Reported Speech III

Reported speech

Different tenses

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Statements

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Listening

Listen to Rob and Jennifer talk about anger, and then change the sentences from reported speech to direct speech.• She said humans developed the feeling of anger as a survival skill. • She said hunger would make us angry • The doctor said modern life was stressful. • Rob said frustration was the feeling we get when people don’t let us do the things we want to do. • Jennifer said that Rob was seeing a red mist. • The doctor said western people’s expectations had been raised.

Reading

Read the following and underline all the reported speech sentences and questions. The Most Unsuccessful Pet Rescue Mrs. Sarah Greenfield was worried because she hadn’t seen her pet cat, Percy, for nearly two days. She told her neighbor, Frank Armstrong about it. Frank said he knew where Percy was and took her to a tall tree in the street. He pointed up at a branch near the top of the tree where Percy was sitting. Mrs. Greenfield called out to her cat but it did not move. Then she asked Frank Armstrong what she should do. He suggested that she should call the fire brigade and ask them to help. Mrs. Greenfield went back to her house and call the local fire station. She told them about the cat and asked them to come and save the cat. Twenty minutes later, a big red fire truck parked outside Mrs. Greenfield’s house. Mrs. Greenfield showed the fire officer where Percy was sitting in the tree. The fire officer asked Mrs. Greenfield what the cat liked eating. She told him that Percy’s favorite food was sardines. The fire officer said it would be difficult to catch the cat because it would be very frightened and asked her if she had got any sardines.

Mrs. Greenfield opened a can of sardines and gave it to the fire officer. The fire officer extended the tall ladders on the fire engine and climbed up to the cat. He held out the open tin of sardines and called to the cat. Percy was very hungry and he could smell the sardines. He scrambled towards the fire officer who caught him easily. From the top of the ladder, the fire officer called to Mrs. Greenfield and told her he had caught the cat. Mrs. Greenfield was very happy and thanked the fire officer as he was climbing down the ladder. After the fire officer had handed the cat to Mrs. Greenfield, she put it on the ground with the can of sardines. Mrs. Greenfield thanked the fire officer again and invited him to have a cup of tea and a slice of cake at her house. The fire officer accepted the invitation and they walked to her house. Twenty minutes later, after two cups of tea and three slices of cake, the fire officer got into the big red fire engine and started the truck to drive away. Unfortunately, as he was reversing the fire engine, he ran over the cat and killed it.

CONGRATS!

Teacher Zu