixteen. And we
have been living happy for forty years. She says she loves him, and he has money. I
think they will be happy if they get married.
Grandma
: What did you say?
Grandma
:
......................
(12)
10. Read these text and find Direct speech, retell it.
Fierce-grey
Kurmash ran out from the yurta and called Fierce-Grey back home and the
owner of the black-piebald dog chased it away from the wolf …
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Well into the evening wolves suddenly pounced on the sheeps that were
grazing not far from the aul.
The herder raised hell screaming and whistling desperately. Teenaged boys and
adults arrived at a gallop from the aul. Barking deafeningly the aul dogs, Fierce-Grey
among them, came tearing along, a whole pack of them.
The wolves went off into the steppe unharmed.
The horseman and dogs stopped chasing the wolves by the nearest hill in the
distance, in the dim unclear light one could see gray shadows sliding along the high
crest of Black Hill.
«They came quite early this year», a shepherd said.
It was only Kurmash who noticed Frierce-Grey tearing noiselessly along the
wolves track his muzzle almost touching the ground.
The boy fell behind the horsemen and walked fearlessly into the dark and on to
Black Hill. For a long time he kept on calling affectionately:
«Kokserek! Lol-see-reel…»
But Fierce-Grey never came back to his call.
The wolf turned up in the aul at night. Standing in sight of his yurta he
unhurriedly scratched the dry trampled earth with his iron claws getting up clouds of
dust. He raised his head looking up at the starry sky and breathed in the cool autumn
air greedily sniffing the faint whiffs of the breeze coming from Black Hill.
The next day they saw Fierce-Grey in the aul and when night fell he went off
into the steppe…
Nobody saw the wolf the following three days and nights. When he returned he
was scrawny and fiercely hungry but as sullen-looking as even before and without the
collar. When Kurmash called him by the name he came up to the boy his head
lowered as if menacingly. The boy was overjoyed and hugged his short muscular
neck. The wolf broke free and flattened his ears but this time even the granny did not
scold the beast and began fussing around making food.
The way he ate was really and Kurmash stepped back, just in case.
«Well, I’ll be damned! There is a wolf for you!» said Kurmash’s father. «Look
at beast’s eyes, they are aflame with green fire, and that at broad daylight. It’s high
time to skin him, son».
The boy shook with the fear that now the elders would not listen to him and
kill the wolf.
Is he living or is he dead?
For a little over two years this went on. At last, one day Claude said:
«Boys, we’ve come to the end. Do you understand that? – Absolutely to the
end. Everybody has struck – there is league formed against us. I’ve been all around
the village. They refuse to credit us for another centime until all the odds and ends
are paid up».
This sounded like a blow. Every face was blank with dismay. We realized that
our circumstances were desperate, now. There was a long silence. Finally, Millet said
with a sigh:
«Nothing occurs to me – nothing. Suggest something, lads».
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There was no response, unless a mournful silence may be called a response.
Carl got up, and walked nervously up and down awhile, then said:
«It’s a shame! Look at these canvases: stacks and stacks of as good pictures as
anybody in Europe paints – I don’t care who he is. Yes, and plenty of lounging
strangers have said the same – or nearly that, anyway».
«But didn’t buy», Millet said.
«No matter, they said it; and it’s true, too. Look at your ‘Angelus’ there! Will
anybody tell me».
«Pah, Carl – my ‘Angelus’! I aws offered five francs for it».
«When?»
«Who offered it?»
«Where is he?»
«Why didn’t you take it?»
«Come – don’t all speak at once. I thought he would give more – I was sure of
it – he looked it – so I asked him eight».
«Well – and then?»
«He said he would call again».
«Thunder and lightning!»
«Oh, I know – I know! It was a mistake, and I was a fool».
«Boys, I meant for the best; you will grant me that, and I».
«Why, certainly, we know that, bless your dear heart; but don’t you be a fool
again».
«I? I wish somebody would come along and offer us a cabbage for it – you’d
see!»
«A cabbage! Oh, don’t name it – it makes my mouth water. Talk of things less
trying».
«Boys», said Carl, «do these pictures lack me it? Answer me that».
«No!»
«Aren’t they of very great and high merit? Answer me that».
«Yes».
«Of such great and high merit that, if an illustrious name were attached to
them, they would sell at splendid prices. Isn’t it so?»
«Certainly it is. Nobody doubts that».
«But I am not joking – isn’t it so?»
«Why, of course it’s so – and we are not joking. But what of it? What of it?
How does that concern us?»
«In this way, comrades – we’ll attach in illustrious name to them!»
11. Мәтінді мәнерлеп оқып, өз көзқарастарыңызды білдіріңіздер.
Берілген төл сөздерді ағылшын тіліне аудара отыра төлеу сөзге
айналдырыңыздар.
Сәлем...
Жаздың жайма-шуақ күні. Балтабек ағай баласы Батаймен кең көшенің
кестедей айшықты гүлзарының қасынан өтіп бара жатып, бірге өскен
құрдасымен кездесіп қалды:
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– Ассалаумағалейкүм! – деп, ол Өтеннің қолын алды.
– Сәлем! – деп Батай күлімдеп иек қақты.
Былай шыға бере Балтабектің реңі бұзылып, қабағы түйіліп, көзін
жыпылықтата берді. Баласына адырая қарап ашуын төкті.
– Балам, мимырт болма!..
– Неге «мимырт» боламын, Жәке!
– Өтекеңмен жөндеп амандаспайсың ба? Иек қағып, танау көтере салатын
құрдасың емес ол.
– Сәлем! – дедім. Сәлемімді қабылдап, күлмең қағып, күле сөйлеп еді ғой...
– Балам, ондай үлкен кісіге «сәлем» деп иек қаға салмай, адамша амандасу
қажет. Амандасу – адамның амандығына қуанып, ақ ниет білдіру. Сәлем
бергенде де инабаттылық пен әдептілік, сыпайылық пен сыйласым керек. Қария
кісілермен «ассалаумағалейкүм» деп амандасады.
– Сөзіңіздің төркініне түсіндім, Жәке. («Халық тағылымы» кітабынан)
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